ICL Group, Tel Aviv, has set up a dual-track program and service envelope for all start-ups working under its umbrella.
Through the program, the start-ups can leverage the Israeli group’s broad business and infrastructural ecosystem, including investment, co-working space, access to laboratories and analytical equipment, and R&D support, with options for field trials and new-product pilots, said ICL.
The first phase will focus on areas related to crop nutrition, such as organic fertilizers, nutrient use efficiency, biostimulants, micronutrients, and nitrogen fixation.
The second will focus on food tech start-ups active in the areas of alternative proteins, natural ingredients, plant-based functional ingredients, and white biotechnology, that can demonstrate a measurable positive environmental impact.