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Agridence
Agridence is a Singapore technology company that helps global agri-commodity supply chains prove where their raw materials come from. Born in 2018 as HeveaConnect, a digital B2B marketplace for physical natural rubber, it rebranded in 2022 and expanded into a modular traceability and compliance platform now spanning rubber, palm oil, cocoa, coffee, coconut and more. Its tools trace commodities from the farm plot to the shipment and file the paperwork regulators such as the EU Deforestation Regulation demand, serving tyre makers, food multinationals, traders and industry associations.
Ashley Beckwith
Ashley Beckwith is the founder and CEO of Foray Bioscience, a Cambridge, Massachusetts biotech growing wood, plant materials, molecules, and seeds from single plant cells - no forests required. Out of her PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT, where she grew wood-like tissue in the lab from a zinnia leaf, she built a company that pairs in-vitro plant cell culture with an AI platform called Pando, billed as an operating system for plant science. The goal: shorten plant development from decades to months and bring biomanufacturing's precision to forestry and conservation.