BrewCo is a new venture that leverages precision fermentation and biotechnology to create ingredient and process solutions for the alcoholic beverages industry. Russ addresses the market opportunity BrewCo is targeting, the company’s value proposition and offers a high-level overview of its product platform.

ProfilePrint’s combination of sensor technology and SaaS platform can be used across the whole food supply chain. Its patented AI food fingerprinting technology synthesizes complex interrelated parameters and sensory data into a single digital fingerprint, allowing users to build more intelligent and resilient supply chains. From the farm, to the local processor, the manufacturer, the wholesaler and beyond, ProfilPrint is connecting consumers with the sources of the food they eat.

Urla Digital Agriculture is working to revolutionize the controlled environment vertical farming industry by digitizing agriculture and incorporating biology, genetics, computer sciences and electronics in the process. Leveraging IoT-backed sensors, its indoor farms are capable of scaling up production through automated nutrition delivery, variable controls, harvest timing, and early disease detection controlled by its AI architecture supported by machine learning and vision.

Small Robot Company is reimagining farming to make food production sustainable. Using robotics and artificial intelligence, it has created an entirely new model for ecologically harmonious, efficient and profitable farming based on per plant farming.

InsightTRAC provides robotic mummy removal technology and orchard data to help growers better manage and optimize their profit per tree. Its technology finds and removes mummies with machine learning and sight-tracking technology while providing real-time orchard insights to improve the health and yield of your next harvest season.

By combining drone data collection, advanced tree analytics and a cloud data dashboard, Treeswift provides forest stakeholders with precision data and analyses that are easily accessible and flexible. Its services are used in carbon capture estimation, timber value estimation, deforestation monitoring, advanced growth forecasting, and forest management.

Salo Sciences guides investments in natural climate solutions—conservation, restoration & improved land stewardship—by leveraging satellite data, ecological modeling and artificial intelligence. It works with stakeholders to identify priority areas for conservation, uses high resolution remote sensing and AI to comprehensively track ecosystem health at low cost over large areas, and supports conservation planning by reducing uncertainty.

Propagate offers an agroforestry project development and investments platform. By using agronomic tools, local climate and economic models, as well as a powerful database on how annual crops and tree crops can best be combined, Propagate can evaluate each parcel based on potential future revenue. Better still, the Propagate team can take parcels purchased for investment and execute the complete planting and cultivation strategy, delivering a landowner a farm with complete, functional, operations and maintenance that delivers defined revenue expectations for the future.

Lypid is a deep-tech startup shaping the future of food. Its PhytoFat™ accurately mimics the texture, mouthfeel, transfer of flavor, and cooking behavior of animal fats using the company’s novel formulation and the microencapsulation method. The company says its formulation and technique produce vegan fats with juicy animal-like textures and melting behaviors, extended flavor delivery, and a better nutritional profile than other plant-based fats. With no artificial additives, no hydrogenation, and containing zero trans fats, Lypid looks to offer PhytoFat™ as a healthier alternative to the current plant-based protein market, which relies heavily on palm oil and coconut oil for ingredients.

ExoPolymer is applying modern strain engineering, synthetic biology, and fermentation to produce a completely novel and highly upgraded portfolio of biopolymer products for use in a wide range of applications. Its proprietary strains convert commercially relevant feedstocks via an advantaged fermentation process into valuable biopolymer products at high yields, and ExoPolymer controls the entire process, from strain modification to performance and application testing of final products. The company’s goal is to be the world's leader in the design and production of next-generation, tailored biopolymers that are more cost-effective and consistent.

Amai develops novel proteins which answer the needs of consumers and industry. The first application is sweet protein, inspired by nature, built with biology through a natural fermentation process that will help food manufacturers reduce sugar by 40-70%, with minimal environmental impact and exponential taste. It has the same sensory experience as sugar, is quickly digested in the body like protein with no adverse interaction. It is also low cost, making it accessible for all. With its pro-protein platform, the company creates new breakthroughs which are set to shape the future of proteins.

TeOra is replacing the synthetic products found in materials, pharmaceuticals and even food by designing and producing natural microorganisms at scale. Using easily obtainable natural resources, and the latest science, the company is leading the design and development of precision and fermentation-based ingredients based on nature’s own biofactories, starting with aquaculture.

​Seawater Solutions is taking two of the world’s most abundant resources, degraded land and seawater, and creating wetlands that capture carbon, create jobs, produce food, re-wild the environment, clean waterways and stabilize coastlines. Its mission is to restore degraded coastlines and create a greener future for coastal communities at the front lines of climate change.

Scoot's web-based SeaState™ dashboard allows aquaculture operators to see what’s happening below the ocean’s surface right now, and provides forecasts of the days ahead. It's designed to help fish farmers understand ocean risks faster so they can take action, identifying environmental risks to each part of the farm and leveraging historical data to reduce future risks.

The Nori Carbon Removal Marketplace is a more transparent, verifiable and high-quality way to fund carbon removal. An open platform that everyone can invest in with confidence, no matter how big or small their contribution, it allows individuals and businesses to offset their own carbon emissions through a simple, monthly subscription. From there, the money goes to support farmers working on regenerative agriculture projects that store carbon in the soil, further repairing our climate.

Bond Pet Foods is using biotechnology to create pet food that's nutritionally comparable to conventional meat using some of the same fermentation processes that are employed in craft brewing. Bond produces high-quality cultured fungal and animal proteins through fermentation, harvests them to better meet the nutritional requirements of companion animals, and uses the ingredients as the foundation of its complete recipes.

Currently, 36% of global crop yield is consumed as animal feed and nearly 70% of all arable land is used for animal agriculture. Trouble is, the industrialized meat industry is wreaking havoc on the planet. Not only does producing one 1kg of beef consume 24kg of feed crops and tens of thousands of liters of water, but the impact it is having on the environment as a whole is unsustainable.

IntegriCulture is a cellular agriculture company that is developing cell-based meat as a sustainable protein alternative. Its low-cost, cell culture technology, CulNet System, is a new platform designed to expand the reach of cell-culturing into foods and leather made from animal cells. The system mimics the intercellular interactions environment present in animals and, in theory, can be used to culture multiple types of animal cells at scale and at low cost.

The chicken industry grows two different breeds: Broilers which are optimized to provide as much meat as possible, and layers which are optimized to lay as many eggs as possible. In modern-day poultry farming, the layer males are useless since they cannot grow up to lay eggs, and they are not the fast-growing breeds that are sold as poultry. So every year, the layer chicken industry disposes of 4 billion day-old male chicks. This practice is not only ugly, but also very expensive.

eggXYt’s “ultrasound for eggs” has the potential to save the lives of over 4,000,000,000 chicks a year by preventing their unnecessary incubation, save the industry hundreds of millions of dollars annually by wasting half of their hatching capacity, and adding billions of eggs a year to the global food supply by sending the non-incubated male eggs to the food market.

Modern poultry farming methods are anything but good for the chickens themselves. Often packed into large, crowded production houses, flock management can be challenging and it can be difficult for farmers to oversee their birds and make informed decisions about their welfare.

Flox is transforming the way farmers manage their flocks and houses using proven technology, including 24/7 visibility via CCTV camera, on-premise computing hardware to deliver AI-powered insights, and sensors that can improve clustering, mortality, FCR, ammonia levels more. It all comes together in a business intelligence platform that delivers alerts and insights to farmers and decision-support data to industry stakeholders.

Sustainable farming is about more than just minimizing the impact on the environment. Taking care of the land to cultivate healthy soil and expand biodiversity results in the natural capturing of carbon, which helps to fight climate change while also contributing to better tasting and healthier food.

Cooks Venture is building an alternative to America’s meat industry, delivering great food from independent, regional farms directly to consumers. Its core values include a commitment to true transparency and prioritizing the health of the land and the well being of our workers. From poultry, to beef, to seafood, the company is focused on foods that are good for both us and the planet.

Ranchers know the near-endless variables that go into every planting or production season. Fluctuating consumer demand, production capacity, cost per pound, nutrition, revenue and more can vastly impact end profitability and can be difficult to track, let alone manage, in real-time.

StoneX’s CAMERA Predictive Analytics software helps producers understand their risk and optimize operational efficiency and profitability by defining the entire livestock operation, including genetics, nutrition and management. It covers more than 800 variables with best-in-class predictive accuracy and a “what-if” analyzer to provide insights into the actionable and most profitable solutions.

Pork production is often a balancing act between animal welfare, productivity and sustainability. Farmers are motivated to reduce sow and piglet mortality to improve their yields, new techniques to boost facility productivity and to reduce the industry's carbon footprint through minimized energy use and reduced water and feed waste.

SwineTech provides one scalable, intuitive, and centralized platform that increases farm profitability by improving daily workflows, process compliance and pig care. It empowers workers to improve the health and well-being of pigs while supporting more efficient, more sustainable facility operations.

A consistent complaint across the livestock industry is the inability to proactively manage two of their most valuable assets: their people and their animals. The lack of visibility to even basic barn conditions such as temperature, humidity, water consumption, manure pit levels, feed availability and even worker presence create ambiguity, uncertainty and ultimately requires the enterprise to continuously respond to urgent and important events vs. proactively managing.

Distynct enables precision livestock farming and monitoring of swine facilities through single-source, reliable, and cost-effective connectivity. Its system establishes a foundation to connect devices, collect data and turn that data into actionable insights for the enterprise. Through its online and mobile dashboards, Distynct helps to direct traffic of the swine enterprise team and ultimately establish a benchmark of data across the system for process improvement and identification of variable cost outliers.

A glass of milk might look pretty simple, but the liquid in that glass actually contains a wide variety of nutrients and other compounds, including protein, calcium, vitamin B12, iodine, whey, casein and more. The balance of those ingredients can determine not only how nutritious a dairy product is but also how healthy the cow producing it is at any given moment.

SomaDetect is a precision dairy technology startup applying cutting-edge deep learning and computer-vision techniques to analyze milk samples. Its precision monitoring tool can identify the presence of key compounds in raw milk and even quantify the materials, providing data on health and quality within the dairy industry.

Bovine mastitis is the scourge of the dairy industry, infecting up to 70% of some herds and costing the industry an estimated $108 million annually due to lost production. An inflammation of the udder tissue due to either physical trauma or an infection, mastitis is potentially fatal and is the most common and costly disease in dairy cattle worldwide.

EIO Diagnostics’ UdderHealth™ Mastitis system combines advanced sensor and machine learning to detect infection signs days before there are physical indications in the udder or milk. Results are provided in less than a second without the need for samples from the milk or the cow, and a signal is provided instantly that integrates with the workflow of the farm. Earlier detection means earlier treatment and less impact on the herd.

By 2050, the world will need to feed more than 10 billion people and require a 70% increase in global food production. Animal protein accounts for 20% of the global diet, so the world needs a lot more livestock. However, there is no space to grow, farmers are being forced to produce more food, for less, using less resources per animal.

The Vence livestock management platform brings total oversight of the herd from the farm to your smartphone. Control the movement and grazing of animals directly in real-time or on a set schedule, using artificial intelligence to optimize rotational or strip grazing and maximize land yield. Create virtual fences anywhere to dictate grazing behavior or specify protected areas, and use the app to get up to date information about the animal well-being from sensors worn by the livestock.

It’s been years since location-based technologies and geofencing-enabled apps, like Foursquare, changed what users expected from their mobile devices. Now we all have access to geo-located tools like Uber, Lyft, and more right at our fingertips.

HerdDogg’s animal traceability platform combines in-field hardware, a digital management platform and data science to help producers monitor herd well-being, deliver precision animal care and keep track of every animal under their care. The company’s patented ear tag technology collects animal identification, location, movement, and welfare at long range, delivering that directly to the user’s phone so that they can check on their herd from anywhere at any time.

We’ve all heard the warnings. Crop production needs to increase 70% by 2050 just to keep up with population growth. Available arable land has been decreasing worldwide since the 1960s. And without change we have as few as 60 crop cycles remaining. That’s the bad news. The good news is that twice as much carbon is stored in soil as is stored in the atmosphere, meaning we have access to much more efficient farming if we can fully harness the power of soil health.

MyLand is using live, native microalgae to rapidly improve soil health. Through its technology and services, the company is helping to tackle two of the world’s biggest challenges: food security and climate disruption. They help growers create a healthier planet from the ground up — making our food more abundant and nutritious.

A major component of modern agriculture is synthetic fertilizers, which have largely contributed to the huge improvements in crop yields over the last several decades. However, these products come at a cost. Nitrogenous fertilizer production accounts for approximately 2% of global energy consumption, its runoff can have significant negative impacts on soil health and the widespread adoption of these fertilization practices has done significant damage to plant microbes worldwide.

Over every acre of farmland exists about 45 tons of nitrogen in the air, more than enough to grow any crop. The problem is nitrogen in that form is not directly available to all plants. Intrinsyx Bio's technology collects the natural, symbiotic microbes that exist all around us and enables plants to tap into this nitrogen source directly from the air. Its microbial inoculants reduce input costs, enhance yields and help the environment.