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Finnish cleantech start-up NPHarvest has secured up to €1.2 million from Business Finland’s Deep Tech Accelerator to scale its nutrient recovery technology, which converts liquid waste into fertilizer inputs. This funding supports NPHarvest’s efforts to address nutrient overload issues in Europe by extracting nitrogen and phosphorus from waste streams, with plans to start commercial installations in 2026, targeting Western Europe.
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Consumer packaged goods company Kraft Heinz works with farmers to adopt sustainable farming practices and deploy digital farming technologies.
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Bindbridge, a Cambridge-based ag-biotech company, has secured $3.8 million in funding to develop a safer herbicide alternative to glyphosate, using AI to design molecular glues for targeted protein degradation in weeds. This innovative approach aims to overcome challenges in herbicide resistance and regulatory pressures, with potential applications expanding beyond herbicides to fungicides and insecticides. The start-up's platform offers a new mode of action, potentially reducing environmental impact and improving crop protection, and is in discussions with major agrochemical companies for co-development, particularly targeting opportunities in the US and Brazil.