COUNT YOUR CHICKENS BEFORE THEY HATCH
Received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program
THE PROBLEM
The chicken industry grows two different breeds:
1. The broilers which are optimized to provide as much meat as possible.
2. The layers which are optimized to lay as many eggs as possible.
In modern-day poultry farming, the layer males are useless:
They cannot grow up to lay eggs, and they are not the fast-growing breeds
that are sold as poultry.
So every year, the layer chicken industry disposes of 8 billion day old male chicks.
This practice is not only ugly, but also very expensive.
our solution
eggXYt is developing the ULTRASOUND for eggs
We are building eggXYt, a global leader in revolutionizing hatcheries and making them a better place.
We do this by developing a technology that enables sex detection of chick embryos immediately after the eggs are laid and before they enter the 21 day incubation process.
WHAT IS EXCITING ABOUT EGGXYT IS THAT EGGXYT IS A TRIPLE BOTTOM-LINE ENTERPRISE:
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We are saving the lives of over 8,000,000,000 chicks a year by preventing their unnecessary incubation.
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We are saving the industry hundreds of millions of
dollars annually by not needing to waste half of their hatching capacity in order to pay people at the end of the hatchery line to identify and kill male chicks.
3
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.
who we are
Yehuda Elram
Co Founder & CEO
Professor Daniel Offen
Co Founder & CSO
Philip Wilkinson, OBE
Advisor
Zohar Ravid
Advisor
Yigal Galli
Advisor
Cassie J. Edgar
Chief Regulatory Counsel
Dr. Sheila Zrihan Licht
Chief IP Counsel
Boaz Mizrahi
Legal Counsel
We're Hiring!
Do you want to work at the frontier of the biotech industry? Come work with us.
A VP of R&D
Send your CV to:
Our incoming VP R&D will join a team of experienced scientists and entrepreneurs and will help lead the charge in new and exciting directions, incorporating optics and software into our existing technology, in order to disrupt the agriculture industry
Responsibilities
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Technological excellence. Leading the development of technologies to keep eggXYt at the forefront of the industry.
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Leadership. Providing technical guidance, career development, and mentorship to team members.
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Talent strategy. Strengthening eggXYt’s eggcellent talent pool with new hires.
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Strategy. Member of the broader executive management team taking part in setting the overall strategy of the company.
Job Requirements
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Science degree - preference for PhD. MBA - an advantage.
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Proven experience as a VP R&D or a similar R&D leadership role.
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Familiarity with most contemporary technological trends, to inform R&D strategy.
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Ability to conduct technological analysis and research.
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Multidisciplinary expertise – optics/software/data/industrial design/biology
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
