Funding Details
- Awarder
- YCombinator
- Date Award
- November 01, 2017
- Vertical
- Industrials,Agriculture
- Funding URL
- View Funding Page
- Valuation
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$0
Company Info
- Founding Year
- 2017
- Company Description
- Ovipost builds automated insect farms. Insects are the most efficient way to convert abundant, cheap byproducts into nutritionally dense protein. Today live insects are a $175m industry in the US, but the future of the industry is leveraging their excellent amino acid profiles and superior digestibility to replace fishmeal ($9.5B industry) and other expensive proteins in animal feeds. Led by co-founders Trina Chiasson (sold Infoactive to Tableau) and Teq Sassmannshaus (biotech hardware engineer), the Ovipost team has deep experience in hardware, software, and biology.
- Market
- Industrials
- Location
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LaBelle,
FL,
USA
- Coinvestors
- YCombinator
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