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Pictor Biotech specializes in biomanufacturing. Image credit: istock-Artis777

Pictor Biotech creates “vertically integrated synthetic biology and biomanufacturing powerhouse”

January 22, 2025
Elaine Watson

By bringing together 100+ engineers, scientists, and biotech exec, the combined entity will be able to support clients at every stage from strain and bioprocess development to plant construction.

Ag marketplace DeHaat adds farmer advisory services to its platform with AgriCentral acquisition

Project Eaden cofounders Dr David Schmelzeisen (left) and Jan Wilmking (right). Image credit: Project Eaden

Project Eaden raises $15.6m Series A to launch ‘ultra-realistic’ plant-based meat using fiber spinning tech

Renewable energy now a ‘top priority’ for indoor agriculture: report

Dr. Mohammad Ghosheh (left) and Prof. Yaakov Nahmias (right) work on injection molding for alt meat. Image credit: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Could injection molding with metamaterials solve the scalability challenge for whole cuts of alt meat?

Asparagopsis Seaweed

CH4 Global teams up with Mitsubishi on livestock methane reduction

Tariffs proposed by Donald Trump would have a big impact on the food industry, warn economists

What’s next on tariffs as Trump takes office, and what will the ‘External Revenue Service’ do?

‘A pivotal moment’ for regenerative agriculture as Agreena secures Verra registration for soil carbon project

Guest review: Documentary film ‘The Grab’ unpacks the global scramble for farmland

FOOD TECH

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

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

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

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

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

Can Colombia fulfill the promise of becoming an agrifoodtech powerhouse?

Here are the top 15 foodtech deals of 2024

AGTECH

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

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

Sprouted oats from Plantopia Image credit Plantopia

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

Will Kletter. Image credit: Climate Ai

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

@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

Cultivated meat

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

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

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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