BiOrbic Affiliated Research Leads to ODOS Spin-Out Supporting Agri-Food Sustainability
Two former BiOrbic PhD students, Alejandro Vergara and Cian White, have successfully transitioned their expertise into a spin-out company with the creation of ODOS, a sustainability platform for the agri-food sector.
Ireland’s dairy sector has a national, farm-level sustainability monitoring system with near-national participation and a decade of consistent methodology behind it. ODOS was built on a simple observation; the monitoring data existed, but the tools to act on it didn’t.
ODOS gives processors the tools to act on what this monitoring shows. Building directly on top of existing sustainability data, ODOS replicates a processor’s full supply base, models 30+ mitigation strategies across it and produces a farm-level net zero pathway showing which interventions reduce the footprint most, at what cost, and in which order they should be deployed at. The result is a planning instrument grounded in each processor’s actual farm distribution, not a generic sectoral estimate. ODOS, meaning ‘path’ in Greek, provides the path to a processor’s ambitious climate targets.
Speaking about the company’s progress, Alejandro Vergara noted steady growth and increasing industry engagement. “Things have been going really well. We are now working with some of the largest dairy processors in Europe. A lot of what we built during the PhD at BiOrbic is now at the core of the platform, particularly the life cycle assessment and carbon footprint models we developed during Farm Zero C, which have since scaled to over 10,000 farms across the continent”.
The platform is now used across more than 10,000 farms and supports sustainability teams within over 30 dairy cooperatives and processors, including Carbery, Valio, FrieslandCampina, CAPSA and Kaiku.
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