Hazera Genetics

A new wave of meat, fish, and poultry alternatives are driving this hyper-growth industry into the mainstream.

Plant-based Meat

Equinom is an Israeli food tech company that combines its agricultural, culinary, and deep tech expertise to develop non-GMO plant-based ingredients. The company uses crops such as peas and soy (bred naturally and optimized through its proprietary Manna technology platform) as its main ingredient sources to develop minimally processed plant proteins.&nbsp;The <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32773">Manna technology platform</a> uses AI to develop premium, high-yield, and non-GMO ingredients by analyzing millions of seeds in the company database and predicting ideal breeding combinations. According to the company, the platform can produce results in half the time compared to traditional crop development cycles. Further, it claims to breed yellow peas with protein concentrations up to 75%, significantly higher than conventional peas' 21%–25% protein content.Key customers and partnershipsEquinom has collaborated with food companies, allowing them to take advantage of the Manna platform to develop innovative products to suit consumer requirements. Some of the notable collaborations include Sabra, PepsiCo, Lovingly Made Ingredients, Good Mills Innovation, AGT Foods, Black Sheep Foods, and Roquette.

Equinom is a fully integrated food-tech company, combining agricultural know-how, culinary expertise, and deep technology to develop delicious, nutritious, affordable, and sustainable non-GMO plant-based ingredients – from the ground up. For decades, crops have been farmed primarily for animal feed – not for human consumption. To be palatable in human food, these crops require extensive and expensive processing. . With limited processing facilities equipped for this use, the industry is on track to supply only 50% of the projected demand for plant-based foods. What is Equinom doing about it?  Equinom is using science and technology to develop superior ingredients naturally, at the source – in a fraction of the time typically required to breed new crops. Equinom crops are bred naturally, without genetic editing or modification, and are optimized to make meat and dairy analogs more delicious, nutritious, cost-effective, and sustainable.  The company’s proprietary Manna™ technology platform uses AI to speed the development of superior,  high-yield, non-GMO ingredients as nature intended – featuring quality traits that satisfy consumer expectations. The technology also ensures biodiversity and climate resilience which are critical to ensure food security in light of climate change.  Working with great partners including Meatless Farm, Roquette with GoodMills Group., Equinom is recognized as a trusted developer and supplier of unrivaled ingredients. Prestigious strategic investors such as BASF and Roquette have helped position Equinom as one of the breakout Round C companies to fuel the worldwide surge in plant-based eating.

Hazera Genetics is a world leader in the breeding, production and marketing of vegetable and field crop hybrid seeds. For more than Seventy years they have been utilizing responsible and conventional breeding methods to breed varieties having innovative traits and by doing so, they are constantly opening new horizons of growth and prosperity for growers and industrialists in all parts of the world.

Enhancing seed and crop traits via biotechnology

Crop Biotech

Companies that develop or use biological, physical and chemical agents and techniques to provide protection and improve the quality of a seed. This includes the sale of seed coating, or seed enhancement products as methods to treat seeds.

Companies that redesign large clusters of genes and gene parts rather than modifying or engineering a single gene for improving the traits of a plant.

Companies that utilize genetic engineering tools and technologies to use existing and naturally present gene variants in a plant and the natural process of breeding such as inbreeding, and linebreeding to develop better traits for plants.

Companies that use transgenesis processes like tissue culturing to develop transgenic plants or seeds by inserting new genes into them from other plants or in certain instances other organisms like bacteria or even animals.

Companies that offer techniques such as epigenetics, RNA interference (RNAi) to temporarily block a specific gene that would trigger unwanted effect such as a disease on a plant.

Companies that develop a platform to insert, edit, or delete the DNA of a plant itself using approaches such as CRISPR-Cas 9, TALENs, and Zinc Fingers. These approaches help develop plant genes or seeds with traits such as disease-resistant, enhanced-performance, or improve yield.

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