Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Chonkus’ peanut butter consistency is important for the strain’s potential in green biotechnologies. “When you grow a culture of bacteria, it looks like broth and the bacteria are very dilute in the culture,” Schubert said, “but we found that Chonkus would settle into this stuff that is much more dense, like a green peanut butter.”

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AGreenLiving

JULY 16, 2020

LA-based startup Mi Terro is using biotechnology to turn a portion of that food waste into sustainable fibers for biodegradable T-shirts. This LA startup turns spoiled milk into biodegradable T-shirts. Did you know that 128 million tons of milk are wasted every year? Mi Terro Images via Mi Terro. See the original post:Â .

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Grist

OCTOBER 7, 2019

On Monday, the scientists studying these gene-edited cattle published a paper in the journal Nature Biotechnology explaining what happened. A giant corporation like Bayer could afford that, but not a small startup like Recombinetics. Longtime opponents of biotechnology think that would be a good thing.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 14, 2024

Organizations like MassBio and Massachusetts Biotechnology Council have played a key role in convening and connecting the ecosystem too. It has supported more than 500 early-stage startups that have collectively created more than 11,000 jobs and raised more than $5.7 Greentown now spans a 100,000 sq. Greentown now spans a 100,000 sq.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 15, 2019

It’s taking the B2B route to market, likely intending to ride the growing wave of startups offering animal-free food products following recent successes from Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat. The wording is all over the place,” Plant Based Foods Association executive director Michele Simon told Food Navigator USA.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We’ll be featuring 10 startups leveraging software, data science, and biotechnology to build a more sustainable food system. We’re now taking applications to demo, so if you know of great food tech startups please send them our way. Thank you!

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Grist

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Carbios is among a contingent of startups that are attempting to commercialize a type of chemical recycling known as depolymerization, which breaks down polymers — the chain-like molecules that make up a plastic — into their fundamental molecular building blocks, called monomers. Thierry Zoccolan / AFP via Getty Images.

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Better Ventures

JANUARY 15, 2020

Services provided by these companies have given rise to a new generation of synbio startups that can now outsource some of the most capital-intensive parts of their value chain, akin to what AWS did for web startups. that need to be optimized to produce a quality product cost effectively and at scale. and benefit from?—?the

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

🔑 Climate tech startups hit key milestones - including but not limited to - Fervo’s FOAK enhanced geothermal project operational in Nevada, Brimstone’s third-party approval of its carbon-negative cement, and Heirloom’s first commercial DAC plant. for it’s Climate Infrastructure Fund.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Biohm, a London biotech and biomanufacturing startup, has created a line of sustainable lampshades called Obscure that are made of 100% coffee chaff and orange peel. Biohm has become an example of what’s possible in development and bio-manufacturing of natural materials for the built environment.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 13, 2018

Though the handful of startups in this space have begun to raise sizable rounds, the most recent one less than a month ago, we’re definitely months and likely years away from the first product hitting the market. And the industry is on board with this pursuit. “We Safety, the topic of the day, is also still theoretical at this moment.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 13, 2018

Though the handful of startups in this space have begun to raise sizable rounds, the most recent one less than a month ago, we’re definitely months and likely years away from the first product hitting the market. And the industry is on board with this pursuit. “We Safety, the topic of the day, is also still theoretical at this moment.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Entrepreneurs : Start-ups and venture capitalists are drawn to the conference's reputation for incubating new ideas and network with other startups and venture capitalists. Why SRI Learn from asset managers who are harnessing the power of capital to address social, environmental, and cultural challenges while generating financial return.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Just ask Luis Lombana, CEO of Ficosterra , a Spanish marine biotechnology company that makes fertilisers from an unexpected source: seaweed. And a whole crop of western startups making climate-friendly algae-based products, including clothes, cosmetics, bioplastics and biofuels, have popped up. Not your average startup.

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Better Ventures

APRIL 10, 2023

She shares more about the company she’s leading, as well as her advice to other founders on their startup journey. Today we chat with Caralynn Nowinski Collens, co-founder and CEO of Dimension Inx. This story has been lightly edited for clarity. Who : Caralynn Nowinski Collens, M.D.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 28, 2020

Her work has extended from partnering with global brands like IKEA and Tesla to investing software in 1000s of cleantech startups worldwide. Yoler has been very active in continuing her education at Stanford in board governance, biotechnology, biochemistry, neuropsychology, neuroscience and geology.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Seaweed packaging startup Notpla has recently partnered with delivery service Just Eat to provide seaweed-lined takeaway containers that are 100% edible and biodegradable. Award-winning designers developed a method that extracts agar from seaweed and algae. The agar is then dehydrated to produce a material that can be used as packaging.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 24, 2023

A medley of milestones for climate tech startups Conversations on Twitter and in climate chatrooms continue to have a doomerism-meets-pessimism tone, but over the last two weeks some cold, hard progress from climate tech startups working on geothermal energy, SAFs, and decarbonized cement is cutting through the gloom.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 12, 2019

Irish startup Cainthus also uses computer vision to track dairy cows, and can monitor key activities such as food and water intake and behaviour patterns that could be key indicators of disease. . There is also, of course, a wealth of potential for biotechnologies to not just treat viruses like ASF but also prevent them. .

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Others are making waves in the business world from other perches, including government, consultancies, startups and environmental justice advocacy groups. On the side, Fragos teaches a sustainability course at McGill University and offers pro bono support to help local startups and social enterprises embrace sustainability principles.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

And ICYMI, check out our Friday feature on working capital for climate startups here.   Exits 🌾 80 Acres Farms , a Hamilton, OH-based vertical farming company acquired Plantae Biosciences, an Israeli, biotechnology company for an undisclosed amount. Thanks for reading!

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