GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

1 , AGCO is sowing the seeds for a global refresh of its mission — including electrified farm machinery, autonomous field robots that swarm through fields and smart tractor retrofits that provide farmers with insights into metrics such as the organic matter in their soil. With new CEO Eric Hansotia poised to step up Jan. Courtesy of.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

From relative giants such as Tesla to newcomers like startup Rivian and Chanje, we stand by this list. But certain agricultural practices that aim to increase crop yields such as clear-cutting release greenhouse gases that had been trapped in the soils into the atmosphere. Our stories on the topic struck a chord with you this year. .

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U.S. Green Technology

MAY 31, 2022

ANALYSIS OF SOIL AND FIELD: Drones can be extremely useful at the beginning of the agricultural cycle. They create exact 3-D maps for early soil analysis and seed planting pattern planning. Drone-assisted soil analysis gives data for irrigation and nitrogen control after planting.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2021

On the indoor side, the update comes in the form of details on a big vertical farm that the startup Plenty is building in Compton, California. As well as building soil fertility, these moves potentially could lead to the drawdown of millions of tons of carbon dioxide every year. . The momentum here is very clear.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

That’s the backstory behind its relationship with the Soil & Water Outcomes Fund , a program intended to support farmers who design and implement initiatives aimed at improving water quality and mitigating flooding and runoff, increasing carbon sequestration, reducing emissions from on-farm operations, and creating or protecting habitat.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

billion tonnes of waste is dumped globally, with devastating effects on our air, oceans and soil. The startup already counts some of the largest waste management and recycling firms across the UK and France as customers, including SUEZ UK and Cawleys. This unique use of AI offers a digitised solution to a very physical problem.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 1, 2022

Tech startup sustainability. Tech startup sustainability means to be purpose-driven and sustainable. With this in mind, it’s important tech startups globally follow suit, to establish proactive and forward-thinking organizations. How do startups affect the environment? Tech startup sustainability: 6 top tips.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

And a newer option, soil carbon, also is generating investment from multiple corporate sectors. Yet another natural sink absorbs about as much carbon dioxide as our planet’s soils and forests combined: the world’s coastal and ocean waters. That’s why one recent survey recorded almost $160 million spent on forest offsets in 2019.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

And a newer option, soil carbon, also is generating investment from multiple corporate sectors. Yet another natural sink absorbs about as much carbon dioxide as our planet’s soils and forests combined: the world’s coastal and ocean waters. That’s why one recent survey recorded almost $160 million spent on forest offsets in 2019.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 9, 2019

ImpactAlpha, October 9 – Healthy soil is a critical resource for carbon capture and essential to food security. Helsinki-based Soil Scout is among a number of tech startups trying to improve awareness and management of soil health with sensor-enabled analytics platforms.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The post The Brief: Soil-carbon markets, edtech startups, reduce and recycle, expanding EV charging, Goldman’s sustainability bond, pay for success appeared first on Impact Alpha. Greetings, Agents of Impact! Agents of Impact Call No. 27: Opportunities at the intersection of gender and climate.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 22, 2021

Twenty-six startups joined our community in Q2 2021, working on innovations as diverse as kinetic wave energy, soil carbon measurement, efficient wind turbine installation, and electric, uncrewed surface vehicles. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! Agtech + water.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Earth is rich with existing carbon “sinks” that already draw down CO2, like forests, soils, and wetlands.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Special guest: author Richard Morais, whose latest The post The Brief: Zebras take on unicorns, Africa’s soil startups, climate-analytics consolidation, St. Paul’s creativity economy appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Forbes Green Tech

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Patricia Gifu, Co-founder of Biomede, was working in cancer research when she connected the dots between proliferation in cancer cases and toxins in the soil.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 30, 2023

A documentary charting water scarcity and a collaborative accelerator programme for technology startups were also award winners. We would not be here without the startups and innovators themselves and we always invite others to join them.”

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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. The startup says its mission […]

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

He got his start in a 90s software startup that was not ultimately related to sustainability, but it’s clear from his ambitious business ventures that human sustainability has been his primary concern since at least his college years. The benefits of recycling food waste to enrich the soil have been known for thousands of years.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

ImpactAlpha, February 1 — A raft of biotech startups are helping farmers improve soil quality and rely less on synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, a. The post Kula Bio raises $50 million to meet demand for sustainable nitrogen biofertilizer appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2021

There may be more funding for climate tech startups floating around than ever - roughly $17bn in the first half of 2021 alone - but that doesn't mean investors aren't doing their due diligence. "It The startup's technology helps verify the carbon sequestered by forestry projects. What's up with some Accelerate alumni.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here’s why Clean Energy Trust is excited about our investment in Continuum Ag , an Iowa-based startup run by farmers, for farmers, to drive the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that improve sustainability, increase profits, and sequester carbon in the soil. Plowing or tilling soil has been done for thousands of years.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 26, 2019

SatAgro provides customers access to Planet’s daily satellite imagery, alongside data from NASA and ESA missions, and complementary information like weather and soil sampling, to increase the efficiency of their farms via their app. Winter wheat harvest in Pomorskie Voivodship, Poland // Credit: David Kaszlikowski and SatAgro.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

And the good news is that nearly 85% of dollar investment in upstream African agrifoodtech went to climate-focused startups, according to the 2022 Africa AgriFoodtech Investment Report. BIV also invested in another South African startup – De Novo Dairy , a producer of animal-free dairy through precision fermentation.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 17, 2022

Agricultural practices routinely involve large-scale monocrop operations that negatively impact soil health and utilize unsustainable chemical practices, producing harmful waste streams. Check out all of our startups that are developing agricultural solutions here ! million people in the U.S., Regenerative Agriculture.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 10, 2020

Carcinogenic aflatoxins, caused by soil-based molds, affect as much as 40% of nut and grain harvests worldwide, Clean Crop’s Dan White told ImpactAlpha. The startup uses ionized gasses, produced. The post Prime Impact Fund leads Clean Crop’s $3 million round appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Now more than ever, all the startups are taking a bite out of greenhouse gas emissions, but from totally different sectors.”. We couldn’t be more proud of the group of climatetech startups we have in the wet lab and their incredible progress. Read about our 11 wet lab startups below: Agriculture. Resiliency + Adaptation.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Its microbial fertilizer fixes nitrogen (moves nitrogen from the air to the soil) so that plants can use it as food. Kula Bio’s technology also boosts soil health, according to its team, helping farmers treat their land responsibly. Every ecologist you talk to will say that is the cornerstone way to start improving soil health.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 4, 2023

Piles of decomposing cow manure emit methane and nitrous oxide, in addition to polluting water and contaminating soil. The startup plans to sell its pellets to energy power plants. Our Co-founder José Antonio Caraball had a mission to reduce pollution in Chilean cities,” says Agustín Ríos , the startup’s COO.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 26, 2021

World-leading life science company will engage directly with climatetech startups to advance agriculture technology. May 26, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, today announced Bayer as the newest member of its growing corporate partner network. Somerville, Mass., billion in funding.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

cleantech startup. ” That R&D effort includes honing a next-generation heat pump and logging data on soil strata in the regions where the company drills frequently, which allows teams to prepare the best equipment for the geology they’re planning to drill in.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Even in the old normal, the healthy $100m investment disclosed this week by agtech startup Pivot Bio - which hopes to disrupt the $65bn global market for synthetic nitrogen fertilizer - would be impressive. The microbes in the soil can already do this; we just have to figure out how to wake them up," Pivot Bio CEO Karsten Temme told GreenBiz.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

Veolia has partnered with UK biotechnology startup, FabricNano, to apply enzymes to rocks to trial faster, permanent carbon dioxide removal directly from the atmosphere. Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is a process that helps to address climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and permanently storing it in rocks.

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Grist

JULY 23, 2024

Digging vaults in clay or silty soil, away from groundwater, is thought to be best practice. Several also have plans to rehab wood vault sites after trees are buried, planting the soil with native seeds for pollinator habitat or grazing use.) Once companies acquire biomass, not just any hole will do. Guidelines from Stripe Inc.’s

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 5, 2019

At Greentown Labs, we have the privilege of working with our corporate partners and startups within our Greentown Launch program to forge corporate partnerships. Our Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, Katie MacDonald , has compiled a few lessons for corporates pursuing startup partnerships. Explain who you are.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This startup is pumping trees full of probiotics to clean up contaminated land — and help tackle climate change. Originally posted here: Using inoculated trees to clean up soil.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Startups hoping to do that now number in the hundreds. Last week, she launched the Carbon Removal Alliance, a group of startups and investors that will lobby for policies that support “high quality, permanent carbon removal.” “I’m Scientists have become more outspoken about the need for carbon removal. Last year, a major U.N.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 7, 2022

US-based agtech startup Fyto has raised $15 million in Series A funding for its specialized aquatic “superplants” that can be used for animal feed, food and soil health ingredients. Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Fyto. The company is starting with feed for dairy cows.

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