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AgBiome lands $166M for safer crop protection technology

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As part of farmers’ integrated pest program, they often spray fungicide applications 12 times per year in order to yield fruits and vegetables. AgBiome anticipates rolling up some smaller companies that have a product in production to expand its pipeline in addition to its organic growth.

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Korean VC Sopoong closes $8M fund for startups focused on environmental impact

TechCrunch

” Korean petroleum refining company GS Holdings and chemical company Isu participated in Sopoong’s climate-focused fund as limited partners, Han said, adding that they will be more like strategic partners to Sopoong. If participating fellows succeed in founding a startup, Sopoong could make a seed investment, Han said.

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Android’s facial-recognition future could rely on skin detection

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Ingmar Bruder was researching organic photovoltaics—and how to make paint that could absorb sunlight and turn it into electricity—at German chemical giant BASF, when he hit upon an unexpected discovery. The technology that might become the future of facial recognition started with a bucket of household paint.

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Your future shrimp meal could come from Atarraya’s farming technology

TechCrunch

The company is claiming this is the “world’s first” technology of its kind, and Daniel Russek, founder and CEO of Atarraya, told TechCrunch that Shrimpbox was an idea he got after college in 2005 when he started with a non-government organization working with fishing communities. The company grew its Mexican business 5x between 2020 and 2021.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Memory Bugs Pervasive in Open Source SW, While Car Dealership Chaos Persists After Ransomware Attack

Tenable

In addition, find out why a majority of organizations grew their cyber budgets this year. chemical facilities may have been accessed by hackers. organizations upped their cybersecurity spending this year. Meanwhile, 61% said their organization had a data breach or a cybersecurity incident in the past two years.

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Data literacy, governance keys to transformation at Dow

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Dow Chemical Company is one of the largest chemical producers in the world, with a presence in roughly 160 countries and more than 37,000 employees worldwide. Its goal was to transform the way all its employees interacted with and related to data, empowering the entire organization to make data and analytics part of how they work.

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Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator launches 12 new startups at demo day tomorrow

TechCrunch

ERA has thus far had more than 226 companies go through the program that have raised more than $1 billion in capital and collectively share a market cap over $5 billion. The hope is to reduce chemical fertilizer use, increase crop yields and help farmers grow sustainably. for a subscription. The Daily is registered with the FDA.

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