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UAE News – Arab emerging companies contribute to the Fourth Industrial Revolution

France-Tunisia's nextProtein Company is working on the production of a protein made from insects to feed animals, with the aim of helping to promote sustainable agriculture and address the scarcity of resources.

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World Economic Forum – These startups are changing the Arab world

Ultimately, we picked the 100 start-ups most in line with our criteria. Among these are Careem, the UAE-based Arab ride-sharing app, Skiplino, the Bahraini queue management software, and nextProtein, a Tunisian start-up producing insect-based protein for livestock. These start-ups also showed impressive diversity, with founders hailing from 18 different Arab countries, from Oman to Lebanon to Tunisia.

Global Aginvesting – Irish Biotech Startup Raises Second Round to Scale-Up Insect Protein

In January of this year, NextProtein, another Paris-based producer of animal feed components and biological fertilizer from insect larvae, raised €1.3 million in a funding round featuring Kima Ventures, along with angel investors – Jerome Lecat, Khaled Helioui, (who also backed Uber and Deliveroo), Sylvie Ganter, Christophe Cervasel, and participants from the Anaxago financing platform and AngelSquare

Maddyness – 8 agriculture startups to keep in the viewfinder in 2017

Founded in 2015 by the Syrine Chaalala couple and Mohamed Gastli, nextProtein raises flies from black soldiers and transforms them into components dedicated to animal feed, as well as a biological and natural fertilizer for agriculture. What to do with depletion of resources, degradation of environments and the imperatives of climate change.

Entreprendre – nextprotein, the start-up that feeds animals with insects

How to feed the 9 billion people who will inhabit our planet in 2050? NextProtein, a young French-Tunisian agri-tech shoot (based in Orsay, with operations in the suburbs of Tunis) provides an answer by proposing components intended for animal feed based on insect larvae.

Incuballiance – nextProtein announces a 1.3 million euros seed lift

At a time when food scarcity and unsustainable agriculture are causing great concern, nextProtein's ambition is clear: to manufacture insect larvae with components intended for animal feed. A bold but obviously convincing bet, as evidenced by the start-up levy of 1.3 million euros made by the young Franco-Tunisian start-up among international investors

AG Funder News – Startups Raise $193m in 2016 but More Innovation Needed

Startups in seafood and aquaculture technology raised $193 million in 2016, a 271% increase on the $52 million raised across both 2014 and 2015, according to AgFunder research. Five startups growing insects for fish feed raised funding during 2016. They include Ynsect, AgriProtein, Hexafly, Khepri, and nextProtein.