Cooks Venture sells a proprietary heirloom breed of chicken that is healthier and more biologically balanced than conventional breeds, resulting in both significantly better animal welfare and strikingly superior taste. The chickens’ slower-growing nature, pasture-raised environments and regenerative agriculture relationships provide additional differentiating attributes in the poultry market. Cooks was established by a group of farmers, cooks and food professionals who decided to build a new food system animal-by-animal, plant-by-plant, meal-by-meal.

Copper Cow is a Vietnamese coffee company focused on ethical sourcing and sustainability. Working closely with farmers, Copper Cow improves the quality of their beans, stewardship of the environment, and upward economic mobility. The company is also continuously working to reduce its environmental footprint by utilizing recyclable and compostable materials.

We do this by providing real-time factual information regarding the changing risk status based on testing and monitoring data. Our CONTROL-PRO solution automates EMP, Product Testing and Sanitation programs across all of a food supplier’s facilities, allowing remote access and management from any browser enabled device. Our integrated analytics aggregate and visualize all relevant information, while continuously monitoring data flows and providing tailor-made and up-to-date alerts regarding food safety performance across the enterprise.

Culture Biosciences develops automated bio-reactor that helps biotech companies optimize their manufacturing processes and brings products to market faster. The company also builds automated tools for fermentation. It has a digital bio-manufacturing platform to enable scientists to run, monitor, and analyze bio-reactors faster than traditional approaches by robotic sample handling and cloud data monitoring and analysis.

Descartes Labs launched as a spin-out from Los Alamos National Laboratory in December of 2014. The underlying technology uses computer vision, machine learning, and cloud-based infrastructure to teach computers to see and understand the world around them. Initially, the technology was applied to develop an agricultural model to analyze corn and soy production in the United States. Using imagery from various satellite constellations, weather data, and other datasets, the model accurately predicted yield six months prior to the end of the growing season. Realizing the potential for the technology applied to use cases around the globe, Descartes Labs turned its focus to developing a cloud-based supercomputing platform for the application of machine intelligence to massive data sets. This platform could be used by anyone to develop intelligent learning models to do science on data, and make that data actionable. Capitalizing on the confluence of advances in AI and high-performance cloud computing – along with the rapid increase of sensors capturing information all over the globe – Descartes Labs has created an enterprise data refinery that enables organizations to model – and predict changes in – natural resources and the entire value chains in which they live. With an initial focus on satellite imagery, Descartes Labs processes a pipeline of data flows from all the major satellite constellations, at scale, to provide instant access to analysis-ready images of the entire world via a massive, searchable, on-demand interface. For example, petabytes of imagery can be searched and retrieved, and all features from various constellations accessed, in under 100 milliseconds. By collecting, normalizing, and presenting science-ready data generated by satellites, the Descartes Labs Platform is advancing and accelerating unique applications of machine intelligence for consumers, corporations, and governments worldwide. Descartes Labs is headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with offices in San Francisco, Los Alamos, and New York City.

At Full Harvest, we are defining how technology is used to solve one of the world’s largest problems — food waste. Our B2B marketplace is the first to connect food and beverage companies with farms to buy surplus & imperfect produce.

Geltor is the biodesign company that audaciously imagines and deeply explores all the possibilities that the tree of life has to offer. With customer benefit at the fore of each step of the creative process, Geltor has created the largest selection of designer proteins that are crafted with unparalleled biocompatibility and functionality. These proteins are 100% animal- and GMO-free, globally scalable, and sustainably cultivated. Geltor’s products are the result of endless curiosity and ceaseless optimization, clinically demonstrated for high performance.

Indico Data transforms unstructured data into actionable insights. With the AI and ML-powered Indico Unstructured Data Platform™, enterprises of all sizes can automate, analyze, and apply unstructured data – documents, emails, images, videos and more – to a wide range of enterprise workflows. This enables them to gain rich insight and maximize the value of their existing software investments, including RPA, CRM, ERP and BI, by enabling these systems to work with unstructured data.

Leaf's universal farm data API helps developers build a better food system.

Nuritas combines artificial intelligence and genomics to discover and unlock natural Bioactive Peptides with extraordinary health benefits.

Phylagen is a San-Francisco based biotech company unlocking the potential of the indoor microbiome - the ecosystem of viruses, bacteria and fungi that inhabit the places we live, work and play. Led by Dr. Jessica Green, a founder in the field of indoor microbiology, Phylagen’s team of internationally recognized scientists combine microbial genomics and data analytics to solve complex problems like pandemic management and supply chain verification. Phylagen has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer and featured by national media outlets including Bloomberg, Businessweek, TODAY, Fast Company and more.

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