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AgTech Sustainability

ACTEGA and Living Ink Technologies, in Partnership with Waiākea Hawaiian Volcanic Beverages, Develop First UV Flexographic Ink for CPG Labels Made with Carbon-Negative, Algae-Based Pigment

ACTEGA, a global specialist in inks and coatings, and Living Ink Technologies, a leader in bio-based pigment innovation, have announced the launch of ACTExact® UV Black Algae Ink, the first commercially available UV flexographic ink formulated with carbon-negative Algae Black™ pigment. The launch comes in tandem with its first commercial application: beverage labels printed by […]

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BioTech FoodTech Nutrition

New CEO to drive global commercialization of precision botanical ingredients for the nutraceutical industry

Novella Innovative Technology, Ltd., an innovator in plant-cell-based ingredients, announces the appointment of Antonio Martinez Descalzo, a global expert in scaling health and wellness ingredients as company CEO. The biotech and nutrition veteran will lead the start-up’s transition from its intensive R&D phase toward full-scale commercial operation. Martinez brings more than two decades of global […]

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BioTech Startups

New Wave Biotech and iMEAN Announce First Cell-to-Product AI Optimisation Solution for Biomanufacturing

New Wave Biotech and iMEAN have partnered to offer biomanufacturers a pioneering combined solution for end-to-end bioprocess optimisation, combining New Wave’s downstream process, TEA and LCA modelling capabilities with iMEAN’s strain design and upstream process modelling expertise. The EU Biotech Act, US BIOSECURE Act and China’s Five-Year Plan are all accelerating demand for sovereign biomanufacturing […]

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BEAM Circular Accelerator powered by gener8tor names Darko Mandich Managing Director

Darko Mandich has been appointed as the new Managing Director of the BEAM Circular Accelerator powered by gener8tor, a program dedicated to advancing innovation in the circular bioeconomy and supporting startups that transform agricultural waste into valuable products. Following the successful launch of its inaugural cohort in February 2025, the accelerator is now accepting applications […]

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BioTech FoodTech Nutrition

Novella Launches Potent Whole-Cell Strawberry Ingredient at SSW

Biotech start-up Novella Innovative Technology, Ltd., an innovator in plant-cell-based ingredients, announces the launch of its Novella Strawberry∞ a patent-pending, new generation of bioactives derived from whole strawberry cells. This natural complex represents the first fruits of Novella’s collection of fruit-cell nutraceutical solutions. This powerful ingredient sets a new standard for efficacy, bioavailability, and sustainability. […]

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AgTech BioTech Fund Raise

Azotic Technologies secures £500k funding for ‘programmable crops’ study

Farmers could soon apply microbes to crops to ‘reprogram’ them to be resistant against pests, diseases and environmental stress such as drought and heat, as a new research project gets underway. Azotic Technologies has been awarded half-a-million pounds from the UK’s Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) to develop a low-cost, practical method of reprogramming […]

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AgTech Food Security Sustainability

ChainCraft and Innovad Group enter long term exclusive supply agreement to enhance sustainability in animal health

ChainCraft, a front-runner in the production of sustainable chemicals of food waste, has entered a long-term exclusive supply agreement for butyric acid to the animal nutrition sector with Innovad Group, a global leader in animal health and nutrition solutions. Through this collaboration, ChainCraft will supply fatty acids of high purity to Innovad, enabling production of […]

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Agriculture AI BioTech

EIT expands team of field-leading experts spanning AI, economics, life sciences, generative biology and medicine

The Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), the new organisation reimagining the path from scientific breakthrough to real world impact, today announces its founding team of world-leading scientists, engineers, policy experts and entrepreneurs.  EIT’s mission is to develop and deploy solutions to some of humanity’s most enduring challenges. They are taking a new approach to scientific discovery, one that aligns research […]

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BioTech Protein

New Wave Biotech launches Bioprocess Foresight to help biomanufacturing innovators design smarter, commercialise quicker and scale greener

AI bioprocess simulation software company New Wave Biotech is helping alt protein and biomanufacturing companies design better, commercialise quicker and scale greener through new technology launched today.  The Bioprocess Foresight platform harnesses AI-powered simulation to give biomanufacturing innovators a clear picture of techno-economics, output and environmental impact, tailored to their process with their data. Not only does the solution provide […]

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AgTech Fund Raise

GeneNeer Secures $1 Million in Seed Funding to Revolutionize Crop Seed Innovation

GeneNeer Ltd. is pleased to announce it has successfully closed a US$1 million seed round to support the acceleration of its technology for rapid crop seed innovation. The company’s breakthrough method leverages its proprietary Superlines and tissue-specific silencing capabilities to improve the current precision, speed, and safety of advanced breeding technologies. In a league of […]