Company Bios
Note that these are summaries we created based on information from company websites.
Aiim Partners - Investor
AiiM Partners invests in technology companies in the four key sectors responsible for 84% of the global emissions – the energy transition, alternative materials, agriculture & food systems, and data and digitalization. They invest in the 'missing middle' where capital is scarce for innovative companies disrupting big markets.
Aller Aqua - Feed
Aller Aqua produces fish feed for over 30 species of freshwater and saltwater fish. Aller Aqua is a family-owned company that has produced feed for aquaculture for 60 years, making it one of the world's most experienced aquaculture feed producers. Today Aller Aqua has factories in Denmark, Poland, Germany, Egypt, China, Zambia and Serbia, and exports products to more than 70 countries worldwide. Aller Aqua produces ~250,000 tonnes of feed annually.
APC Proteins - Ingredient
APC manufactures and supplies functional protein ingredients for the global animal nutrition industry. Their sustainably sourced proteins positively impact health, supporting immunity across all life stages. The animal categories served are companion animals, ruminants, swine, poultry, aqua. Plant health products are also marketed.
Aquanzo - Ingredient
Aquanzo’s mission is to produce sustainable Artemia products such as meal and cysts at low environmental footprint, for optimal fish and shrimp nutrition. The company is developing technologies to efficiently produce the next generation of marine ingredients on land and at scale. By utilising agricultural by-products from global industries and enhancing Artemia strains through a genetic selection programme, Aquanzo actively facilitates the transition from conventional harvesting to the sustainable farming of marine ingredients.
Aquafeed.com is the original online aquafeed information resource. Established in 1998, Aquafeed is recognized as the leading and reference provider of sector-specific business, scientific and technical news. Aquafeed.com supports the professional aquaculture feed value chain worldwide with technical, scientific and market information through magazines, newsletters and conferences.
Aqua Spark - Investor
Aqua Spark is the world’s largest investment fund dedicated to sustainable aquaculture. They have made investments across the global aquaculture value chain, enabling the innovative and sustainable farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs, and algae (including seaweed) in ponds, lakes, rivers, the ocean, and in land-based tanks. Aqua-Spark is building a portfolio of 50-60 mature companies that work synergistically to transform the aquaculture industry into one that is healthy, sustainable and affordable, while simultaneously providing competitive returns to our global community of 350+ investors. Aqua Spark primarily invests in companies during seed and Series B funding rounds, with an average investment between $1M-$5M or $2M-$4M a round.
Aqquua - Farm
Aqquua is a technologically advanced aquaculture seafood company with operations in Thailand and the USA specializing in growing delicious marine fish along with developing innovative technologies for the aquaculture space. Nestled on a serene 22-acre oceanfront property in Bangachai Chanthaburi, Thailand, just a stone's throw away from vibrant Bangkok, they proudly stand as the world's only ASC-certified Grouper farm. Our cutting-edge facilities boast a hatchery, in door RAS quarantine, nursery, and 15 advanced grow-out ponds, all equipped with state-of-the-art raceway technology, ensuring minimal stress for our prized fish. Complemented by intake filtration and waste-water treatment systems, we maintain a meticulously controlled and pristine habitat for our species. At Aqquua, our specialty lies in producing the nutritious Aqquua Grouper™ with Thai-based feed mills, renowned for its unparalleled quality. Since our inception, we've been proactive in seeking support beyond our industry's confines. As of July 2024, our products are readily available in Thailand and the US.
Aquatic Feed Technologies - F3
The mission is to assist in the development of a safe, sustainable, seafood supply working with companies with feed ingredient development and evaluation, regulatory approval, and alternative feed development. This includes feeds ranging from larval, weaning, or starter feeds through grow out feeds and brood feeds.
BASF - Investor/Incubator
BASF’s North American Biotechnology Innovation Center is an end-to-end capability platform offering product development and research services to both BASF and external partners and customers. BASF’s digital and wet-lab R&D platform includes all steps of product development from gene discovery to large scale production of industrial enzymes, biobased chemicals and biocatalysts.
BASF’s North American Biotechnology Innovation Center is an integrated unit in San Diego, which combines R&D, Regulatory Affairs, Intellectual Property, Quality Management, Scouting, and Business Management. The units are either part of BASF Research, Care Chemicals, Nutrition and Health, Global Digital, or in the case of IP-Management belong to other competence centers.
Bon Appetit Management Company - Retailer
Bon Appetit Management Company is an on-site restaurant company offering full food-service management to corporations, universities, museums, and specialty venues. Based in Palo Alto, CA, Bon Appetit Management Company operates more than 1,000 cafés in 33 states for dozens of marquee clients. Their food is cooked from scratch, including sauces, stocks, and soups. A pioneer in environmentally sound sourcing policies, they’ve developed programs addressing local purchasing, overuse of antibiotics, sustainable seafood, the food–climate change connection, humanely raised meat and eggs, and farmworkers’ rights. Bon Appetit Management Company has been recognized by many leading foundations, nonprofits, and industry associations for their work.
Bosar - Ingredient
Bosar is a leading Chinese ingredient company.
Big Idea Ventures - Investor
Big Idea Ventures is a global leader in foodtech, agriculture and materials science investing in the most innovative ingredients, protein, agriculture and sustainability technology companies around the world. We combine capital and partnerships to drive economic growth and build new food ecosystems. We support companies that allow us to reduce the climate impact of food production and sustainably feed the world.
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The Global Food Innovation Fund II invests in the most innovative companies around the world focused on proteins, fats, ingredients, sweeteners, flavorings, and mono-crops. Working with founders, corporate leaders, governments, mentors and investors, we develop ecosystems to improve food security and food sustainability. The fund works through an accelerator model with pre-seed companies, investing $200K per company.
The Generation Food Rural Partners fund commercializes university-developed intellectual property focused on food, protein, and agriculture innovation. We launch new companies, recruit seasoned management teams, and provide support from inception alongside our university and strategic partners. Our mission is to support economic development in rural communities and drive innovation in university ecosystems across the United States. Our companies start with significant funding commitment (as high as $5M), an experienced team, and full back-office support (salaries & benefits).
BioMar - Feed Company
The BioMar Group is one of the leading suppliers of high performance feed to the aquaculture industry. Our main business areas are feed for salmon and trout in Norway, the United Kingdom, and Chile, feed for trout, eel, sturgeon, sea-bass, and sea-bream in Continental Europe and for tilapia and shrimp in Central America. Roughly one out of five farmed fish produced in Europe and Chile are fed with BioMar feed. Worldwide the BioMar Group supplies feed to around 90 countries and to more than 45 different species.
BluGlacier - Farm
BluGlacier was founded in 2016 as a US joint venture by two top sustainable salmon producers in Chile, Blumar and Ventisqueros. Our salmon is raised in the isolated, cold-water fjords of Chile. Because we source our salmon in chilly Patagonia, BluGlacier operates out of sunny Miami. Believe it or not, our salmon pairs perfectly with mojitos and salsa dancing too! Today, BluGlacier along with Blumar and Ventisqueros, remain dedicated to upgrading the lives of individuals and the general well-being of the planet through sustainable aquaculture.
BRF Ingredients - Ingredient
BRF Ingredients is an interdependent business unit of BRF, one of the largest food companies in the world and owner of iconic brands such as Sadia and Perdigão. With an awareness of innovation, efficiency and sustainability, we add value to raw materials of the agricultural chain to generate high performance ingredients for BRF and the Animal Nutrition, Food Ingredients, Human Health and Plant Nutrition markets. From a 100% integrated production chain, we generate value for our customers' businesses and leverage the circular economy.
Calysseo - Ingredient
Calysseo is a joint-venture established by Adisseo and Calysta to commercialize FeedKind®, an innovative feed solution for aquaculture. Calysseo is the exclusive licensee of Calysta’s patented platform that produces FeedKind® microbial protein by harnessing the power of a naturally occurring microorganism that converts carbon and energy into a nutritious, non-GMO protein by fermentation.
Calysta - Ingredient
Calysta is a world leader in cellular agriculture, creating protein without limits via a patented fermentation platform that uses no arable land, plant or animal products. As the world’s demand for healthy, sustainably produced food continues to grow, Calysta’s family of ingredients – FeedKind, FeedKind Net Zero, and Positive Protein – are ready to meet the challenge.Powered by renewable energy, Calysta’s protein products can preserve biodiversity and contribute to improving the global nexus of water, energy and food security.
The Center for Responsible Seafood - NGO
Our mission is to advance responsible seafood production through our unique global hub for knowledge sharing, enhanced by applied research and collaborative programs. Known as the Responsible Aquaculture Foundation since 2009, our 2021 transition to The Center for Responsible Seafood formally embraces our work with wild-caught fisheries. While our mission remains the same, our years of global experience have honed our vision. By sharing knowledge and innovation, TCRS strives to advance its vision of a world meeting the critical need for seafood produced through regenerative processes. We are driven by our responsibility to ensure a healthy planet and healthy people.
Chanzi - Ingredient
Based out of East Africa, Chanzi is an insect ingredient company that specializes in black soldier fly larvae for use in animal feed. Operating three commercial black soldier fly farms, it plans to expand to 30+ farms over the next three years. With 60+ employees, Chanzi diverts ~50 MT/day of organic waste from landfills for sustainable management. Currently raising $1 million to expand facilities and infrastructure, the company seeks to overcome barriers to scale and trigger a Series A funding round ($13-17 million) to support continental expansion and solidify its position as Africa's most impactful business.
China Aquatic Products Processing and Marketing Association (CAPPMA) - Retailer
CAPPMA was founded in 1994 as a national non-profit organization directed under the Ministry of Agriculture. CAPPMA consists of seafood producers, processors, distributors, suppliers, and institutions for fisheries researchment and education, as well as relevant social entities that provide various services for seafood processing and marketing.
Cognoscenti LLC - Participant
Cognoscenti LLC offers consulting services on aquaculture research, governance, and legislation.
Common Table Creative - Participant
We are a storytelling company rooted in the worlds of food, film & technology. Our mission is to create video content for individuals and organizations working to create a more just and sustainable world. Our videos bring people together and celebrate the common humanity inherent in food, music, family, community, travel, art, dance and tourism. We find hidden gems that are making the world a better place and tell their story to the world.
Corbion - Ingredient
Corbion is a global market leader in algae ingredients, lactic acid, lactic acid derivatives, and a leading company in emulsifiers, functional enzyme blends, minerals, and vitamins. Corbion is a leading producer of omega 3 rich algae for the aquaculture, pet and livestock industries. Corbion has done research on multiple species such as shrimp to other salmonid species, however, our main focus has been and is salmon. We are already actively selling our products and have evolved to one of the largest omega-3 producers in the world (including conventional omega-3 sources from fish oil). Over the last 3 years, we have grown to become one of the largest omega-3 producers in the world, including omega-3 products derived from fish (oil). Corbion will continue to invest and optimize our products to support growth of the market. In addition, we are actively looking to expand our product portfolio of nutritional ingredients.
Crux Capital - Investor
Crux Capital is a Dallas, Texas based lower-middle-market private equity firm that invests in growth-oriented consumer and services businesses. Crux Capital is interested in various sub-sectors in the consumer and service industries.
CT Bright Holdings (CP Group) - Ingredient, Feed, Retailer
CT Bright Holdings is a wholly owned investment subsidiary of CP Group, Thailand's largest private company and the largest privately held Royal Warrant holder of the Thai Royal Family.
CXOConnect - Investor
CXOConnect helps companies with positive traction on their revenue, growth, innovation, and impact goals. Their impact has led to $100M in value through connections between startups and enterprises.
Green Plain Technologies - Ingredient
Green Plains is a leading biorefining company focused on the development and utilization of fermentation, agricultural and biological technologies in the processing of annually renewable crops into sustainable value-added ingredients. This includes the production of cleaner low carbon biofuels, renewable feedstocks for advanced biofuels and high purity alcohols for use in cleaners and disinfectants. Green Plains is an innovative producer of Ultra-High Protein and novel ingredients for animal and aquaculture diets to help satisfy a growing global appetite for sustainable protein.
Dainichi Corporation - Farm
The Dainichi Corporation specializes in the manufacture, import, and sales of aquaculture feeds; the sale of aquaculture mendicants and aquaculture equipment, and the manufacture and sale of fish and processed marine products. The Dainichi Corporation trades in over 50 species of fish including Madai, Hamachi, Hon Maguro, Kampachi, and others. Its sales as of January 2023 were 23.1M JPY.
Deep Branch - Ingredient
Deep Branch uses clean and renewable carbon and energy to create ingredients for a more sustainable food system. Our single-cell protein targets the protein concentrates market, with trials lined up for salmon and chicken, and plans to expand into other species and food applications. Deep Branch’s Technology Readiness Level is transitioning from 5 to 6, and due to the nature of this novel technology, they expect to begin significant volume sales campaigns in 2028/2029. Some of our achievements include developing a mobile pilot unit capable of testing gas streams and environmental conditions in their process. We are currently commissioning a pilot facility to develop larger material volumes for application testing.lity, allowing us to develop larger volumes of materials to test application development.
Eat Real - NGO
Eat Real is a national nonprofit that nourishes the future of American kids by putting real food on the table at school (access), at home (awareness), and in local and national policy (advocacy). Our award-winning K-12 certification program provides Food Service leaders with the framework and support they need to make their school menus delicious, nutritious, and planet-sustaining. Alongside our community of food system advocates, chefs, and parents, we spread the word about the power and urgency of serving real food at every meal. And we leverage our unique vantage point to push for system change, advocating for healthier policies and higher food standards at the local, state, and federal level so every child can look forward to a healthy future. Eat Real currently supports over 600 schools and 360,000 students, helping school districts improve the deliciousness and sustainability of up to 129 million meals per year.
eFishery - Feed, Technology
eFishery is driven by a singular mission: to combat world hunger by harnessing the potential of Aquaculture. eFishery leverages cutting-edge technology to provide fisheries products as the primary source of animal protein, delivering not only nutrition but also accessibility to people around the globe. Their commitment to empowering progress through technology is at the heart of the Aquaculture revolution, as they strive to make a meaningful impact on the global fight against hunger.
eniferBio - Ingredient
enifer is a biotech start-up based in Espoo, Finland, founded in 2020. We harness the power of fungal fermentation to upcycle agrifood industry byproducts into nutritious mycoprotein ingredients. We’re building on a proud history of Finnish innovation – our PEKILO® process was originally developed and commercialized already in 1975! We’ve taken this ingenious piece of engineering many steps further and are ready to feed the world.
Entobel - Ingredient
Entobel is an agritech/biotech company that focuses on the production and processing of insects. With over 10 years of experience, we are the industry leader in producing and processing of the Black Soldier Fly - Hermetia illucens. From an investment standpoint, Entobel is dedicated to helping early stage companies and not-for-profits succeed. These investments range between $500k to $1M.
FishFirst - Press
FishFirst is China’s largest aquaculture media platform.
FINCA International - Investor
FINCA International is committed to ending global poverty through sustainable and scalable solutions, responsible financial services, and life-enhancing products that are driven by the insights and needs of the people we serve in communities around the world. We believe all people should have the opportunity to leverage their wisdom, talent and effort to determine their own destiny. 97% of every dollar spent goes to support our programs globally, and in the most recent calendar year, FINCA and its partners directly reached nearly 6.1 million people.
Finless Foods - Participant
Finless Foods is committed to creating a future for seafood where the ocean thrives. Co-founders Michael Selden and Brian Wyrwas started the company to create delicious, healthy, and accessible cell-cultured seafood alternatives. Finless Foods offers options for all palates and dietary preferences, providing consumers with a range of responsibly produced food products to diversify their daily habits and pave the way toward a more sustainable future and healthier ocean.
For Good Ventures - Investor
For Good Ventures is a family office venture capital investment firm targeting innovative, disruptive technologies and impact funds changing the world for good. We invest in for-profit, positive-impact businesses and funds in private markets positioned for scalable, positive change. For Good Ventures invests in climate tech, education and the future of work, health and wellness, finance, sustainable brands, and diversity equity and inclusion.
FultonFishMarket.com - Retailer
Opened in 1822, New York City’s Fulton Fish Market is one of the oldest fish markets in the United States. We offer the world's largest assortment of seafood online. Order fresh, healthy and delicious seafood direct from the market with next-day delivery to your door.
Global Change Labs - Participant
Global Change Labs was started with a key question, how do we redesign the system to produce desired outcomes? Having played a major role in the conceptualization of Design Thinking at IDEO, Founder of Change Labs, Banny Banerjee, joined Stanford University on a quest to discover a way to redesign scaled systems, not just the experience of them. Banny founded ChangeLabs to serve as a platform for advancing the field of systems transformation, innovation, and leadership. Through more than a decade of cross-disciplinary applied research, Banny led ChangeLabs to develop System Acupuncture®, an integrated innovation approach for system transformation. Global ChangeLabs was then founded with the goal to expand and accelerate system transformation impact. Using System Acupuncture®, we help organizations achieve systemic and sustained change in their organizations and develop strategies to drive long-term resilience.
Hatch.blue is a venture capital for aquaculture and alternative seafood. Hatch.blue has invested in more than 39 companies, run four (going on five) successful accelerator cohorts, raised a first US $8M fund and the second $70M Blue Revolution Fund as well as established offices in Hawaii, Norway and Singapore. Hatch.blue generally invests during the pre-seed and series A funding rounds, and with an average investment of up to $500k- $3M. Hatch.blue has $110M assets under management.
Hemisphere Ventures - Investor
Hemisphere Ventures invests in early stage frontier technology. Our exclusive portfolio companies are deep domain experts focused on achieving scale and identifying early revenue opportunities for groundbreaking advancements in synthetic biology, robotics, drones and space.
HSBC - Investor
HSBC offers a comprehensive range of financial services, including personal and commercial banking, investment banking, and wealth management, serving millions of customers across over 60 countries. With a focus on innovation, sustainability, and international growth, HSBC is one of the largest financial institutions worldwide.
iAccelerate - Participant
iAccelerate works with highly innovative startups that are solving global problems in foodTech and bioTech. Since launching in the Fall of 2019, we have helped startups to accomplish raising $42M in following funds, and we have seen a ~$10M to ~$210M portfolio capitalization.
Jiangsu Fuhai Biotech Co - Ingredient
Jiangsu Fuhai specializes in enzyme-treated and fermented soybean and soybean meal.
JM & Associates - Investor
In 2016, Jeff founded JM & Associates, a consulting firm focused on nonprofit development. He advises nonprofits on individual and corporate fundraising, as well as capital campaigns and endowment funding. Jeff and his team serve multiple non-profit organizations across the U.S. as outsourced major gifts officers, identifying, cultivating and stewarding new major donors.
KnipBio - Ingredient
KnipBio, based in the Boston metropolitan area, is a biotechnology company pioneering advanced nutritional solutions for animal feeds since 2013. Our range of single cell protein products comes from non-food feedstocks and our mission is to secure the quality and safety of food globally, in a sustainable, cost-effective way.
Laboratoires Phode - Attractant
Laboratoires Phodé is a French biotechnology company specializing in innovative solutions for animal well-being and sustainable agriculture, focusing on carnivorous species like shrimp, salmonids, and Mediterranean fish. The company designed Olpheel, the first aquaculture brand dedicated to well-being, providing solutions to key challenges in shrimp and salmonid farming. The Olpheel range includes products that promote good feed consumption, stimulate natural defenses, support physiological health, and enhance environmental well-being. Additionally, our aquafeed research is conducted on sea bass, whiteleg shrimp, and Atlantic salmon over applications such as feed intake enhancement, disease challenges, and antioxidants. Laboratoires Phodé have developed sustainable, high-performing solutions and demonstrated the importance of olfaction in marine animal feeding behavior. More testing with aquafeed plants is needed to transfer our successes to farmers and producers, and we need to validate marine ingredient replacement strategies.
LanzaTech - Ingredient
LanzaTech’s carbon recycling technology is like retrofitting a brewery onto an emission source like a steel mill or a landfill site, but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, pollution is converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals! Imagine a day when your plane is powered by recycled GHG emissions, when your shampoo bottle started life as emissions from a steel mill. This future is possible today using LanzaTech technology.
Lucta - Attractant
Lucta is a global company, founded in Barcelona (Spain) in 1949, dedicated to the manufacture of fragrances, flavors and animal feed additives.
Mars Petcare - Investor
Through comprehensive veterinary care, nutrition, breakthrough programs in diagnostics, wearable health monitoring, DNA testing and pet welfare, our 100,000 Petcare Associates help pets in more than 130 countries. For decades we’ve supported research into the incredible science of human animal interaction at the Waltham Petcare Science Institute where scientists discover important advances in pet health and wellness. We are a part of Mars, Incorporated, a global, family-owned business with a focus on becoming Sustainable in a Generation.
McFarland Springs - Farm
McFarland Springs is leading the world in sustainable fish farming. We developed a custom trout feed with people and the planet in mind. Each of our feed ingredients were hand selected to ensure they are environmentally friendly and free of toxic pollutants. The McFarland Springs trout are fed a diet consisting of plant proteins, omega-3 DHA-rich algae and heart-healthy flax oil that provide the right balance of nutrition for the fish and the consumer without sacrificing quality.
Meliorate Partners manages a group of early stage funds and organizations investing in founders to pre-seed stage innovations reimagining an economy where nature and humanity thrive together. These funds have invested at the earliest stages in many emerging leaders in the climate and sustainability space, including Tidal Vision, Blue Nalu, Public Goods, Sitka Salmon Shares, Hilos, and Algenesis.The fund size is $25 million, with an average investment of $250,000 per check.
Menon Renewables - Ingredient
Menon Renewable Products, Inc. (Menon) was founded by Dr. Suresh Menon and is based in San Diego, CA. Menon has developed a patented process that converts hydrocarbon-based sugars from agriculture-based raw materials into a functional animal feed ingredient under the brand name MrFeed®. The ingredient not only overcomes anti-nutritional factors but also replaces various grains, animal, fishmeal and other components inside finished feed products. MrFeed® fulfills increasing worldwide demand for sustainable and renewable feed.
Montana Microbials - Ingredient
Montana Microbial Products developed a 65% protein concentrate produced from barley. Barley Protein Concentrate, BPC, has both superior nutrition and the volume to compete in the $20 billion/year market for protein ingredients in aquaculture, pet feeds and potential human food applications. BPC can replace fishmeal and has significant competitive advantages over other plant-based proteins. Montana Microbial has licensed the production technology to two companies to produce BPC for Europe and the United States. Both companies currently have commercial production. We are actively seeking partners to commercialize the technology in other geographic regions.
Monterey Bay Aquarium - NGO
The mission of the nonprofit Monterey Bay Aquarium is to inspire conservation of the ocean. Our diverse and dedicated team works in many ways to assure the future health of the ocean and the people who depend on a healthy ocean for their survival. Our living exhibits and visit programs are considered among the best in the world. We offer free education programs for more than 100,000 schoolchildren and educators each year -- and our new Bechtel Family Center for Ocean Education and Leadership is taking that work to a new level. Rigorous science underpins all of our work to advance policies that promote ocean health in the United States and internationally. Our respected Seafood Watch program is a global leader, giving businesses and consumers the tools to transform how fish are caught and farmed around the world.
The Nature Conservancy - NGO
The Nature Conservancy is tackling some of the toughest problems facing people and nature today, replicating good ideas to save many places and improve people’s lives. We are grounded by local experience and leverage our science, real-world solutions and partnerships to influence global decision-making.
Novalis Advisors LLC - Investor
Novalis Advisors supports companies of all sizes with the identification of the vectors of value creation, by offering skills of international prominence at the service of an organic and harmonious evolutionary process.
NovoNutrients - Ingredient
NovoNutrients' mission is to solve two problems simultaneously: creating sustainable protein to feed a growing population, and combating climate change through carbon capture and utilization. NovoNutrients' fermentation platform is powered by patent pending microbes and proprietary bioreactors. The organisms transform emissions, along with hydrogen and oxygen, into complete, safe, natural single cell protein ingredients for food and feed. This creates a new pillar of the food system, decoupled from agriculture and, ultimately, from fossil fuels. NovoNutrients' flexible technology can utilize various mixed emissions gases, making CO2 capture more economical by reducing the cost of concentration.
Nuseed Nutritional USA - Ingredient
Established in 2006, Nuseed® now has over 250 employees focused on canola, carinata, sorghum and sunflower R&D and commercial sales in Australia, Europe, North and South America. With Innovation Centers in both hemispheres, industry leading plant genetics and commitment to business excellence Nuseed develops new plant-based solutions that deliver value BEYOND YIELD® to farm and end use customers. Nuseed is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nufarm.
Newday Impact - Investor
Newday Impact is a financial services company that provides authentic portfolios for socially responsible investors. They offer portfolios focused on climate action, ocean health, clean water, diversity equity and inclusion, wildlife conservation, animal welfare, and stakeholder capitalism. Newday Impact also donates 5% of their net revenue to nonprofits who are working on the frontlines to affect this positive environmental and social change.
Ocean 14 Capital - Investor
Ocean 14 Capital is an impact investment firm that invests in growth companies and technologies in the blue economy that offer both environmental gains for our oceans and competitive financial gains for our investors. Areas of investment include sustainable aquaculture, sustainable fisheries, alternatives to fish protein, circular plastics, and marine flora/seaweed.
Optimal Aquafeed - Feed
Optimal Aquafeed develops and manufactures specialized aquaculture feeds. Optimal Aquafeed endeavors to stay at the forefront of innovative ingredients and technologies by utilizing its network of innovative ingredient companies and conducting evaluations in its Optimal Research Centers located in Omaha, NE and Shenandoah, IA. Optimal integrates innovative specialty ingredients which drive new standards for performance and productivity of many finfish species. Optimal offers a complete catalog of starter, grow-out, and finishing feeds for standard aquaculture species. Our team is also available to design custom diets for unique species, systems, trials, and challenges, ensuring that we are always one step ahead in meeting your needs.
Orffa Additives - Ingredient
Based in Europe, Orffa develops, customizes, sources and offers feed additives and feed additive concepts for the animal nutrition market. As a feed additive specialist, Orffa has dedicated teams engineering feed solutions with value added products and concepts for all stakeholders in the animal production chain. Orffa has feed solutions that range from simple individual products to complex solutions that aim to overcome and solve the challenges faced by the animal production industry.
Pew Charitable Trusts - NGO
The Pew Charitable Trusts uses data to make a difference. For more than 70 years, we have focused on serving the public, invigorating civic life, conducting nonpartisan research, advancing effective public policies and practices, and achieving tangible results. Through rigorous inquiry and knowledge sharing, we inform and engage public-spirited citizens and organizations, linking diverse interests to pursue common cause. We are a dedicated team of researchers, communicators, advocates, subject matter experts, and professionals working on today’s big challenges – and we know we are more effective and creative collectively than we are individually. With Philadelphia as our home town and the majority of our staff located in Washington, DC, our U.S. and international staff find working at Pew personally and professionally rewarding.
Phileo by Lesaffre - Ingredient
At Phileo by Lesaffre, we act with nature for animal care, using beneficial micro-organisms to naturally improve human and animal nutrition. Our rich collection of proprietary probiotic strains allows us to develop evidence-based solutions taking into account animal species’ diversity to overcome the increasing complexity of farming challenges. We provide a complete range of solutions based on yeast and bacterial probiotics, purified yeast fractions and other specialized fermentation-based products, with proven applications across a wide variety of aquaculture species such as shrimp, tilapia, salmonids, sea bass, grouper, carp, crab, etc.
Popular Biology Inc. - Consultants & Other Participants
Popular Biology, Inc. is led by a team of ultra-technologists who navigate the intersection of art, technology, design, and the natural world. The company operates at the forefront of developing innovative bio-based consumer products and experiences, blending expertise across design, marketing, and molecular biology to remain at the industry's cutting edge.
Precision General Commercial Contractors Inc - Consultants & Other Participants
Precision General Commercial Contractors is a national construction company specializing in the rehabilitation and new construction of multifamily real estate. Precision General Commercial Contractors has built over 54,000 housing units all over the United States
Rangen - Feed
Falling under the larger umbrella of Wilbur-Ellis Nutrition, Rangen is a diverse agricultural brand founded in 1925 that focuses on aquaculture and animal feeds. We operate strategically in the Snake River Valley area of southern Idaho, along with an aquaculture feed plant in Angleton, Texas that is devoted to customer service. The aquatic species we feed include salmonids, shrimp, bass, tilapia, sturgeon, koi, catfish, redfish, and warm water pond and marine species.
Reefgen Inc. - Consultants & Other Participants
Reefgen is leading a change in the scale of ocean ecosystem restoration. Reefgen builds tools to address ocean habitat loss by leveraging recent developments in robotics and automation. Current projects are directed at building underwater vehicles to rapidly plant seagrass and corals. With this technology, we can reduce the time and cost of restoration work, providing the necessary capability to keep up with the rates of loss of the natural ecosystems. Reefgen works with governments, commercial partners, and scientists to perform economically viable ecological restorations around the world.
Regen Organics - Ingredient
Regen Organics is an industry leader focused on building a climate-resilient agricultural sector by manufacturing regenerative fertilizers, feeds, and fuels. We harness a circular economy approach, utilizing black soldier flies to produce KuzaPro insect protein. Our research primarily targets tilapia, the most common species in East Africa. With a Technology Readiness Level of 8, we produced 200 tons of our product in 2023 and expect 350 tons in 2024. Having proven the safe and economical production of insect protein from post-consumer waste streams, we're now seeking large offtake contracts to scale up our production capacity.
Seatopia - Retailer
Endorsed by celebrities, functional medicine doctors, and biohackers, Seatopia is a consumer-facing leader in innovative aquaculture products. We are committed to delivering lab-tested, sushi-grade seafood that is verifiably mercury-safe and free from microplastics. Our products, rich in EPA and DHA, are transparently sourced from an exclusive global network of artisan aquaculture farms. Going beyond traditional sustainability, we actively support the adoption of innovative, nutritionally rich feed ingredients like algae oil and insect proteins. We do this by offering purchase orders and buying commitments at a premium to cover the extra costs incurred by these practices. This approach not only aims to promote healthier ecosystems but also to produce superfoods that benefit human health. Each purchase from Seatopia contributes to marine restoration, with over 6,500 kelp trees planted in the last year alone. Discover our commitment to revitalizing oceans at www.seatopia.fish.
Shaivaa Algaetech LLP - Ingredient
Shaivaa Algaetech is a micro-alga based Biotechnology Company in Surat, Gujarat. We specialize in commercial scale cultivation of micro-algal species using our high standard, cost-effective state of the art technology. We take pride in our commitment to produce premium quality micro-algal active ingredients for use in food, nutraceutical, health and cosmetic products that augment human well-being and improve the quality of life.
ShrimpVet & EcoSeafood Group - Feed & Farm
ShrimpVet is the first and prominent private laboratory working on Aquaculture in Vietnam with a diagnostics lab, hatcheries, and an R&D farm. With 80 employees, Shrimpvet specializes in shrimp health management, focusing on genetics, breed, seed production, diagnostics and disease management, and farm techniques and management.
Singularity University - Consultants & Other Participants
Singularity is the leader in educating, inspiring, and empowering leaders to imagine and create breakthroughs powered by exponential technologies. Through immersive learning programs and experiences focused on the convergence and application of exponential technologies, Singularity teaches leaders from around the globe to shift their mindset, drive innovation, and transform their organization exponentially. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2008, Singularity has inspired over 200,000 leaders in over 100 countries from industry, academia, and government to join us on our mission of creating a future of abundance.
Solectron - Consultants & Other Participants
Solectron Corporation was an American electronics manufacturing company for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). It was the first electronics manufacturing services (EMS) industry in 1977. Solectron's first customer designed and distributed an electronic controller for solar energy equipment. Solectron had sales of around $12 billion a year, and employed 70,000 people in 23 countries. The company was acquired by Flex on October 15, 2007.
Star Milling - Feed
Star Milling Company manufactures nutritious, high-quality animal feed that is sold through feed stores in the western United States. Products are sold under the brand names Ace Hi, Kelley’s, Integrity Horse Feed, and Ultra Balance. A family-owned and operated company for three generations, Star Milling has a personal commitment to quality and good manufacturing practices. Star Milling produces 96 tons of feed annually and exports globally to various countries, including Mexico, Japan, the Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Cayman Islands, and Barbados. Star Milling is a solely non-medicated feed manufacturer. While large enough to manufacture a wide range of feeds for many species, we have a small company concern for our customers and their animals.
SyAqua - Feed & Farm
SyAqua defines the leading edge in shrimp breeding, using cutting edge technologies to deliver best-in-class hatchery feed, genomic selection, quantitative genetics and breeding science. Our P. vannamei breeding program was first started in Berkeley, California in 2002, subsequently expanding to numerous markets worldwide such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and more. Over the years, our cutting-edge genetics and nutritional research have resulted in many highly recognized products and programs trusted in top hatcheries and farms across the globe.
SyAqua believes in a balanced approach to breeding, combining excellent performance in growth as well as survival to enhance disease resistance. We challenge our families against disease resistance, specifically AHPNS (also known as "EMS") and White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) as the leading global shrimp diseases. Understanding the need for a fast-growing post larva, we also adopt a cutting-edge genetic selection process for growth performance. The result - a well-balanced breeding program that outperforms all others on both dimensions.
Symrise AG - Ingredient
We are a global supplier of fragrances, flavors, food and cosmetic ingredients.
Our clients include manufacturers of perfumes, cosmetics, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals and producers of nutritional supplements and pet food. We develop sustainable, safe and tailored products that ensure quality of life and provide beauty and well-being. We are aware of our responsibility for a future-oriented world and undertake this task with entrepreneurial spirit, innovative power and optimism.
Temasek - Investor
Incorporated in 1974, Temasek is an investment company headquartered in Singapore. Supported by 13 offices internationally, Temasek owns a net portfolio value of S$382 billion (US$287 billion) as at 31 March 2023. We aim to build a forward looking and resilient portfolio that delivers sustainable returns over the long term. We deploy capital to catalyse solutions that can enable the transition to a low carbon economy, and tap on opportunities to build future growth sectors and leading enterprises through our efforts in innovation. Our investment activities are aligned to four structural trends that shape our long term portfolio construction. We look to invest from late stage VC/growth (Series C and above) with minimum US$15-20m to private equity rounds US$250-500m cheques.
Tenfore Holdings - Investor
Tenfore Holdings, a leading New York-based investment firm, specializes in investing in growth-stage commerce and predictive data investments that address pressing global challenges in agriculture, food, logistics, health care, and the environment. Tenfore deploys a value investing approach, identifying undervalued companies with proprietary data and technology, and investing in and nurturing their growth for the long term. We are strong advocates of advancing sustainable development through business and innovation and champion this through investments in and mentorship of enterprises that are powering the next Industrial Revolution.
The Tenfore team has successfully deployed a mix of capital, strategic guidance at the board level, and operational support to talented managers to help companies realize their full revenue, profit, and market-value potential. In its more than ten years of operation, the company has generated significant long-term value for its investors.
In addition to his investor responsibilities, our founder Dan Levine plays an active role on the boards of Fulton Fish Market (Chairman), returns management circular economy company Optoro, precision ag tree crops and digital MRV company Agerpoint, healthcare social network Inspire, precision industrial motion Humatics, and knowledge graph software business Stardog.
Thrive Algae Oils - Ingredient
Thrive™ is on a journey to become the pre-eminent heart health nutrition company. We scour the Earth to find the best possible heart healthy and great tasting oils to include in our formulations. Our efforts have focused on very high oleic varietals of oils that contain the highest levels of monounsaturated fat (a good fat) and low levels of saturated fat and omega-6.
TwoXSea - Retailer
Two By Sea (or TwoXSea) is a sustainable seafood wholesaler located on Pier 45 of historic Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. Since 2009, they have been sourcing 100% traceable seafood harvested and grown by small-scale fishermen from the U.S. West Coast. Known for their commitment to quality, TwoXSea sells to many of the top Bay Area and Portland, Oregon restaurants, markets, and fishmongers.
Unibio - Ingredient
Unibio, the world’s leading sustainable protein company, uses microbial fermentation to convert methane into high quality and sustainable protein for fish and animal feed. It is Unibio’s mission to deliver sustainable protein for livestock, aquaculture and the food of the future. Unibio’s technology is highly resource-efficient and sustainable. The process replicates the same process that happens every day in nature. Unibio is rolling out the technology globally.
Uniprotein AQUA, a single celled protein dedicated to aquaculture, has been tested with trout, salmon, sea bream, shrimp, and sturgeon. Unibio has produced several hundred tons of their ingredient in 2023, with more than 1000 tons expected in 2024. Unibio is constructing a large production site in the Middle East and needs support letters from off-takers to secure $200-250 million in funding for building the factory. Additional financing is also welcome to support future factories.
Unovis Asset Management & New Crop Capital - Investor
Unovis Asset Management is the global leader in the alternative protein sector. Our investment firm partners with entrepreneurs developing innovative plant-based and cultivated replacements to animal products, including meat, seafood, dairy and eggs. Through our inaugural and world-renowned fund, New Crop Capital Trust, and now The Alternative ProteinFund, our goal is to transform the global food system by investing in solutions that facilitate sustained behavioral change and eliminate the consumption of animal protein products. We provide seed to growth funding to entrepreneurs developing plant, fungi, fermented, and cultivated replacements to animal products. We support our founders by sharing our culinary knowledge, understanding of consumer habits, experience in food manufacturing, and global network to catalyze investments and build lasting companies.
Veramaris - Ingredient
Veramaris' natural marine algal oil is an alternative source of Omega-3 that mitigates supply risk and supports better fish performance, less waste, and higher quality seafood. Veramaris creates value by collaborating to apply our innovative algal oil for optimum nutrition, enabling sustainable growth and better productivity for their customers.
Whole Foods - Retailer
Whole Foods was founded in 1980 on the belief that where food comes from, and how it’s grown, matters. It meant creating quality standards, working with suppliers who achieve them, and sharing that information with our customers. And it radically changed the way people understood and shopped for food. The result has been the highest quality natural and organic products, an unmatched experience in more than 500+ stores, with a passionate team of over 90,000 team members, 5 percent of our total net profits given back to our communities each year, and millions of customers who put their trust in us every day.
Woodside Energy - Investor
Woodside Energy is the 10th largest oil and gas company in the world. Woodside Energy’s portfolio is located in Australia, the Gulf of Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Senegal, Timor-Leste, Canada, and Barbados. With an investment thesis focused on CO2 emissions control and up to $5 billion in renewable investments already under management, Woodside Energy is seeking strategic partnerships for knowledge sharing and technology development. The value of these partnerships ranges from $100,000 to $1 million, $2 million, $10 million, and $50 million.
Yuehai Feed Group - Feed
Guangdong Yuehai Feeds Group Co Ltd was established in 1994 with a registered capital of 600 million RMB. Specializing in R&D, production and sales of aquatic feeds, Yuehai is certified as a national innovative pilot enterprise, a high-tech enterprise and a large-scale collectivize management enterprise for high quality aquatic feeds.
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