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Affinivax
United States of America
Affinivax is developing novel vaccines based on its proprietary technology platform the Multiple Antigen Presenting System (MAPS). Working with world experts in vaccine discovery and development Affinivax is building a pipeline of innovative vaccines to achieve broader protection against a wide range of diseases including those for which there are no effective vaccines available today.
| Human health & social work |
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AgBiome
United States of America
AgBiome is redefining agriculture. They are an early stage provider of research and discovery of innovative crop solutions. Agriculture is the world s largest and most important industry. With ever growing numbers of mouths to feed decreasing land to farm and around 30% loss of yield to disease and pests the need for innovative products is essential. The plant microbiome is a complex naturally occurring community of billions of microbes essential to life. By taking advantage of the untapped benefits of these organisms AgBiome is discovering new solutions that work symbiotically with a plant resulting in robust and sustainable crops.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Apeel Sciences
United States of America
Apeel's technological innovations are based on extracting organic molecules from agricultural byproducts. The molecules are then used to create water based formulations that coat the surface of fresh produce forming an ultra thin natural barrier to camouflage more delicate crops and protect produce from external stressors.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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AquaBella Organic Solutions
United States of America
In the mid 1970s L. Nguyen a Buddhist Vietnamese scientist sought to help his people overcome the sterilizing effects of Agent Orange on their country's soil and water. He created a strain of bacteria that remediated the soil and enabled the growth of crops in affected areas with some success. Years later through an unintentional step in the process of making the formula he discovered the product we have todaya combination of coexisting microbes that produced higher yields and healthier crops in areas that had been once difficult or even impossible to cultivate. From this original formula TerraBella and AquaBella enzyme formulas were developed.AquaBella Organic Solutions LLC (ABOS) was founded in 2008 by Yoni Szarvas to distribute these unique organic products. They have the potential to revolutionize the farming industry worldwide and to treat the waters used in agriculture in a natural sustainable way. TerraBella increases plant health and crop yield. AquaBella clarifies water by breaking down ammonia and organic pollutants throughout the water system. Today our mission is to deliver these unique products to farmers worldwide in order to increase their profits improve the quality and quantity of their crops promote sustainability and contribute to closing the world's growing food gap.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Beijing Tiantan Biological
China
Beijing Tiantan Biological Products Co. Ltd. engages in the research production and sale of bacterial and viral vaccines blood products diagnostic supplies and other biological products in China. Its products include hepatitis B vaccine polio vaccine MMR vaccine Japanese encephalitis vaccine influenza vaccine varicella vaccine human serum albumin intravenous human immunoglobulin and other species. The company is based in Beijing China.
| Human health & social work |
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BioCellection
United States of America
Plastic pollution is a global crisis that threatens the lives of wildlife and the food safety for 4 billion people. Despite current recycling technologies 90% of post consumer plastic waste becomes pollution. Polystyrene has very low recyclability and makes up one third of marine pollution. BioCellection is engineering bacteria to upcycle polystyrene into a valuable biosurfactant called rhamnolipid.
| Waste Management & Recycling |
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Biological E. Limited
India
Biological E Limited the first private sector biological products company in India and the first pharmaceuticals company in South India was established in 1953.Originally incorporated as Biological Products Private Limited and launched by Dr. Vijay Kumar Datla Biological E (BE) today is a significant leader in the world of vaccine market.BE supplies several essential and lifesaving Vaccines and Pharmaceuticals to UN Agencies viz.UNICEF Pan American Health Organisations other global markets and within India to Central and State Government Hospitals Public Sector Undertakings the Indian Armed Forces and the domestic retail market.
| Human health & social work |
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CellFor
Canada
As of August 14 2012 Cellfor Inc. was acquired by ArborGen Inc. Cellfor Inc. produces and sells loblolly pine seedlings. The company offers somatic embryos and seedlings for customers in North America South America Chile New Zealand Australia Brazil Argentina and Uruguay. The company s customers include various segments of forest landowners including corporations real estate investment trusts timber management organizations private landowners and consultants. The company markets its products through a network of representatives. Cellfor Inc. was formerly known as Silvagen Inc. Cellfor Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Saanichton Canada.
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CureVac
Germany
CureVac is the first company to successfully harness messenger RNA (mRNA) for medical purposes. The principle is promising use natural mRNA as a data carrier to instruct the human body to produce its own proteins to fight a wide range of diseases.
| Human health & social work |
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DerTek
Mexico
DerTek is a young and sustainable company, driving energy crops, collecting used vegetable oil and product Biofuels based on renewable energies. Founded on the firm belief of benefit to the environment and society.
| Energy |
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Diagnostics For All
United States of America
DFA was founded in 2007 by a group of scientists and entrepreneurs with a shared commitment to saving lives and alleviating disease in developing countries and other resource poor settings through low cost innovative practical diagnostic devices. DFA is developing low cost easy to use diagnostics for the developing world. DFA's mission is to save lives and improve health in the developing world through pioneering technological innovation. Using our elegantly simple and low cost patterned paper technology to create diagnostic devices DFA strives to meet the needs of those living in resource poor regions.
| Human health & social work |
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Fishrock Laboratories
United States of America
Fishrock Laboratories is the developer of antioxidant rich products from Redmelon. Founded in 2011 Fishrock Laboratories Inc. is a leader in the production and sale of a range of high value natural carotenoid products derived from Redmelon.
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Geltor
United States of America
Geltor creates safe sustainable and animal free gelatin for use in food pharmaceutical and cosmetic products. Many of the foods we love the medicines we need and the cosmetics we use daily rely on a single ingredient gelatin. For thousands of years humans have scavenged animal scraps to obtain gelatin. Scavenging essential products from animals presents urgent economic problems environmental problems public health problems and for many moral problems.
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Genocea Biosciences
United States of America
Genocea finds targets of T cell responses to discover and develop life changing medicines.We ve created a pipeline of novel vaccine and immunotherapy programs that stimulate the T cell arm of the immune system which is increasingly recognized as critical to generating protective immune responses against a wide array of diseases.Genocea's pipeline of novel T cell vaccines includes GEN 003 for HSV 2 therapy and GEN 004 a protein vaccine directed at pneumococcus both currently in Phase II clinical trials.
| Human health & social work |
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Intarcia Therapeutics
United States of America
Intarcia Therapeutics Inc. is a rapidly emerging biopharmaceutical company committed to developing innovative therapies utilizing the Medici Drug Delivery System medicines that have the potential to transform the prevention and management of serious chronic diseases.
| Human health & social work |
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Kymab
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela
Kymab is discovering and developing fully human monoclonal antibody therapeutics using our pioneering Kymouse platform. Kymab is building a rich pipeline of assets in four therapeutic spaces immuno oncology inflammation haematology and infectious diseases.
| Human health & social work |
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Lodo Therapeutics
United States of America
Lodo Therapeutics Corporation is a drug discovery and development company focused on the creation of novel therapeutics derived from nature that will impact patients around the world. Lodo seeks to work in partnership with global pharmaceutical companies and world leading non governmental organizations (NGO's) to tackle some of the greatest challenges in human health drug resistant microbial infections and cancers.
| Human health & social work |
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Medarex
United States of America
Bristol Myers Squibb is a global BioPharma company firmly focused on its mission to discover develop and deliver innovative medicines to patients with serious diseases.Around the world our medicines help millions of people in their fight against such diseases as cancer cardiovascular disease hepatitis B and hepatitis C HIV/AIDS and rheumatoid arthritis.
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Nature's Little Recyclers
United States of America
Nature's Little Recyclers are earthworm breeders. They divert organic waste as feedstock to their earthworms. They breed and grow rapidly in the indoor operations with ideal conditions. Then they sell earthworms to numerous markets.rn
| Waste Management & Recycling |
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OpenTrons
United States of America
OpenTrons builds open source liquid handling robots for personal use in the lab. OpenTrons think biologists should have robots to do pipetting for them. People doing science should be free of tedious benchwork and repetitive stress injuries. They should be able to spend their time designing experiments and analyzing data. OpenTrons make robots for biologists. OpenTrons mission is to provide the scientific community with a common platform to easily share protocols and reproduce each other's results. OpenTrons robots automate experiments that would otherwise be done by hand allowing the community to spend more time pursuing answers to some of the 21st century s most important questions.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Sera Prognostics
United States of America
Sera Prognostics is a private biotechnology company developing innovative diagnostic tests designed for the early prediction of preterm birth risk and other pregnancy complications. Sera s tests are designed to help better inform the care of a mother and her unborn child during pregnancy and potentially lead to improved health. The company has assembled a strong management team and Board of Directors with significant clinical development and women s healthcare diagnostic experience.
| Human health & social work |
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Singularity University
United States of America
Singularity University (SU) is a benefit corporation headquartered at NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley. SU provides educational programs innovative partnerships and a startup accelerator to help individuals businesses institutions investors NGOs and governments understand cutting edge technologies and how to utilize these technologies to positively impact billions of people.
| Education |
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SuSeWi
United Kingdom of Great Britai
Harnessing algae to feed the world
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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The Toothpick Project
United States of America
This project started with the end user in mind. Through the biocontrol of Striga with the FOXY T14 toothpick technology their goals are to reduce labor and increase crop yield for smallholder farmers. Ultimately this technology will improve health through more nutritious diversified crops (impacting both physical and mental wellbeing) increase income by providing enough yield for both family use and sale and provide greater access to education due to this increased income. Because the vast majority of maize farmers are women these results will also impact women's empowerment which will be reflected in a Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (USAID Feed the Future) study that evaluates independence literacy time use domestic violence land ownership and other measures of empowerment.
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Twist Biosciences
United States of America
Twist Bioscience Corp. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco California. The Twist Bioscience platform has the potential to greatly accelerate the development of personalized medicine sustainable chemical production improved agriculture production as well as new applications such as in vivo diagnostics biodetection and data storage.
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Unima
Mexico
Unima develops fast and low cost diagnostic and disease surveillance technologies to solve the problem of lack of access to a timely diagnostic for 3 billion people living in the developing world or in low resource settings in high income countries.
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Visterra
United States of America
Visterra is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on applying its novel Hierotope platform to identify unique disease targets and to design and engineer precision antibody based biological medicines for infectious and non infectious diseases.
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Zymergen
United States of America
Zymergen is a technology company bringing its robotic automation, proprietary software, and deep computer analytics to the complex field of industrial microbiology to develop new, more efficient, more reliable ways to optimize microbes. With this platform, Zymergen saves its customers hundreds of millions of dollars by both providing them with new, better performing production microbes for existing products and by rapidly and cost-efficiently generating new stains for new products.
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Zyomyx
United States of America
Zyomyx has a unique expertise in and passion for tackling difficult “outside-the-box” problems. Highly user-friendly, instrument-free point-of-care tests need to be designed with an advanced level of cartridge engineering and reagent stability, and aligned with aggressive cost targets. Zyomyx specializes in exactly these demanding product requirements. Our immediate focus is an advanced, but simple to use and inexpensive CD4 T-cell point-of-care test that will be launched globally and configured to especially meet the demanding specifications for use in low and middle income countries.
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