Cow burps are a local weather drawback, and one startup needs to reprogram them.
Livestock are a serious supply of methane emissions, a greenhouse fuel that’s 84 occasions stronger than carbon dioxide. Whereas loads of startups are attempting to deal with the difficulty with seaweed feed, artificial components, or carbon offsets, one biotech founder is taking a extra elementary strategy: altering what occurs contained in the cow’s intestine.
Hoofprint Biome is utilizing enzymes to rewire the cow’s microbiome from the within out, reducing methane manufacturing and bettering feed effectivity alongside the way in which. The corporate simply raised a $15 million Sequence A spherical from buyers together with Amazon’s Local weather Pledge Fund, and so they’re simply getting began.
At this time on TechCrunch’s Fairness podcast, Tim De Chant sat down with Kathryn Polkoff, co-founder and CEO of Hoofprint Biome, to speak by way of all of it.
Hearken to the total episode to listen to about:
- How enzymes and AI are serving to struggle local weather change (significantly).
- What it takes to lift cash for biotech in a sea of SaaS.
- Why considering like a farmer, fairly than a local weather scientist, was Polkoff’s superpower. As she put it, “That’d be like should you had been engineering a automotive however had by no means modified the engine — that’s the place all of the power comes from.”
- The way forward for methane discount and feed effectivity at scale.
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