Orbisk | Zero Food Waste & Cruz Foam Make the FoodTech 500 List! 🌱🚀

We’re excited to share that two of our portfolio companies - Orbisk | Zero Food Waste and Cruz Foam - have been named on the 2024 FoodTech 500 list by Forward Fooding!

This annual list showcases the top 500 AgriFoodTech companies at the forefront of food, technology, and sustainability, selected from a global pool of 1,420+ applicants from 70+ countries.

🌟Orbisk | Zero Food Waste is a food tech startup tackling food waste in the hospitality industry by using AI and computer vision to automatically track discarded food down to the ingredient level, helping kitchens cut waste and operate more sustainably.

🌟Cruz Foam is a materials technology company driving the shift away from single-use plastics by creating high-performance, all-natural packaging materials made from renewable resources—enabling circular solutions without compromising on quality or functionality.

📘 Dive into the full 2024 FoodTech 500 list here:
https://hubs.li/Q03cw0p40
#FoodTech500 #ClimateTech #PortfolioHighlights

Our Partner and Chief Impact Officer, Narina Mnatsakanian, recently joined the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s #Keystone Conference in Amsterdam.

⬇️ The takeaways:

🔹 Circular by Design – Innovation starts at the drawing board. System-wide investment must follow.
🔹 Four Pathways to Circularity – Accelerate innovation, create new markets, build infrastructure, and customer adaptation.
🔹 Sectors to Watch – Maritime, food systems, waste-to-resource, and bio-based materials are taking off.
🔹 Demand is the Missing Link – Supply is growing fast—but buyers must step up.
🔹 Global Circularity Protocol Incoming – A new framework to measure what matters.

🔹We couldn’t agree more with Narina’s reflection: “The message is clear: To achieve a truly circular economy, we must innovate boldly, collaborate widely, and act decisively.”

💬 Let’s keep the momentum going - members of our team will be attending more events in the coming weeks.

👇 Reach out, and let’s connect IRL!

1️⃣ Zero One Hundred Conferences
🗓 April 2–4
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands

2️⃣ ChangeNOW
🗓 April 25–26
📍 Paris, France

3️⃣ LOOP Forum
🗓 April 29–30
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark

4️⃣ ESG Summit
🗓 April 30
📍 Dublin, Ireland

5️⃣ Iceland Innovation Week
🗓 May 12–16
📍 Reykjavik, Iceland

6️⃣ Rethinking Materials
🗓 May 13
📍 London, UK

7️⃣ SuperReturn
🗓 June 6
📍 Berlin, Germany

8️⃣ London Tech Week
🗓 June 13
📍 London, UK

💬 Drop us a comment on which upcoming events you plan to attend?

Hope to see you soon!

Michael Smith Dan Fishman Martijn Lopes Cardozo Jamie Rowles Narina Mnatsakanian Destana Herring

Big congratulations to Ambient Photonics for being named one of TIME Magazine’s World’s Top Greentech Companies 2025!🎉

Selected from over 8,000 contenders in partnership with Statista, this list highlights the top 250 companies in the world that are making a measurable difference through environmental impact, financial resilience, and breakthrough innovation.

Ambient Photonics, a trailblazer in low-light energy harvesting, is redefining how we power electronics by using ambient light to fuel devices and paving the way for a future without disposable batteries. 🔋🌿

👏Congratulations to Bates Marshall, Dr.Kethinni Chittibabu, and the entire Ambient Photonics team for this achievement!

🇳🇱 This week marks the Dutch Circular Economy Week (Week van de Circulaire Economie) - a nationwide movement dedicated to accelerating the shift toward a fully circular economy by 2050. The Regeneration.VC team will be at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation annual network summit at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam, and they look forward to connecting with you.

🔃 Continuing this conversation online, join Jacco Jochemsen from Circle Economy and our Chief Impact Officer and Partner Narina Mnatsakanian as they explore the latest regulatory and circularity trends shaping the investment landscape at Regeneration.VC.

We’ll share how our Circular Regenerative Impact and Sustainability Protocol (CRISP) serves as our strategic framework guiding investment decisions. Aligned with the Operating Principles for Impact Management, CRISP offers a structured methodology to assess and enhance sustainability, leveraging global standards like IMP’s Five Dimensions, Planetary Boundaries Science, Circular Transition Indicators, ESRS, and GHG Protocol. By integrating best practices from industry-leading circularity measurement tools, CRISP goes beyond standard ESG and impact reporting to measure greenhouse gas emissions and the complexity of a critical yet often overlooked component - circular systems. This is all to ensure a rigorous, transparent, and data-driven approach tailored to the early-stage nature of our portfolio.

Join Us for an Exclusive Webinar with Circle Economy & Regeneration.VC!

📅 Date: April 10, 2025
⏰ Time: 15:00 - 15:45 CET
📍 Location: Online

This webinar is an opportunity to gain actionable insights on how early-stage investors can leverage circular economy principles to identify and support high-impact startups, driving innovation, competitive advantage, and long-term value creation.

🔗 Register now https://lu.ma/2k6d5qd8 and be part of the conversation!

🚀 Greyparrot has been named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2025! 🚀

Their AI-powered waste intelligence is transforming the waste management industry - helping businesses and regulators unlock the true value of waste and accelerate circularity at scale. 🌍

Yesterday was Global Recycling Day, and the year's theme is #RecyclingHeroes. Congratulations to our hero, Greyparrot, where waste is intelligence and a constant opportunity to design, use, and reuse better 🎉

🔗 Read the full #FCMostInnovative list here: https://lnkd.in/e_Qghct9
#AI #RecyclingHeroes