Impact Powerhouse

With Kenyan insurtech Pula’s micro-insurance products, millions of farmers no longer have to bear the full risk of losses from natural disasters and crop failures

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/pula-pioneering-insurtech-helps-to-improve-africas-food-security

Episode keywords: Agriculture & Fishery, Insurance, Fintech, Sustainability, B2B, Banking, Digital Imaging & Photography, Lending, Local Services, Logistics & Supply Chain, Monitoring & surveillance, Risk management, Social Enterprises, Impact Investing, Big Data & Analytics, Machine Learning, Location Tech, Marketplaces & Platforms, Women in Tech, World Bank, ADB, Mercy Corps, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Therapixel is raising €15m for commercial expansion of its AI-powered MammoScreen that gives accurate breast cancer screening results within minutes

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/therapixel-using-ai-to-improve-breast-cancer-detection

Episode keywords: Medtech, B2C, Healthcare, B2B, Digital Imaging & Photography, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data & Analytics, SaaS

Backed by Michelin-star chefs and investors, Les Noveaux Affineurs is gearing up to be a global player in the billion-dollar vegan cheese market.

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/les-nouveaux-affineurs-disrupting-centuries-old-french-cheese-culture

Episode keywords: Foodtech, Food & Beverage, B2B, B2C, E-commerce, Hospitality, Retail, Alternative Proteins, Sustainability, Consumer Products, Fermentation, New Food Invest, Beyond Investing, Demeter Partners, Newfund Capital, Food Inn Lab, France, Startup, Investment

The Singapore-based startup’s user numbers rose sharply during Covid-19. It wants to raise $11.5m by year-end, is planning a launch in Australia and is eyeing the US market

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/bettertradeoff-taking-the-pain-out-of-financial-planning

Episode keywords: Fintech, Insurance, B2B, B2C, Personal Finance, Consumer Products, Lifestyle, Wealth management, SaaS, Marketplaces & Platforms, Automation, Big Data & Analytics, Cloud, Mobile

Founder’s search for high-quality dairy milk led to the creation in a lab of naturally occurring ingredients found in human milk for supply to dairy milk and infant formula businesses.

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/turtletree-labs-creating-sustainable-mammalian-milk-alternatives-from-stem-cells

Episode keywords: Foodtech, Alternative Proteins, Food & Beverage, Sustainability, B2B, Consumer Products, Mothercare, Biotechnology, Women in Tech, cellular agriculture, Singapore, Startups, Investment

DNAFoil, the startup’s rapid and accurate on-site food safety testing kit, can be deployed by non-expert staff after a few hours of training, with no need for lab equipment

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/swissdecode-portable-dna-test-kits-detect-food-contamination-within-minutes

Episode keywords: Regulation, Foodtech, Food & Beverage, Agriculture & Fishery, B2B, Biotechnology, Automation, Cloud, Hardware, DNA, Food safety, EIT Food

With the aim of helping women struggling to breastfeed, Bill Gates-backed Biomilq is disrupting the $45bn baby formula industry developing lab-grown breast milk from mammary epithelial cells.

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/biomilq-creating-cell-based-mothers-milk-in-a-lab

Episode keywords: Food & Beverage, Mothercare, Regulation, Sustainability, Foodtech, Impact Investing, B2C, Healthcare, Biotechnology, Women in Tech, Startups

The French biotech’s proprietory technology to cultivate pluripotent stem cells in a 3D environment can be scaled to mass-produce high-quality cells to treat diseases such as Parkinson’s.

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/treefrog-therapeutics-mimicking-how-stem-cells-grow-in-the-human-body

Episode keywords: Healthcare, Medtech, Biotechnology, Stem cell, Deep tech, France, Startup, Investment, Biotech, biocapsule

The French startup is seeking a €19m Series B round to produce industrial quantities of green hydrogen and is planning a “circular economy” partnership with local farmers

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/qairos-energies-mass-producing-green-hydrogen-from-industrial-hemp

Episode keywords: Energy & Cleantech, B2B, Sustainability, Transportation, Manufacturing, Circular Economy, Biomaterials, Materials, Green hydrogen, Pyro-gasification

Conceptualized at MIT and named among the Best Inventions of 2019 by TIME Magazine, Graviky Labs’ carbon-negative ink is made from upcycled emissions captured with a proprietary device.

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/graviky-labs-sustainable-ink-made-from-air-pollution

Episode keywords: B2B, B2C, Arts, Consumer Products, Digital Imaging & Photography, Fashion, Sustainability, Circular Economy, Manufacturing, Design, Lifestyle, Energy & Cleantech, Materials, Hardware, PM2.5, Air pollution, Pollutants, Startups, Investment, India