Indian AgriFood Supply Chain Sensor Startup AgNext Raises $2m Pre-Series A Round with Kalaari Capital
Kalaari joins existing investor Omnivore, the India-focused impact venture fund focused on agrifood startups.
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Tyson Partners with EDF to Reduce GHG Emissions on 2M Acres Using Ag Data Platforms FBN, MyFarms
Tyson Foods, one of the world’s largest meat companies, and non-profit Environmental Defense Fund have formed a new partnership this week to develop and deploy a set of initiatives that will help Tyson achieve its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions across the company and its supply chains by 30% in 2030.
TemperPack Closes $22.5m Series B for Sustainable Packaging to Replace Styrofoam With No Competition, Slow Incumbents
Virginia-based sustainable packaging company TemperPack, which counts HelloFresh among its clients, raised $22.5m in a Series B round bringing the growing Packaging 2.0 sector into the spotlight.
BREAKING: Israeli Drone StartUp SeeTree Comes Out of Stealth with $15m Series A for Perm Crop Service
Until now, the Tel Aviv-based startup has been operating in stealth mode, honing its technology and accelerating adoption of its service with a clandestine list of growers including large-scale citrus growers.
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: VilCap Offers 3 Pieces of Advice on Approaching Innovation for a Sustainable Food Future in New Report
The report discusses three categories of innovation that are primed to improve our food system's sustainability and the roadblocks that are impeding each sector's progress.
Food Tech Startup Spotlight: Better Juice is Cutting Out Sugar
Sugar has been a controversial subject in recent years, with many researchers and health experts suggesting that the sweet ingredient poses a bigger dietary threat than certain fats or cholesterol.
BREAKING: France’s Sencrop Closes $10m Series A to Expand Agro-Weather Station Network
Sencrop's Series A marks The Yield Lab's first French startup investment.
Three Ag Data Startups Offer Open Access to Data Amid Indefinite Government Shutdown
The government shutdown has compromised farmers' access to data, but three precision ag startups are hoping to ease the burden by offering open access.
Meal Kit Startups Focus on Health & Fitness as UK’s Gousto and MindFul Chef Raise Combined £24m
It’s been a bumpy ride for many startup businesses offering meal kit delivery services — where they send customers pre-portioned ingredients to cook specific recipes at home each week.
The cost of attracting and retaining customers, and the logistical challenge that is delivering fresh produce, has proven a cost too big for many such startups leading to closures and failure across the globe.
New Report: Banks Can Play a Key Role in Improving Sustainability in SE Asia’s Seafood Industry
Based on the report’s findings, Global Canopy has added new tools and guidance to its SCRIPT platform that will help banks take a more active approach to engaging companies about the sustainability and impact of their seafood-related practices.
California Awards $90m Grant Funding to Dairy Tech CalBio in Mission to Reduce State’s Livestock Emissions
Legislation adopted in 2016 requires the Californian state to reduce methane emissions from the dairy and other livestock sectors by 40% by 2030.
Ostara Raises $11m Co-Led by Wheatsheaf & Acquires Multiform Harvest for Wastewater-to-Fertilizer Tech
Ostara, a nutrient management solutions company, has closed a new round of equity financing co-led by existing investors VantagePoint Capital Partners and the food-focused European family office Wheatsheaf Group.
What Will 2019 Bring for AgriFood Tech? More Supply Chain Investment? More M&A?
With the festive holiday haze lifting and a brand new year ahead, we asked a few venture capital investors and startup executives to share their predictions and hopes for the industry in 2019.
Farmer-Centric Accelerator AgLaunch Awards Row Crop Challenge Winner Kopper Kutter
Innova Memphis, a Tennessee-based venture firm, has announced the winner of its first $100,000 Row Crop Challenge powered by AgLaunch as part of the Farm Journal Expo last week. After pitching in the final four, selected from a group of national applicants, Kopper Kutter was voted by a panel of farmers as the lucky inaugural winner.
The AgriFood Tech Industry’s 2018 Christmas Grinch List
We asked some agrifood tech investors and startup executives to tap into their inner Grinch to share their 2018 pet peeves, overplayed tech trends, and the bad habits they hope to banish in 2019.
BREAKING: Zymergen Raises $400m Series C in Largest Ever Upstream AgriFood Tech Deal in US
Zymergen is not wholly focused on agriculture but it’s a significant part of its business and drove early demand for its molecular products that aim to replace petroleum-based products and other environmentally-damaging ingredients with a biological alternative.
Ag Biotech Startups: Hi Fidelity Genetics & PlantResponse Raise Venture Funding Totaling $15.4m
This week, two startups using different biotechnological approaches to improve the efficiency of row crop farming, raised venture capital funding totaling $15.4 million.
AI-Powered Digital Grocer Farmstead Raises $2.2m Series A in Mission to Finally Crack Perishable E-Commerce
Farmstead claims to be the nation’s first AI-powered digital grocer that sources and delivers fresh, local food from farm to fridge in 60 minutes.
EXCLUSIVE: Singapore-based VisVires New Protein Invests in Israeli startup ViAqua to Combat Viral Infections in Aquaculture
Israeli aquaculture startup ViAqua has closed a new round of funding with Singapore-based VisVires New Protein, which is a global fund focusing exclusively on disruptive food and feed system solutions.
The 2018 Farm Bill is a Major Victory for Hemp Growers and CBD Companies
On Monday night US Congress passed a version of the 2018 Farm Bill that includes a major win for industrial hemp growers and CBD products companies.
The legislation defines hemp as a regular agricultural crop and a cannabis sativa plant that contains 0.3% or less of THC, the compound responsible for the “high” associated with cannabis.