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Clear the air on carbon capture, reuse, and storage

Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS)

Netherlands-based DyeCoo provides carbon dioxide (CO2)-based textile processing technology for dyeing solutions. The company has developed a patented water-free and chemical-free textile dyeing process that uses only raw dye and reclaimed CO2.DyeCoo’s technology is proven at an industrial scale with DyeOx—the world’s first industrial dyeing machine that uses high-pressure CO2 instead of water. DyeOx consists of three dye vessels, each with a loading capacity of 20–200 kg, adding up to a maximum daily capacity of 4,000 kg.Key customers and partnershipsDyeCoo technology operates in the textile supply chains of global apparel and footwear brands and retailers as well as the automotive supply chain. DyeCoo has entered into partnerships with leading dye and chemical suppliers such as Colourtex, DyStar, Huntsman, and Archroma. The company’s technology has been adopted by major industry players including Nike, Adidas, and Peak Performance.Funding and financialsDyeCoo’s last funding round was in August 2022, when it raised an undisclosed amount in a Venture round backed by TAU Investment Management.

Biologically protecting plants from pests

Biopesticides

Terramera is a Canadian agtech company based in Vancouver that develops sustainable agricultural solutions using green chemistry, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The company's proprietary Actigate Targeted Performance technology enables the creation of plant-based, organic alternatives to synthetic chemical pesticides and fertilizers. Terramera aims to reduce the global usage of synthetic pesticides by 80% and increase crop yields by 20%.
In 2022, Terramera secured USD 2 million in funding from the Canadian government's Agricultural Clean Technology Program to advance its work on providing more consistent and precise measurement of soil carbon and soil health. This technology will enable farmers and ranchers to adopt regenerative agriculture practices, improve soil health, and participate in carbon markets by quantifying soil carbon sequestration.
Terramera is also collaborating with Microsoft to bring clean technology to farmers and ranchers through an initiative focused on scaling regenerative agriculture practices. The company has proposed an USD 830 million Global Centre for Regenerative Agriculture powered by Microsoft Azure. This centre will utilize AI/ML to capture carbon in the soil, increase farm productivity, and reduce pesticide and fertilizer usage, while creating a sustainable carbon credit market for farmers.
In November 2020, the company announced its plans for an USD 830 million Global Centre for Regenerative Agriculture to tackle climate change and economic challenges through regenerative farming methods and agtech innovations.

Next-gen Displays

Aledia, a French microLED developer, specializes in 3D nanowire LED technology. The company's core offering is based on GaN nanowires fabricated on large-area silicon wafers, initially implemented on 200mm wafers with plans to evolve toward 300mm wafers for high-volume production. Aledia's technology aims to shrink the cost per chip compared to conventional 2D LED technology. The company has developed two nanowire LED platforms. The first, which is being optimized for volume manufacturing, uses blue-emitting GaN nanowires on 8" silicon wafers with color conversion for green and red colors. This platform has demonstrated one of the smallest microLEDs (1.2µm in diameter) with up to 30% Wall Plug Efficiency (WPE). Aledia's second platform, still in R&D, allows direct emission in RGB with a controlled emission angle, targeting 6500ppi single-chip RGB arrays for AR applications. In December 2020, Aledia announced the production of its first nanowire microLED chips on 300mm silicon wafers at the CEA-Leti pilot line. The company's first product is a 160µm RGB single-chip LED for fine pitch videowalls and luxury TVs. Aledia plans to start LED production in its new facility by 2022, where it will also finalize its microdisplay production process. The company holds over 250 patent families related to its technology.

Aledia develops and manufactures innovative light-emitting diodes based on a unique 3D architecture using gallium-nitride on-silicon microwires. The technology uses standard silicon wafers with diameters of 8 inches (200 mm) and existing CMOS wafer-fabrication processes and tools, enabling the production of LED chips at 25 percent of the cost of traditional planar LED chips. The process and tools help develop both mobile displays and microdisplays for AR/VR applications, enabling users to use them for direct-view displays such as for smartphones, smartwatches, tablets, and laptops.  In 2011, Giorgio Anania, Philippe Gilet, and Xavier Hugon co-founded the Grenoble, Rhone-Alpes-based company.

BOFOOD stands for good food that does not compromise on taste, health or the environment. Their products is an excellent choice not only for people with special dietary needs but for anyone who wishes to enjoy quality products.  BOFOOD is located in Karlshamn Sweden.  The company’s key persons have been working in the food industry for more than 35 years and have had senior roles at Carlshamn Dairy or related companies. BOFOOD has kept on developing Soy-based products and has succeeded in reducing all taints of soy flavour, thus making the products very competitive with the combination of great flavour and free-from status.  BOFOOD has a BRC Grade A factory for producing Lovice non-dairy iced desserts and the other non-dairy products are produced in a nearby BRC Grade A factory.  BOFOOD owns all intellectual property rights to products and trademarks related to its unique climate-smart and healthy products.

Terramera offers agriculture technology platforms to deliver alternatives to chemical pesticides and fertilizers. It focuses on fusing artificial intelligence, science, and nature to transform how to grow foods and offer a healthy, safe environment free of toxic chemicals for agriculture and public health.

DyeCoo Textile Systems B.V. was founded in March 2008. The company is the world's first supplier of industrial CO2 dyeing equipment. DyeCoo Textile Systems also offers its own range of dyes for CO2 dyeing. Together with one of the main shareholders, Feyecon D&l, they have extensive knowledge of CO2 applications and design and engineering of CO2 machines.  The company mission is to supply dyeing systems for the textile finishing industry based on superior CO2 technology, gaining a considerable market share and contributing to a sustainable environment in terms of water consumption, energy consumption, CO2-emissions and waste disposal.

EL-Seed develops the Kamiyama LED –the world’s first monolithic white LED structure produces light with a colour quality very close to that produced by incandescent lamps and sun light on Earth. The Kamiyama LED combines the very low energy consumption of LED light sources with a high colour quality – similar to that of halogen lighting. The management of EL-Seed believes that the Kamiyama LED will be the first choice for consumers of indoor lighting and in LCD backlighting applications.  The Kamiyama LED combines;  − High energy efficiency − High colour quality and stability − Highly efficient heat transport − Long lifetime  The Kamiyama LED does not contain mercury like compact fluorescent lamps.

IKEA GreenTech AB is a corporate venture capital company making equity investments in green technology companies. Our mission is to invest primarily in technologybased companies, that improve the sustainability of the IKEA business activities. The company is owned by the IKEA Group. This ownership structure gives potential access to the global and a well-renowned retail concept IKEA. IKEA GreenTech has 500 million SEK (approx. 60 million euro) to invest. The fund is evergreen. Any return on investments will be returned to the general pool with the aim of keeping a continuous supply of available investment capital. IKEA GreenTech is offering equity investments in companies with a stand alone potential.

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