Measuring Sustainability From Space with Will Wells Founder & CEO @ Hummingbird Technologies

04/14/21 • 50 min

Today's guest is Will Wells, Founder & CEO @ Hummingbird Technologies

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Will Wells a previous investment analyst had a vision during a two-year fight with cancer. Now happily recovered, Will is realising that vision through his company Hummingbird Technologies.
Hummingbird Technologies is an artificial intelligence business using drone and satellite technology with the most advanced machine learning and computer vision techniques to deliver actionable insights on crop health. The technology detects and learns changes in crop health, by taking aerial images from drones mounted with custom-made multi-spectral sensors. Resulting in actionable insights into crop health being sent to farmers via an app.
The company is backed by investors including James Dyson and Horizons Ventures and has won numerous awards including the CogX Best AI AgTech Product and the 2019 KPMG Best British Startup.

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In today’s episode we cover:

Measuring sustainability from space
Core customer is big business with exposure to farms
Trying to solve huge macro-supply chain problem
Advances in space technology
Monetising sustainability - 4 Years ago
How to raise more money than you need

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Episode recorded 21 March 2021

Today's guest is Will Wells, Founder & CEO @ Hummingbird Technologies

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Enjoy the show!
In today’s episode we cover:

Measuring sustainability from space
Core customer is big business with exposure to farms
Trying to solve huge macro-supply chain problem
Advances in space technology
Monetising sustainability - 4 Years ago
How to raise more money than you need

Contact Jake
Linkedin
Substack

Episode recorded 21 March 2021

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The Dairy Industry and Why Synthetic Biology is the Answer with Jevan Nagarajah Co-founder and CEO @ Better Dairy

Today's guest is Jevan Nagarajah, Co-founder and CEO @ Better Dairy
Jevan Nagarajah has experience across banking and tech. Studying at Imperial College he holds a Mathematics BSc (1st Class Honours) and he has executed retail partnerships at Rocket Internet, building European ops for Ritual.co. He is now the Co-Founder and CEO at Better Dairy a London based start-up developing animal-free dairy products which has recently secured GBP £1.6m (US $2.1m) in seed financing toward RTD costs ahead of its commercial launch planned for early 2022.

Better Dairy uses synthetic biology and yeast fermentation to produce dairy products following a similar process to brewing beer. Their products, make the move to replace traditional dairy products in existing recipes and supply chains seamless. They have taken to the lab and already produced their first results.

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In today’s episode we cover:

Dairy isn’t inherently flawed - it's the production process
Dairy 2.0
Opening up the world
How dairy can complement plant-based mylks
VC Sustainability appetites

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Episode recorded March 19th, 2021

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Creating a Sustainable, Resilient, Zero-Carbon Society with Naveed Chaudhry Co-Founder @ The Greenhouse

Today's guest is Naveed Chaudhry, Co-Founder and Head of The Greenhouse at the Centre for Climate Change Innovation

Naveed Chaudhry is an Investor, Venture Accelerator and has a wide background in the Academic Space. He has made a number of impactful initiatives in the venture and Impacts Investing Space. He now works at the Centre for Climate Change Innovation. Where he co-founded and heads the greenhouse project a climate-focused accelerator, leads climate launchpad, is an advisor to tech nation, A trustee at National energy foundation and is an expert advisor to EU innovation fund and now a partner at Global Accelerator Ventures.

Recently, Naveed co-founded and now runs The Greenhouse, an early-stage (pre-seed) climate-focused innovation programme. At its core, The Greenhouse is a 12-month innovation programme for climate positive technology startups that offers early-stage ("pre-seed") entrepreneurs access to business coaching with experienced professionals, a range of masterclasses, free workspace at our new headquarters in Mayfair, and up to £40,000 in equity-free grant funding.

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