Canada
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Blue Foods: Fisheries, Aquaculture, & Seafood Alternatives
Luke Young
Alora, formerly known as Agrisea, was built to solve world hunger by evolving sustainable food systems through ocean agriculture. They have developed a way to grow crops in high salt conditions such as salt soils or coastal ocean waters.
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Europe & United Kingdom
Blue Foods: Fisheries, Aquaculture, & Seafood Alternatives
Jérémie Cognard, Alexandra Falicon
Agriloops develops aquaponic systems to reinvent aquaculture to produce eco-responsible and healthy food products. The company develops innovative aquaponic production units in salt water to facilitate sustainable agricultural production, enabling the production of natural and fresh shrimps and vegetables.
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North America
Pollution: Waste Reduction & Circular Use
Julia Marsh, Matt Mayes, Leland Maschmeyer, Matthew Catarino*
Sway combats plastic pollution and its devastating effects by replacing single-use plastics with packaging made from seaweed. Sway's technology drops into traditional plastic infrastructure, while simultaneously replenishing ocean health, sequestering carbon, promoting benevolent materials, and ultimately creating a more inclusive climate movement. The company is based in Berkeley, California, and works with seaweed farmers across the Western Hemisphere.
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Pollution: Waste Reduction & Circular Use
Ian Doromal, Sergie Albino*
ecoSPEARS is an environmental technology company ushering in the net-zero future of environmental cleanup. ecoSPEARS designs and develops green and sustainable technologies to extract and eliminate PFAS, PCBs, dioxins, and other persistent organic pollutants (POPS) from the environment - forever. ecoSPEARS is the exclusive licensee of patented NASA-developed environmental technologies. ecoSPEARS imagines a world where everyone has access to clean water, clean food, and clean air.
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Blue Foods: Fisheries, Aquaculture, & Seafood Alternatives
Brian von Herzen, Bob Kryczko, Ken Austin, Theresa Theuretzbacher*
SeaForestation.Co provides deepwater solar irrigation services and equipment for replete seaweed cultivation across the oceans while augmenting seaweed value chains to meet food security needs, ecosystem life support and carbon export applications.
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North America
Pollution: Waste Reduction & Circular Use
Dane Anderson, Jeff Anderson*
Pioneers of a regenerative economy, Full Cycle Bioplastics is tackling both food waste and plastic pollution through their patented technology that converts organic waste into a compostable, biodegradable bioplastic (PHA). They are the only bioplastic that is cost-competitive with petroleum plastics and the only circular economy bioplastic company in the world. Their PHA is able to directly replace polypropylene, polyethylene, and polystyrene and at its end-of-life, it can be up-cycled through our system into virgin PHA again.
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North America
Blue Foods: Fisheries, Aquaculture, & Seafood Alternatives
Robert Bennett, Jacek Prus, Sonia Hurtado*
Current Foods (formerly Kuleana) is creating the next generation of seafood with plants and biotechnology. After going through Y-Combinator's S20 batch and raising $6.5M Pre-Series A, Current Foods has products across the country with an initial foodservice focus.
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Europe & United Kingdom
Pollution: Waste Reduction & Circular Use
Dr Inty Gronneberg, Yessica Benavides*
Ichthion is a UK company, with operations in South America that develops and implements award-winning technologies and solutions to decrease plastic pollution in our ocean. The company also designs and executes circular economy programmes for its customers based on data. So far, Ichthion has received around USD 2.2 million in its seed investment round, multiple international grants, and contracts for its R&D development and operations. The start-up is currently raising Series A.
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North America
Pollution: Waste Reduction & Circular Use
Mike Newman
Returnity replaces single-use shipping and delivery packaging by designing, manufacturing and implementing reusable packaging and circular logistics systems. Used for over 500,000 shipments per month, their packaging addresses the negative impacts from the rapid growth in direct to consumer shipping.
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