Reporting on the evolution of the world’s food and agriculture systems for human and planetary health.

About us

The latest news and views in food + ag + climate

AgFunderNews goes beyond the headlines

We analyse the people, companies and technologies aiming to improve human and planetary health. Publishing daily news and multimedia content, our team of award-winning journalists delivers deeper insight into the growing foodtech, agtech and climate tech industries.

What we offer

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Original reporting and multimedia content about global foodtech and agtech startup activity.

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Deep insight into the people, companies, and technologies aiming to improve human and planetary health.

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Exclusive interviews with leading entrepreneurs, investors and corporates.

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Data and analysis of the latest trends in food and agriculture.

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Expert commentary and editorials.

How to get in touch with AgFunderNews

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The AgFunder News staff

Louisa Burwood-Taylor

Managing Editor

Louisa is one of the first journalists to cover food and agriculture investment globally, particularly with a foodtech and agtech focus. Her journalism career spans over 15 years and involves a variety of different beats, mostly financial, including time at the Financial Times Group and Euromoney in Asia. She turned her attention to agriculture over 10 years ago as the founding editor of Agri Investor, the first publication dedicated to investment in the sector and became employee #3 at AgFunder in 2015. She is a self-proclaimed karaoke expert.

Elaine Watson

Global Food Tech Editor

An award-winning journalist with 20+ years’ experience covering the food industry for business-to-business publications on both sides of the Atlantic, Elaine has written about a diverse range of topics from heavy metals in baby food to CBD. She joined the AgFunderNews team from FoodNavigator-USA. She lives in Santa Barbara, CA, enjoys cycling and singing bass in a barbershop quartet.

Jennifer Marston

Global Agtech Editor

Jennifer is our global agtech editor with several years experience covering the agrifoodtech industry and more than a decade covering emerging technologies and startups. She was managing editor of Gigaom Research and more recently senior editor of The Spoon. She lives in Massachusetts, where she volunteers at a local farm and is currently working on building a giant WWII-era Victory Garden at her new home.

Samuele Gabbio

Data journalist

Samuele is an AI and data professional with experience in strategic consulting, solution engineering, business intelligence, and decision augmentation. He helps organizations leverage artificial intelligence and data science to achieve strategic goals through the design, delivery and deployment of innovative solutions.

AFN is part of the AgFunder family.

AgFunder is a global venture capital firm

Founded in 2013 on a mission to bring more investment and innovation into the agriculture and food space, AgFunder created AgFunderNews (AFN) to educate more people about the opportunity. In 2017, the firm launched its first agrifoodtech venture capital fund, raising funds from many of AFN’s eager subscribers. Today, the firm has over $300 million in assets under management, over 100 portfolio companies on four continents, and offices in Silicon Valley, London, and Singapore, making it the only truly global agrifoodtech VC. AgFunder also publishes industry-leading research about the state of global investment in agrifoodtech, which you can find here.