Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Europe in May 2026

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• Gamevestor — Be more than a player. Invest in expert-selected video game projects and earn a share of their commercial revenues.
• IsentroniQ — Isentroniq solves the critical cryogenic power and space bottleneck in quantum computing. Our dense, near-heatless wiring solution unlocks 1000x more qubits.
• SWEETECH — SWEETECH is a deeptech startup that specializes in the biosynthesizing of rare sugars (oligosaccharides) using a patented, eco-friendly fermentation platform. Born from a passion for biotechnology and sustainable chemistry.

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• MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
• unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
• Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

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• ZERØTEC — ZERØTEC is an pattern design and nesting software platform for fashion designers and manufacturers
• Sages — Biodegradeable, non-polluting, low-impact and vibrant dyes extracted from food waste.
• Srotas Health — Join thousands of patients, researchers, and healthcare organizations advancing medical breakthroughs. Streamline clinical trials with our cutting-edge platform.

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• Yepoda — Yepoda is a DTC K-Beauty brand developing sustainable & natural beauty products based on the latest trends & innovations from South Korea.
• Sava Technology — SAVA is reinventing health monitoring with a novel biosensing platform enabling real-time, affordable, and painless molecular monitoring.
• Meatly — Good Dog Food creates cultivated meat for healthy pets and a healthy planet

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• Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
• Meshcapade — Foundation models that teach AI to see, understand, and move.
• Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.

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• ZOEX — ZOEX is the world's first commercially viable, reliable and modular wave energy converter system. Discover today.
• Gutsy Health — Gutsy Health is a health and wellness website.
• LendingCrowd — Business loans - LendingCrowd fund ambitions by enabling SMEs across Britain to access fast and flexible business loans, with no early repayment fees.

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• Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
• Frinsh — Many ready-to-drink ginger shots are sweetened or blended with fruit juice and thus contain a lot of sugar. The Frinish Ginger Cubes, on the other hand, is made entirely with ginger. Our fresh ginger is processed into a fine ginger puree and then frozen promptly. This implies that the flavor and nutrients are kept better.
• TeaBlobs — TeaBlobs allows you to make tea fast, responsibly, and without using a bag. Now available in seven delectable flavors.

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• WOW EARN — Discover WOW EARN, the all-in-one Web3 app with crypto mining, multi-chain wallet, staking NFTs, and marketplace dApps. Join the global Web3 community today.
• EV Biotech — We design and optimise your precision fermentation strains and processes, tailored to your success.
• foodforecast — AI supported solution to reduce food waste.

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• ALBA Robot — Through our micro mobility platform we add autonomy and artificial intelligence to transform passengers transportation.
• RARA Factory — RARA Factory is a company that provides research and development of sustainable materials utilizing physics-based artificial intelligence.
• Proxima Fusion — We are a European fusion energy startup pursuing the clearest path to grid deployment.

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• Konvolo — "Before Konvolo, we relied heavily on one-on-one feedback, which lacked the broader insights we needed. Now, we can gather thousands of pieces of feedback and
• CubaseBio — Cubase Bio is a biotechnology business that focuses on spatial biology tools. It creates solutions for 3D spatial analysis to speed up drug discovery.
• Inhalation Sciences — The PreciseInhale patented aerosol generation R&D platform delivers respirable dry powder aerosols from preclinical cell studies all the way through to human clinical trials, significantly accelerating drug development timelines. The platform’s one-animal-at-a-time system requires just milligrams, not grams of costly test substance for a fullPK study and delivers high-resolution lung data of, typically, <10% SD. We carry out Contract Research for novel and generic inhalation drug developers, toxicology and environmental research institutes and university research institutes in the inhalation and aerosolization field.

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• Toduba — Toduba is a digitalization company that provides shopping vouchers, food stamps, gift cards, and travel expense management.
• Hotiday — Hotiday is the first hospitality startup that applies Instant Buying to the hotel industry to become a true "Online-Only" hotel chain, completely decentralized
• Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.

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• FC Labs — Brainfit uses wearable technology to measure brain fitness as easily as your physical.
• Metacarpal — Metacarpal design upper-limb prosthetics without compromise. We aim to make the most robust, functional hand prosthesis that people love wearing because it works so effectively and looks so beautiful. Be proud to show your artificial side!
• Fox Robotics — Fox Robotics, is a start-up, located in Camberley, an innovator in robotics technology. They solve fundamental in-premises logistics problems across multiple areas such light manufacturing, aerospace, health agriculture and retail, etc . Their easy-to-use robotics solutions boost business productivity and substantially reduce cybersecurity andhealth-and-safety risks for customers.They understand that robotics will play an important role in society, at many levels and across all industries. Robots need to adapt to human environments by the use of advanced AI, sensors, control algorithms and strong security. Their products and solutions sit at the heart of key business processes and have an important role to play in the successful businesses of the future.

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• AAZZUR — One-stop-shop for APIs and embeddable Front-end-modules connected to a smart marketplace for BaaS- and Fintech-Services
• OnCare — Home care software | care management system
• SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.

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• Hakbah — Hakbah is a Fintech startup focusing on an alternative financial saving. Hakbah is modernizing financial saving via its intelligent platform by offering a comprehensive one-stop-shop solution for Savings Groups to initiate, manage, join, and pay directly within the mobile app.
• Demether — Demether is a DeFi protocol that works to enable zero-cost access to TVL for blockchains.
• The Sanctuary Group — The Sanctuary Group provides aqua-cycling, indoor cycling, boxing bootcamp, yoga, dance cardio, HIIT workouts, and kids’ swim classes.

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• Laagam — Laagam is a apparel & fashion website.
• Shalion — Shalion enables ambitious brands to navigate their journey to digital shelf excellence with a unique, unified digital shelf & retail media insights solution.
• Tutrocito — Tutrocito is an online store that sells decorative supplies and custom-made furniture.

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• Basalt — Basalt is an end-to-end AI reliability platform designed to help teams build, test, deploy, and monitor AI agents.
• Dialog — Dialog is the AI shopping assistant that transforms conversations into conversions, giving each shopper a tailored, in-store experience online.
• UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant) — UMA design general-purpose mobile and humanoid robots with human-level dexterity and a sophisticated grasp of the physical world.

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• Sendr — Sendr uses AI to enhance sales outreach with personalized messages and data-driven tools for higher buyer engagement.
• TruePlayers — Trueplayers is a computer game development company that specializes in mobile games. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Falmouth, Cornwall.
• Grace & Green — Grace & Green fight for access, inclusivity, and education, dismantling barriers to essential care. Because dignity shouldn't come with a price.

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• ICEYE — Gain access to timely and reliable SAR imaging from the world's leading New Space SAR satellite constellation.
• ALL.SPACE — One Device. All Networks. No Compromise. The world’s first smart terminal delivers total communications convergence.ALL.SPACE, formerly Isotropic Systems, has developed the 5th generation smart terminal, capable of linking with all satellites, all networks, in all orbits, all at once. Our ground-breaking software-defined service enablementplatform integrates intelligent routing, edge computing and on-demand services to deliver unprecedented network resilience and application performance. Whether you're on land, sea or air, we ensure that you stay connected.Our S2000 range is customisable across a range of sizes, Tx/Rx ratios, aperture combinations and scan ranges with up to 8,100 unique configurable options. Our modular architecture allows you to pick the exact terminal configuration to meet your requirements.
• SatVu — SatVu captures high resolution thermal data from space for a safer and more sustainable Earth.

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• Tirlan — Tirlan is an agricultural company that supplies agri-food and farm input materials to the framing sector.
• Lakeland Dairies — Lakeland Dairies, a major dairy processing co-operative, operates within a fifteen county catchment area across the northern half of the island of Ireland. The Group processes about one billion litres of quality milk annually into a range of value added dairy foodservice products and functional dairy food ingredients.
• Touchtech Payments — At Touchtech Payments, believe in making industry changing and innovative technology.

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• UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
• Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
• La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!

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• Temelion — Temelion is an AI copilot to assist building engineers during their pre-construction workflows so they can deliver high quality projects on time, faster while preserving their margins.
• iNGage — iNGage is a manufacturer of high-performance inertial MEMS navigation sensors for high-volume autonomous mobility markets
• Innoviz Technologies — A leading supplier of high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensor platforms.

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• Raus — Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers new opportunities to take a break from big city life. Raus serves as a welcome escape from the seemingly endless demands and constant stimuli of modern life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough away to completely unwind.
• Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence
• Milano Vice — Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.

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• Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
• Yampa — Discover yampa's autonomous AI agents and revolutionize your customer experience. Elevate your service with the most advanced AI technology.
• HostnFly — HostnFly develops algorithms to optimize the income from rented apartments on Airbnb. The company also offer Parisians to take care of their apartment rental by guaranteeing an income.

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• Biorelate — The most advanced data curation in biopharma
• Think 360 — We deliver AI-powered software for terminals, ports, warehouses and engineering operations boosting efficiency with automation and reporting,
• CCI Photonics — CCI Photonics specialises in medical instruments and supplies, as well as conducting biotechnology research and development.

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• Motatos — Motatos is an online retail store that offers a wide variety of food, beverages, and household products to customers.
• Matsmart — Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food!
• Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.

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• Era Software — Lightstep is the easiest way for developers and SREs to understand complex systems.
• Stables — Save, spend and earn on the same balance
• Tino — Tino is building the future B2B payment network. The company allows merchants to use their credit card receivables as credit collateral, accessing working capital seamlessly and cheaply.Due to this increase in merchant purchase power, suppliers can boost their commercial opportunities, while keeping their default risk under control. The companyultimately aims to streamline the commercial relationship between merchants and their suppliers, leveraging data to boost transactions for B2B buying and selling.Pedro Sonego de Oliveira and Luis Eduardo Cascão founded Tino on November 2021. It has its headquarter in São Paulo, Brazil.

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• Omlet — Award-winning modern Chicken Coops, stylish Hamster Cages, outdoor Cat Enclosures & easy-to-clean Rabbit Hutches. Shop online now.
• Wild Nutrition — Wild Nutrition are natural supplements made using the highest-quality ingredients.
• Martin Randall Travel — Martin Randall Travel is a travel agency that specializes in cultural tours and music festivals.

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• Sulmara — Innovation for a sustainable energy future | Sulmara
• Besseges — ValvesTubesFittings.com launched in 2015 as the online arm of Besseges VTF and has become one of the leading online pipeline suppliers.
• Miracle Design & Play — Miracle Design & Play specializes in designing and installing playgrounds for children.

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• Super Vegan — Loja de chocolates veganos
• SHICKEN Foods — Plant-based chicken manufacturer
• The Pack — Nutritionally complete vegan dog food. Grain-free & developed with food scientists & animal nutritionists, try our delicious vegan dog food now.

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• Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
• Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
• Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.

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• Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
• Vegablum KG — Vegablum KG's goal with our vegan products is to make the world a little bit better and, above all, delicious. It cares about the environment and all living things. As a result, all of our goods adhere to the highest organic standards and are completely vegan and ecological.
• Taste Religion — Taste Religion offers plant-based products that are devoid of toxic ingredients and allow to quickly create restaurant-quality cuisine.

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• Tiney — Tiney are on a mission to reimagine at-home childcare & unlock the potential of every child. For parents, this means easy access to an exceptional and affordable childcare community that’s built around busy modern lives. For children, this means high quality and thoughtful play-based learning in safe settings that goes beyond nationalrequirements for early education. For childcare providers, this means allowing them to focus on the children in their care, relieving the burden of running a small business and ensuring maximum job satisfaction.
• Loctax — Ask any tax question based on your company's data and IBFD's authoritative tax content. Then act on it with compliance and risk management tools.
• FINDS — FINDS is a unique, video marketplace app for fashion. We are a female-led team that believes that an online fashion marketplace should be just as dynamic and inspiring as a thrift market IRL. We are on a mission to create a fashion resale community that offers a fun, interactive place for people who love to buy, sell & express their uniqueitems and style - together.It's simple to start selling. List your products in your shop, set a fixed price and choose to add them to a live stream to show your items from every angle. It's easy to buy, explore and discover items, styles, people and personalities you'll love.

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• Deaku — Your connected workspace and ecosystem to grow faster, create better, and earn more together.
• TYTEN — An AI tool that helps maintenance technicians quickly diagnose and resolve issues by providing step-by-step diagnostics and repair guidance based on specific equipment manuals.
• Flexzo Ai — Flexzo is an AI-powered workforce platform that connects healthcare organizations with healthcare professionals for shift-based and contract work. The platform enables organizations to post vacancies, access candidate profiles, and match roles with professionals based on skills, availability, and compliance data. It includes tools for credentialmanagement, document tracking, and automated reminders to support regulatory requirements and workforce readiness.Flexzo Ai also allows healthcare professionals to create profiles, upload qualifications, and receive shift opportunities aligned with their preferences and schedules. The system uses data inputs such as location, travel distance, and credentials to facilitate matching between roles and candidates. In addition, the platform maintains records of work history and supports communication between organizations and professionals.The company operates as a workforce matching platform that facilitates direct engagement between healthcare providers and workers without acting as an employer or recruitment agency.

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• Nukoko — Nukoko's cocoa-free alt-choc ingredients give food manufacturers a lower-carbon, European-grown alternative.
• Recess — Recess is a consumer wellness brand creating products and experiences designed to help people feel balanced, centered, and inspired so that they can be their most productive and creative selves despite an increasingly stressful world. Its products include sparkling water infused with hemp extract and adaptogens for balance and clarity.Founded in2017, Recess is headquartered in New York.
• Chromologics — Chromologics produce natural sustainable colors. Our flagship product is ChromoRed which performs better than existing natural, red colorants. ChromoRed is also applicable with vegan, kosher and halal diets.

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• Factris — We finance your open invoices so that you have the cash flow you need to grow your business. Your invoices, our financing! No more stress!
• Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
• Toqio — Toqio is a development and orchestration platform where you can build, configure, and launch corporate embedded finance solutions for merchant networks.

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• Power Roll — Power Roll has reinvented solar to generate energy anywhere and everywhere, using any surface.
• hedgehog lab — hedgehog lab is a global leader in digital consultancy, known for being the 'masters of our craft'. Let's digitally craft a better world.
• Powerphotonic — Leaders in wafer-scale freeform optics

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• XOXO Soda — XOXO Soda is a plant-based drink with prebiotic fiber that is low in sugar and calories.
• Libre Foods — MEAT, BUT MAKE IT MUSHROOMS. GET READY TO TASTE THE POWER OF FUNGI
• WeSort.AI — WeSort.AI: KI-basierte Abfallsortierung und Systeme zur granularen Analyse von Abfallobjekten. Mehr erfahren.

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• Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
• Residently — Simplifying the rental process: from finding the perfect pad to furnishing and sourcing expert local home services, all at the tap of a button.
• The Cookaway — The Cookaway offers an exciting range of world cuisine menus put together by our expert chefs and available to buy as a recipe box.

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• Duvo — Turn a simple conversation into end-to-end automation. In minutes. Duvo works across all your tools - even systems without APIs. No code. Enterprise-grade security. Works while you sleep.
• IDOVEN — IDoven develops products to detect heart problems at an early stage to prevent heart diseases.
• HappyOrNot — With HappyOrNot you learn when, where and why customers are happy or not. Take action and improve with real-time customer feedback insights.

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• PathXL — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
• CSignum — Revolutionising underwater communications with electromagnetic technology for seamless data integration between surface & submerged devices.
• Partful — Make sure customers get the right parts first time, every time with digital 3D parts catalogue software and digital work instructions.

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• ICEYE — Gain access to timely and reliable SAR imaging from the world's leading New Space SAR satellite constellation.
• Supercell — Visit Supercell.com and find out more about us and our games.
• Nordcraft — Create AAA web apps that delight your users

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• Attio — Unlock your team's true potential with Attio, the data-driven CRM for modern teams. Manage everything from sales leads through to recruitment pipelines.
• Dash0 — Dash0 is modern OpenTelemetry Native Observability, built on CNCF Open Standards such as PromQL, Perses and OTLP with full cost control
• Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.

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• cargo.one — The cargo.one booking platform gives you access to real-time prices and available capacities of multiple airlines. Directly book online within seconds, 24/7.
• Omnea — The all-in-one procurement platform. Request purchases, automate approvals, and streamline your procurement process in one centralised solution.
• Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.

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• HABX — habx provides real estate developers with a digital solution enabling the personalization of new housing units
• Animaj — Explore the future of storytelling where AI meets creativity at Animaj Lab. Join us on a journey to revolutionize kids' entertainment, crafting captivating content that keeps the digital-first generation engaged and inspired.
• Vertical Compute — Vertical Compute offers chiplet-based technology that cuts data movement to achieve up to 80% energy savings.

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• Lovely Day Foods — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.
• Libre Foods — MEAT, BUT MAKE IT MUSHROOMS. GET READY TO TASTE THE POWER OF FUNGI
• Nosh Biofoods — We create nutritional and highly functional proteins from non-GMO fungi. Our proprietary ferementation process is minimal, scalable, and sustainable.

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• RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
• BioThrust — Our Bionic Bioreactors are the first ever solution to controllable & scalable cell therapy manufacturing and stem cell-based biomanufacturing.
• Collie — Discover how Collie helps farmers achieve higher grass yields, increased milk production, and reduced labor. Manage your pastures easily with our innovative app.

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• TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
• ARGO AI — Solving the risk equation in the world of commercial insurance. Made in London. For the World.
• Thema — See where to defend. Where to expand. Where to originate.

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• Agriodor — Agriodor is to provide concrete and effective alternatives to insecticides to help farmers produce more sustainably.
• Cuure — We are building a great and honest company that delivers personalized vitamins and food supplements to everyone so they improve their daily wellness and consciousness
• Phagos — Phagos uses AI and phages to create personalized bacterial treatments in 2 months. Our sustainable antibiotic alternative targets specific bacteria without resistance, serving chicken, cattle, swine, and shrimp farms worldwide.

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• Volta — Volta is a developer of software-as-a-service platform focusing on B2B commerce.
• Cashmere — Cashmere is the platform for managing, protecting, and licensing premium book content in the AI era. Control your IP. Unlock new revenue. Power ethical AI..
• Massive Dynamic — Specialized AI to orchestrate complex cross-channel advertising

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• Cervest — Cervest's AI-powered Climate Intelligence platform and EarthScan(TM) product put the power of a thousand climate scientists into the hands of decision makers across businesses, governments, insurance companies and financial markets to help them quantify, manage and adapt to climate change at an asset-level. We are a Certified B Corporationwith a vision to democratize access to Climate Intelligence through our open access platform, driving a shared responsibility to protect the world’s critical assets. Cervest is backed by mission-aligned investors, including Astanor Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Future Positive Capital, Draper Espirit and UNTITLED.Discover how current and future climate events such as flooding, droughts, and extreme temperatures will impact the assets you own, manage, or depend on. Learn more at cervest.earth.
• Unlocked Labs — Unlocked Labs develops probiotics with an enhanced ability to biodegrade toxins that are the root causes of serious chronic conditions.
• 4AG Robotics — Revolutionizing mushroom farming with robots that pick, trim, and pack. Our automation solutions boost quality, yield, and value for farmers worldwide.