Why Did Global Food Giant ADM Invest in Volcanic Microbes?
ADM Ventures is purposeful about the types of companies it considers investing in.
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This German Startup Has Just Planted 50M Trees with its Search Engine
Ecosia, a German startup with an internet search engine, today, has brought in enough revenues to enable it to plant 50 million trees. This equates to the removal of 2.5 million tonnes of Co2 from the atmosphere.
BREAKING: Wheatsheaf Acquires Purfresh’s Ozone Tech Reducing Food Waste in Shipping Containers
It is possible for as many as one out of 15 containers to get rejected when they arrive at their destination, an expensive outcome when containers carrying high-value food can be worth as much as $500,000.
Indian Animal Health Startup ALS Raises $6.3m Series A from Fidelity’s Eight Roads, Anterra Capital
Animal health technologies are coming into focus this year after largely lagging crop technologies in startup investment.
Food Tech Startup Spotlight: Noluma’s Innovative Packaging is Reducing Risk of Milk Degradation
Noluma has developed a unique technology that measures the light protection of packaging as a function of its effects on the product contents by placing a marker ingredient in a solution inside a test package, which is then exposed to intense light.
EXCLUSIVE: Cainthus Appoints New CEO Aidan Connolly, Former Alltech Innovation Head
Connolly, who worked at Alltech for over 25 years, has often been referred to as the fourth founder of Cainthus.
TechAccel and Donald Danforth Center Launch RNAissance to Create Environmentally-Friendly Pesticides
TechAccel, the venture development organization, and Donald Danforth Center for Life Sciences, the leading plant science research institute, have created a new startup called RNAissance.
80 Acres Farms Raises $40m to Complete ‘First Fully Automated Vertical Farm’
The new facility will be automated from seeding to growing to harvesting featuring handling robotics, artificial intelligence, data analytics, and around-the-clock monitoring sensors and control systems to optimize every aspect of growing produce indoors.
Q&A: Rabobank’s New Global Co-Head of Innovation and Head of TERRA on Working with Startups
Rabobank recently announced the expansion of its food and agriculture innovation team in North America with the appointment of Anne Greven as the global co-head of F&A Innovation. We caught up with her and head of TERRA Eline Boot to find out more about the platform.
What Do Women in AgriFood Tech Wish for in 2019?
Broadly they're hoping for more collaboration, better tech solutions built with farmers, increased understanding of food's role in climate change mitigation, more realism in funding, and greater diversity.
Best of 2018: AgFunder’s Top 3 Guest Articles
We want to make the most of the expertise in our network and are grateful that some of these members contribute guest articles to share their insights with our readers. Here's the top 3 from 2018.
Merck Acquires Digital Livestock Tech Antelliq for $2.4bn in Biggest Agtech Acquisition on Record
US pharmaceutical company Merck has acquired digital livestock and animal health tech company Antelliq Group for €2.1 billion ($2.37 billion).
Antelliq manufactures sensors for animals, including ear tags for dairy cows through a product called Allflex that can monitor cows’ activity and provide traceability.
Maersk Invests in ImpactVision’s “Game-Changing” Hyperspectral Imaging Tech for Food System
"Several departments and colleagues within Maersk will look forward to exploring opportunities with ImpactVision," Peter Jorgensen, venture partner at Maersk told AgFunderNews.
EXCLUSIVE: Indian AgriFood Startups Raise $1.7bn in Venture Capital 2013 – 2017
Indian AgriFood Startups Are Innovating to Give Consumers What They Want, and Fix a Broken Industry. Find out more in this first-ever India AgriFood Startup report.
Why Syngenta Ventures Invested in India’s Ninjacart
Ninjacart aims to increase farmers’ incomes, reduce food wastage, introduce competitive prices for retailers, and ensure quality food for all consumers. But how can this benefit Syngenta?
Indigo Acquires Satellite Imagery Startup TellusLabs for ‘Living Map of World’s Food Supply’
Indigo Agriculture, the microbial ag products startup-cum-agribusiness marketplace has acquired TellusLabs, a startup using satellite imagery to monitors the world's croplands.
Bowery Raises $90m Series B from GV, Temasek
Bowery Farming, the New York-based indoor farming group, has closed a $90 million Series B round of funding in a round led by Google’s venture arm GV, an existing investor in the startup.
Why is Europe Behind in Food Tech Investment?
European food tech startups are on course to have raised between €750 million to €1 billion in 2018, according to different estimates. That will be around a 40% decline on 2017 funding levels.
Agritech Startup Spotlight: Wefarm’s 1m+ African Farmer Information Network Extends to Ag Marketplace
Wefarm is a mobile phone-based farmer network and collective for smallholders farmers in Africa that's recently launched an online marketplace for ag products.
What is the Future of AgriFood Innovation in Southeast Asia?
Last week, the ReThink Agri-Food Innovation Week took place in Singapore for the first time. Here are the results of a survey of the event's 300 delegates.