gBETA AgTech Announces Spring 2021 Cohort The Illinois AgTech Accelerator, a gener8tor program, has announced the participants in its gBETA AgTech Spring 2021 cohort. The five participating startups span a range of sectors, from food ingredients to livestock management.
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Non-toxic crop protection spray receives certification for EU, Japanese, and Costa Rican organic standards. Interest in the agricultural sector in shifting to more environmentally friendly pest control methods has been growing worldwide. In 2017, the Costa Rican company ClearLeaf…
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Startup Spotlight: ClearLeaf is addressing worker and environmental welfare through crop inputs. Alternative ‘biological’ crop inputs are a new class of products that offer farmers ways to control disease, pests, and drought without relying on agrochemicals, which remain the most widely used solution globally.
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The third quarter of 2020 has come to a close, and more records in Latin American agrifoodtech have been broken. In September alone, more than $400 million was invested in three Latin American agriculture and foodtech startups…
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Now in Its Fourth Cohort, the Terra Food & Agtech Accelerator Builds on Its Success to Tackle Food and Packaging Waste, Food Safety, and More. Multinational leaders—including Beta San Miguel, GrainCorp, and Tate & Lyle—are teaming up with top emerging growth companies from around the world to fuel groundbreaking
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Five national startups will represent the country in Switzerland. On Thursday, August 29, the awards ceremony for the Accelerate2030 scaling program was held in Costa Rica. The program is led by Impact Hub San José, a global collaboration network focused on amplifying the impact of
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Start-Up Pitching Session: ClearLeaf was invited to present at this special event as one of the most innovative emerging startups in Latin America.
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SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIES FOR COMBATTING CROP PESTS A startup uses non-toxic emulsions to enhance plant growth by controlling fungi and bacteria Spotted: Each year, 3 million farmworkers suffer from severe pesticide poisoning, and 600 million people fall ill from eating food contaminated with agrochemicals. This is a particularly pressing problem
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MassChallenge Switzerland, part of MassChallenge’s global network for innovators and zero-equity startup accelerators, has just awarded CHF 500,000 in equity-free cash prizes and in-kind awards to the top 12 startups and to an additional 6 runner-up Swiss startups from its 2021 early-stage accelerator program. SmartHelio is this year’s
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