Foods for Health & FoodTech
Amplifye – Maximizing protein digestibility for GLP-1 users and athletes
California Cultured – Cell-cultured chocolate and coffee using low-cost, high-performance food-grade cell media
Infinant Health – Revolutionizing gut health using insights from the infant microbiome
Mimio Health – Using naturally derived chemicals to mimic the health benefits of daily fasting
NuCicer – Breeding climate-resilient, higher-protein and -fiber chickpeas as specialty ingredients
one.bio – Improving fiber intake by harnessing unique chemistries of different carbohydrates
Oobli – Using proteins to produce sweetness for CPGs, without the sugar
Optimized Foods – Mycelium innovations to make tasty, nutritious, more sustainable ingredients
Prism Bio – Natural colorants across the full visible spectrum
Rivalz – Healthier, high-fiber, high protein savory snack foods
AI, Software, Robotics & Sensing
AIVision Food – AI-enabled early detection of insect, pest and environmental monitoring of agricultural and food products in post-harvest storage, such as grains and nuts
Frutabots – Add-on hardware and software that transforms small fleets of farm robots into harvest aids, providing on-demand crop pickup and transport that adapts to each picker's pace across harvest crews
Grainge.ai – Leveraging AI and food science to revolutionize the grain industry
PIPA – Accelerating innovation for nutrition and ingredient industries with AI core processes
Scout – Extensionist-led proprietary data sets for AI-enabled precision in high-value crops
SensIT – Building miniature and inexpensive custom sensors for detecting trace chemicals with uses spanning from national security to preventing waste in the agricultural supply chain
Ag Biotechnology
Botanical Solution – Using scalable and sustainable biological products as in-field inputs on high value crops
Carbon Crop Solutions – Upcycling nut shells into soil-mix growth media that stabilizes supply chains and performs as well as GHG-intensive peat
MaxEditas - Precision genome-editing solutions for specialty and dicotyledonous crops
MyFloraDNA – Precision DNA testing to keep your cannabis crop clean, verified, and protected
Invasive Species Corporation – Bio-based solutions to control invasive species
Pheronym – Reducing crop loss through the power of in-soil pheromones to attract beneficial nematodes and repel parasitic ones
Yeast Bay Bio - Yeast-based alternative to chemical insecticides
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