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Fable Food Co is a meat alternative company known for its meaty food made from mushrooms, which are clean label, minimally processed and made with all natural plant-based ingredients. The products are available in Harris Farm Markets, Coles and Woolworths, as well as Marley Spoon and Dinnerly meal delivery kits, and in various restaurant menus around Australia, Singapore, and the UK.

AstroForge is an asteroid mining company that extracts gold and other minerals from asteroid. Instead of bringing back the entire asteroid, break it up, refine it, and return only what’s valuable.

CarbiCrete is a Montreal-based carbon removal technology company that develops innovative, low-cost building solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Open Forest Protocol (OFP) is a scalable open platform that allows forest projects of any size, from around the world, to Measure, Report, and Verify (MRV) their forestation data. Through OFP, individuals, communities, NGOs, entrepreneurs, and governments are able to create transparent, immutable, proof-of-impact data that is comprehensively verified by a network of independent experts. OFP is creating the foundation for more inclusive, scalable, and data-backed financing mechanisms for nature-based climate solutions.

Eat your heart out. AQUA makes seafood safe. Fins down, AQUA is earth’s most exciting fermentation-enabled protein. While AQUA seafood looks like fish, tastes like fish, and feels like fish––it’s 100% fish-free. We hyper-control the growing environment so every morsel of tuna, scallop, squid, and shellfish is flawless––and forever available to feed billions of seafoodies.

Fable Food Co is a meat alternative company known for its meaty food made from mushrooms, which are clean label, minimally processed and made with all natural plant-based ingredients. The products are available in Harris Farm Markets, Coles and Woolworths, as well as Marley Spoon and Dinnerly meal delivery kits, and in various restaurant menus around Australia, Singapore, and the UK.

Gilgamesh is a pioneering early-stage biotech developing novel compounds that build upon the benefits of classic psychedelics with improvements of other components such as safety, tolerability, duration, and efficacy. Mental health worldwide has reached epidemic proportions and novel treatments have not kept pace with the urgent need to treat depression, anxiety, drug addiction and many other devastating diseases. Our purpose is to accelerate treatments and fundamentally improve mental health.

CarbonChain develops a carbon accounting platform that enables companies to track, report, and reduce their supply chain emissions. It covers the most carbon-intensive industries such as metals, mining, agriculture, and manufacturing.

54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations. 54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research is caucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.

Shiru leverages computational design to create enhanced proteins that feed the world sustainably.

Everna is a biotech company developing novel therapeutics.

54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations. 54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research is caucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.

Bitwise Industries moves Fresno’s technology ecosystem forward by focusing on the key areas of education, execution, and place. Education is delivered via Geekwise Academy, an accelerated training program providing real-world technology skills to all ages. Bitwise Industries provides execution by way of its full-service, custom software development firm, Shift3 Technologies. Bitwise Industries also offers paid apprenticeships to students to help them learn tech skills, connect them to meaningful tech opportunities, and build vibrant buildings in underserved cities to house their work.

Paloma Health is the first online medical practice dedicated to transforming care for hypothyroidism. The HealthTech company offers a best-in-class experience for the 25 million Americans that struggle with the highly impactful chronic condition and are dissatisfied with the quality and convenience of their care. Paloma Health makes it easy to get expert, personalized treatment for hypothyroidism––all from the comfort of home. Delivered via telemedicine by expert, caring doctors and nutritionists, the company combines evidence-based treatment approaches with at-home lab testing to deliver the best care and experience available.

Shiok Meats is cellular aquaculture and cell-based meat company. With a mission to bring clean and healthy meats and seafood by harvesting from cells instead of animals. Shiok Meats brings cell-based crustacean meats that are animal-, health- and environment-friendly. Shiok Meats was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Central Region, Singapore.

New Culture is a food and beverage company that focuses on revolutionizing how cheese is made. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

GetLinks is a platform and ecosystem connecting tech talents to opportunities across Asia.

Eclipse Foods is plant-based dairy products that are indistinguishable from animal dairy products. Using a novel plant-processing technology, Eclipse gives amazing dairy flavor, texture, and functionality without the health, environmental, and welfare issues attached to traditional dairy. The company's mission is to create a more sustainable, healthy, and humane food system by making amazing plant-based foods that require no sacrifice. Eclipse Foods was founded in 2019 and is based in Oakland, California.

Based in New Zealand and the Netherlands, Dawn Aerospace is building same-day reusable launch vehicles and non-toxic satellite propulsion systems. Same-day Reusable Launch Vehicles that do not require specialised space-launch infrastructure, integrate with everyday aircraft in nearby airspace and launch as often and routinely as commercial aviation. Non-toxic high performance propulsion systems for satellites of all sizes. For small satellites, they simplify systems and replace the poisonous and highly-regulated fuel, hydrazine. For CubeSats, they increase capabilities by supplying 1,000x higher performance than electric-based propulsion systems. By building these technologies in tandem, Dawn is creating the end-to-end architecture required for delivering, positioning and returning spacecraft in a highly scalable and environmentally conscious way.

Maths Pathway is at the centre of a movement of schools who are completely reforming the way they structure.

Wild Earth is a technology startup that specializes in developing protein pet foods. It is dedicated to reinventing pet food with science to offer healthier foods for pets that are better for the environment and more humane than conventional products. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

For Days is the company behind the revolutionary recycling and rewards platform, Trashie. Trashie is the only platform that goes beyond rhetoric and offers tangible incentives to customers who embrace clothing recycling at scale.

Solugen is a venture-backed biotech company that replaces petroleum-based products with plant-derived substitutes. They combine the elements of fermentation with the elements of petrochemical processing to create the carbon negative molecular manufacturing platform. They produces chemicals from bio-based feedstocks and is based on breakthroughs in synthetic biology, metal catalyst engineering, and modular plant design. Its solutions will also address clean water, sustainable materials, safer food, and healthy personal care.