We are an advanced material company that engineers upcycled agricultural waste into sustainable and affordable plastic-alternative and paperless biomaterials for food, fashion and packaging industries. Our proprietary technology can potentially apply to any agricultural waste, from plants to dairy.
Location: United States, California, Industry
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2018
Investors 6
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| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.08.2023 | Laundry pods without petrochemicals? Mi Terro upcycles ag waste to create PVA replacement | Mi Terro—a startup originally upcycling casein proteins from expired milk to make tee-shirts—is now tapping waste streams from potato peelings to brewers’ spent grains to create cost-effective replacements for polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), a pet... |
| 20.06.2023 | Футболка из молока, шуба из кукурузы и сумка из яблока — как новые технологии развивают устойчивую моду | Почему экологичные альтернативы важны В период с 1994 по 2014 годы производство одежды в мире выросло на 400% и, по последним данным, достигло примерно 150 млрд единиц одежды в год. Кроме того, fashion-индустрия не так безопасна, как кажетс... |
| 19.08.2022 | TechCrunch+ roundup: How VC really works, longevity investor survey, choosing your angel | “Venture capital” is semantically equivalent to “dangerous money,” which is part of its mystique. Essentially, VC is a high-stakes extreme sport in which top players can accumulate startling amounts of wealth and power. And sometimes, a mas... |
| 18.08.2022 | Pitch Deck Teardown: Mi Terro’s $1.5M seed deck | Turning waste into usable products is my jam, so when the Mi Terro team told me what they were working on, I knew I had to write about it. Mi Terro takes agricultural waste and processes it into proteins that can be used as a plastic replac... |
| 23.04.2022 | Meet 11 startups working to combat climate change | We believe that technology and entrepreneurship can help avert the world’s climate crisis. Startup founders are using tools — from machine learning to mobile platforms to large scale data processing — to accelerate the change to a low-carbo... |
| 10.03.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Finless Foods nets $34m; CPGs & QSRs quit Russia | This week, cultivated seafood startup Finless Foods closed a $34 million funding round, Clean Crop Technologies raised funds for its crop protection tool, and Protenga nabbed capital for its insect farming operations. Meanwhile, major food ... |
| 04.03.2022 | From beer waste to ‘plastic’ packaging, Mi Terro downs $1.5M to make the world more biodegradable | A shrewd entrepreneur joins the 100+ accelerator program sponsored by brewing giant AB Inbev and home consumables emporium Unilever, and spots a pattern. The breweries have tons of spent grain, and the home consumables have a plastics probl... |
| 09.07.2021 | Day two: Don’t miss today’s pitch-off at TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing and Fundraising | And just like that, it’s day two of TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing and Fundraising! Yesterday not only flew by in a blur — it was also certifiably off the hook. We hope you came away with new information, actionable advice that you can impl... |
| 06.07.2021 | Announcing the startups pitching at TC Early Stage | This Thursday and Friday, TechCrunch will host Early Stage – a virtual bootcamp for early stage founders. After the success of the spring event, on Friday, TC will feature 10 phenomenal early-stage startups to on the virtual stage. Hailing ... |
| 14.06.2021 | Clothing Company Recycles Wasted Milk to Make Clothing Through Re-Engineering Process | Urian B., Tech Times 14 June 2021, 02:06 am (Photo : Screenshot From Mi Terro Website) Clothing Company Recycles Wasted Milk to Make Clothing Through Re-Engineering Process Clothing company Mi Terro makes literal "milk tees" throu... |
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