GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

This transition period from petroleum to bio-based doesn’t particularly trouble John Warner, an inventor and visionary who, along with Paul Anastas, first defined principles for green chemistry , an approach to designing chemicals and materials that are safe for human health and the environment. because of biomimicry and bioinspiration.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

10 – The Gates Foundation’s $55 million equity investment last fall into a German biotech company could have big payoff: an. ImpactAlpha, Nov.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

"My Green Lab is a brilliant project because it reaches out to change behavior and mindset of scientists in the lab," said Pernilla Sörme, risk management lead in global safety, health and environment at AstraZeneca, which expanded Green Lab Certification to seven sites across its global portfolio. Projects and progress.

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Green Tech Challenge

JANUARY 6, 2017

In 2016, World Energy Outlook made a study on air pollution as the fourth-largest threat to human health – but also to our environment. In December 2016, the Chinese government reported the highest air pollution and the red alert was implemented in 23 cities in northern China.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2024

BIOMEM is a consortium led by Danish biotech company Aquaporin, with research led by Aston University’s Dr Alan Goddard. A project aiming to develop a novel bioinspired membrane to selectively extract compounds from water has won a €3m grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder programme.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 25, 2022

Indian insect biotech startup Loopworm has raised $3.4 “Insect-based products are majorly driving sustainability, whereas what I feel is that they should promote health and nutrition first then sustainability as an add-on,” he says. million in seed funding co-led by Indian agrifood VC Omnivore and WaterBridge Ventures.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s throwing $100 million toward biotech solutions for repurposing waste and improving plastics; regenerative agriculture in deforested zones; and building up markets for biological ingredients. Furthering fair wages and closing the gender gap is another goal, as is embracing circular principles. billion years of evolution.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The biotech company’s production system leverages black soldier fly larvae to produce proteins for animal feed and fertilizers. Singapore-based insect protein producer Nutrition Technologies has closed a $20 million equity round.

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Asia Technology Biotech Waste 94

TechCrunch: Climate

AUGUST 20, 2024

BEVC is the latest life sciences VC to add planetary health to its portfolio, suggesting that the trend is catching hold. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Health 113

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AFN Sustainable Protein

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Early 18 Clean Food Group , Willicroft DSM Venturing Netherlands Corporate venturing arm of health and nutrition company DSM. Multistage 18 (12 new investments) Rival Foods , Standing Ovation , Forsea Döhler Ventures Germany Corporate venturing arm of food and beverage ingredients company Döhler.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The government said impact investment had risen 127 per cent in the UK since 2018, demonstrating how technology has become ever more important for tackling the world's biggests problems, such as climate change, escalating health risks, and food insecurity, and that investors are increasingly taking note.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Xavier Creative House (XCH) is a sustainable marketing agency operating in the healthcare industry, specializing in pharmaceuticals, biotech, and medical devices. XCH supports the health and well-being of their employees. Xavier Creative House is a sustainable marketing agency. XCH delivers unprecedented results for their clients.

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Grist

APRIL 17, 2021

Vaccines are under development but need to be fully efficacious,” says Michael Bonsall , a mathematical biologist at the University of Oxford, who is not affiliated with Oxitec but has collaborated with the company in the past, and who worked with the World Health Organization to produce a GM mosquito-testing framework.

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Better Ventures

APRIL 13, 2021

How technology will enable a new wave of startup companies to make tele-behavioral health better than in-person therapy There’s an old story in technology circles about how at the dawn of television, people didn’t know what to do with it, so they basically put a radio show on television. And so it is with tele-behavioral health?—?you

Health 52

Health Startups Building Energy Monitoring Technology 52

AFN Sustainable Protein

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Dahl is President and CEO of ZIVO Bioscience , a ag biotech R&D company engaged in the commercialization of nutritional and medicinal products derived from proprietary algal strains. Specifically, some algae R&D companies—such as Corbion Biotech’s TerraVia , Cyanotech Corp., Algae’s Remarkably Adaptable Attributes.

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Demand Biotech Startups Health 52

AFN Sustainable Protein

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Dahl is President and CEO of ZIVO Bioscience , a ag biotech R&D company engaged in the commercialization of nutritional and medicinal products derived from proprietary algal strains. Specifically, some algae R&D companies—such as Corbion Biotech’s TerraVia , Cyanotech Corp., Algae’s Remarkably Adaptable Attributes.

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Demand Biotech Startups Health 52

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

One is this drive to become a tech powerhouse and the other one is a drive to get the UK public to consume healthier food and have better diets and therefore better health. million last year in a project called the ‘Culturedmeat Project’ by Spanish cultivated meat startup BioTech Foods. Government investments.

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Startups Biotech Education Government 105

TechCrunch: Climate

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Turning sunflower seeds into sustainable, cocoa-free chocolate has netted Munich-based B2B food tech startup Planet A Foods (formerly QOA) a $30 million Series B funding round. Now, the Y Combinator alum is gearing up for industrialization, with the funds set to be deployed to scale its production capacity by around 7.5x.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Home Energy Monitoring 95

TechCrunch: Climate

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Gates Foundation is pumping millions into C16 Biosciences, the Y Combinator-backed company fermenting palm oil alternatives. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch: Climate

JANUARY 8, 2024

At CES 2024, French startup Neoplants is showing off its progress with its houseplants that work as air purifiers designed for the home. The bio-engineered plants can, according to the company, replace 20 “regular” houseplants, as measured by how many pollutants the plants can remove from the air.

Startups 130

Startups Pollution Biotech Health 130

Business Green

MARCH 13, 2020

Today, the health and welfare decisions for thousands of fish are based on observing a few individual fish that are taken out of the water and manually inspected - a data-gathering process that's time-consuming, unreliable and impossible to scale," writes Neil Davé , general manager for Tidal, in a Medium post.

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Seafood Agriculture Biotech Blockchain 41

TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The synthetic biology and precision fermentation space is a hotbed of entrepreneurial activity these days. But it’s not every day you come across a startup that’s using genetic engineering to produce natural rubber — a substance that’s challenging to reproduce in a lab because of how long its polymer is.

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Startups Biotech Health 130

Business Green

DECEMBER 31, 2020

According to the World Health Organisation , 25 per cent of vaccines are lost in transport due to breaks in the cold chain, creating waste. "We look at that as an opportunity to inject sustainability into this rapid innovation and restructuring of the cold chain," said Paul Camuti, chief technology and strategy officer for Trane Technologies.

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Sustainability Biotech Transportation Cooling 60

TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The offices of plant-based protein startup Heura are tucked away down a narrow street a short distance from one of Barcelona’s main tourist draws.

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Startups Biotech Health 122

TechCrunch: Climate

DECEMBER 15, 2023

What do iconic Valley investors Zachary Bogue and Chris Sacca have in common? They are both trying to stop cows from burping methane. No, really. And a Sacca investment just raised $20 million to do just that. What gives? With the conclusion of COP28, the global talks on the climate crisis, Methane is going up […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The plant-based meat and dairy market is expected to balloon over the years to come, as consumers increasingly seek to reduce the environmental impact of their diet while tapping the health benefits related to reducing meat consumption. On the one hand, people are at home, preparing many more meals, and starting to experiment more.

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Carbon-negative Meat alternatives Innovation Biotech 85

TechCrunch: Climate

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A love of food — and, well, cheese — has landed German fermentation startup Formo‘s co-founder Roman Plewka and its team a hefty $61 million Series B round to keep scaling production of their climate-friendly, animal-free cheese.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Applying the latest technologies from biotech, tissue engineering, artificial intelligence, and food science, entrepreneurs are trying to create new animal-free products that are cheaper, healthier, tastier, and more sustainable. Wherever we look, humans have consistently built technologies that surpass their animal predecessors.

Technology 52

Technology Agriculture Health Startups 52

AFN Sustainable Protein

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

It’s all about planetary health. It’s all about human health. AFN : What do you want to see Arkeon achieve? GT: Arkeon is a company that wants to create pain-free ingredients for the planet. What we have to do to make that happen is to produce things smarter and with less impact to the planet.

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Startups Organic Carbon-negative Sustainability 84

TechCrunch: Climate

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most electronic waste isn’t recycled; instead, our dumped devices (and the toxic metals within) pile up in landfills, polluting the air and contaminating nearby soil and groundwater. Ghana-based AppCyclers aims to tackle this crisis across Africa via an online marketplace, where individuals and businesses can buy and sell recyclable e-waste.

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Africa Waste Waste Pollution 114

Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite traditional venture’s focus on software and asset-light business models, half of the deal activity in climate tech goes towards sectors requiring physical assets such as hardware, deeptech, biotech, consumables, or project development.    Declining graduation rates are a symptom of investment health.

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TechCrunch: Climate

JUNE 25, 2024

Ashley Beckwith spent years of her academic and professional career focused on the intersection of biology, materials and manufacturing to build medical solutions more efficiently. When she realized the tech could be applied to plants and plant-based materials, an area that desperately needed it, she decided to switch gears.

Biotech 99

Biotech Startups Health 99

TechCrunch: Climate

APRIL 22, 2024

A few weeks back, TechCrunch ventured out to New Jersey to pay an early visit to HAX’s Newark offices. As much as I complained about the 90-minute commute in from Queens, it’s nothing compared to the last time I paid a visit to the SOSV-run hardware accelerator’s Shenzhen space.

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TechCrunch: Climate

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Over the last three days, 20 startups participated in the incredibly competitive Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt. These 20 companies were selected as the best of the Startup Battlefield 200 and competed for a chance to take home the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. After three days of fierce pitching, we have a winner.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

Indigo Ag was the fifth biotech company founded by von Maltzahn. After a farm signs up, the program establishes the current health and carbon content of its soil, using a combination of rigorous testing on a small sample and satellite imagery analysis over all the relevant acres to assess the soil cheaply at scale.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

That is the headline recommendation contained in a new report on the nascent cultivated meat sector from the British Standards Institution (BSI), titled The future of sustainable alternative proteins: cultivated meats which was published this week.

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