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"The Polybot project leverages recent breakthroughs in machine learning to make polyculture farming economically viable"
10-Mar-2025
The harvesting robot project Polybot is supported by the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (Deutsche Agentur für Sprunginnovation: SPRIND) with a seven-month validation grant of approximately 220,000 euros. This funding will help the team to prepare the transition from scientific ...
Zymofix secures €2 million to scale microbial solutions for sustainable agriculture and beyond
13-Nov-2024
Zymofix, a pioneer in industrial biotechnology, has secured €2 million in funding led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), with participation from The Nest Family Office and VP Capital. This strategic investment will fuel Zymofix’s efforts to scale its proprietary fermentation technology, turning ...
Critical resources will help Genvor to grow and scale biological crop protection products and innovative trait technologies
02-Sep-2024
Bayer announced that the company has selected Genvor Inc., a US-based crop protection business, as the recipient of its first Golden Ticket award. Genvor will receive year-long access to lab space and equipment at Bayer’s LifeHub California @AgStart, one of the premier U.S. AgriFoodTech ...
Berlin-based Climate Tech startup Seqana raises €2.1M Seed round
03-Jun-2024
Seqana has secured €2.1M from German seed investor HTGF and carbon removal firm Counteract to refine its soil carbon measurement algorithm. Food and beverage companies are embracing carbon farming practices utilizing soil-based carbon storage to align with current regulations, meet consumer ...
19-Apr-2024
Factory 01, Solar Foods’ first commercial-scale production facility of Solein®, starts production in Vantaa, Finland. It marks the beginning of the commercialisation of the novel protein and showcases what the future of food production could look like. Solein® is the revolutionary protein grown ...
A coating protects nitrogen-fixing bacteria: Start-up to commercialise coated bacteria for large-scale use in regenerative agriculture
21-Nov-2023
Production of chemical fertilizers accounts for about 1.5 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. MIT chemists hope to help reduce that carbon footprint by replacing some chemical fertilizer with a more sustainable source — bacteria. Bacteria that can convert nitrogen gas to ammonia ...
Toopi Organics awarded €8.4M to spread urine upcycling for agriculture across the EU
20-Nov-2023
Toopi Organics,a French biotechnology startup developing plant biostimulants derived from the fermentation of human urine, has been awarded €8.4 million from the EIC Accelerator, Europe’s flagship innovation programme for deeptech startups. Funding includes a €2.4 million non-dilutive grant, as ...
Biotechnology sector leads in the use of patents and trade marks, with nearly half of the sector’s startups seeking these essential rights
19-Oct-2023
the European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) have published a new joint study highlighting how much patents and trade marks can boost the success of European startups. The report shows that, on average, startups that possess these two types of ...
Indian Start-up wins ISC3 Innovation Challenge
12-Oct-2023
What does it take to establish and maintain sustainability as a measurable value for companies? What conditions need to be created for ideas in Sustainable Chemistry to flourish? And which start-ups worldwide promise the greatest impact in this field with their innovations? These and other ...
Rockwell Automation plans collaboration with startup Fork Farms
07-Sep-2023
Rockwell Automation has announced plans to collaborate with Fork Farms, a Green Bay-based agriculture technology startup company, to build a highly automated, indoor 7,300-square-foot hydroponic vertical farm within Rockwell’s Milwaukee headquarters by summer of 2024. Hydroponic farming is a ...
