Icos Capital, Brightlands Ventures and LIOF exit health food ingredient company BioActor, leader in the development and commercialisation of clinically proven natural active ingredients for leading food brands to French corporate Solabia Group The Netherlands, 12 January 2023 – Announcement of sale of its shares in BioActor to Solabia Founded in 2011, BioActor is an innovation leader in the development … Read More
CarbonOrO closes € 4.1 Million Series A Round to Grow Point Source Carbon Capture Technology
December 21, 2022: CarbonOrO Holding B.V. (CarbonOrO), a provider of low-cost carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and separation technology, has just closed a € 4.1 million equity investment led by Icos Capital, INPEX CORPORATION, Putifer (in total € 3.3 million) and the three founders (€ 0.8 million). CarbonOrO is delivering a solution to industrial CO2 emitters with technology that captures carbon … Read More
Meet The Founder: InnovoPro’s Taly Nechushtan on why we need more versatile, clean-label ingredients
We have an urgent responsibility to rethink and redefine agricultural yield …. read further
PEF Technologies receives an investment.
Nowadays, consumers more consciously opt for food that contributes to a healthy lifestyle. Milk naturally contains important nutrients, e.g. protein and calcium, and forms part of a healthy nutritional diet. The demand for protein-rich products is increasing, as is an interest in a different type of dairy product, consistent with new consumer lifestyles. Standard pasteurization techniques are not able to … Read More
Feeding 7 billion people: The role of fermentation in alternative proteins
It’s sometimes said that of all the people who have ever lived, that 50% of them are alive today. The science on this fact is questionable*, however, 7 billion people (and growing) are pushing the limits of our global food production. If we also consider the estimated 1 billion people worldwide who suffer from protein deficiency*, we realise the need … Read More
Carbon Tunnel Vision
Arguably the biggest and most complex challenge we’ve ever faced is staring us in the face. But what are we staring at? Climate change isn’t on the horizon, it’s here. We see it in our humid summers, raging bushfires and unprecedented storms. It’s disrupting our supply chains*, displacing societies* and decreasing crop yields*. We’re heading into a climate catastrophe, but … Read More