Auto Added by WPeMatico
The Norwich-based agbiotech company launched the first new commercial banana varieties in more than 75 years in 2025. Now it has to build enough supply to meet demand. The world’s favourite fruit is in serious trouble. Panama Disease Tropical Race 4, a fungal pathogen that travels in soil and water and leaves no cure in […]
This story continues at The Next Web
Tropic raises $105M to scale gene-edited bananas Read More »
Temasek and the Grundfos Foundation have joined the fund as it passes its latest target, part of a broader push to channel institutional capital into water technology innovation. Water scarcity is not a future problem. It is a present one, already constraining agriculture, industry, and urban planning across multiple continents. What has lagged, historically, is […]
This story continues at The Next Web
Swiss VC Emerald Technology Ventures hits €100M milestone for its Global Water Fund II Read More »
Swiss startup Seprify has raised €13.4 million to scale a cellulose-based alternative to one of the most widely used, and increasingly banned, industrial whiteners on the planet. IKEA is backing it. Somewhere in Southeast Asia, a small beetle called Cyphochilus produces the whitest surface found in nature, not through pigment, but through the microscopic structure […]
This story continues at The Next Web
Swiss startup Seprify raises €13.4M to replace titanium dioxide with cellulose Read More »
Europe does not suffer from a shortage of capital. What it lacks is the legal courage and analytical competence required to direct that capital toward the areas where it can create the greatest long-term value: SciTech startups. This gap shapes the entire continent’s innovation landscape, and Sweden is no exception. Even as Sweden is celebrated […]
This story continues at The Next Web
Europe’s Deep-Tech Paradox Read More »
Cologne-based Foodforecast, a startup using artificial intelligence to improve how food with short shelf lives is forecast and produced, has raised €8 million in a Series A funding round as it scales across Europe. The round was co-led by SHIFT Invest and the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF), with participation from existing backers Future Food […]
This story continues at The Next Web
German AI foodtech startup Foodforecast raises €8 Million to cut ultra-fresh food waste Read More »
This story continues at The Next Web
Rainbow Weather raises $5.5M to refine real-time weather forecasting Read More »
This story continues at The Next Web
Past the tipping point: Why the climate transition is now in our hands Read More »
Swiss startup Jua has launched an AI weather model it says outperforms leading systems from tech giants — potentially making it the most accurate forecaster in the world. Jua claims its model — dubbed EPT-2 — is faster and more accurate than both Microsoft’s Aurora and Google DeepMind’s Graphcast. In separate, peer-reviewed studies, both of those […]
This story continues at The Next Web
Swiss startup says its AI weather forecaster beats Microsoft, Google Read More »