Issue #29 (Bluemethane, itselectric, Goanna Ag)
Methane Capture / Curbside EV Charging / More Crop Per Drop. Bonus: Environmental Hackathons and AgriFood Tech directory
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Featured Companies
Bluemethane
Of the 51 billion tonnes of GHGs emitted by humans into the atmosphere every year, 3 billion are methane emissions from water. Bluemethane is developing breakthrough technology to capture methane emissions from water, as a new source of data, power, and revenue. This will permanently remove methane from water, reduce global warming, and support the energy transition by unlocking a new source of bioenergy. The company is starting with hydropower plants and will scale to non-hydropower reservoirs, wastewater treatment, and ultimately, natural bodies of water.
They are deploying a proof of concept at a hydropower reservoir in Colombia as part of a fully funded two year research project with EPM (the largest energy company in Colombia) and a leading Colombian university. Bluemethane was also selected by The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance to develop a new financial instrument, The Reservoir Methane Capture Mechanism, to lead their pilot in Brazil.
Learn more about Bluemethane by checking out this video made by our friends over at Pique Action:
Founder & CEO: Louise Parlons Bentata
HQ: London, UK
Stage: Pre-Seed
itselectric
itselectric is a curbside EV charging solution for the millions of city-drivers who park their cars on the street. itselectric advances environmental equity through a revenue sharing model with every residential and commercial building that elects to participate in their charging network. The company has just completed design and is in fabrication for their MVP and Spring 2022 NYC demonstration project. Strategic advisors include transportation expert and former Deputy Commissioner for Policy, NYC DOT, Michael Replogle, and Mia Birk, who has decades of experience leading the field of active transportation in advocacy, government, and business. The company recently joined gener8tor's inaugural Sustainability Accelerator program.
Founder & CEO: Nathan King
Founder & COO: Tiya Gordon
HQ: Brooklyn, NY
Stage: Pre-seed
Company Ask: itselectric is seeking city property owners interested in hosting a small curbside EV charger to join itselectric's wait list. If you’re interested, sign up for their wait list to bring well designed EV charging to your neighborhood.
Goanna Ag
Goanna Ag’s flagship product GoField uses a range of data to precisely identify, monitor, and manage crop stress to improve water-use-efficiency (WUE) and yields (more crop per drop). Goanna Ag will increase WUE by >10% regardless of the crop. The company has developed a unique technology that can deliver this level of benefit to irrigated farmers, creating real and lasting value for all stakeholders and benefits for the environment. GoField has been independently verified to provide a net economic benefit of $78/acre. The company enables 10 to 30%+ water savings, up to 10% yield increase, and energy efficiency equivalent to removing 336,000 cars from the road or up to 1.5m tonnes of CO2 per annum. The company currently services 40% of the Australian cotton industry and has recently entered the US market as a first step to global coverage.
Founder & CEO: Alicia Garden
HQ: Goondiwindi QLD, Australia
Stage: Series A
Company Asks: The team is looking for warm introductions to potential distribution partners and clients as well as assistance in identifying key business development talent, focusing on irrigation, particularly in the cotton industry.
Special Bonus: Climate Nonprofit & Agtech Directory
Earth Hacks
Earth Hacks works with college students and organizations to host environmental hackathons focused on creating innovative, equitable, and just solutions to the climate crisis. They use hackathons as a tool to drive environmental action, lead a justice-focused culture shift in the tech space, and empower hackers to create innovative, equitable, and just projects and solutions to various environmental problems. Earth Hacks supports a constellation of real-world environmental projects, demonstrating the potential that curious, motivated students have to change the world.
Founder & CEO: Sanjana Paul
HQ: Remote
Stage: Nonprofit
Company Ask: Earth Hacks is seeking a university partnerships manager (paid, part-time). They are also always seeking speakers for our hackathons, mentors for our students, and partners to work on exciting challenges with.
Resources for Womxn in AgriFood Tech
Check out this directory from Farms to Incubators by Connie Bowen and Amy Wu for those seeking to add diverse leaders in AgriFood to their events as speakers, to their teams as employees/partners, and to their networks as peers. To add or update your name to this table, fill out this short survey.
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