The Week in AgriFoodTech: Textile impact company Syre raises $100m, Nestlé launches brand for GLP-1 consumers
May 23, 2024
Plus: more layoffs at Deere and new fundraising to bring AI into the hospitality biz.
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Jennifer Marston
Who’s investing in climate adaptation for smallholder farmers?
May 22, 2024
Mitigation receives about 90% of global public and private climate financing, which frequently sidelines efforts around adaptation.
Livestock management platform AgriWebb tackles the Scope 3 challenge for agrifood corporates with latest funding round
May 22, 2024
It’s time to “separate the wheat from the chaff” when it comes to sustainable livestock production, says AgriWebb co-founder Justin Webb.
Regen ag investment pioneer SLM posts 40% AUM growth driven by US institutional interest, reveals first carbon assessment
May 22, 2024
Across its portfolio, SLM has also sequestered 100,000 tons of CO2e in soil and vegetation between 2016 and 2023.
Meet the Founder: hexafarms bets on indoor ag: ‘We want to push the limits of AI in this space’
May 17, 2024
Berlin, Germany-based hexafarms just raised $1.4 million in pre-seed funding to bring its AI and sensor tech to indoor growers in Europe.
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Hysata snags $111m for green hydrogen, Ocean 14 launches $200m+ fund
May 16, 2024
Plus: Rize raises new capital to decarbonize rice, Uber scoops up Delivery Hero’s Taiwan business.
With a fresh $13m, Niqo Robotics aims to help smallholders ‘lead the innovation curve’ in AI farming
May 16, 2024
Niqo will use new funding to expand its spot-spraying tech across India and into horticulture markets around the world.
Agribusiness markets & eGrocery still lead India’s agrifoodtech VC funding, but Bioenergy & Biomaterials on the rise
May 15, 2024
Indian startups in the Bioenergy & Biomaterials category including waste-to-value products developer altM raised $14 million in 2023.
Brief: ‘A fundamental quantum shift’ as agrifood corporates call for gov’t action to fix food system
May 13, 2024
Nestlé, Danone and others signed the Hope Farm Statement calling for the UK government to enact “a bold national food and farming strategy”
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Voyage Foods raises $52m, ArkeaBio bags $27m, a ‘regulation-free’ zone for biotech
May 9, 2024
Plus: alt-protein investor Big Idea Ventures enters the biologicals sector.
Brief: NVIDIA’s venture arm invests in autonomous weeding startup Carbon Robotics
May 7, 2024
Carbon Robotics will use the investment to expand development and distribution of its LaserWeeder machines in speciality crops.
Middle-income countries hold 75% of all climate mitigation opportunities, says new World Bank report
May 6, 2024
MICs have “an outsized role to play” when it comes to climate mitigation, says a new report from World Bank.
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Oishii bags another $15m, BTG launches Betagro Ventures, HeavyFinance eyes Ukraine
May 2, 2024
Plus: Delivery platform Pipedream raises $13 million and Florida signs a ban on cultivated meat.
New report: India’s 60% drop in agrifoodtech investment is ‘a reversion to the mean’
April 30, 2024
Bucking the overall global agrifoodtech investment trend, funding returned to pre-Covid levels.
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pula raises $20m for ag insurance, SOSV’s new planetary health fund, Impossible’s new ranch
April 25, 2024
Plus: Swiss cleantech startup Bcomp raises new funds and Shake Shack expands its carbon neutral shake offerings.
From almond crops to BIPOC communities, Daily Harvest aims to transition more farms to regenerative-organic
April 25, 2024
“There is no regenerative without organic,” says Daily Harvest’s CEO Ricky Silver.
The climate change battle will be ‘won or lost’ on Scope 3 emissions. Here are the companies taking action
April 22, 2024
Scope 3 emissions can account for the bulk of a company’s carbon impact, and are typically also the hardest to track.
Exclusive: Mexico’s Verqor and Brazil’s Traive partner, plan new product to bring more AI to agrifinance
April 22, 2024
Using Verqor’s market reach and Traive’s AI tech, the new product will speed up access to credit for smallholder farmers.
Meet the Founder: Neatleaf’s Elmar Mair discusses the critical role of autonomy in ag: “It takes a lot of anxiety out of cultivation”
April 19, 2024
Neatleaf’s CEO and co-founder talks ag robotics, scaling a hardware startup, and why it started in cannabis.
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Mosa Meat cooks up $43m raise, Spiber bags $65m for sustainable fashion
April 18, 2024
Plus: more pesticide alternatives enter the agtech arena.
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