The Swiss company’s software that can be programmed to identify and map objects in satellite and drone images for a wide range of uses, from precision agriculture to humanitarian aid.
The Tel Aviv-based biologicals startup is leveraging an investment from Corteva to introduce and market a new line of biological crop treatments.
The St. Louis-based company is on a mission to boost precision farming with a remote monitoring and analytics platform that gives growers, retailers and suppliers better in-field insights.
The startup is hunting for new “modes of action” to kill weeds, which would open up opportunities to develop entirely new classes of herbicides. It has just raised £6.3 million in Series A funding.
Dutch banking giant Rabobank is teaming up with impact investment firm Caspian to lend $2 million to India’s agtech startups, which are hot with venture capital firms, but not so much with banks.
The Belgium-based company will use the Series C financing round to get its first product, a biofungicide, to market.
Gamaya launched in 2015 to bring high-tech imaging and analytics solutions to industrial-size farms. A new partnership with Indian tractor manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra is going to shift the Swiss company’s focus the other way, to small-scale farms.
3F manufactures mycoprotein as a plant-based protein ingredient for food companies, but the founder is more positive about the potential for hybrid meat products than meat-free and has partnered with various industry players in Europe to work on it.
Corporations with commitments to end deforestation across their supply chains are woefully at risk of failure, according to a report identifying Associated British Foods, The Kraft Heinz Company, and Avon among others at risk.
Remember doing the “smell test” before you poured the contents of your questionable, perhaps expired milk bottle on your morning cereal? French startup Aryballe has a solution to that deep, apprehensive whiff.
“Regenerative agriculture is a buzzy new term, but we did it this way 60, 70 years ago, before we started trying to commoditize everything. It can be done that way again,” Chris Carter from online butcher Porter Road tell AFN.
Catch up on the latest funding activity for European foodtech and agtech startups.
Cannabis crop science and growing practices are decades behind almost every other cultivated crop.
Armed with $57 million, Future Positive Capital intends to place more bets on wonky tech ideas that have the potential to drive systems change while reaping profits in long-established markets, like food and agriculture.
Paris-based insect farming venture Ÿnsect has been awarded a €20 million grant from the European Commission and a €3.7 billion European public-private partnership to build an industrial-size facility in northern France.
Søren and Anders Knudsen have developed FarmBackup, an online marketplace where farmers and contractors can advertise and arrange for equipment-based services.
Here are five takeaways about how “alternative” food ideas, technologies and actors are shifting the mainstream as we know it, from the F&A Next conference in The Netherlands last week.
It has taken the team of scientists at Ceradis more than a decade to develop a line of earth-friendly agriculture products. Now, with several on the market, the Dutch company has raised €9 million ($10 million) to commercialize a new biofungicide that prevents crop disease.
A lot of the questions surrounding the technology are not really scientific but about what this technology is feeding into: power politics, the changing structure of agriculture and smallholder farmers, and long-term effects.
The agrifood industry needs more qualified entrepreneurs to enter the space, according to a new initiative from the European Union (EU) that wants to propel more entrepreneurs and innovators into the sector.
I’m drowning in new food! Can someone please restructure me out of this mess?