5 Things Vonnie Estes Saw at World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit This Week in San Francisco
With the growth of the event, we are hearing different voices, including changing corporate cultures and new business models.
Cultivating Agtech Leadership for Established Row Crop Leaders
One of the drags on successful agtech innovation is the under-representation of the producers’ voice, writes the Illinois Soybean Association.
2019 AgFunder AgriFood Tech Innovation Awards Winners Announced
The winners of the 2019 AgFunder AgriFood Tech Innovation Awards were announced on Wednesday, March 20 at the ReThink Innovation Week in San Francisco, CA.
Last year, we awarded 12 startups in 12 categories across Farm Tech, Supply Chain, and Retail & Consumer Innovation.
Alternative Protein Startups: Let’s Get the Facts Straight about Livestock’s Carbon Footprint
The issue of livestock farming’s impact on the environment is not as clear cut as many would have you believe. In fact, many much of the data dairy and meat alternative businesses are using to market their animal-free wares are inaccurate and misleading.
Upcycled Flour Maker PLANETARIANS Snags $750k Seed Round from Barilla as Big Food Taps Novel Ingredients
Consumers are changing their tastes and dietary preferences more rapidly than ever and big food is trying to keep up.
New Report: Israel AgriFood Tech Startups Raise $759m in Five Years
Considering Israel’s population of less than nine million, and its geographic size that is not much bigger than New Jersey, the report shows this small Mediterranean nation to be punching well above its weight in agrifood tech.
3Bar Biologics and Pivot Bio Team Up to Crack One of the Biggest Barriers to the Adoption of Biologicals
The duo is hoping to smash one of the biggest barriers to biologics adoption by providing farmers with a way to cultivate living microbial inputs on the farm that cannot survive in the current supply chain without cold storage.
Growing Hemp
The wide range of industrial hemp products represent the greatest opportunity for American agricultural markets seen within the past fifty years, writes Jon Vaught.
DeHaat Raises $4m Seed Round from Omnivore & AgFunder to Bring Indian Farmers Out of Poverty
Big Food & Beverage Companies Beef up Sustainability Initiatives. Just Marketing? We’ll Find Out
General Mills, Anheuser-Busch, and Tyson have announced major sustainability initiatives in recent weeks aimed at encouraging producers to adopt different farming practices while increasing consumer education.
Transforming a 10,000 Year Old industry: Why LocalGlobe Invested in Breedr
Today, LocalGlobe announced its lead role in the £2 million seed round for Breedr, a UK digital ag startup for the animal agriculture sector. Breedr joins Wefarm and Infarm in LocalGlobe's agtech portfolio. Here Brett tells us more and why they invested.
Nutrition Innovation Raises $5m Seed Round for Low-GI Sugar as List of Sugar Reduction Technology Startups Grows
Excessive sugar consumption is a pervasive health problem throughout the world. It leads to many life-threatening conditions including diabetes, obesity, and heart disease, which has now reached epidemic levels in some parts of the world.
Reclaiming the Promise of Food for Health
The real power to endow people with fundamentally longer, healthier lives resides in the hands of the food industry, writes Jim Flatt.
“Basic Farm Tech Tools Won’t Provide VCs the Exit Returns They Need, So Why Are VCs Still Investing in Them?”
Nolan Paul, Partner at Yamaha Motor Ventures and ex-head of R&D Strategy and Emerging Technology at leading produce grower Driscoll's is offering his thoughts on how the agritech sector is developing ahead of his speaking slot at World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco next month.
Future Food: Will We Have Kitchens in 2050? Climate Corp Founder Friedberg Shares His Vision of Future Food System
What will you be eating in 2050? How will it get to your table? How we grow, purchase, and eat our food is changing. New technologies are playing a key role in shaping that change. In this podcast, we speak to the people driving that future, from entrepreneurs and venture capital investors, to chef, farmers and food businesses. Welcome to Future Food!
Poultry Producers Tyson, Perdue Turn to Technology to Improve Animal Welfare
Tyson and Perdue are investing in better conditions for its birds and relying on technology to make it happen as consumers remain concerned about welfare in poultry production.
Consumers’ increasing fascination with learning more about food production has prompted many companies throughout the value chain to take actionable steps to improve food safety, transparency, traceability, and animal welfare.
FDA and USDA Create Framework for Cell-Cultured Meat Regulation, But Labeling, Social License Still Uncertain
The US Department of Agriculture and the US Food and Drug Administration have established an inter-agency framework for regulating food items produced using cellular agriculture methods of meat and poultry production.
These London Vegetables Can Survive A Bomb Blast
Two urban farmer-founders have been using a Second World War air-raid shelter as their first controlled environment agriculture site for their London-based agtech startup Growing Underground.
Digital Agtech Spotlight: Intterra is Integrating Farmers, Suppliers, Advisors, Traders, Bankers on 5m Acres
Earlier this month, a Russian agtech startup called Intterra entered into a partnership with global agribusiness Syngenta to use its digital platform in Russia, connecting more than 100 farmers across 2 million hectares (nearly 5 million acres) of cropland in 2019.
AgriFood Tech in 2018: $17bn in Funding as Biotech, Robotics, Mega Asian Deals & Record Exit Create Breakout Year
AgriFood Tech startups — those innovating all along the food and ag supply chain — raised $16.9 billion in 2018, a 43% increase year-over-year growth, according to AgFunder’s latest investing report.