In Ovo

AgriTech · Leiden, NL

Develops Ella, technology that determines egg sex early to avoid culling male chicks.

Founders

Wouter Bruins (Netherlands · ♂) — A biologist who, while studying at Leiden University, learned from a poultry farmer about the mass culling of male chicks and co-founded In Ovo in 2013 to build in-egg sex-determination technology.
Wil Stutterheim (Netherlands · ♂) — A biomedical scientist and Leiden classmate of Bruins, he co-founded In Ovo to develop the 'Ella' machine that ends day-old male chick culling.

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
Nov 2023	Debt Leiden-based agritech In Ovo secured a EUR40M loan from the European Investment Bank to scale its poultry-welfare egg-sexing technology.	$43M
Mar 2022	Series B Leiden agtech In Ovo raised a 34M euro Series B led by the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund and ABN AMRO, with Evonik and VisVires New Protein.	$34M

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