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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.