AgFunderNews | Agtech, Food Tech, Planetary Health News & Analysis

Beyond glyphosate: Quercus Bio targets weeds with designer proteins

Designer proteins could account for half of the crop protection market within the next 10-15 years, predicts Dr. Jon Lightner.

Agtech

Artificial intelligence

Jonathan Lightner, PhD, cofounder and CEO, Quercus Biosolutions

Insect ag recalibrates after a brutal shakeout: Where are the key players now?

‘The European-only model for black solder fly larvae production faces nearly insurmountable structural challenges,’ claims nextProtein.

Alternative protein

APAC

Persian Gulf fertilizer crisis: Global food prices could rise 12-18% by the end of 2026, warns Helios AI

Multiple countries restricted food exports in 2022 following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with conditions ripe for this to happen again, predicts Helios AI.

APAC

Developing markets

Beyond glyphosate: Quercus Bio targets weeds with designer proteins

Insect ag recalibrates after a brutal shakeout: Where are the key players now?

Persian Gulf fertilizer crisis: Global food prices could rise 12-18% by the end of 2026, warns Helios AI

21st Bio on strains, scale, and the valley of death: Fixing precision fermentation’s weak links

🎥Totality Biosciences bets on plants to scale human milk oligosaccharides for a wider audience

🎥 Future Food-Tech: Big ideas, hard truths, and the path to scale

Halter says it’s not an agtech company on the heels of $220m Series E

AgriFood Signals: Danone buys protein maker Huel, Miraterra Soil bags $16m, Grab buys Food Panda Taiwan

South Korea says ‘AI is no longer a choice’ as agrifoodtech funding jumps 171%

How Lumi AI helps CPGs find ‘multi-million-dollar opportunities’ hidden in their supply chain data

SMEY’s Lipid Atlas taps yeast diversity + AI for custom oils via fermentation

Guest article: Food’s fossil reckoning; energy crises are the new normal, and food is next

Guest article: Technology now exists to decouple fertilizer from oil and gas markets

UC Davis launches Food & Health Angels to back foodtech startups as GLP-1 ‘tsunami’ approaches

Investors demand capital efficiency, focus, and no AI-polished pitch decks at World Agri-Tech, Future Food-Tech

Why Agmatix and Growers built ‘the Palantir of agriculture’

How to make regenerative agriculture ‘financially legible’ for agrifood corporates

Private equity in agtech: disciplined, selective, and increasingly hard to ignore

AgriFood Signals: Solugen nabs $36m for nitrogen fertilizer, Corteva & Resurrect Bio partner, the ‘Wikipedia’ of farming

🎥 Ag’s new toolkit: AI, genomics, and robotics converge at World Agri-Tech

Navigating AI’s impact on public and private markets

New report: Agrifoodtech funding is flat but the story is shifting

Unpacking Cargill’s AI strategy to transform R&D in an increasingly complex agrifood system

🎥 The good, the bad, and the ugly of agrifoodtech investing… in conversation with Adam Bergman

Dutch insect ag firm Protix shifts focus to Asia: ‘We could be cost competitive there from day one’

Unibio plans ‘world’s largest single-cell protein plant’ in Saudi Arabia as food security moves up agenda

Precision spraying startup AgZen nets $10m Series B. ‘Quantifiable ROI drove our investment,’ says DCVC Bio

Topics