The Week in AgriFoodTech: Mosa Meat cooks up $43m raise, Spiber bags $65m for sustainable fashion
Plus: more pesticide alternatives enter the agtech arena.
Plus: more pesticide alternatives enter the agtech arena.
Plus: Science Based Targets initiative’s new rules for Scope 3 emissions are causing more than a little chaos.
Also: farm labor management platform Seso raises $26 million, L’Oreal backs sustainable pigment producer.
Plus: more funding for ag robotics and bad news for Kroger’s e-commerce business.
Plus, meet the Internet of the Forest.
Plus: Impossible Foods unveils a “meatier” new look to attract more carnivorous customers.
Plus: Plant-based “NotDogs” from Oscar Mayer and NotCo, John Deere’s “right to repair” case drags on, new meat labeling beef in Iowa.
Meanwhile, France bans the meat from plant-based meat labeling, the US aims for more wind-powered farms.
Plus: Syngenta develops new bioinsecticide, layoffs at Meati, and Miruku raises $5m for molecular farming.
Plus: UPSIDE Foods hits pause on its large-scale cultivated meat production facility and plant-based fur makes its debut.
Plus… 150 job cuts at Plenty, a new green agri fund from Temasek and Norinchukin Bank, cultivated scotch eggs at Fortnum & Mason.
Farm robotics gets another fundraising boost and Tyson cooks up high-tech bacon.
Swiggy makes more cuts to its workforce, France contemplates a ban on cultivated meat.
Plus: much ado (and fundraising) about ag robotics and many updates from Israel’s startup scene.
Plus, corporate restructuring at FreshDirect and R.I.P. for RIP Foods.
Plus… Steakholder Foods unveils a 3D-printed eel, and carbon removal startup Standard Biocarbon secures $5m for a new biochar production facility.
Meanwhile in France, lawmakers are proposing a ban on cultivated meat, calling that alternative protein “junk food”
Plus: ProfilePrint raises Series B funding & Vow gets a regulatory nod for cultivated quail.
Milano Vice scoops up $9 million for pizza delivery and Clever Carnivore raises $7 million for cultivated pork.
As COP28 kicks off, other agrifoodtech news includes fundraises for aquatech startups and new stats about agriculture emissions.
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