How a 20-Year Old Startup is Decentralizing Food Production with Modular Powdering Factories
Blendhub is a Spain-headquartered global business that’s been designing and powdering food products for clients for over 20 years.
Sidai Is Revving Up Kenyan Farming with Fleets of Motorbikes and a Fresh Round Of Funding
Many Kenyan farms struggle for access to quality farming products like vaccines, fertilizers or diagnostic equipment; the farmers also find it hard to attain or acquire sound veterinary or technical expertise, according to Sidai.
TERRA Growth Stage AgriFood Accelerator Opens for Applications!
TERRA, a non-equity-based accelerator program, is unique in its approach to acceleration by focusing on startups that are ready to scale their businesses, as opposed to those at the proof of concept stage refining their pitches for seed funding.
Make Manure Great Again: New Tech Challenge Aims to Put Animal Waste to Work
With involvement from World Wildlife Fund and The Yield Lab Institute, The Manure Challenge is exploring how technology can help us find an expedited pathway to making better use of manure.
Rockstart Raises €15m for AgriFood Tech ‘Accelerator 2.0’ Committed to Funding Startups at Later Stages
There is a need for patient capital in the agrifood sector to give startups more time to prove out their business models, according to Rockstart agrifood program director Mark Durno.
It’s Beef’s Turn for a Digital Renaissance, says ex-Climate Employee & Founder of Digital Tool PLA
The livestock industry is gearing up for its turn in the innovation saddle as more startups like Performance Livestock Analytics tap corporate partners like Wilbur-Ellis to pick up the pace
3 Obstacles Facing the Urban Agriculture Industry in New York
Results of a new study in New York suggest that urban agriculture may not be able to provide the bevy of benefits that have excited consumers and enticed investors.
How a Little Sensor is Making a Big Impact on the Global Cocoa Industry
Handheld near-infrared spectral imaging devices are giving cocoa farmers and processors a way to set fairer prices in a matter of seconds while also cutting out the middlemen
Singapore-headquartered agrifood business Olam International has partnered with sensor startup Consumer Physics to help improve its cocoa production by capturing data on the exact amount of cocoa within a cocoa bean pod.
Growing on Data: The New Go-to-Market Reality in Agriculture
Every supplier understands that there is considerable value to be captured by leveraging data and digital tools to get closer to customers and to better meet their needs. But which companies can attain that goal first, and which will be left behind?
Food-X Selects Latest Accelerator Cohort Including 5 Women-Led Startups
Food startup accelerator Food-X has unveiled the next eight startups that will participate in Cohort 9. The startups are innovating across the entire supply chain from novel flavor ingredients to AI-powered, real-time consumer insight technologies.
How Agtech Solutions Can Leverage ‘Full Stack Thinking’ to Disrupt Agriculture
Agriculture is often referred to as the last bastion of digitization, but what types of technologies will succeed?
‘Over Ten Thousand Times Sweeter Than Sugar’: Meet The Man Making Some of The World’s Sweetest Proteins
Dr. Ilan Samish is the CEO and founder of Amai Proteins — an Israeli startup lab-designing hyper-sweet, thermo-stable, zero-calorie proteins out of exotic fruits.
How TartanSense is Building Small Robots for Small Farms in India
TartanSense builds small land-based robots for small farms and smallholder farmers initially focused on pesticide application.
Top 20 Retail & Restaurant Tech Startups in 2018
Retail and restaurant tech is a category of agrifood tech startups encompassing technologies and services aimed at making retail food businesses more profitable as well as improving shopper experience at the supermarket, in restaurants and other brick & mortar stores.
Europe’s Gene Editing Regulation Exposes the Messy Relationship Between Science and Politics
A lot of the questions surrounding the technology are not really scientific but about what this technology is feeding into: power politics, the changing structure of agriculture and smallholder farmers, and long-term effects.
Inside Insect Farming: Former CEO Reveals Tactics & Trends
"I had a front-row seat to the buzz - and the reality. It’s easy to criticize this industry, and the entrepreneurs who drive it forward, for being full of hype. In many cases, that is true; but it’s part of a more complicated reality," writes Sean McDonald.
What’s Different About Due Diligence in Ag Biotech?
Conducting due diligence in ag biotech startups has many similarities to other categories, such as questions around the team and market size, but biotech is inherently different than developing a piece of equipment or a digital application.
Got an Innovative Food Idea? The European Union Wants to Know
The agrifood industry needs more qualified entrepreneurs to enter the space, according to a new initiative from the European Union (EU) that wants to propel more entrepreneurs and innovators into the sector.
Global Engineering Group Bühler Wants to Tackle Food Safety with A.I. Talent from Asia
Over a quarter of the world population eat food each day that’s been through Bühler equipment in some shape or form. And in some food segments, the market share is even higher with 65% of the world’s grain processed through Bühler products.
A closer look at the agrifood startup ecosystem in Ghana and West Africa
Editor’s Note: Maciej Bulanda is the partnerships & communications manager at SmartHectar Innovations, a German innovation hub focused on agrifood and water. Together with entrepreneurship mentoring organization enpact, SmartHectar launched a joint venture enable West Africa to accelerate agrifood and water tech innovations in this emerging market.