UK-based, Entocycle is a tech startup that provides products & services targeted at established companies & new entrants in the insect industry. Their flagship (patent-protected) product, “Entosight Neo”, is a machine vision hw & sw package designed to improve accuracy, efficiency & productivity in large-scale "black soldier fly" (BSF) farms. The system reduces the need for manual processes such as weighing larvae, multi-step handling & (often inaccurate) counting (able to count 3,000 larvae per second with 98% accuracy); the result is higher feed conversation rates, lower mortality & up to 25% larger insects. Entosight Neo is also optimized for integration with conveyance systems & IoT-enabled for remote monitoring & maintenance. The startup's second product “Fly...

Denmark-based, Copenhagen Atomics is racing to develop a molten salt reactor (MSR) - one of several next generation (Gen IV) nuclear reactor designs under development today. Similar to light-water reactors (LWR), MSRs use nuclear fission to generate heat. However, instead of using water for coolant, MSRs use liquid fluoride or chloride salt mixtures (aka salt). For its reactor development, the startup is pursuing a “hardware-driven iterative component-by-component approach” (instead of a full design license & approval). Currently, the company is developing & testing related valves, pumps, heat exchangers, measurement systems, salt chemistry & purification systems, as well as control systems & software. It’s worth noting that some of the firm’s tech is already commercially available including...