Issue #28 (Opalia, Seabound, VAPAR)
Milk From Mammary Cells / Capturing Carbon from Ships / AI for Underground Pipes
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Featured Companies
Opalia
Opalia (Formerly BetterMilk) is the first Canadian company to make milk with mammary cells. Opalia’s milk is made by placing enhanced mammary epithelial cells in a bioreactor, where they grow and lactate, thus making whole milk that has all of the constituents of traditional milk, without the need for cows. One-third of the earth’s ice-free land is required to support the 1B+ cows living on the planet at any given time. Using Opalia’s patent pending technology, making milk produces less GHG emissions, and uses less land and water than the traditional dairy industry. They have recently been featured on the FoodTech500 and are currently part of the District 3 Accelerator in Montreal.
Founder & CEO: Jennifer Côté
HQ: Montreal
Stage: Seed
Seabound
Seabound builds carbon capture equipment for large cargo ships. The equipment surrounds the ship's smokestack and traps the CO2 from the exhaust, using patent-pending technology. The company is founded by Alisha Fredriksson, who helped build a maritime electrofuel startup and started a climate division at McKinsey’s nonprofit, and Roujia Wen, a Cambridge theoretical physics graduate who built AI products at Amazon. Seabound provides a way for shipowners to reduce up to 95% of their fleet’s CO2 emissions and comply with new regulations that begin in 2023.
Co-Founder & CEO: Alisha Fredriksson
Co-Founder & CTO: Roujia Wen
HQ: London, UK
Stage: Pre-seed
VAPAR
VAPAR is an Australian deep-tech startup that automates the fault detection in underground pipes, directly from the pipe inspection videos. Customers can upload CCTV footage to VAPAR’s cloud platform, after which inspections are automatically processed using AI. Results of what pipes to fix, and when, are then produced for review allowing customers to get reliable and consistent pipe condition assessments quickly and with ease. VAPAR’s current clients manage 100M meters of underground pipes in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
Founder & CEO: Amanda Siqueira
HQ: Sydney, Australia
Stage: Seed
Company Ask: VAPAR is currently hiring for several roles.
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