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Yehuda Elram
Co-founder & CEO
PC: Kassie Borreson
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Accelerated at Alltech’s Dogpatch
Accelerator in Ireland and
presented at the 2018 Alltech
Ideas Conference. Alltech is a
major global corporation in the
food and agriculture industries
As a question on sustainability,
where do you see your
company in a couple of years?
eggXYt is part of a larger sustainability
and environmentally conscious
movement. The millennial generation
is demanding fair and sustainable
sourcing of its food and is losing
tolerance for practices like the
killing of billions of chicks. eggXYt is
committed to bringing transparency
and sustainability into the food &
livestock industry.
Do you have any new products
getting ready to be launched?
We are creating a pipeline of future
products optimizing outputs for the
livestock industry while ensuring
transparency and promoting animal
welfare, using CRISPR, big data, AI
and Blockchain. We are developing
products across different verticals
in the livestock industry.
SR
Meet the founders
behind the
revolutionary idea
of eggXYt from Harvard Kennedy
School, focused on leadership
and entrepreneurship.
Yehuda Elram is the
Co-founder and CEO of of eggXYt. He earned his Ph.D.
in Molecular Biology at the
Weizmann Institute of Science
and did his post-doctoral
studies at the Albert Einstein
College of Medicine in N.Y. Dr.
Offen heads the Neurology
Laboratory at Tel Aviv
University and is an Associate
Professor in the Department
of Human Genetics and
Biochemistry. Professor Offen
is the scientific co-founder of
BrainStormCell Therapeutics
(NASDAQ). He is the co-
author of over 20 patents and
200 academic publications.
eggXYt, a biotech startup
solving the male-chick
culling problem. eggXYt is
supported by the European
Commission and the Israel
Innovation Authority, and
was awarded the Excellence
in Environmental Technology
Research Award by Prince
Albert II of Monaco. Prior
to eggXYt, Yehuda, a lawyer
by training and partner at
a law firm, worked with
entrepreneurs and social
enterprises. He has an MPA
Professor Dani Offen is
the Co-founder and CSO
“We are adding over 8,000,000,000
eggs a year to the global food supply by
sending the non-incubated male eggs to
the food market.”
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