Global Startup News.
A pulse on global innovation.
Neatleaf: Data-driven yield optimisation
Founded in 2020 by Ralf Schoenherr and Elmar Mair, Neatleaf is creating data-driven & autonomous agriculture for yield optimisation to impact both humans and the planet positively.
FYTO: Food for dairy cows and hens
Improving food production processes to increase sustainability and reduce the environmental impact from the meat and dairy industries is of utmost importance to meet the ever-increasing demand for food in an environmentally conscious way.
Ryp LABS: Keeping fruit fresh longer
The UN estimates that over $2.6 trillion worth of food goes to #waste per year, which equates to a staggering 50% of all food produced.
Powermarket: Enabling locally produced electricity
Our communities are becoming more and more localized, especially as sustainability has come into greater focus… we have made increased efforts to support small businesses, get our food and get our clothes locally. But what about our electricity?
BioMilk: Sustainable production of high-value dairy products
As the consumption of dairy products is on an upward trend, sustainable and environmentally low impact production of #milk that fulfils similar nutritional needs is essential.
Aleph Farms: Lab-grown steaks from non-genetically engineered cells
Founded in 2017 by Didier Toubia and Shulamit Levenberg, Aleph Farms is a foodtech company that operates in the sustainable food ecosystem by cultivating real steak directly from the natural cells of cows.
Greyparrot: Better waste recognition = More recycling
Founded by Mikela Druckman and Nikola Sivacki in 2019, Greyparrot provides AI-based waste recognition software to power next-generation smart systems that will monitor & sort waste at scale.
MeliBio: Honey production without Bees
Founded in 2020 by Aaron M. Schaller and Darko Mandich, MeliBio, Inc. is developing a proprietary technology based on synthetic biology, precision fermentation, and plant science that replaces honeybees as a medium for honey production, therefore saving bees and producing honey.
Algreen: Biodegradable and biocompatible microbeads for cosmetics
Studies have estimated that around 63% of our #cosmetics contain #microplastics. Since these were #plastics aren’t filtered by sewage systems, they ultimately end up in the #ocean, polluting the #environment.
LIA: Flushable and biodegradable pregnancy test
Founded by Bethany Edwards and Anna Couturier, LIA Diagnostics is the first and only #flushable and biodegradable #pregnancy #test that is 99% accurate, has 0% plastic and will provide anyone taking the test total privacy.
Ÿnsect: Vertically farming insects for more sustainable protein
Founded in 2011, Ÿnsect has been transforming farmed insects into premium #animal feed. The #startup is developing innovations to farm insects at a large #scale and #automating processes to turn insects into the highest quality raw materials.
Woola: Replacing bubble wrap with sheep wool alternatives
Founders Anna-Liisa Palatu and Jevgeni Širai are on a mission to combat e-commerce #plastic #waste in the online shopping industry with their company Woola. Using leftover sheep wool (which would otherwise go to waste), they have developed fully #compostable packaging alternatives to traditional bubble wrap and plastic envelopes.
Vigti: Making pipelines saver by preventing gas leakages with AI
Vigti is an award-winning and patented early detection software that helps operations managers at gas distribution companies save lives and address the $8 billion in annual losses by identifying and localizing anomalies such as leakages and pipeline bursts which currently go undetected for months, using #machine #learning and AI-based algorithms
SafetyNet Technologies: Reduces bycatch and allows selective fishing
Daniel Watson and SafetyNet Technologies are on a mission to improve the #sustainability of fishing by reducing bycatch.
Agrisea: Grow crops in high salt conditions
Agrisea is a #sustainable #foodtech startup built to solve world #hunger by evolving #sustainable food systems through #ocean #agriculture. Rory Hornby and Luke Young have developed a way to grow crops in high salt conditions such as salt soils or coastal waters.