Top 25 Organic Food VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Israel in October 2023

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Kaiima — Kaiima Seeds is a castor genetics and breeding company that develops innovative castor hybrids improving plant productivity on a large scale.
• Superfish — Superfish is a developer and provider of an innovative, next-generation visual discovery platform that’s out to transform the way images are searched, seen, utilized, and shared over the web. Through its cutting-edge, patented technology and pioneering vision, Superfish has developed a cunningly intuitive visual search engine that analyzes imagesalgorithmically, without the need for text tags or human intervention. The company is reinventing image search and focusing on empowering consumers and businesses to experience new ways to engage with and search visual content. Founded in 2006 by Adi Pinhas and Michael Chertok, Superfish is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and is backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ).
• EverythingMe — EverythingMe is a launcher for Android devices that adds contextual capabilities to mobile phones. It delivers the right apps, contacts and information to the homescreen, exactly at the right place and time. Whatever a person is into, wherever they are, they’ll get personalized suggestions that match their interests and lifestyle.Deliveringtruly contextual results is a formidable engineering challenge. Their algorithms combine machine learning, statistical modeling, and domain knowledge expertise to identify specific life scenarios. Within these contexts they match users’ needs with specific content on their phones, as well as native and web apps.

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• Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
• Flagship — Flagship develops a SaaS data science solution that brings predictive machine-learning intelligence to retail. Its centralized platform helps businesses make timely, data-driven decisions across internal stakeholders and channels. Flagship enriches retail brands' first-party data with machine learning algorithms to optimize customer retention,inventory sell-through, and revenue.
• Lightforce Orthodontics — LightForce Orthodontics, founded in 2015, makes the world’s first and only fully customized 3D-printed bracket system that is based on the anatomy and tooth morphology of each patient. The company’s mission is to apply modern technology and mass-customization to improve the orthodontic experience for both patients and doctors. LightForce’s platformunites the latest in digital treatment capabilities with cutting-edge, on-demand, 3D manufacturing to offer clinicians the first significant advancement in bracket-based treatment protocol in the past 50 years. A first-of-its-kind in the orthodontic space, Lightforce offers an unparalleled platform for orthodontists and LightForce technicians to collaborate on treatment plans for each individual patient. The company’s solution significantly reduces patient visits to the orthodontist and time spent wearing braces by providing 100 percent fully-customized solutions that improve both convenience and quality, ensuring patients receive the gold standard of care.

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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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• 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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• Egg'n'up — Egg’n’up is a young and vibrant Food-Tech company, which developing a sustainable alternative egg product using a proprietary plant- based ingredients to get the egg’s unique taste, texture, appearance and functionality properties without compromising on taste and its nutritional values.
• X-Therma — At X-Therma, we're advancing regenerative medicine and organ transplantation with a novel biopreservation solution.
• Universal Quantum — Universal Quantum is building quantum computers to tackle real-world problems that would take today’s fastest supercomputers billions of years to solve.

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• Largix — Largix is the first company to develop and commercially produce 3D Robotic Printers for real production processes. We have invented the "Cold 3D Printing®" technology that makes 3DP possible for real industrial production. Largix uses the most common thermoplastic polymers: Polypropylene and Polyethylene, polymers that nobody else iscapable of printing.
• TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.
• Electra Vehicles — Control, Analyze, & Design Innovative Battery Packs using Electra Vehicles' EVE-Ai 360 Adaptive Controls and Analytics and EnPower Design.

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• Believer Meats — Believer is the first food technology company making real, delicious, non-GMO cultivated meat accessible to all.

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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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• 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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• Believer Meats — Believer is the first food technology company making real, delicious, non-GMO cultivated meat accessible to all.

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• HelloSelf — The UK's Trusted Online Private Clinical Therapy Service
• Kadence — Easy hybrid workplace management software supporting desk booking, conference room booking, Visitor management, and people coordination.
• Bluu Seafood — Cultivated Seafood Made From Fish Cells. Tastier, Healther and More Sustainable.

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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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• ODAIA — Empowering Pharma's Next Generation of Engagement with HCPs
• CloudZero — CloudZero is the only cloud cost intelligence platform that puts engineering in control by connecting technical decisions to business results.
• Vital — Intuitive, user friendly, smart hospital software that leverages AI for an optimized patient and clinician experience.

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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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• 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.

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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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• 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.