Zebra Impact is a venture capital firm that invests in nature-positive technologies. The company selects technologies that offer speed and scale, aiming to drive innovation where it's needed most.

Zebra Impact

Zebra Impact Ventures is a Swiss-based venture capital firm, impact by nature & tech-driven.
We invest in nature-positive tech-companies that have the right mindset to lead the transformation the world needs.

Zebra Impact Ventures

Pests consume about 20-30% of all major crops, and the problem is worsening with climate change. Micropep is dedicated to addressing the issue by using micropeptides to create solutions safer than existing synthetic pesticides.

Through research, discovery, and dedication from our team, we look forward to continuing on with our mission of building more sustainable agriculture and helping protect global food production for future generations.

Thank you to TechCrunch’s Tim De Chant and Rebecca Szkutak for the feature! 

Learn more about the work Micropep is doing here: 

https://lnkd.in/djWhjXwZ

#pesticides #globalwarming #agtech #climatechange

👏 Congratulations to Micropep Technologies for raising EUR27 million in Series B funding. Our private assets partner and agri-tech specialist Zebra Impact Ventures, which manages our Regenerative Growth I strategy, co-led the funding round in conjunction with the Ecotechnologies 2 fund, managed on behalf of the French government by Bpifrance Green Venture as part of France 2030. 

The funding will enable Micropep to accelerate its ‘go-to-market’ strategy 🚀 

Leading the way in agritech innovation, Micropep develops biosolutions to protect crops against pathogens and resistant weeds.

"Micropep’s pioneering micropeptide technology promises to revolutionise agriculture in a sustainable way," said Lionel Artusio-Payot, Co-Founder of Zebra Impact Ventures.

"By backing Thomas LAURENT and his team, we are delighted to support Micropep's growth as a future leader in biosolutions for agriculture, in the service of a healthier planet for future generations".

Regenerative Growth I invests in companies that are creating solutions to our broken food system. Micropep will form part of the core agri-food tech allocation and embodies the strategy’s two key objectives: delivering a strong positive environmental impact while generating attractive financial returns.

Find out how Micropep and Regenerative Growth I are aiding the global food system revolution 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ee3Gnn6P

Fabio Sofia, Lionel Artusio-Payot, Pierre Jouve, Lola Wolf, Bpifrance Green Venture

For professional investors only. Capital at risk.

🌱 We are pleased to announce our $29 million Series B funding round alongside the rebranding of our discovery platform, Krisalix. 🌱 

Thank you to our latest investors,  Zebra Impact Ventures and Bpifrance Green Venture for joining Fall Line Capital, FMC Corporation, Sofinnova Partners, Supernova Invest, and IRDI Capital Investissement, in supporting our mission to pioneer safe, efficient, and sustainable natural solutions. 

Together, we are building more sustainable agriculture to protect global food production for future generations.

Read more:  

https://lnkd.in/gABqhjnC

Plenty® and Mawarid Holding Investment Partnership for novel farming in GCC:
- A multi-year, exclusive partnership to supply locally grown fresh produce to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.
- Significant Investment: The joint venture will invest over AED 500 million (US$130 million) in its first project, an indoor vertical farm in Abu Dhabi, aimed at producing more than 2 million kilograms of strawberries annually.
- Future Expansion: The partnership plans to develop up to five farms in the next five years, requiring an investment of up to AED 2.5 billion (US$680 million) and generating numerous employment opportunities.
- #Food Security and #Sustainability: The project will enhance year-round berry supply, reduce food miles, and align with the UAE’s food security initiatives.
- Driscoll's Collaboration: Global berry leader Driscoll’s will partner in the project, providing proprietary genetics and market expertise.
#agritech #agriculture Mirabaud Group Mirabaud Asset Management Zebra Impact Ventures CleanGreens Solutions SA

Great to see one of our private assets portfolio companies making headlines for all the right reasons 👏  Koa Switzerland & Ghana is disrupting the chocolate industry through its innovative upcycling of cocoa fruit 🍫 It is the first company in West Africa to have unlocked a new value chain around cocoa pulp, which is traditionally discarded, and worldwide the first cocoa fruit brand to become a B Corp.

KOA is part of the ‘waste & circularity’ portfolio within our Regenerative Growth I agri-food tech strategy.

Find out more about the companies creating solutions to the world’s broken food systems and how you can invest in food transformation 🔗 https://lnkd.in/esFFjNwK

Zebra Impact Ventures, Lionel Artusio-Payot, Fabio Sofia

Capital at risk. For professional investors only.

IN FOCUS – KUWAIT AGRICULTURE
INVESTING IN FOOD INNOVATION AMID HYPER WATER SCARCITY
 
What if #foodsecurity through traditional #agriculture is unsustainable and unattainable for a country on account of its #extreme water-resource #scarcity and environmental #constraints?

Alas, this precisely is the case for #Kuwait -- which is why it #imports over 96% of its #food (and through which it in fact achieves a high ranking on the Global Food Security Index).

In a region facing extreme water scarcity -- and with Kuwait possessing only 8.6% arable land -- the country produces only 1% of its crops using traditional open-field agriculture.

Ultimately, agriculture contributes less than 0.5% to the country’s #GDP. 

As a #hyperarid small-sized country ensconced in the #ArabianPeninsula, Kuwait is particularly vulnerable to the challenges posed by the changing climate especially on water scarcity and the vulnerability of coastal regions – with significant deleterious impacts on agriculture, #biodiversity, #energy, #health and #infrastructure.

Despite the foregoing, Kuwait – in its proactive efforts to shore up its traditionally weak agriculture industry -- has begun #investing in food #innovation, including in #indoor and #verticalfarms.

A case in point is Greenlifegcc -- allied with #Switzerland's CleanGreens Solutions SA -- whose smart indoor-agriculture operation in #Abdalli, Kuwait using #aeroponics produces high-quality fresh produce with minimal water. 

Adel Al Shamali, Chairman of Green Life GCC, underscored that their enterprise aligns well with the government’s ‘#Kuwait2035’ strategic goals of “ensuring food security for the country” and “#diversifying income sources for the future.”

Noteworthily, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry - Kuwait has instituted key measures this year to help protect the nation’s food security -- including prohibiting the #exports of egg and meat and restricting the slaughtering of female livestock. 

Several programs and organizations support agriculture in Kuwait -- including the Public Authority of Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources (#PAAF), the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), and the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (#KISR), among others.

The #AlmaraiPrize
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H.E. KACST President Munir Eldesouki, HH Prince @Naif Al Saud
Abdulaziz Almalik, Abdullah Albader, Prof. Hani Choudhry, Prof. Omar Yaghi, Prof. Joel Cuello, Prof. Rod Wing, Abdullah Alkhaled
Dr. Tiziano Balmelli
FAO, United Nations
Almarai - المراعي
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) 
وزارة البيئة والمياه والزراعة
KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
University of Arizona
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
ASABE - American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
Association for Vertical Farming

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