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Guest article: Agtech VCs must stop competing over crumbs and start collaborating

Returns will come faster if we stop treating each other as threats and start building the infrastructure this asset class needs to mature.

Agtech

FoodTech

A new fund will help more Latin American agtech startups access US markets, starting in St. Louis

The research-focused Core Access Fund recently awarded its first two startups and hopes to support more in the future.

Agtech

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

New owner of Meati insists brand ‘poised for growth’ after mass layoffs; staff say there’s ‘no plan, just a shutdown and silence’

“They’re spinning this like some growth story when it’s really just collapse,” claimed one employee who was laid off last week. “They ran out of money and left people hanging without pay.”

Alternative protein

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

Guest article: Agtech VCs must stop competing over crumbs and start collaborating

A new fund will help more Latin American agtech startups access US markets, starting in St. Louis

New owner of Meati insists brand ‘poised for growth’ after mass layoffs; staff say there’s ‘no plan, just a shutdown and silence’

🎥 Tufts MD on GLP-1 and the protein obsession: ‘I worry we might be missing the mark’

Guest article: Making agricultural subsidies part of social welfare is a step towards a just rural transition

Exclusive: Miyoko’s founder plans bid to buy back brand from liquidator

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Funding for insect protein, Believer Meats USDA approval, Pow.Bio scales continuous biomanufacturing

Corteva unveils its first-ever bioinsecticide: ‘Combining biologicals with synthetics is critical’

Appetronix raises $6m to scale robotic kitchens: ‘Quick service is going to get more and more automated’

Ag robotics startup Naïo bounces back after a year of financial turmoil

Guest article: Agtech is dead. Long live the system

Atinary partners with ABB Robotics, others to accelerate R&D with self-driving lab

Japan’s new agriculture minister breaks with tradition in foodtech summit speech: “Earn, earn!”

Exclusive: Mass layoffs at Meati after weeks of payroll glitches

Breaking: Danish insect ag firm ENORM declared bankrupt after failed reconstruction process

Cargill’s new robot dog is ‘one part of a much larger shift’ towards ‘responsible’ AI

The EVERY Co raises $55m to scale egg proteins via fermentation, crosses line ‘from promise to proof’

Exclusive: Meati in trouble again as firm misses payroll. ‘People are in group chats begging for answers’

Inside Ginkgo and Bayer’s quest to rewrite the fertilizer rulebook: The race to create next-gen nitrogen-fixing biologicals

US will waste 267m meals this Thanksgiving: ReFED

Why smallholder farmers must be the epicenter of global supply chain transformation

Inside Danone’s open innovation model: From AI to Ozempic-era nutrition

The EVERY Co and Onego Bio eyed merger before IP talks went south, court docs reveal

Fresh Del Monte CEO sounds alarm as deadly fusarium wilt hits Ecuador’s banana crop: ‘It’s a losing battle’

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Fork & Good acquires Orbillion Bio, $100m regen ag fund, Beyond Meat in court

Guest article: COP30 is our chance to achieve resilient global food security—by empowering smallholders

Nutriearth scales light-activated vitamin D3 from an intriguing new source

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