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Expoagro 2025: highlights from Argentina’s leading agribusiness showcase

Despite global commodity price fluctuations, investments in the Argentina agribusiness sector remain resilient.

Uncategorized

Fermentation will power next wave of natural colors say startups as FDA targets synthetic food dyes

Plant-based colorants such as beets and carrots still dominate conversations about natural alternatives to synthetic …

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

EMEA

Cupcake with pink icing Image credit: Phytolon

How Techcoop plans to build an ‘export-oriented supply chain’ for Southeast Asia’s smallholder farmers

Techcoop digitizes the ag supply chain in order to make it more transparent and efficient for smallholder farmers.

Agrifintech

APAC

Agrovision rebrands as Fruitist, notched up sales of $400m in 2024 after meteoric growth

Agtech

Nutrition & health

Fruitist jumbo blueberries Image credit Fruitist

UbiQD lands $20m to scale its light-optimizing quantum dot technology for agriculture and solar

Deeptech

Novel farming systems

EDITOR'S PICK

‘We can handle any kind of lignocellulosic biomass…’ altM scales up thermochemical process to valorize ag waste

Agtech

APAC

altM founders Yugal Raj Jain and Apoorv Garg Image credit altM

Almendra brings ‘night interruption’ LED tech to open fields for ‘dramatic’ boost to crop yields

Eion teams up with Perdue for enhanced rock weathering in landmark carbon insetting deal

Guest article: Rice, the staple crop most VCs forgot

Perfect Day hit with lawsuit from organic, anti-GMO groups over animal-free dairy claims

Alternative protein

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

Perfect Day uses microbes—instead of cows—to make the dairy protein beta lactoglobulin

Venture capital still drives the most deals in regenerative ag and food systems investment – report

Climate & sustainability

Investing

Gen AI can create an ‘agronomist on steroids,’ says white paper. So why do so many projects fail to get out of the starting blocks?

Agtech

Developing markets

GenAI has multiple applications in agriculture Image credit: istock/Igor Borisenko

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Mombak lands $17m in debt, ClearCOGS secures $3.8m, OlsAro bags $2.8m

Eratani closes Series A to boost food security and rice production across Indonesia

Greenhouse automation ‘becoming a necessity’ says IUNU after raising additional $20m

Liberation Labs heads to Saudi Arabia as NEOM Investment Fund ventures into biomanufacturing

Distressed insect ag firm Ÿnsect secures bridge loan, receives offer for pilot plant

NEW REPORT: Agrifoodtech funding in developing markets surges 63%, bucking global decline

Why one doctor turned from medicine to impact investing: “I could not unsee the food-related disease in my patients’

VC predictions for developing markets: Climate resilience, agrifintech, and ‘super-specialized’ startups

Eat Just strikes deal with VFG to take plant-based JUST Egg to Europe

PeakBridge FoodSparks closes four seed investments, from botanicals for gut health to functional mushroom extracts

Nutrition & health

Restaurant and retail tech

Lion's Mane. Image credit: istock/PlazacCameraman

Guest article: Farming is no longer ‘old-school.’ It’s the ultimate testbed for AI innovation.

Agtech

Deeptech

Agrifoodtech VC: Trade war will ‘make food security an urgent priority’

Agtech

FoodTech

A trade war will drive interest in food security, say experts Image credit: istock/wildpixel

Censoring ‘climate’ in ag research will backfire, warns The Breakthrough Institute

Driverless bioreactors? The future of biomanufacturing is lit, says Prolific Machines

East Asia bets on biotech as downstream innovation lags in 40% agrifoodtech funding plunge

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