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Elaine Watson, AgFunderNews, and Dr. Eran Noah, Noah IP

🎥How to protect your IP on a budget: A primer for foodtech startups

January 17, 2025
Elaine Watson

In the world of foodtech, defining and protecting your IP is mission critical. It factors into business plans and can be pivotal to securing investment. But how do you do it on a budget, and how do you avoid making costly mistakes?

Impossible Foods Burger Patties

Breaking: Impossible Foods prevails in EU patent dispute

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Colossal Biosciences raises $200m, Chipotle invests in methane reduction

Phil Graves, CEO, Meati Foods Image credit Meati Foods

Meati expands distribution, anticipates positive gross margins by the year end, says CEO

Breaking: Varaha signs ‘landmark’ deal with Google to make smallholders part of the carbon removal solution

Geoff Bryant at Calysta facility in China. Image credit: Calysta

Can gas fermentation deliver on its green promise for food and feed? In conversation with Calysta

RFK Jr and Donald Trump Image credit: mahanow.org

Putting RFK Jr at the helm of HHS could ‘wreak havoc on US agriculture,’ warns Breakthrough Institute

Breaking: FMC Corporation restructures agtech VC arm FMC Ventures ‘to optimize operations’

Formo Team Image credit Formo

Formo secures $36m in venture debt funding to scale animal-free fermentation platform

FOOD TECH

Sprouted oats from Plantopia Image credit Plantopia

Plantopia turns to sprouted oats for cost-effective production of animal-free dairy

Cultivated meat

Cultivated Meat at a crossroads: Highlights from the Tufts cell ag innovation day

Biosphere-UV-bioreactors-Image-credit-Biosphere

Biosphere emerges from stealth, raises $8.8m for UV-sterilized bioreactors it claims can slash bioproduction costs

Coffee fields in the rural area of Jerico, Jericó, Antioquia, Colombia. Banana trees.

Can Colombia fulfill the promise of becoming an agrifoodtech powerhouse?

STARTUP FUNDING

The Week in AgriFoodTech: India’s Botanic Healthcare bags $29m, Fermata secures $10m, Plenty facing value cut

Inside the Dream Harvest vertical farm in Houston, Texas. Image credit: Dream Harvest

Brief: Vertical farmer Dream Harvest auctions off $8m of un-used kit purchased new in 2022

Here are the top 15 foodtech deals of 2024

What were the top 15 agtech deals of 2024?

AGTECH

Will Kletter. Image credit: Climate Ai

Guest article: How extreme weather is shaping the future of coffee

Deere ‘acting more like a startup’ than incumbent with its latest fleet of autonomous machines

Seed gene-editing startup Inari eyes commercialization with $144m round: ‘It puts us in a robust financial position’

Rumin8 cofounder and CEO David Messina with the Hon. Jackie Jarvis MLC Minister for Agriculture and Food; Forestry; Small Business at the opening of Rumin8's demonstration plant in January 2024. Image credit: Rumin8

Rumin8 CEO on livestock methane reduction: ‘It must be profitable for farmers; without them, none of this happens’

@AGFUNDER

Here are the top 15 foodtech deals of 2024

What were the top 15 agtech deals of 2024?

Japan rising through the ranks as an agrifoodtech hub after 58% increase in YoY funding

Make your deals count in the global AgFunder AgriFoodTech Investment report – submit now!

ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION

Guest article: Agtech poised for a rebound in 2025?

Rajat Bhageria, founder and CEO, Chef Robotics

Chef Robotics CEO: ‘A lot of robotics companies have made grandiose promises, but they haven’t really shipped any robots. We’re much more practical’

Brief: NVIDIA’s venture arm invests in autonomous weeding startup Carbon Robotics

ALT MEAT/PROTEIN

Left: Louisa Burwood -Taylor, top right: Samuele Gabbio, center right: Jennifer Marston, bottom right: Elaine Watson

The AgFunderNews team’s favorite stories of 2024

New Culture's animal-free mozzarella cheese

New Culture: We can deliver ‘fully functional’ animal-free mozzarella with 50% less casein than dairy

meati cutlets

Brief: Meati settles false advertising lawsuit over ‘mushroom root’ claims

NOVEL FARMING SYSTEMS

2024 was ‘a year of reckoning for agtech’

Gooddrop’s ‘grow-to-wear’ apparel business looks to mass produce cotton using vertical farms

Asia dominates global aquaculture production but Europe still holds most of the VC investment: report

Kelp Blue unpacks the benefits of turning seaweed into biostimulants: ‘What we sell works better for a farmer’

REGENERATIVE AG

ReGen Brands unveils a three-fold approach to boosting demand for regenerative agriculture through CPGs

Regenerative agriculture’s biggest developments in 2024 — and what they mean for 2025

GoodSAM Foods is blazing a path for regen ag that brings value (and money) back to farmers

WOMEN

Louise Parlons Bentata, cofounder and CEO, Bluemethane

Bluemethane unveils novel tech to capture methane from water

Chui-Lian Lee, cofounder and CEO, Werewool Image credit Werewool

Meet the founder: Werewool’s Chui-Lian Lee harnesses microbes to create colorful fabrics… without dyes

Michelle Ruiz, cofounder and CEO, Hyfe

🎥Hyfé looks to waste streams to power the next generation of sustainable feedstocks for biomanufacturing

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Can Colombia fulfill the promise of becoming an agrifoodtech powerhouse?

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