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Better Origin
Modular insect farms that convert food waste into animal feed
- 21-100 employees
- Retail
- B2B
- Artificial Intelligence
- Sustainability
- Manufacturing
- Agriculture
- King's Hedges, Cambridge, UK
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Company mission
Better Origin's mission is to fix the broken food chain.
Our take
Insect feed for farmers is a less commonly used food source for hens given its high costs and time-consuming nature. Currently, most hens live off a non-optimised grain and soy-heavy diet that can inhibit natural foraging behaviours, and the vast majority of the seed that gets fed to the chickens come from South America. This causes a problem: shipping things over very long distances is very expensive and damaging for the environment.
Better Origin was created to reduce the heavy costs involved with insect harvesting to offer a viable, sustainable alternative to existing bird feed. Its automated shipping container factories allow farmers to recycle food waste in one end, which is fed to insects, and then feed those insects to their animals, reducing feed consumption costs and lowering emissions while boosting productivity for the farmer.
The company currently has five mini-farms up and running, but is planning to grow rapidly over the coming years. As Better Origin works with a carbon-negative process, it also aims to lead the way in sustainable feed distribution for maximum efficiency in the long term.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- 25 days holiday + birthday + bank holidays
- Pension scheme
- Cycle scheme
- Flexible working
Company values
- Leave no room for waste
- Do things our own way
- Focus on the customer
- Dare to explore
- Work for the team
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2022
$16m
SERIES A
Feb 2021
$3m
SEED
Total funding: $21.7m
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Leadership
Fotis Fotiadis
(Co-Founder & CEO)Achieved an MPhil in Sustainable Engineering at University of Cambridge in 2015, and founded Better Origin later that year.
Miha Pipan
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied at University of Cambridge before becoming a Research Student at Cancer Research UK at the Cambridge Institute and co-founding Better Origin in 2015.
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