This week’s conversations focus on the failures in the current financial system and the business models within it, and how they can be overcome.
Companies across all industries are being forced to rethink the way they do business, and food and agriculture are no exception. Businesses big and small want to do better and become more resilient, but how?
Whether it’s a large multi-national and publicly listed corporation, a startup or small business, or a family farmer, every business needs financing at one point or another. But the range of financing tools on the market today were not designed with the complexities of food and agriculture or social and environmental impact in mind.
Farmland real estate is a $3 trillion dollar industry that has historically lacked transparency. CommonGround is changing that by allowing landowners, farmers, and brokers to value their ground quickly and put it up for sale or lease via traditional listings or online auctions.
Stalling progress and slumping valuations might feel disappointing to many. Heck, these are challenging times. But this could be the best year yet to invest in agrifoodtech.
PwC acquired AgTech Garage, an open innovation hub for agtech in Brazil last month. We ask AgTech Garage CEO Jose Tome to tell us more.
New accounting standards that take sustainability and climate impacts into account as well as financial metrics will create a new playing field for companies, according to Emmanuel Faber, former CEO of Danone and partner at Astanor Ventures.
Mineral aims to provide foundational and actionable data and analytics for companies across food, agriculture, and technology and it solves for a key issue holding back digital agriculture advancements for years: lacking data.
We catch up with Benedikt Bösel, managing director of a 3000-hectare farm near Berlin, Germanyv that’s adopting and developing regen ag systems
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! It’s time for the research team at AFN’s parent company AgFunder to start compiling its global foodtech and agtech investment report, which will be released in early March.
The former VP of Grocery at Whole Foods shared many challenges with us about the current food system, but in this special mini-episode, we share parts of the conversation about short-termism, corporate oligopolies, and the concentration of ownership. And explore what’s possible with his idea about food delivery.
What would it look like if we completely re-designed the food system, product-by-product? In this week’s episode, we speak with Julia Collins, Founder + CEO of Planet FWD, a carbon management platform for consumer companies to bring climate-friendly products to market.
Carbon markets are emerging as a leading tool for tackling our climate crisis, but are they getting to the root of the crisis? We ask Tom Goldtooth.
In this week’s episode of New Food Order, we speak with Sam Kass, former White House senior policy advisor, chef, author, and venture partner at Acre Venture Partners, about the transformation occurring across the food and agriculture industries.
Regenerative agriculture might be the buzzword of the moment but it’s nothing new. As Hollywood actress, regenerative activist, and Kiss the Ground board member tells us in this week’s podcast episode, indigenous populations have been using regenerative practices for millennia.
Israel’s overall culture shows how the country has built its agrifoodtech with collaboration, support and a sense of belonging you may not find elsewhere.
In episode two of New Food Order, Danielle and I speak with the inspiring Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever from 2009 to 2019 and author of “Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive By Giving More Than They Take.”
We interview industry leaders like Paul Polman, the former CEO of Unilever, Sam Kass, former nutrition policy expert for the Obamas and a partner at Acre Ventures, and Nathalie Kelley, hollywood actress and indigenous activist.
All three agreed that mergers & acquisitions were more likely to deliver the next big exit over public market listing via IPOs and SPACs, and that the next big exit will be disappointingly low value.
A shift has occurred in the farm robotics category and The Mixing Bowl and Better Food Ventures have put together a market map detailing nearly 250 startups automating various activities on crop farms operating both indoors and outdoors to highlight its depth.
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