Berkeley Yeast engineers yeast strains to help brewers create beers that are delicious and sustainable. The company was founded by Berkeley PhDs in 2017. Its headquarters is based in Oakland, California. They consume around the world, from regional specialties to staples used by billions of people daily. This includes beer and wine, but also bread, cheese, vinegar, soy sauce, fish sauce, kombucha, miso, chocolate, and others. The list is long and reveals a broad and exciting horizon.
It’s Fresh! Food Freshness Technology company, delivering freshness solutions to the fresh produce industry, based on consumer-friendly advanced materials innovations. Our discrete It's Fresh! controllers purify the air around perishable produce, inside the pack from field to fork; helping our customers deliver fruit that is fresher for longer, thereby significantly increasing sales, and slashing unnecessary waste - right into the consumer's home. www.itsfresh.com
Slingshot Biosciences develops next-generation synthetic cells for diagnostics and therapeutics. The company aims to bring simple, elegant, and cost-effective solutions to common problems facing research and development programs.
Founded by Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, a fourth-generation farmer, ProducePay is eliminating the economic and food waste caused by the volatile, opaque, and fragmented nature of today’s global fresh produce supply chain. The AgTech company’s Predictable Commerce Platform is giving growers and buyers greater control of their business by providing unprecedented access to each other, capital, trading, insights and greater supply chain visibility. Consumers receive fresher produce more efficiently, knowing it is grown and delivered in responsible ways. This transformational approach is unlocking economic value, and creating a more sustainable global fresh produce industry.
Animol is building its own pipeline of breakthrough proprietary veterinary small molecules led by a team of animal health industry experts with vast experience in bringing drugs to market. With our unique and powerful technology platform, we deliver innovative medicines that are specifically designed for the needs of veterinary patients.
Dalma offers transparent, subscription-based health insurance that covers pets, reimbursing costs related to illnesses, injuries, and preventive care.
We are building a new era of food. We've created fast food that's healthier than a salad.
Invetx is a veterinary therapeutics company that develops protein-based therapeutics for animal health. Invetx's network includes animal and human health experts, veterinary scientists, and clinicians. The company's vision is of a global animal health industry that fully leverages biopharma technologies to deliver dramatically improved health outcomes for pets and farm animal populations.
Lollipop is an online grocery shopping platform that includes personalized meal plans.
BiomEdit is an innovation company that discovers, designs, and develops novel probiotics, microbiome derived bioactives, and engineered microbial medicines to address unmet needs in animal health. Our ambition is to create solutions to some of the most important problems in animal agriculture and food security by leveraging the potential of the microbiome. BiomEdit’s technology is based on a unique platform that utilizes high-throughput sequencing and data analytics to rapidly discover and screen novel probiotic species and bioactive molecules. These can then be engineered to confer thermostability, enhanced production of beneficial metabolites, or expression of immune modulating proteins. These probiotics and microbially-derived compounds represent the next generation of products designed to promote animal health without the use of antibiotics.
Edge Animal Health offers biotechnology solutions that focus on a bi-directional approach to develop novel therapeutics and vaccines.
It’s Fresh! Food Freshness Technology company, delivering freshness solutions to the fresh produce industry, based on consumer-friendly advanced materials innovations. Our discrete It's Fresh! controllers purify the air around perishable produce, inside the pack from field to fork; helping our customers deliver fruit that is fresher for longer, thereby significantly increasing sales, and slashing unnecessary waste - right into the consumer's home. www.itsfresh.com
Smartwyre is software for agribusiness performance. It was built by crop protection and software industry veterans to drive the commercial activity of the companies who supply the worlds' farmers. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Slingshot Biosciences develops next-generation synthetic cells for diagnostics and therapeutics. The company aims to bring simple, elegant, and cost-effective solutions to common problems facing research and development programs.
Founded by Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, a fourth-generation farmer, ProducePay is eliminating the economic and food waste caused by the volatile, opaque, and fragmented nature of today’s global fresh produce supply chain. The AgTech company’s Predictable Commerce Platform is giving growers and buyers greater control of their business by providing unprecedented access to each other, capital, trading, insights and greater supply chain visibility. Consumers receive fresher produce more efficiently, knowing it is grown and delivered in responsible ways. This transformational approach is unlocking economic value, and creating a more sustainable global fresh produce industry.
Vestaron is leading a peptide-based revolution in crop protection. The company is committed to providing growers with novel, effective, peptide-based biopesticides that address proven targets. Vestaron's peptides overcome existing resistance issues while offering a desired safety profile for workers, beneficial, and the environment. Vestaron has earned global recognition for its work, including the inaugural 2015 Bernard Blum Award for novel biocontrol solutions, the prestigious Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute in 2020, and Best New Biologic Product in the 2021 Crop Science Awards.
Invetx is a veterinary therapeutics company that develops protein-based therapeutics for animal health. Invetx's network includes animal and human health experts, veterinary scientists, and clinicians. The company's vision is of a global animal health industry that fully leverages biopharma technologies to deliver dramatically improved health outcomes for pets and farm animal populations.
Enko Chem discovers and develops novel products for farmers to protect their crops from pests and diseases. Their proprietary technology platform represents a revolutionary approach to rapidly discovering safe and economical solutions that are needed to ensure sustainable food production.
Ascus Biosciences develops computational and genomics-based technology platform to discover and develop next-generation microbial products. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
Invetx is a veterinary therapeutics company that develops protein-based therapeutics for animal health. Invetx's network includes animal and human health experts, veterinary scientists, and clinicians. The company's vision is of a global animal health industry that fully leverages biopharma technologies to deliver dramatically improved health outcomes for pets and farm animal populations.
Vestaron is leading a peptide-based revolution in crop protection. The company is committed to providing growers with novel, effective, peptide-based biopesticides that address proven targets. Vestaron's peptides overcome existing resistance issues while offering a desired safety profile for workers, beneficial, and the environment. Vestaron has earned global recognition for its work, including the inaugural 2015 Bernard Blum Award for novel biocontrol solutions, the prestigious Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute in 2020, and Best New Biologic Product in the 2021 Crop Science Awards.
Smartwyre is software for agribusiness performance. It was built by crop protection and software industry veterans to drive the commercial activity of the companies who supply the worlds' farmers. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Ashish Group of Industries was established in 1975. In 2002, Ashish Life Science Pvt Limited (ALS) was established and began it’s pharmaceutical manufacturing operations. Over the last decade, we have grown to be a leader in the Indian veterinary export market. They have established trust relationships with key channels of more than 50+ countries today and their cutting-edge products are ensuring better healthcare for many different species of animals.
Founded by Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, a fourth-generation farmer, ProducePay is eliminating the economic and food waste caused by the volatile, opaque, and fragmented nature of today’s global fresh produce supply chain. The AgTech company’s Predictable Commerce Platform is giving growers and buyers greater control of their business by providing unprecedented access to each other, capital, trading, insights and greater supply chain visibility. Consumers receive fresher produce more efficiently, knowing it is grown and delivered in responsible ways. This transformational approach is unlocking economic value, and creating a more sustainable global fresh produce industry.
Voltea’s water purification systems have been installed all over the world, purifying millions of gallons of water per year. The DiEntry product for residential customers offers a true salt-free alternative, delivering reliably quality water throughout the home. The CapDI product for commercial users is depended upon for great-tasting products from specialist brewpubs and coffee houses all the way to companies such as Pepsi, Marriott and E&J Gallo Winery
Farmobile specializes in collecting second-by-second agronomic and machine data from a mixed fleet. They offer farmers revenue-generating opportunities through the Farmobile DataStoreSM exchange. They organize it into a portable data standard for live viewing, easy downloads, API streaming, and permission-based sharing with trusted advisors.
AgriMetis develops natural product derived compounds to protect crops from weeds, fungal diseases, and insect pests. It features natural product derived compounds to protect crops, recreational land, gardens, and homes from weeds, fungal diseases, and insect pests. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Lutherville Timonium.
Voltea’s water purification systems have been installed all over the world, purifying millions of gallons of water per year. The DiEntry product for residential customers offers a true salt-free alternative, delivering reliably quality water throughout the home. The CapDI product for commercial users is depended upon for great-tasting products from specialist brewpubs and coffee houses all the way to companies such as Pepsi, Marriott and E&J Gallo Winery
Vestaron is leading a peptide-based revolution in crop protection. The company is committed to providing growers with novel, effective, peptide-based biopesticides that address proven targets. Vestaron's peptides overcome existing resistance issues while offering a desired safety profile for workers, beneficial, and the environment. Vestaron has earned global recognition for its work, including the inaugural 2015 Bernard Blum Award for novel biocontrol solutions, the prestigious Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute in 2020, and Best New Biologic Product in the 2021 Crop Science Awards.
Caribou Biosciences is an operator of a medical technology company intended to analyze cell and genome engineering. The company specializes in cellular engineering and analysis based on the CRISPR-Cas9 technology platform which paired with a guide RNA, cuts double-stranded DNA and allows for specific changes to DNA, enabling the development of therapeutics for agricultural biotechnology, industrial biotechnology, and basic and applied biological research.
Farmobile specializes in collecting second-by-second agronomic and machine data from a mixed fleet. They offer farmers revenue-generating opportunities through the Farmobile DataStoreSM exchange. They organize it into a portable data standard for live viewing, easy downloads, API streaming, and permission-based sharing with trusted advisors.
Food Freshness Technology (FFT) is a high tech innovations company focused on delivering comprehensive solutions for food freshness. These unique patented technologies are delivered by leading edge materials science developed in partnership with some of world’s renowned research & technology organisations. To-date FFT has raised in excess of $15m to bring to market a range of simple products that reduce waste, protect and increase food quality. The benefits delivered by FFT products are focused on extended freshness, improved consumption quality, increased sales and reduction in waste in the food sector, which are at the forefront of the industry’s needs, to keep it both competitive and profitable. These innovations directly help to address the problem at the heart of food security facing the world in the medium term future
Voltea’s water purification systems have been installed all over the world, purifying millions of gallons of water per year. The DiEntry product for residential customers offers a true salt-free alternative, delivering reliably quality water throughout the home. The CapDI product for commercial users is depended upon for great-tasting products from specialist brewpubs and coffee houses all the way to companies such as Pepsi, Marriott and E&J Gallo Winery
LemnaTec is a global specialist for digital phenotyping and digital seed testing. LemnaTec has been at the forefront of developing hard- and software solutions around their core competency- image analysis and digital high throughput plant phenotyping. From meeting current research demands for root phenotyping, - field phenomics, drought stress screening, physiological plant phenotyping parameter measurements to high throughput plant phenotyping; LemnaTec has established itself as the leading innovator in plant phenomics. Their motivation is robust engineering solutions with software support frameworks to ensure researchers excel in science deliverables. Since 1998, LemnaTec has led the development of plant phenotyping technology. Today they continue to innovate in the laboratory, greenhouse and field with a comprehensive range of automated equipment which is used by scientists across the world to measure the development of plants.
BluWrap provides naturally extended shelf-life technology and solutions that have revolutionized fresh food supply chains worldwide.
Vestaron is leading a peptide-based revolution in crop protection. The company is committed to providing growers with novel, effective, peptide-based biopesticides that address proven targets. Vestaron's peptides overcome existing resistance issues while offering a desired safety profile for workers, beneficial, and the environment. Vestaron has earned global recognition for its work, including the inaugural 2015 Bernard Blum Award for novel biocontrol solutions, the prestigious Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute in 2020, and Best New Biologic Product in the 2021 Crop Science Awards.
Private Equity Round in 2013
Food Freshness Technology (FFT) is a high tech innovations company focused on delivering comprehensive solutions for food freshness. These unique patented technologies are delivered by leading edge materials science developed in partnership with some of world’s renowned research & technology organisations. To-date FFT has raised in excess of $15m to bring to market a range of simple products that reduce waste, protect and increase food quality. The benefits delivered by FFT products are focused on extended freshness, improved consumption quality, increased sales and reduction in waste in the food sector, which are at the forefront of the industry’s needs, to keep it both competitive and profitable. These innovations directly help to address the problem at the heart of food security facing the world in the medium term future