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Notes from the food-health nexus: how can we get consumer pull for nutrient density?

November 20, 2024
Louisa Burwood-Taylor

Lately, I’ve found myself in more and more conversations about the “food-health nexus”—the notion that what we eat is directly impacting our health, and while it excites me, consumer demand remains to be seen.

Brief: Oishii raises additional funding to close Series B at $150m, preps first international expansion

AgTech Advisory Collective forms to guide agrifood corporates, startups: ‘We’re not your typical consulting firm’

L-R: Keychain cofounders Jordan Weitz, Oisin Hanrahan, and Umang Dua. Image credit: Keychain

Keychain raises $15m to expand CPG manufacturing platform; firm will ‘change how the CPG industry works,’ says General Mills

How will Trump's tariffs impact the food supply chain?

‘There’s anxiety, but not panic…’ How supply chain and procurement teams are preparing for tariffs

L-R: Dr. Sheetal Sinha and Dr. Amit Kumar, cofounder, BioDefense. Image credit: BioDefense

BioDefense seeks to disrupt seafood market with ‘tasteless, odorless, and invisible’ coating that can boost shelf life 2-3x

Farmers ‘more inclined than ever’ to repurchase trusted tech instead of chancing it on ‘something new’: report

SAYeTECH tackles ‘the everyday struggles of smallholder farmers’ through smart machinery development

Impossible Foods heme protein

Impossible Foods’ heme protein is safe, says EFSA GMO panel

FOOD TECH

Plantible lemna farm in Texas

Plantible Foods raises $30m Series B to scale duckweed protein, deliver on ‘multi-million dollar offtake agreements’

For Nzatu, regenerative agriculture is about building ‘a sustainable, long-term economy’ for Africa’s farmers

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Grubhub sold in $650m deal, Elicit Plant bags $47m, gene-edited wine

Dr. Karim Pichara, cofounder and CTO, NotCo

NotCo CTO: ‘Within three years, the bulk of our revenue will be from the b2b business. From design, we are an AI company’

STARTUP FUNDING

Klim raises ‘massively oversubscribed’ Series A, adds financial services layer to its insetting platform

Shiru

Shiru raises $16m series B to expand AI-powered ingredient discovery platform

YoLa Fresh co-founders

YoLa Fresh founders on how a more efficient food system can reduce emissions and water consumption in Africa.

Industrial hemp Image credit: istock/Mantas Zilicius

Rare Earth Global raises $1.3m to expand access to industrial hemp products

AGTECH

Dr. Yuval Gilad, cofounder and CEO, FreezeM

A ‘glimpse into the future’ of insect ag? Agroloop partners with FreezeM to open BSFL farm with fully outsourced breeding

BSFL frass contains nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Image credit: InnovaFeed

Innovafeed secures $11.8m USDA grant for insect-based fertilizer, fine tunes process at Decatur pilot plant

Farmland marketplace CommonGround talks cash-lease insurance and going ‘back to basics’ as a company

Agtech VC investment on the rise again but exits still elude the industry, says new PitchBook data

@AGFUNDER

L-R: Dr. Sheetal Sinha and Dr. Amit Kumar, cofounder, BioDefense. Image credit: BioDefense

BioDefense seeks to disrupt seafood market with ‘tasteless, odorless, and invisible’ coating that can boost shelf life 2-3x

Olivine. Image credit: Eion

Enhanced rock weathering startup Eion strikes carbon removal deal with Microsoft, raises $3m series A extension

Etienne Vassiliadis, cofounder and CEO, Vivagran

From bread to booze, climate smart cereal Tritordeum has huge potential, says Vivagran CEO

Plant-based baby ribs with edible bones from Juicy Marbles

Plant-based whole cut startup Juicy Marbles plans US retail launch in 2025, aims for profitability by year end

ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION

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

Stephen Klein, cofounder and CEO, Hyphen

Meet the founder: Hyphen’s Stephen Klein on ‘humbling’ startup experiences, pandemic pivots, and why you don’t need a robotic sledgehammer to crack a nut

ALT MEAT/PROTEIN

Ido Savir, cofounder and CEO, SuperMeat Image credit SuperMeat

SuperMeat offers ‘glimpse into a future where cultivated meat can be produced at scale’ for $11.79/lb

Beyond Mear sun sausage-cajun-scramble Image credit Beyond Meat

Beyond Meat returns to growth, plans to boost the balance sheet before year end

CEO Josh March and CTO Kasia Gora. Image credit: SCiFi Foods

Under six months of runway and no term sheet? SCiFi Foods’ guide to a ‘graceful exit’

NOVEL FARMING SYSTEMS

Global demand for seafood is soaring but how well funded are aquatic food tech startups?

Douglas Martin, founder and CEO, MiAlgae

MiAlgae nets $18.5m to scale production of omega-3s from microalgae

Generate Capital on backing vertical farming’s survivors: ‘We believe there is an opportunity and a better way’

Daniel Russek, founder and CEO, Atarraya. Image credit: Atarraya

High-tech shrimp farmer Atarraya plans 200-tank facility in Northeastern US

REGENERATIVE AG

Ag Marketplaces & Fintech startups are the most popular category of African agrifoodtech investment in 2024

90% of farmers to maintain or increase spending on bio-based crop protection, says McKinsey global farmer survey

John Kempf’s AEA to help Turkey, southeast Europe convert to regen ag through new partnership

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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Frankly Speaking

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Data Snapshot

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From novelty to necessity? The evolution of insect farming

Investor Insight

Andrew Ive at Big Idea Ventures, talks foodtech investing

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Meet the Founder

L-R: Dr. Sheetal Sinha and Dr. Amit Kumar, cofounder, BioDefense. Image credit: BioDefense

BioDefense seeks to disrupt seafood market with ‘tasteless, odorless, and invisible’ coating that can boost shelf life 2-3x

Research & Data

Ag Marketplaces & Fintech startups are the most popular category of African agrifoodtech investment in 2024

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