Rimonim Fund primarily invests in early and mid-stage companies that develop agricultural technologies that address the unmet need for global food shortages. The fund started investing in October 2017, and its current portfolio includes SKYX Solutions and Salicrop.

Rimonim Fund

SparkLabs Cultiv8 is a unique world class accelerator and research facility co-founded by the SparkLabs Group, Asia's leading tech accelerator group, and the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI), together with a number of leading farms and large corporate partners.

SparkLabs Cultiv8

SaliCrop

SaliCrop develops a non-genetically-modified treatment of seeds for various crop varieties, vegetable, and grain seeds. The seed treatment stimulates a specific epigenetic of the plant, which enables crop growth and yield in high-salinity soils or when irrigated with brackish water. Its treatments are carried out using a formulation containing materials generally recognized as safe by the US FDA. Based on proprietary expertise, SaliCrop's formulation is applicable to a wide range of crops like tomatoes, peppers, spinach, rice, wheat, and corn.

<p><span>SaliCrop is an innovative seed enhancement company that optimizes crop yields under climatic stress conditions. It uses seed technology to influence crop development in various climates, considering conditions such as salinity, drought, and heat to improve crop yield. The company reduces soil organic carbon losses by growing on marginal lands. It offers farmers high ROIs by increasing crop yields and the carbon stored in soil while improving soil quality and fertility. Its partners include SparkLabs Cultiv8 and the Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Rural Development of Israel. Headquartered in Israel, SaliCrop is privately held with an office in India.</span></p>

Enhancing seed and crop traits via biotechnology

Crop Biotech

Heat, salinity, drought… SaliCrop tackles abiotic stress trifecta with seed enhancement tech

<p><span>Lone Star Industrial Materials is a cultivation company that manufactures raw hemp materials. Its product portfolio consists of bast fiber, refined cellulose, and hemp hurd, seeds, hearts, fines and oil. Additionally, it offers retail products such as HempSorb, animal bedding, and hemp control socks. Hemp requires less land, improves nutritional health, is environmentally friendly, helps soil regeneration, grows in various climates, absorbs a great deal of CO2, is a rotational crop and reduces waste. Hemp is used in construction, insulation, bioplastics, and as hemp wood. The privately held company has developed an end-to-end supply chain from seed genetics to delivery.</span></p>

Lone Star Industrial Materials

<p><span>PLANTeDIT operates in the plant genome editing field to produce improved crop species through transformation technology and a CRISPR/Cas9 delivery system. It produces regulatory-free, consumer-oriented, DNA-free and sustainable genome edited crops and biopharmaceuticals. The company’s offering includes non-transgenic high oleic soya, which is produced by mutating the FAD2 gene, which eventually increases the oleic oil content in the soya bean. This product was developed through a collaboration between PLANTeDIT and ToolGen. The organization has also collaborated with RebelBio, University College Cork and IAPB. Headquartered in Cork, Ireland, PLANTeDIT is privately held.</span></p>

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    Amforo is a biotech company that focuses on developing foods that are high in protein by enhancing the nutritional density of food and feed crops through the platform of technologies it has built. The company offers a family of feed and food crops, including primary ingredients for suppliers of plant-based meat and dairy alternatives. In addition, it is focused on developing a low-cost, plant-based source of protein for farmed seafood. Moreover, Amforo is pursuing approaches to enhance the nutritional profile of crops as well as their protein content, which entails optimizing amino acid profiles, modifying carbohydrates, and enhancing micronutrients.
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<p><span>BioHeuris provides weed management solutions by combining synthetic biology and gene editing to develop herbicide resistant crops. Its offering includes Heurik, a technology platform that integrates rational design and directed evolution to identify mutations that confer herbicide tolerance, while Swap is the platform that introduces these mutations in crops using gene editing. The company cultivates soybeans, sorghum, rice, cotton, and alfalfa. It has partnered with Santa Rosa Semillas, Adecoagro, Gensus, GDM, Aceleradora Litoral, Tobin, Rotam, Asociación de Cooperativas Argentinas, Benson Hill, and Plant Science Center. Headquartered in Rosario, Argentina, BioHeuris is privately held with an office in the US.</span></p>

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    Tropic Biosciences is a privately held developer of high-performing commercial varieties of tropical crops that promote cultivation efficiencies, improve sustainable environmental practices and enhance consumer health through its use of cutting-edge genetic editing technologies. Its GEiGS Technology combines gene editing and RNAi in a single platform that enables critical disease resistance and quality improvement traits. The technology caters to the banana production, row crops, livestock, and poultry industries. The company’s partners include Temasek, Agronomics, Polaris Founders Capital, and Excellence Through Stewardship. Headquartered in the UK, Tropical Biosciences has been featured in The Telegraph, Nature, Fast Company, and the Financial Times. 
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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.

Biotech solutions to produce crops that are sustainable and offer better traits

Offers customization of genes and traits as required by farmers

Uses AI/machine learning to facilitate their platform/biotech processes like gene editing

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 <p>SaliCrop, a company specializing in seed enhancement, has introduced a seed treatment technology designed to improve cultivation in arid climates. This technique enhances seeds' resilience to harsh weather conditions, thus increasing the productivity of barren lands.</p>
 <p>The innovative technology involves exposing seeds to certain abiotic stressors, which initiates stress-response mechanisms within the plants. This method helps plants adapt and thrive in extreme weather conditions, including high temperatures, drought, and water scarcity, without altering the plant's DNA. The technique also enhances germination rates, promotes better nutrient absorption, and fosters the development of robust root structures.</p>
 <p>This solution has already demonstrated its efficacy in Spain's tomato industry, leading to a 10%–17% increase in yield and enhanced post-harvest Brix levels, a measure of the sweetness of the fruits.</p>
 
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