Hypercell Technologies Wins $1 Million Prize in Grow-NY Competition

Hypercell Technologies, a Serra Capital Ag Tech Fund portfolio company, was chosen as the grand prize winner at Grow-NY competition on November 15, 2023.

Hypercell provides rapid point-of-care diagnostics for the food chain, ensuring early identification and management of biological contaminants from production to transformation with increased speed and accuracy. Grow-NY’s competition is open to international startups that meet the Grow-NY definition of ‘Food and Agricultural Field,’ are early-stage, and have a scalable business model.

Bruno Jactel, CEO and co-founder of Hypercell enthused, “We’re excited to scale our business of rapid point-of-care diagnostics to improve the food chain in the Grow-NY region.”

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Karin O’Connor, Hypercell’s Bruno Jactel Represent Serra at Future-of-Food Event

The second annual Future of Food event was held in Chicago as part of the Chicago Venture Summit on May 4 and had strong representation from Team Serra. The event was a sold-out show with over 700 attendees.

Karin O’Connor, venture partner with Serra, was a spotlight speaker at the event. Bruno Jactel, the CEO of Hypercell Technologies, a Serra Ag Tech Fund company, also was a featured presenter. Also in attendance was Jack Marck, Managing Director of the Illinois Ag Tech Accelerator Powered by Serra Ventures, and Drew Beard, Associate with Serra Ventures.

In addition to the great team representation at the Future of Food, Serra proudly provided significant financial sponsorship. "This unique, high energy event showcased many of the exceptional companies and teams that comprise the Ag Tech and Agrifood ecosystem here in Illinois," commented Karin O'Connor. "We are privileged to participate and offer continued sponsorship of this conference."

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