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FMC Ventures attended the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit, where we hosted a thought-provoking panel discussion on "Nurturing Growth: Building an Innovation Pipeline at the Speed of Environmental Ambition." Mark S. Brooks led the insightful conversation, exemplifying FMC’s commitment to driving innovation while keeping environmental sustainability at the forefront.   This discussion covered the crucial roles of startups and corporates in propelling innovation towards climate adaptation and sustainability goals. Executives from Aphea.Bio, Biotalys, ELICIT PLANT, and Novonesis shared valuable insights on collaboration in the agtech ecosystem, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing growers and the planet, addressing adoption barriers, and recognizing the impact of regulation on the pace of innovation. FMC’s presence and thought leadership at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit reinforces our commitment to sustainability and innovation. Together, we're not just part of the agtech industry – we are shaping its future.  #AgriTech #Innovation #Sustainability #Environment #WorldAgriTechSummit 

And the Winners are... We’re pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Soy Innovation Challenge: 🏆 Grand Prize: Clean Label Solution for their breakthrough Bi-Pass Pro+ that enables beef and dairy cows to digest soybeans more efficiently, both reducing the need for palm oil in cow feed and reducing methane emissions. 🥇 First Runner Up: EDEN Concept Fill develops Cellyfill cushion products from soy hulls as a sustainable alternative to polyurethane foam. 🥈 Second Runner Up: NeuEsse creates OmegaSkin™ from soy protein as a human skin substitute for treating serious wounds and burns with minimal to no scarring. 🥉 Third Runner Up: Renewable Green Composites makes plastics and polymer building blocks from soybean meal to improve the sustainability of some plastics. Read more about these innovative and sustainable uses for soy at https://lnkd.in/gbKPzpVh #soy #SoybeanMeal #SoyInnovationChallenge #Sustainability #Innovation #StartUps #USSOY United Soybean Board U.S. Soy Mac Marshall Clean Label Solution LLC Mohammad (Mo) Arshadi, PhD www.eden-cellyfill.com Nancy Levens, Assoc. AIA NeuEsse Inc. Joseph Connell Renewable Green Composites, LLC Scott Loethen The Yield Lab Institute Cellyfill (tm) by E.D.E.N Concept Fill

🌟 GLOCAL Game Changers LatAm 2024: Final Pitch! 🌟 We’re approaching the conclusion of the GLOCAL Game Changers LatAm 2024, where innovative AgriFoodTech startups from across Latin America will present their final pitches. 🎤 These entrepreneurs have been working hard on solutions that could positively impact the future of agriculture and food in our region. 💡 We’ve also had the privilege of connecting these startups with key investors, farmers, corporations and industry experts, helping them gain valuable insights with a strong focus on technology adoption and go to market strategy. 📊 As we look forward to the final presentations, we’re excited to see where these projects can go from here, not just for the startups but for the ecosystem as a whole. #Agtech #Foodtech #VC #Startups #LatAm #AgriFoodTech #Startups GLOCAL LATAM Surcos Boortmalt

Excited to have joined forces with over 20 forward-thinking VCs in FoodHack's Investor Predictions Article to share our priorities for the year ahead here at ICL PLANET Startup Hub. This year, we're on the brink of transformative shifts in several sectors, and here are the areas I'm most enthusiastic about: 1️⃣ 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐧 𝐔𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Transforming captured carbon into sustainable resources, paving the way for a revolutionary approach to environmental stewardship. 2️⃣ 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: AI is reshaping agrifood, merging ancient farming wisdom with futuristic tech to revolutionize food production and security. 3️⃣ 𝐈𝐧𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐭: Redefining the food ecosystem, focusing on optimizing ingredients for cultivated meat to foster a sustainable protein supply chain. I highly suggest diving into all the predictions here as each spark thought-provoking conversations. It's collaborations and dialogues like these that will pave the way for a more sustainable, innovative future. Dive in here>> https://lnkd.in/eBQdZM2E #FoodTech #VentureCapital #ImpactInvesting #FoodTechStartup #2024Trends #AgTech #AgriFoodTech

Discover the investment potential of #agritech and how, in partnership with Zebra Impact Ventures, we build agritech portfolios that perform. Wednesday 24 April 2024  11:00 CEST 10:00 BST Register here 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eMKierBa #agrifoodtech #foodtech #altprotein #futureoffood #futurefood #sustainability #sustainableinvesting #privateassets #venturecapital Fabio Sofia Lionel Artusio-Payot For professional investors only. Capital at risk.

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What impact are you aiming to achieve? 💫 Enabling 50,000 smallholder farmers to become climate-resilient, enhancing food security, harnessing the ocean's potential for a sustainable blue economy, scaling the adoption of portable water filtration devices, and replacing single-use plastics — these are some of the ways in which social enterprises, impact ventures, and non-profits on Co-Axis are looking to make a difference with their innovative solutions. We chat with AlterPacks’ Karen Cheah, Climateworks Centre’s Wei Sue, Fairventures Social Forestry’s Paul Schüller, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory and Temasek Life Sciences Accelerator’s Rui Chin Ong, and Wateroam’s David Pong, as they share more. The Co-Axis platform features over 70 curated impact opportunities from more than 40 countries, with more opportunities to go live on an ongoing basis. 🚀 Visit https://www.coaxis.network to explore the first phase of the platform. Organisations interested to be part of the Co-Axis ecosystem are welcome to participate. For more details, please email co-axis@temasektrust.org. #CoAxis #CatalyticCapital #Impact #Innovation #TemasekTrust

🌎 With the global population expected to reach almost 10 billion by 2050, the need to producer sustainable, and affordable food, fibre and fuel to meet the growing populations needs has never been greater. And Aussie grain growers and innovators are in a prime position to help deliver with new tools and by shifting to smarter, more sustainable practices. 🚜 evokeAG 2024 Keynote Speaker Partner, the Grains Research and Development Corporation is on a mission is to help Australian grain growers make that transition by investing in RD&E projects to deliver new and improved varieties, farming practices, technologies and capability to the Australian grains industry. Thanks to GRDC's support Dr Lewis Akenji (Managing Director, Hot or Cool Institute ) will take to the stage and be exploring how agrifood systems can balance social tensions and our emissions budget. From maintaining productivity while reducing our environmental footprint, to how sustainable agrifood systems can support a more equitable transition to a low carbon society, Dr Lewis Akenji will be unpacking the big questions – and giving us some food for thought, too. Our world-class program wouldn’t be possible without the support and shared vision of partners like GRDC – so if you see them around, don’t forget to say hi! Read more about GRDC and its agritech innovation initiatives 👉 https://bit.ly/3Z9XhqC Learn more about GRDC at evokeAG 2023 on 20-21 February 2024 🎫 evokeag.com/event

Leaving the fossile-driven economy behind is quite a journey. Our contribution: #BIOECONOMY #DEEPDIVEs We learned to apply solutions bilaterally and catalyze scaling ✅ But transition towards biogenic feedstock means huge dynamic pressure for specific value chains which cannot be sorted by individual stakeholder alone. In a collaborative format we focus on suitable value chains to identify upcoming challenges, specifically address them and close innovation gaps by selecting the best startups. THE WHY: We all know that closing the food gap is the core challenge for agrifood systems - but its a mega trend difficult to address proactively and individually. So whats behind this initiative and whats our contribution? To foster an economy based on biogenic feedstock (and circular processes) we act #bilaterally, on #ecosystem level and now #ValueChains. - In a bilateral setting we established #VentureClienting activities to catalyze economically viable cooperation between innovative Startups and scaled industry (Aquapurna is an example). - Fostering #Ecosystems consortia are key like in projects like Smarterra. The missing link has always been the connection between a topline setting and enabling change by specifically applying change. We are more than happy to get support by the fantastic team of Rentenbank with funding by BMEL (Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft). Lukas Hoyos Alexander Engelke Caspar von Alvensleben Dr. Christian Bock Nikola Steinbock Stay tuned! And many thanks for all the support to develop this format https://lnkd.in/e94uicHr RootCamp - A SpinLab Company

'By combining our expertise and building our experience working with various local and global companies these planted seeds have grown into a business specialising in collaborative innovation and human-centred solution building, among other initiatives'. Read our Impact Report 2023 here: https://lnkd.in/dCWcYH5c #socialimpact #impactinvesting #socialcapital #impactreporting #hurumabantfu