Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Israel in October 2023

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• ThetaRay — ThetaRay's big data analytics solutions are based on AI & machine learning, empowering businesses to find opportunities and threats hidden in their big data
• Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.
• Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.

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• Tipa — Tipa has developed breakthrough 100% biodegradable and compostable flexible packaging solutions for food and beverages. Imitating nature’s and just like an orange peel, their packaging solutions bring a new generation of packaging that easily biodegrade post-consumption and reduce dramatically their impact on the environment.Ranging from simpleone-ply films to complex multi-layer products, their packaging solutions offer a combination of superior properties in almost every aspect including high yield, flexibility, transparency, impact strength, and barrier properties.
• Phytolon — Phytolon revolutionizes the way food colors are produce, by Leveraging a novel and sustainable technology for production of healthy food colors in high quality at low costs. Phytolon's mission is to exploit scientific advancement promote human health and environmental sustainability
• Supersmart — Supersmart is the world's leading loss-prevention solution for self-scan transactions. Supersmart uses its proprietary machine-learning, AI algorithm to validate all self-scanning transactions in physical stores. Our solution enables retailers to confidently provide self-scanning options to their customers, enhancing customer experiencewithout sacrificing potential loss.The Israel-based company was founded in 2014 by Yair Cleper and Amir Ayalon.

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• Imagindairy — It's dairy, done differently. Our animal-free dairy products are lactose-free, growth hormone-free and cholesterol-free.
• Vanilla Vida — We are here to help the world consume more natural vanilla by establishing a vertical integration company.
• Torr FoodTech — Torr is an innovative food tech startup, aiming to challenge multi-ingredient snacking categories with our breakthrough technology. Torr dreams develop and produce snacks that serve a unique, tasty, and much healthier bite.

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• Enzymit — Enzymit's platform technology can build molecular machines that enable never before seen chemistry aiming to solve humanity's greatest challenges
• BloomX — Helping nature do its magic with the power of technology
• MICA — MICA save lives & improve life quality. Our approach to the environmental and social dimensions is reflected in our commitment to United Nations Sustainable

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• PoLoPo — PoLoPo is a biotech company that produces proteins on a large scale and according to specifications. PoLoPo develops a "superAA" plant by employing directed metabolic engineering techniques and fully utilizing plants' capacity as various metabolite and green protein factories. A significant amount of free amino acids can be producedby the superAA. The increased production of amino acids is then translated into an increase in the scale at which proteins are produced in plant organs.
• Equinom — Equinom is a fully integrated food-tech company, combining agricultural know-how, culinary expertise and deep technology to develop delicious, nutritious, affordable and sustainable non-GMO plant-based ingredients – from the ground up.Sustainable, plant-based proteins are key to feeding Earth’s 10B people by 2050 The plant-based food market grew27% in 2020 and is projected to reach $162B by 2030.The industry is unable to supply the full demand for food vs. feed For decades, crops have been farmed primarily for animal feed – not for human consumption. To be palatable in human food, these crops require extensive and expensive processing. . With limited processing facilities equipped for this use, the industry is on track to supply only 50% of projected demand for plant-based foods.What is Equinom doing about it? Equinom is using science and technology to develop superior ingredients naturally, at the source – in a fraction of the time typically required to breed new crops. Equinom crops are bred naturally, without genetic editing or modification, and are optimized to make meat and dairy analogues more delicious, nutritious, cost-effective and sustainable. Ingredients designed by deep tech to bring out nature’s best The company’s proprietary Manna™ technology platform uses AI to speed the development of superior, high-yield, non-GMO ingredients as nature intended – featuring the quality traits that satisfy consumer expectations. The technology also ensures biodiversity and climate resilience that are critical to ensure food security in light of climate change. What makes Equinom a compelling foodtech investment and collaborator? Working with great partners including Meatless Farm, Roquette with GoodMills Group., Equinom is recognized as a trusted developer and supplier of unrivaled ingredients. Prestigious strategic investors such as BASF and Roquette have helped position Equinom as one of the breakout Round C companies to fuel the worldwide surge in plant-based eating.
• Liberation Labs — Liberation Labs believe that by innovating technology, It can free the world from the costs of industrialized agriculture and unlock a new era of accessible, healthy foods. The mission is to make precision fermentation by commercializing purpose-built manufacturing facilities for industrial biotech.

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• Orbisk — One-third of all food produced (worldwide) is wasted. Orbisk helps professional kitchens to get a grip on their food waste.
• Hyperplan — Hyperplan is a SaaS company whose mission is to assist industrial companies in dealing with crop production's increasing volatility. Hyperplan is a live, real-time software platform for crop and harvest management for all crops.
• WNWN Food Labs — We're WNWN Food Labs and we love food. We're creating delicious, sustainable and ethical alternatives to unsustainable and ethically dubious foods. We're starting with cacao-free chocolate. Changing chocolate? It's Win-Win #alt-chocolate #altchocolate #alt-universe #altuniverse #alt-protein

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• Insectta — Insectta was founded in 2017 and produces materials from insects which can be applied across industries such as agrifood, pharmaceutical and electronics.
• Celleste Bio — Celleste is a business that specializes in employing cell culture techniques to produce high-value cocoa ingredients, removing the need for cocoa trees to be grown.
• PlanetWatchers — Highly accurate crop growth, wind, hail and flood damage assessments at scale. Supporting the crop insurance industry with acreage and claims validation.

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• Zero Egg — A plant-based, vegan egg replacer. Zero Egg is the best egg alternative for any recipe, including: plant-based omelette, scramble, and baked goods.
• Nobell Foods — Farm fresh animal-free cheese that melts, stretches, tastes, goozes, oozes, bubbles, pops, tingles, and everything else to make your brain explode.
• Black Sheep Foods — Black Sheep Foods seeks to be the world leader in plant-based lamb and other wild and heritage meats.

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• Cypago — End-to-end intelligent compliance solution for any security standard including SOC 2, ISO 27001, SOX-ITGC, and HIPAA
• Swapp — Real estate developers, architects and engineers use Swapp to design buildings in a smart, flexible and efficient process.
• NVision Imaging Technologies — NVision Imaging Technologies is leveraging advances in quantum physics to enable the first routine, convenient and affordable use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for assessing early patient response to cancer treatment at the metabolic level.

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• Remilk — Remilk is a food-tech company that uses microbes to produce the key ingredients in milk. The company is developing technology for creating a milk substitute that is similar to cow milk in flavor, nutritional composition, composition, and functionality. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
• Oshi — Alternative Protein - Stealth Mode
• Mush Foods — Mush Foods is an Israeli-based food tech company, growing edible mushroom mycelium to create innovative and sustainable animal-free protein as an ingredient for the food and beverage industry. We harness the fantastic power and innate intelligence of mushrooms to face future global challenges and provide sustainable groundbreaking food solutions tothe food of the future.

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• Tru — Obsessively formulated by fusing flavor with function, each of our tasty innovations perform when you need it most. From the time you wake up until the second your head hits the pillow, we elevate every moment one sip at a time.
• Awake Chocolate — AWAKE Chocolate combines delicious milk chocolate.
• PHILTER Labs — Philter Labs presents an innovative smoke filter for E-Cig, Vape Pen, & CBD Pen. Filters smoke from entering shared space while you still enjoy the experience.

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• Ketai Bio — Ketai Bio is a synthetic biology company dedicated to the R&D, production and sales of high value-added bio-based products.
• Mojia Bioscience — Mojia Bioscience is a biotechnology company.
• Changjin Biotechnology — Changjin Biotechnology engages in the research, development, and industrialization of microbial synthetic proteins.

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• Perfeggt — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.
• Libre Foods — Libre Foods is a biotech startup on a mission to liberate the food system and create a more free future for people, the planet, and animals. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
• Nosh Biofoods — Nosh Biofoods is a developer of traditional meat.It produces technical-functional components and nutritional protein by utilising manufacturing technologies to explore natural microbial biodiversity.

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• CADY — CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology.
• Wisor — Propelling the supply chain industry into the digital age Wisor is a plug & play solution that provides a global automated quoting solution that allows freight forwarders to generate quotes and communicate with clients automatically Get a demo What took days now takes minutes Wisor is specifically designed to support and simplify the complexity of generating quotes
• Honeydew — A source of truth for analytic teams and data consumers, built on a collaborative semantic layer

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• Guardz — Ultimate cybersecurity solution built for MSPs, IT pros, & business owners. Protect your clients & business with an all-in-one security & monitoring solution.
• CoinScan — Fastest trading history in the industry for any ETH token along with seeing pending transactions. One-of-a-kind Airdrops and Holders distribution for quick analysis and much more.
• Nest Genomics (YC W22) — Nest Genomics is a lab-agnostic, comprehensive software solution for implementing genomic programs at scale.

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• Vayyar — With applications in the automotive, smart home, robotics, retail, RF testing and medical sectors, Vayyar's intelligent sensors can see through walls and objects, tracking movement in real time in all environmental conditions. Its state-of-the-art Radar-on-Chip covers imaging and radar bands from 3-81 GHz, with up to 72 transceivers on eachchip and an integrated high-performance DSP delivering unprecedented levels of accuracy and generating high-resolution 4D point cloud images. Vayyar is developing the next generation of sensing technology that is miniature, affordable and versatile enough to impact everyone's lives. Welcome to a world where intelligent sensing is part of the everyday.
• OpenEyes — OpenEyes offers commercial automotive insurance aiming to reduce the risk of an accident and aggressive lawsuits. It leverages innovative technology to reduce the extremely high commercial automotive insurance costs.
• Groundwork BioAg — Groundwork develops, manufactures and commercializes mycorrhizal inoculants for mainstream agriculture. Their customers achieve significantly higher crop yields, while reducing their environmental impact and saving money on agricultural inputs.

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• One AI — One AI is an API-first NLP service, built for developers. Embed our API to analyze, process and transform text in your project.
• Coho AI — Turn usage data into actionable insights with Coho AI. Leverage AI-driven segmentation for personalized experiences that double conversion rates.
• retrain.ai — retrain.ai is a Talent Intelligence Platform that provides actionable HR insights using real-time labor market data, uncovering employee skills, skills gaps, and recommended learning and development training programs.

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• PoLoPo — PoLoPo is a biotech company that produces proteins on a large scale and according to specifications. PoLoPo develops a "superAA" plant by employing directed metabolic engineering techniques and fully utilizing plants' capacity as various metabolite and green protein factories. A significant amount of free amino acids can be producedby the superAA. The increased production of amino acids is then translated into an increase in the scale at which proteins are produced in plant organs.
• twig bio — twig bio operates as a bioengineering startup. twig bio using AI and robotics to find sustainable replacements for harmful ingredients.
• WNWN Food Labs — We're WNWN Food Labs and we love food. We're creating delicious, sustainable and ethical alternatives to unsustainable and ethically dubious foods. We're starting with cacao-free chocolate. Changing chocolate? It's Win-Win #alt-chocolate #altchocolate #alt-universe #altuniverse #alt-protein

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• 3E Nano — 3E Nano has developed and is commercializing a low cost, thermally and optically smart, Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coating. This nano thin film applied to glass and other transparent media is targeted toward windows, windshields, greenhouses, and solar module manufacturers.
• Cloverly — Integrate sustainability into every transaction with carbon estimates. Neutralize the impact in real-time with carbon reduction solutions from Cloverly.
• Protein Evolution — Discover a world without plastic waste through sustainable practices that create a circular world.

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• MEND — Mend is the scientifically proven way to heal and enhance your body faster.
• TechMet — TechMet Ltd backs world-class teams and makes direct investments into companies and assets across the value chain.
• Electric Hydrogen — Electric Hydrogen designs and builds low-cost, high-efficiency green hydrogen systems to economically decarbonize industrial sectors like ammonia and steel

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• EnduroSat — EnduroSat designs, builds and operates class-leading NanoSats for a range of commercial, exploration and science missions. We focus on inter-satellite connectivity and space data applications
• Cyberwrite — TRUSTED BY INDUSTRY LEADERS One platform to accelerate value across the cyber insurance lifecycle THE LATEST FROM CYBERWRITE
• GemmaCert — The easy-to-use GC-PRO by GemmaCert for quick and accurate potency analysis of cannabis and hemp, including for THC, CBD, and CBG.

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• AI21 Labs — AI21 Labs is an AI lab & product company whose mission is to reimagine the way we read and write by making the machine a thought partner to humans.
• QuantHealth — QuantHealth is an AI company that provides a platform to simulate clinical trials in order to accelerate and de-risk drug development.
• Gina Life — At Nevia bio, we are focused on women's health. Our mission is to use innovative technologies to provide early detection of diseases through vaginal secretions analysis, enabled by Nevia's Machine Learning Platform.

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• Fairbrics — Fairbrics is developing the first synthetic fiber with a net positive impact on climate change and capable of meeting the demand of the market.
• FononTech — FononTech specializes in impulse printing.It is used to print small electronic circuits for electronic devices.
• Mermade Seafoods — Mermade is a pioneering cellular aquaculture company, bringing a novel approach and mindset for the production of cell based seafood.

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• sewts — Founded in 2019 and based in Munich, sewts GmbH provides cutting-edge perception software, pushing the boundaries of robotics in processing of easily deformable materials. sewts has developed and demonstrated a unique technology that uses high-precision finite element method (FEM) simulations to efficiently train machine learning algorithms. Theintelligent software solution enables countless applications in industrial automation like the handling of textiles in industrial laundries or the manufacturing of garment. sewts is backed by APEX Ventures, Bayern Kapital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, UnternehmerTUM Initiative for Industrial Innovators and a couple of highly experienced business angels.
• Colibri Energy — Colibri Energy - Lithium Batteries produces battery solutions for GSE & Logistics to reduce costs of operations and provide sustainable alternatives.
• NanoGraf Corporation — SiNode Systems is a materials venture based out of Northwestern University that is commercializing a novel silicon based anode technology developed by research team led by Professor Harold Kung. SiNode aims to change the status quo of the industry by developing high performance anodes for Li-ion batteries.

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• WOW EARN — WOW EARN connects users to the blockchain, enabling them to mine, earn, and trade via decentralised mining, earning, and trading systems.
• New School Foods — Whole-muscle, plant-based seafood
• Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.

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• Vori — Vori is the modern, all-in-one grocery back-office system for grocery retailers. Centralize your data and transform your business. Learn more today!
• Stealth — Stealth
• Oshi — Alternative Protein - Stealth Mode

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• Beewise — Beewise offers robotic beehives that operate with minimal human intervention, by utilizing AI-powered precision robotics. The company's solution automates all beekeeping activities in order to increase yield, reduce colony loss, and eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. We are the first comprehensive solution that keeps bees alive, inspite of all the stressors and challenges they face, allowing them to thrive, pollinate, and produce honey.

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• Percepto — Percepto is a developer of autonomous drone technology for inspection and surveillance.Drones hold the potential to disrupt multi-billion dollar industries including energy, security, insurance, agriculture, and more. Drones completely change the way inspection, measurement, surveillance, and deliveries are done today. Still, the main barrier tomaking them a must-have platform is the ability of drones to perform tasks autonomously.The company is at the forefront of redefining how industrial sites and critical infrastructure are holistically inspected and monitored, harnessing remote robotics to autonomously collect, aggregate, and analyze visual data.Leveraging its experience with Percepto Sparrow, the most deployed drone-in-a-box solution on the market, Percepto introduced Percepto AIM (Autonomous Inspection and Monitoring) the first end-to-end autonomous inspection and monitoring platform. Percepto AIM empowers the remote operation center of the future to assess risk, minimize downtime, drive efficiency, increase safety, and reduce operational costs.
• MadeRight — We usher in a new era of sustainable fungi-based materials that deliver excellent performance. The future, as we see it, is a novel industrial chain based on biomaterials.
• Revamp Medical — Revamp medical was founded in 2016 with the goal of resolving one of the most urgent unmet needs in Acute Heart Failure patients. Targeting a market of >1M annual admissions in the US with a direct cost of $65B, Revamp is set to deliver an easily adoptable solution using its patented temporary catheter, Doraya™.Revamp has a seasoned team ofprofessionals with a proven track record in leading multiple med-tech startups.

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• TripleW Ltd. — Making Waste History. TripleW upcycles food waste into high-value bioplastic
• QEDIT — Augment your data tools with advanced encryption, by world leaders in zero-knowledge proofs, homomorphic encryption, multi-party computation
• Photomyne — Photomyne is a company that specializes in family nostalgia. We leverage our original, unprecedented technology to provide tools for digitizing and managing all types of old (analog) and new media.Our primary app is designed for scanning, managing, and storing old photographs in bulk. In addition, we offer several other utility apps, eachspecializing in the scanning of a specific media type, to offer the best technological accommodation for each type and its characteristics.Explore our apps: https://photomyne.com/get-photomyne

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• Wisor — Propelling the supply chain industry into the digital age Wisor is a plug & play solution that provides a global automated quoting solution that allows freight forwarders to generate quotes and communicate with clients automatically Get a demo What took days now takes minutes Wisor is specifically designed to support and simplify the complexity of generating quotes
• Konnecto — Market Intelligence | Konnecto | Prescriptive Analytics Konnecto is a GTM Intelligence Platform that provides brands with an ongoing blueprint on how to increase online sales and improve marketing ROI
• myInterview — Hire the right candidates with myInterview with Video for Free. Create Your Account Today. The Video Tool Recruiters Love.

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• LahakX — Spray your farm at the push of a button. We deliver a complete, ready to go, spraying solution based on our proprietary agriculture-drone technology. We present an autonomous swarm that covers farms fast and precise, or “spot spray” zones in the farm to greatly reduce chemical use. In addition to our autonomy and spot spraying, we reduce labor,operational, and service costs while boosting productivity and safety. The company offers growers the ability to purchase the entire solution, or to invite us to apply spraying as a service. LahakX (previously Skyx) US operation started earlier this year, and our value proposition is commercially available.
• SaliCrop — Soil salinization is one of the most pressing global issues affecting agricultural production. More than 50% of arable land would be salinized by 2050 due to climate change.
• Sufresca — Sufresca develops safe-to-consume vegetable and fruit coating intended to increase the shelf life of such products. It designs edible fruit and vegetable coating solutions to reduce food waste and curb the need for plastic packages. Start date of operation - 01-01-2020

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• Good Catch — Good Catch specializes in developing plant-based seafood alternatives. It offers vegetarian shredded tuna, crab cakes, and fish patties made of lentils, chickpeas, fava beans, and other legumes. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Newtown, Pennsylvania.
• Enterra Feed — Enterra is a Vancouver-based company commercializing a natural system that uses a common beneficial insect to rapidly recover nutrients from recycled food waste; sourced from grocery stores, markets, food distributors and food processors, to up-cycle the nutrients into sustainable feed ingredients for aquaculture, animal feed and pet food, as wellas a concentrated natural fertilizer product for use in agriculture.
• Redefine Meat — Creating a world where anyone can enjoy great New-Meat, without compromising on taste, sustainability, or experience.

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• Sharegain — Sharegain is democratising the $2.5tn securities lending industry. Sharegain empowers ambitious financial institutions to generate additional income from assets they (or their clients) already own, with an automated solution that enables private banks, asset managers, fund managers and online brokers to lend their stocks, bonds and ETFs.
• Better Juice — The innovative Better Juice process removes all types of sugar from freshly squeezed, pasteurized or concentrated juice. Non-GMO
• UnCaged Studios — UnCaged Studios is pioneering the next generation of AAA, play-first web3 gaming. It leverages games OS to co-develop with and support game studios by providing core technical functionality, infrastructure, and live operations services.

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• BiotaX — Microbiome Genomic Analysis Cloud Platform | Biotax.co
• EyeControl — EyeControl is a medical technology company specializing in innovative communication solutions. We implement advanced AI-technologies to bridge information barriers, facilitating better care and decision-making in healthcare environments.
• Forsea Foods — Forsea Foods develops cell-cultured seafood through the use of patented organoid technology which allows them to bypass the scaffolding stage of cultivated meat production.

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• In Ovo — We are on a mission to improve animal welfare in the poultry sector, and we have the technology to make it happen.
• Nuritas — Nuritas is revolutionising the discovery of novel, natural and scientifically proven active ingredients that can manage and improve human health. The company’s disruptive computational approach to discovery uses artificial intelligence and genomics to, for the first time ever, rapidly and efficiently predict and then provide access to the mosthealth-benefiting components hidden within food, called bioactive peptides.
• Collectiv Food — Collectiv Food is a next generation food supplier, helping professional kitchens through increased reliability, cost savings, and greater sustainability.

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• Akeyless Security — Akeyless Vault platform built to secure IT and DevOps resources, credentials, and access, on hybrid cloud and legacy environments.
• BioBetter — BioBetter is a foodtech company that develops plant-based platforms for the production of complex growth factors used in cultivated meat. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Israel.
• Chain Reaction — Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies by accelerating compute and mining hardware performance.

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• UVeye — UVeye is the leading automatic vehicle inspection provider, offering coverage throughout the vehicle lifecycle. Backed by GM, CarMax, Volvo, Toyota & Hyundai.
• MDI Health — MDI envisions a world in which complex medication regimens are no longer a major threat to human health.MDI knows clinicians work tirelessly to ensure the health of chronic polypharmacy patients and at-risk populations.
• Chain Reaction — Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies by accelerating compute and mining hardware performance.

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• Remilk — Remilk is a food-tech company that uses microbes to produce the key ingredients in milk. The company is developing technology for creating a milk substitute that is similar to cow milk in flavor, nutritional composition, composition, and functionality. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
• Pigmentum — Pigmentum is an ag-tech firm developing a molecular technology platform that enables external gene activation in plants.
• Eggmented Reality — Eggmented Reality offers lab-grown protein ingredients prepared using fermentation technology. The company's first product will be a vegan version of ovalbumin, the main protein in egg whites. Founded by Dr. Itamar Yadid and Itay Bloch from the Migal Galilee Research Institute in 2022, Eggmented is based in Qiryat Shmona, Israel.

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• Abound — Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans. It aims to expand access to low-cost personal credit by using the UK’s new Open Banking standard to analyze consumers’ historical bank statement data. Open Banking data allows us to build a granular view of customers’ financial circumstances, properlyunderstand their affordability, and place less reliance on credit reference agency scores.The company was founded in 2020 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
• Sending.Me — SendingMe is Web3 native community chat software that engages, transacts, and compensates users.
• Fable Food — Noun - A tasty story with animals as characters, not dishes . Open your eyes to the incredible taste, texture and goodness of Fable.

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• Equinom — Equinom is a fully integrated food-tech company, combining agricultural know-how, culinary expertise and deep technology to develop delicious, nutritious, affordable and sustainable non-GMO plant-based ingredients – from the ground up.Sustainable, plant-based proteins are key to feeding Earth’s 10B people by 2050 The plant-based food market grew27% in 2020 and is projected to reach $162B by 2030.The industry is unable to supply the full demand for food vs. feed For decades, crops have been farmed primarily for animal feed – not for human consumption. To be palatable in human food, these crops require extensive and expensive processing. . With limited processing facilities equipped for this use, the industry is on track to supply only 50% of projected demand for plant-based foods.What is Equinom doing about it? Equinom is using science and technology to develop superior ingredients naturally, at the source – in a fraction of the time typically required to breed new crops. Equinom crops are bred naturally, without genetic editing or modification, and are optimized to make meat and dairy analogues more delicious, nutritious, cost-effective and sustainable. Ingredients designed by deep tech to bring out nature’s best The company’s proprietary Manna™ technology platform uses AI to speed the development of superior, high-yield, non-GMO ingredients as nature intended – featuring the quality traits that satisfy consumer expectations. The technology also ensures biodiversity and climate resilience that are critical to ensure food security in light of climate change. What makes Equinom a compelling foodtech investment and collaborator? Working with great partners including Meatless Farm, Roquette with GoodMills Group., Equinom is recognized as a trusted developer and supplier of unrivaled ingredients. Prestigious strategic investors such as BASF and Roquette have helped position Equinom as one of the breakout Round C companies to fuel the worldwide surge in plant-based eating.
• Beewise — Beewise offers robotic beehives that operate with minimal human intervention, by utilizing AI-powered precision robotics. The company's solution automates all beekeeping activities in order to increase yield, reduce colony loss, and eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. We are the first comprehensive solution that keeps bees alive, inspite of all the stressors and challenges they face, allowing them to thrive, pollinate, and produce honey.
• GigaSpaces Technologies — GigaSpaces modernizes enterprise architectures to drive digital transformation with unparalleled speed, performance and scale.

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• Quicargo — Quicargo is a digital freight network in Europe. Excellent service, reliable carriers and cutting-cost prices. Start shipping your pallets today!
• CIRCA5000 — Invest in businesses enriching the planet, its people, and most of all, you.
• Hargol™ FoodTech — Hargol™ FoodTech is the world's first commercial grasshopper farm! Grasshoppers are nature's most efficient protein source.Hargol™ FoodTech revolutionize the protein ingredient industry by providing a healthier and more sustainable and affordable alternative, becoming the leading intensive rearing company of grasshoppers in the world.The company is at the forefront of high quality nutrients and healthy grasshoppers supply to markets around the world, improving current market wild-harvested supply by providing year-round availability, nutrients content & quality and costs reduction.For its first line of products, Hargol FoodTech relies on methods and technologies of intensive breeding and growing of three grasshopper species that are processed into protein powders. The company is offering grasshopper based protein ingredient in North America markets to food/ingredient manufacturers and whole grasshoppers.Hargol™ FoodTech have thus far been attracting the interest of food producers, distributors and retailers in the North America, Europe and other regions of the world with whole grasshoppers, grasshopper’s nutrient-rich powder and innovative food products.With the expected 70% rise in demand for animal source protein over the next decades and with existing animal source protein taking a big toll on the environment there is a need for an alternative – Both sustainable and affordable for populations around the globe.Enhanced by their vegetarian diet grasshoppers’ nutrient content is superior compare to other insects or animal source protein: Over 70% whole protein, Omega-3 & Omega-6, Zinc, Iron, & Folic acid. Grasshoppers are also the only Kosher and Halal insect in the world!

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• Behavidence — Behavidence is a mental health application that generates a daily mental health score. It compares your digital behavior to other people with anxiety, depression and ADHD.
• MadeRight — We usher in a new era of sustainable fungi-based materials that deliver excellent performance. The future, as we see it, is a novel industrial chain based on biomaterials.
• Virtual Internships — The only platform that provides guaranteed remote internships in your chosen industry and region to gain the skills employers seek.

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• Patient 21 — Patient21 believes that the doctor-patient connection is the cornerstone to good healthcare and that it is their responsibility to remove any impediments to it. They think that the greatest healthcare necessitates cross-specialty collaboration and universal data access. Always with one purpose in mind: to help patients and physicians make betterdecisions.In comparison to today's linked world, healthcare appears to be trapped in the past. It continues to use the same analogue and isolated processes. Patient21  is on a quest to usher healthcare into the twenty-first century. They use data to help doctors give the most personalized treatments possible. And, with the help of their professional network, they are attempting to give a comprehensive perspective of their client's health.
• Tastewise — Tastewise pairs the largest data-set in food intelligence with proprietary machine learning algorithms to analyze and distill information, and predict consumer
• K Health — We pair clinicians with advanced AI to provide data-driven, personalized care around the clock. Chat with your medical team today.

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• Beewise — Beewise offers robotic beehives that operate with minimal human intervention, by utilizing AI-powered precision robotics. The company's solution automates all beekeeping activities in order to increase yield, reduce colony loss, and eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. We are the first comprehensive solution that keeps bees alive, inspite of all the stressors and challenges they face, allowing them to thrive, pollinate, and produce honey.
• Eleos Health — Eleos Health provides automated health tech solutions that accelerate clinicians’ decision-making via an AI-powered Speech-to-Insights system to ensure the provision of personalized and time and cost-effective care.
• Inner Cosmos — The Evolution of Medicine

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• Athian — Funding livestock sustainability via a connected carbon marketplace.
• MycoTechnology — MycoTechnology is a food ingredient company focused on moving food forward by infusing human ingenuity with the intelligence of nature. Harnessing the power of mushrooms, MycoTechnology is able to solve some of the most pervasive challenges in the food and beverage industry.
• Soft Robotics — Soft Robotics is an industry-leading technology company that designs and builds automated, high-speed picking solutions using proprietary soft robotic grippers, 3D machine vision, and artificial intelligence. The company's transformational robotic solutions enable system integrators and OEM machinery builders to offer solutions that automate some of the most challenging bulk processes found in food production.

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• Incredo — DouxMatok is a food-tech company. They have developed a proprietary technology that enhances the sweetness of sugars with no after taste - preserving the full "sugar experience" customers are looking for. The enhanced sweetness allows for a significant reduction in the consumption of sugar.The company was incorporated in 2014, and itsR&D center is based in Petach-Tikva, Israel.
• SimpleOrder — Restaurant inventory management software featuring purchasing and menu costing for single locations & chains. Connect your purchasing to your sales

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• Goodmylk — Served all over India. Free home delivery available. Order now for plant-based dairy needs!
• Nowadays — The Nowadays nugget is made with just 7 simple, plant-based ingredients.
• Loki Foods — We're producing sustainable, plant-based foods from the Arctic. Iceland’s first plant-based cod and seafood!

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• Vivici — Our mission is to meet the world's growing need for sustainable, nutritious and great tasting animal-free proteins.
• Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
• Incredo — DouxMatok is a food-tech company. They have developed a proprietary technology that enhances the sweetness of sugars with no after taste - preserving the full "sugar experience" customers are looking for. The enhanced sweetness allows for a significant reduction in the consumption of sugar.The company was incorporated in 2014, and itsR&D center is based in Petach-Tikva, Israel.

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• Sufresca — Sufresca develops safe-to-consume vegetable and fruit coating intended to increase the shelf life of such products. It designs edible fruit and vegetable coating solutions to reduce food waste and curb the need for plastic packages. Start date of operation - 01-01-2020
• Hyperplan — Hyperplan is a SaaS company whose mission is to assist industrial companies in dealing with crop production's increasing volatility. Hyperplan is a live, real-time software platform for crop and harvest management for all crops.
• Believer Meats — Believer is the first food technology company making real, delicious, non-GMO cultivated meat accessible to all.

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• Farmless — A farmless fermentation platform has the potential to create an entirely new food repertoire, producing proteins, carbohydrates, beneficial fats, vitamins, and minerals from the ground up," explained Oner. "We are creating a new interface between food and electricity by domesticating microbes chosen for their food properties and abilityto grow on renewable energy-based feedstocks.
• Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
• Atlantic Fish Co — Developing sustainable, cultivated seafood using cellular agriculture