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inSoma Launches Seed Round After YC S2020
After completing the Summer 2020 Y-combinator batch (and being named a crunchbase favorite), we are excited to announce the launch of our Seed Round. Please reach out at info@insomabio.com! ...
By InSoma Bio
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Urban Crop Solutions Launches E-Shop for Spare Parts and Consumables
In a further extension of their service offering, Urban Crop Solutions has launched an e-shop to better support their existing, and new customers in the day-to-day as well as long-term operation of their indoor farming businesses. Everything that an operator needs – from seeds and substrates to sensors and container parts – can be ordered via the e-shop. The e-shop is a separate and ...
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Ready to Go Stock Online!
Looking for a seed drill now without the turn around time! You can now view online our new and used ready-to-go stock- waiting for you at your local dealer! Follow this link to view our current stocked seed drill! ...
By Davimac
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The ethics of the Svalbard global seed vault
When the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened in Norway in February 2008, it was hailed as a 'Noah's Ark' for protecting biodiversity for future generations. But critics are concerned about the possibility of large corporations exploiting small seed banks' collections deposited at the vault. Seed banks from around the world are encouraged to deposit their collections at Svalbard. But, according to ...
By SciDev.Net
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inSoma Bio Finalizes Seed Round
After an eventful few months, inSoma is pleased to announce the close of our seed round. We are extremely grateful to and excited to work with each of our investors in the coming years! ...
By InSoma Bio
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These complex companies are involved in huge funding rounds and even bigger scientific breakthroughs, but what do they actually do? https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2022/03/04/women-life-sciences.html
When Jen Nwankwo left Bain Capital in 2017 to get her Boston biotech company, 1910 Genetics, off the ground, her first investor set out clear terms. Scientia Ventures' Richard Warburg said he would write a $250,000 check for the seed round. But he warned that the investors in the next financing round would likely need her to let go of the chief executive title and sign over 80% to 85% of the ...
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Adiposs wins the support of The Foundation for Technological Innovation
The Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) encourages entrepreneurship, supports innovation and bolsters the local economy. Adiposs has just obtained a CHF 100’000 Seed loan from the FIT to support its development. Read more ...
By Adiposs
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Is cloud seeding preventing further flooding in Indonesia?
Indonesia is banking on an unusual strategy to prevent further flooding in its inundated capital Jakarta, and officials claim that they are already seeing positive results. They are using 'cloud seeding' — a weather modification technology often resorted to during drought. The method involves injecting clouds with substances that encourage the formation of ice crystals heavy enough to ...
By SciDev.Net
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Moray Featured In MD+DI Online
MD+DI spoke with Moray co-founder Mark Barrish about the company’s products, goals, and recent round of $3.3 million in seed money. Read the full story, “Robotics Startup Wants to Help More Doctors Fix ...
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‘Seeding’ the next generation of smart materials
Working with a team of international collaborators, Dr Paolo Falcaro and Dr Dario Buso from CSIRO’s Future Manufacturing Flagship have developed a revolutionary way to control the growth, and provide additional functionality, to a family of smart materials known as metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. MOFs consist of well-ordered ultra-porous crystals which form multi-dimensional structures ...
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Seed bank targets food security in Asia
Many neglected indigenous plants can play an important role in fighting hunger, soil erosion and loss of biodiversity in developing countries. The ECHO Asia Seed Bank in Thailand encourages the use of such plants by saving their seeds and distributing them to development workers throughout Asia for free. Ratakarn ‘Wah’ Arttawuttikun, who manages the daily operations of this unique ...
By SciDev.Net
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SFA Therapeutics Accepted to the Y-Combinator Accelerator Summer Cohort 2021
SFA Therapeutics was accepted into the highly competitive summer Y-Combinator Summer Cohort. Y-Combinator is an American seed money startup accelerator launched in March 2005. It has been used to launch more than 2,000 companies, including Stripe, Airbnb, Cruise, PagerDuty, DoorDash, Coinbase, Instacart, Dropbox, Twitch, and ...
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Sustainability seeds of innovation
Taiga Company blog by Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner at Taiga Company " The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Studies have shown that innovation is essential, and in fact, at the core of social and business sustainability. Now more than ever, innovators have to merge social, environmental, and political perspectives into their creative thinking. ...
By 3BL Media
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elmor Filling Carousel - Filling Machines with Enhanced Capabilities
Small parts counted with the elmor C1 or elmor C3 counting device can be directly dispensed into bags, tubes, or small containers using the elmor filling carousel. The operating personnel only need to insert a turntable with empty containers, after which both the seed counter and filling device operate unattended until all positions are filled. This partial automation allows the operating ...
By Elmor Ltd.
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Exceptionally long lifespan of elmor Seed Counters
The first counting machines manufactured by elmor were produced in 1972 and sold to breeders, seed traders, quality control agencies, and research institutions worldwide. Recently, one of our earliest customers acquired new devices, providing us with the opportunity to retrieve a device delivered in 1976. It has been in operation for nearly 50 years. The device was put into operation and tested ...
By Elmor Ltd.
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Senators Stabenow, Peters Call for Coordinated Federal Response after Michigan Residents Receive Seeds from China
Today, U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, called for a coordinated federal response to households in Michigan and across the country that received unsolicited packages of seeds in the mail. Foreign ...
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Machine of the “Agrotechnika 2018”
During the agricultural exhibition in Bratoszewice (Poland) we received the prize – Machine of the Agrotechnika 2018 for our pneumatic seed seeders- MAX PNEUMATIC with cucumber section. We are really proud of this. ...
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Adiposs is among the two first beneficiaries of the FONGIT Innovation Fund
The foundation supporting technological entrepreneurship in the canton of Geneva, FONGIT, announced the first two beneficiaries of the FONGIT Innovation Fund (FIF). Adiposs and ZYTLYN, two deep tech startups based in Geneva, have both received seed funding of CHF 100,000 in the form of convertible loans. Launched in February 2021, the FIF is a financing tool resulting from the ...
By Adiposs
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East Central Workshop: Sustainable Vegetable Seed Production for Farmers
SFA East Central Chapter is hosting a workshop featuring Zachary Paige, “Sustainable Vegetable Seed Production for Farmers, from 10 a.m. to noon Sat., March 23, at the community room in Coborn’s, 209 6th Ave NE, Isanti. Paige (right), who leads SFA’s Soil Health for Fruit and Vegetable Producers program, will go over the three legs of sustainability (Ecological, Economic and ...
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Strategic Vision at Davimac
We were stoked to see our digital partner Big Blue Digital recognise our aim for boosting productivity. We have worked hard over the last month to meet our business target of building 1 seed drill a day to reduce our turn around time. This is a result of team designing, implementing advanced strategies and increasing our manufacturing capacity and ...
By Davimac
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