Male or female? a novel approach for sexing chicken embryos on day one before incubation (and saving them from being hatched and disposed)
Location: Israel, Jerusalem District, Jerusalem
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2014
Investors 6
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Mentions in press and media 12
| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.09.2026 | In ovo sexing hits 40% penetration in the EU. What will it take to crack the US? | In ovo sexing—technology designed to end male chick culling by determining the sex of chicks before they hatch—has gone from zero to 40% market penetration in the EU in five years. But can it gain traction in the US and other markets where ... |
| 30.05.2024 | Kipster is second firm in US to commit to in ovo sexing tech to end culling of male chicks | Dutch egg producer Kipster has become the second firm in the US (following Egg Innovations) to commit to implementing in-ovo sexing as an alternative to culling male chicks. Kipster—which operates three egg farms in the Netherlands and is p... |
| 20.04.2023 | Egg-Tech Prize for tech solutions to end male chick culling remains unclaimed as ‘no applicants met the criteria’ | Organizers of the $6 million Egg-Tech Prize—a high-profile global competition to find scalable technologies to sex chicks before they hatch—have not yet issued a final award because “none of the applicants met the criteria,” AFN has learned... |
| 08.01.2021 | eggXYt strategy: Israeli startup launches bid to disrupt the egg industry | The reasons are simple, says Yehuda Elram, co-founder and CEO of Israeli startup eggXYt, which recently hit the headlines after teaming up with Tropic Biosciences on a groundbreaking project to harness gene silencing technology to develop... |
| 05.01.2021 | Egg Innovations CEO: ‘Cage-free is a step in the right direction, but it isn’t meeting the entire needs of birds’ | “Our research shows that 83% of Americans who hear ‘cage-free’ think it means free-range, that birds are outside,” explained John Brunnquell. Spoiler alert, he says, it doesn’t; cage-free birds are kept inside often crowded barns with no a... |
| 05.11.2018 | In Ovo closes Series A to combat male chick culling in egg industry | Dutch startup In Ovo has completed a Series A raise with Singapore-based disruptive food system venture fund VisVires New Protein and global specialty chemicals company Evonik. The company would not disclose the size of the round but said i... |
| 05.11.2018 | In Ovo Closes Series A to Combat Male Chick Culling in Egg Industry with VisVires New Protein | Dutch startup In Ovo has completed a Series A raise with Singapore-based disruptive food system venture fund VisVires New Protein and global specialty chemicals company Evonik. The company would not disclose the size of the round but said i... |
| 30.07.2018 | Agtech Dominates 20 Selected Startups for First Ever FoodBytes! London | Twenty food and agriculture startups have been selected from a total of over 150 applications to pitch at the first ever FoodBytes! London. FoodBytes! is the global pitch competition organized by food and agriculture bank Rabobank with the ... |
| 19.09.2017 | eggXYt is bringing gene editing to poultry farms to save chicks and resources | When it comes to hen farming, the dudes obviously aren’t that useful. The overall chicken market is split into broilers and layers, i.e. chickens for people to eat and chickens that lay eggs. Hens are the only egg-layers, because of this, h... |
| 10.08.2017 | Israel Agritech Market Map: 400 Startups Putting The Tech in Agritech | For a young nation built on the collectivist agricultural ethos of the Kibbutz movement, it’s perhaps no surprise that Israel’s agricultural technology startup ecosystem is booming. There are now more than 400 Israel agritech startups worki... |
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