Data snapshot: Indoor farming & insect meal top India’s Novel Farming systems investment category
August 23, 2023
Novel farming systems present opportunities for India to bolster its food supply in the midst of climate change.
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Brief: Jellatech lands $3.5m to produce collagen without having to ‘mine the animal’
August 22, 2023
The oversubscribed seed round will go towards scaling Jellatech’s proprietary cell-ag process and working towards commercialization.
Indoor ag has hit ‘a bump on the S curve,’ not the trough of disillusionment – EY agrifood leader
August 22, 2023
EY’s Rob Dongoski dives into the macro factors impacting controlled environment agriculture — and what startups should do.
Grain-trading platform Bushel raises $26m to build up ‘the Holy Grail’ of agrifintech software
August 22, 2023
New funds will support the growth and expansion of Bushel’s ag software tools for grain traders, farmers and other agrifood business.
The Week in AgriFoodTech: BP invests in green hydrogen, Toyota funds carbon measurement, Bushel gleans $26m
August 17, 2023
Elsewhere, food robots and restaurant tech saw new funding rounds but also hefty fines for some.
Data snapshot: 5 years of agrifoodtech investment in India
August 16, 2023
Despite seesawing dollar amounts over the last few years, India agrifoodtech investment is back on par with 2018 levels.
‘Boil the weed inside out’: RootWave launches high-frequency, ‘regen ag-friendly’ weed zapper for orchards
August 16, 2023
RootWave has launched a weeding machine for fruit orchards it believes can offer growers a faster, cost-effective way to manage more acreage.
Oishii’s newest executive says she’s ‘never been more confident about the future of vertical farming’
August 15, 2023
The vertical farming company’s newly appointed chief commercial officer Rita Hudetz says one of her goals is to make Oishii a household name.
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Bactolife raises $33m, FAO scoops up $27 million, irrigation tech in the spotlight
August 10, 2023
CPG giant Campbell made a new acquisition, as did irrigation management company Lindsay, and a new cultivated meat facility is ready for production in China.
Brief: Phospholutions lands $10.15m to help more farmers around the world manage phosphorus use
August 10, 2023
Phospholutions will accelerate commercialization of its RhizoSorb fertilizer additive in the US and expand field trials of in 2024.
Climate finance in agrifood is “strikingly low”, says new report from CPI & CLIC
August 10, 2023
Climate finance for agrifood systems must increase seven-fold to transition industries into taking climate mitigation and adaptation actions.
Data snapshot: the Ukraine war’s impact on Eastern Europe agrifoodtech investment
August 9, 2023
Despite a bleak backdrop of war, supply chain issues and climate change, startups in Eastern Europe and the Baltics continue to innovate.
BeeHero aims for more control outside the hive with the launch of a new pollination insights platform
August 8, 2023
BeeHero says the new platform is meant to bring the same granularity of data found via its in-hive sensors to activity in the field
Meet the founder: Green Growth founders discuss why precision agriculture tools need to be simpler for farmers
August 4, 2023
The Green Growth platform aims to integrate precision agriculture software as simply as possible with farm hardware.
July people moves: Little Leaf Farms’ new CFO hire a ‘significant milestone,’ Incredo hires co-CEOs, Chobani names new CMO
August 4, 2023
FarmTrace has a new CEO and ClimateAI’s founder is stepping away.
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Konscious Foods snags $26m for alt-seafood, Ocean 14 Capital reels in $33m
August 3, 2023
Indonesia’s Beleaf raised funds for its agrbusiness marketplace, Zomato hit profitability for the first time, and White Castle went in on AI.
FDA food traceability architect Frank Yiannas joins IoT company Wiliot to tackle ‘the Achilles heel’ of the food industry
August 3, 2023
Yiannas will provide guidance on Wiliot’s strategy to increase food safety and traceability via its ambient IoT platform.
Brief: Cover crop usage steady but still ‘only a fraction’ of total acreage in the US, says Purdue’s latest farmer survey
August 2, 2023
Farmers still struggle with additional costs associated with planting and terminating cover crops, and in some cases reduced crop yields.
Data snapshot: India farmtech investment ‘relatively strong’ despite a harsh fundraising environment
August 2, 2023
Climate change and the need for efficient and affordable technology for farmers is driving investor interest in India farmtech.
Why AeroFarms backer Cibus just launched a ‘cost effective and scalable’ greenhouse strategy for Europe
July 31, 2023
Cibus Fund II has acquired greenhouse grower Duijvestijn Tomaten and launched a new platform for growing food indoors with renewable energy.
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