Hoofprint Biome represents a new paradigm in solving methane emissions from cattle.

The vast majority of solutions to solve methane emissions from cattle deploy chemicals. Even the seaweed asparagopsis makes the chemical bromoform from bromine and chlorine in seawater, and its suppression of methane is via bromoform. Recently, the market has shown great concern and pushback on using chemicals, especially in the dairy industry.

Hoofprint instead looks inside the cow rumen itself, where it discovers natural enzymes that control methanogens.

In this market, farmers can’t pay much for methane reduction, but they will pay for improved “performance,” meaning solutions that increase milk or beef volume. In other words, it’s not enough just to suppress the methanogens – the real winners will be able to improve microbiome efficiency and ultimately steer the rumen to increase the output of volatile fatty acids that are absorbed by the cow.

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Leather is one of the most versatile, durable, and desirable materials in fashion. No animal-free replacement has been able to meet the top performance specs, until Gozen. Impossibly thin yet strong, it’s even soft enough to replace high-end lambskin. Designed with scale in mind, they’re already in talks with major leather users to be the material of the future.

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Infinite Elements harnesses extremophiles to extract, concentrate, and purify rare earth metals found in magnets. Their process enables sustainable recycling of the key inputs to the industries powering the energy transition. No toxic effluents, low energy, on-shore.

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We have shown in people that our technology expands and activates gamma delta T cells, up to 10,000x better than other known approaches. This profound and durable effect can be harnessed as a monotherapy, or in combination with bispecific T cell engagers (BiTEs). We are at the seed stage with human clinical data to support our approach, significant IP protection, and traction with pharma partners to generate early clinical validation with their bispecific antibodies.

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Melio is breaking the one-pathogen one-probe paradigm in diagnostics to deliver the unmet holy grail for pathogen testing for bloodstream infections. Melio delivers diagnostic capabilities that is scalable “over the air” with a few universal probes, without making any changes to hardware. We read each pathogen cell in the blood by how its DNA unwinds, melts or denatures. Melio is disrupting the century-old paradigm of slow and inefficient pathogen testing. First, we are bring our product to vulnerable newborn population, where, for the lack of better diagnostics, 150 babies are given antibiotics for every 1 that truly needs it.

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If you are interested in the next wave of functional food proteins, please reach out to us.

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Mirá has revolutionized the way we make engineered wood boards like MDF by creating three technologies to manufacture MDF without any trees and without any resins, creating a sustainable, formaldehyde-free product while increasing their margins by 4x the industry.

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We know undeniably that regenerative agriculture can unlock soil as one of the biggest carbon sinks on earth. west~bourne is crafting packaged products that source regeneratively and are made with the latest sustainable methods, materials, and technology to ultimately drive demand back into this emerging system that will be the way forward for how our food is grown. With that, we are forging a new operating system for the future of food.

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Minus Materials grows carbon-negative, biorenewable limestone – the main feedstock for portland cement manufacturing – using calcifying microalgae called coccolithophores. Our solution yields a 60% reduction in CO2 emissions without changing anything else in the process, and it can be stacked with green clinkering and carbon capture utilization and storage technologies to produce carbon-negative cement.

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Decentralized low-cost emissions-free ammonia via electrocatalytic reaction of water and air. We bring in a stable and scalable catalyst to an electrochemical process that can take place at room temperature, no heat and pressure needed. Nitrofix will allow on-site generation of ammonia for fertilizers and emerging use cases in fossil-free maritime fuels. Emissions-free ammonia is essential to decarbonize this legacy industry that burns 3% of the world’s natural gas.