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The world’s population is forecast to peak at 10.5 billion around 2050 and while the progress in renewables is encouraging, they cannot provide enough energy for humankind without an ongoing reliance on fossil fuels. In order to sustain economic growth and overcome climate change, the world needs to develop alternatives. We’re excited to back the Marvel Fusion team who’re building a reliable, commercially-viable nuclear fusion power plant. Marvel’s unique design has a genuine shot to get us to clean, safe, abundant power in the next decade to complement intermittent renewables on a pathway to a carbon-free energy grid.

Meat has formed part of humankind’s diet since the first humans and still today, billions of people around the world consume meat on a daily basis. However the impacts on climate, animals, and the environment from producing meat in the 21st century is clearer than ever before. We can do better. Meatable is pioneering a way of producing real meat in a lab from cells in weeks, not years. Identical on every level without any of the drawbacks. Meatable’s patented opti-ox™ technology offers exciting cost efficiencies and the ability to build scalable meat production without the harm. We’re excited to watch Meatable build the future of food.

Trading cards have been popular long before digital worlds were even imagined. Until recently, challenges around authenticating digital items made it nearly impossible to create scarcity (and therefore value) for digital trading cards. Today crypto, (and the underlying blockchain technology) makes authenticating digital trading cards possible. Sorare uses blockchain technology to build a digital fantasy football league, where users collect, trade and compete with their favourite player's cards (NFTs). Users play fantasy football with these player cards and earn real world rewards based on the performance of their players in real world competitions.

Imagine a world where drugs are tested not on animals but on actual human cells before they reach clinical trials. Imagine that every patient could receive therapeutics that are proven to be effective on that particular patient, not just the general population. This could save years of trial and error and patient suffering. We’re thrilled to back SUN Biosciences, who are building the foundations for this future by standardising organoid culture to build a single source of biological truth for drug testing, development and application. Their unique technology solves some of the core issues that have been holding organoids back.

At the heart of the drug discovery and development process lies an indisputable truth: companies can test for many compounds but, in order to advance to further stages, they need to be able to manufacture it. Molecule.One is an AI-driven chemist that predicts the best possible synthetic pathways for any desired compound. Their software platform, powered by state-of-the-art machine learning models, discovers the cheapest and easiest way to synthesize any given compound from commercially available molecules. We’re excited to support the team as they build the future of chemistry.

Since the industrial revolution, advancements in manufacturing have enabled mass consumerism to grow exponentially. However consumers are quickly becoming aware of their impact on the environment, demanding more from brands. Enter synthetic biology. Soon we will be able to produce a large share of the global economy's physical materials, without compromising on performance and sustainability. Insempra bridges the gap between synbio R&D and scalable, industrial manufacturing for brands. We believe the Insempra team can accelerate the creation of sustainable alternatives to traditional materials and we’re excited to back them on their journey.

Nanotechnology has for decades been heralded as one of the most promising areas of science and industry. As we increase our capacity to control materials at the nanoscale we will be able to take advantage of countless technological advances that will literally reshape our physical world and accelerate planetary sustainability. Yet until now, nanotechnology has massively underdelivered on its promise. VSPARTICLE, a spin-out of TU Delft in 2014, has over the past six years created a paradigm-changing platform that is a scalable source of nanoparticulate material with broad applicability for scientific, engineering and manufacturing applications. We're excited to watch the VSPARTICLE team forge ahead in this space.

Space offers an incredible amount of untapped potential that's waiting to be explored. We believe harnessing space's potential can bring improvements to our lives back on Earth, far beyond space tourism. One exciting area is researching in microgravity. What makes research in space so exciting is that up there, nearly everything behaves differently. Yuri unlocks access to microgravity by providing purpose-built labs and factories in space. Yuri facilitates experiments in space to leverage the benefits of microgravity for biological processes such as drug discovery and tissue formation. We can't wait to follow along with Yuri's lift off.

It’s clear that the future of work will feature a lot more remote working, in one form or another. With the right tools, remote work enables us the flexibility to learn, collaborate and achieve without spending as much time in the office. Tools like AnyDesk are enabling the future of work. AnyDesk is the best-in-class remote desktop software on the market. Users can connect to any desktop, be it from the other end of the office or halfway around the world. Companies large and small around the world use Anydesk as part of their collaboration tools. We’re thrilled to support AnyDesk on their mission.

In an era where personal information is no longer private and passwords are commonly reused, stolen or cracked, the traditional method of protecting access to data and services by username and password has repeatedly proven to be inadequate. Keyless is a team of scientists and entrepreneurs pioneering a solution to this large-scale structural issue of the internet. The Keyless team have built a novel biometric authentication platform that eliminates the need for businesses to store and manage passwords, biometric data, cryptographic keys and other sensitive personal information, without compromising on convenience and privacy for their employees or end-users. We’re pumped to watch the Keyless team build the future of authentication.

Solid World DAO’s mission is to build core infrastructure to make forward carbon markets as liquid as possible - unlocking the value of forward deals for carbon projects and the institutions that buy them. Solid World infrastructure designed to derisk carbon investments includes robust due-diligence, deep liquid markets for forward deals and market-driven prices for quality credits. Collaboration in the form of partnerships with leaders in the carbon value chain including Toucan, Flow Carbon and SCB have been set up by Solid World DAO to transform and disrupt the carbon market.

Heyflow built their product as a "no-code" tool so that anybody can easily create and implement feature-rich clickflows while also maintaining great UX and the corporate CI. They have developed readily-usable templates for easy onboarding and implemented integrations with other tools such as Slack, Asana, Zapier, Pipedrive, Google Analytics etc.

Vectornator is a powerful vector design platform that allows you to create beautiful illustrations, sophisticated user interface designs, and amazing layouts. It’s a platform made by creatives, for creatives, and its intuitive interface and sleek design make illustration and design work almost effortless. Vectornator addresses the high barrier to entry for the creative market by establishing a simple and frictionless alternative to existing complex design tools with high paywalls and overly dense user manuals.

Molecule is a digital interface matching supply and demand for biotech and pharma assets. Most of those assets currently live inside universities, small biotech companies, and, increasingly, AI drug discovery companies. Molecule crawls and lists research projects and enriches the data over time (this is increasingly done by researchers themselves who "claim" and develop their profiles). Interested investors can search pre-vetted projects depending on their therapeutic area, clinical stage and type of project.

Avi Medical plans to operate modern and efficient medical centers to optimise and control the process of primary care, end-to-end. The medical centers are utilising state-of-the art digital infrastructure with an app for patients and a modern software stack for doctors. This brings process efficiency, a welcoming user experience before, during and after GP visits, 24/7 access to medical support and accurate diagnosis and treatments to the patients.

Epoch is developing a computational approach to discover and optimise enzymes, which are natural machines that speed up chemical and biological processes. Several industrial and biomedical processes have found enzymes to be extremely valuable in speeding up reaction times, reducing energy requirements and enabling previously impossible reactions. Epoch will eventually develop and commercialise enzymes for several specific needs and use cases including accelerating plastic decomposition.

As a studio that believes in building community first, Predecessor has already amassed an engaged audience of more than 35,000 fans on Discord and well over 100,000 signups prior to its release.

Tanso aims to address the most pressing issue in sustainability management: ensuring data availability as a first step in enabling the complex process of calculating and reporting the environmental effects of physical goods. By developing software for industrial manufacturers, it is assisting one of the most emissions-intensive, yet underserved, industries in reaching net-zero and measuring, managing, and acting on their sustainability data while creating real business value.

Available in on-premises and SaaS environments, Cognigy.AI automates customer and employee communications, enabling enterprises to have natural language conversations with their users on any channel – webchat, SMS, voice and mobile apps – and in any language.

Innovative solid oxide fuel cells allow Reverion to provide 24/7 supply security, enable long-term seasonal storage and reduce megatons of CO2 emissions. This technology doubles electricity production through electrical efficiencies of 80% whilst also stabilising the power grid in electrolysis mode and producing renewable gases.

Orbem is advancing MRI technology to make it cheaper, faster and less complex, opening up a range of novel use cases. Their first use case is in the chicken market where their machines can non-invasively classify the sex of eggs before hatching. Beyond eggs, Orbem sees a range of use cases in the food, bio and healthcare sectors.

Edgeless Systems is building an open-source framework to enable secure communications for the next generation of confidential computing. Confidential computing is a cloud computing technology that isolates sensitive data in encrypted and verifiable CPU enclaves (i.e. hardware) during processing. The contents of the enclave, including the data being processed and the techniques used to process it, are accessible only to authorised programming code, remaining invisible to anything or anyone else, including cloud providers.

SMBs still manage their finance on paper, Excel and 5+ external tools, resulting in 5% revenue loss. Monite want to turn B2B platforms, neobanks, and fintechs into super-apps that solve this problem with automated invoicing, payables, and B2B payments

Holidu finds the best price so users don't need to search other websites, capturing savings with Holidu price comparison technology and aggregating reviews to ensure an enjoyable stay.

Verbally harnesses the power of voice data which is for the first time available on a scale that lets us use ML technology in speech and tone recognition to build features that bring physical meetings - a decades-old analogue form of collaboration - into the digital age.

Xolography switches liquid resin in a vat, through the help of two intersecting light projections, into a cured object. It is fast, creates smooth surfaces, without the need for support structures, and works with viscous resins.

Cala uses advanced robotics technology to make high-quality meals accessible to everybody. Productivity gains from Cala's robot are used to invest in the finest locally sourced ingredients, recipes are prepared carefully and infinitely customizable, serving a delightful customer-centric experience.

Gama Space is revolutionising deep space access with low-cost, reliable and scalable solar sails which could revitalise missions previously deemed too expensive or complex to launch. Solar Sails, giant mirrors in space, are accelerated continuously by reflecting photons from the sun, reducing size and expense dramatically due to the elimination of a need to carry fuel.

There are two parts to the Flow Bio system, a sensor made up of electrodes and micro-fluidics channels (this part is disposable), and a shell that holds the battery, electronics, RAM etc. Data is then displayed on a connected app where FlowBio's own data will be displayed and can be connected to other 3rd party data. The first biomarkers will be potassium, sodium and sweat rate to provide the most comprehensive and real-time view into hydration status.

Exakt Health's mobile app leads users through "self-diagnosis" for standard sports injuries and offers customised professional physiotherapy plans for different conditions. Exakt will first focus on running-related injuries, prior to expanding to other rehabilitation segments. The app provides free and easy access to sports physiotherapists and doctors' expertise through modern technology. No commute. No waiting rooms.

Hello Inside provides the user with intelligent, personalised insights based on their food intake and glycemic response (the effect that food or meal has on blood sugar levels after consumption - something that differs for each of us). The Continuous Glucose Monitoring patch has a small, sub-cutaneous needle which detects the glucose levels in blood and transmits the readings via bluetooth to any connected device. Hello Inside will leverage this technology to build a personalised health platform for consumers.

Automata aims to enable new opportunities for innovation through total workflow automation accessible to labs frustrated by the limitations of their own environment. Automata works with labs across the world to understand their specific workflows and needs, and develop personalised solutions that range from diagnostic, drug discovery to synthetic biology. This allows a simplification of common automation tasks, while also supporting more advanced paths for specialised workflows, in a fast, flexible, and cost-efficient way.

Climate change is driving a transformative pivot in agriculture towards high-tech soilless greenhouses. These drastically reduce water use and emissions while significantly increasing yields. However, like humans need our gut microbiome, plants rely on the soil microbiome. This is missing in soilless agriculture, leading to reduced plant health and yield. Concert Bio addresses this by giving growers all the tools they need to create and manage an optimal microbiome in their system. Their proprietary platform gives growers unprecedented insights into their existing microbiome and uses that date to identify novel plant-beneficial microbes.

Farmless want to create a hopeful future by decoupling food production from arable land. They do this by cutting out the middle man of photosynthesis and replacing it with renewable energy to grow microbial protein with alcohol as a feedstock. Farmless can do this with 100-500x less land compared to animal proteins and 10-100x less land compared to plant proteins, independent from climate in a sustainable way.

Modern Synthesis is a biotech company bringing life to new materials. Their patent-pending process works with bacteria to produce an entirely new class of nanocellulose-based materials which offer performance without plastics and aesthetics without animal inputs. Not only does this allow them to create lower-impact, high-value alternatives that can displace animal and plastic-based textiles, but it also enables greater aesthetic variability for their customers. They’re not just a leather replacement, they’re unlocking novel aesthetics and new performance possibilities that reimagine what natural materials are capable of.