Istanbul-based Tarfin offers access to extended payments for smallholder farmers, and creates pools of receivables for institutional investors as asset-backed securities.
The Dutch-Danish startup thinks that toxicity and growing pathogen resistance to chemical aqua-pesticides means that now’s the time to shine for biological alternatives.
Phytolon has been working on a proprietary, fermentation-based technology to produce its own spectra of plant-based food colors.
The Danish startup runs what it calls “the smallest chewing gum factory in the world” – but with the new funding, that factory is set to get a little bigger.
Infarm says that by 2025 its operations will reach more than 5 million square feet to become the largest distributed vertical farming network in the world.
The Canadian startup provides solar-powered, self-cleaning sensors that can keep track of livestock feed levels in real time.
Colorado-based Bond Pet Foods just secured bridge financing to take its total funding to date to $2 million.
To spray, or not to spray: That is the question Trapview wants to answer, with the hope its tech can reduce reliance on potentially harmful insecticides.
Danone’s global farming expertise manager tells AFN how the company is embracing technological innovation in its search for sustainability.
Despite its disastrous impact elsewhere, Covid-19 may have improved the investment outlook for farm robots, according to Saga Robotics’ latest backers.
From Ukraine to Syria to Yemen, satellite data – including imagery and AI-driven analytics – is helping to track the impact of conflict on agriculture.
FTW Ventures has just unveiled a new $4 million fund, with food and ag biosciences and automation among the areas it’s targeting for investment.
The foodtech startup is using AI to build a “digital chef” that creates sustainable, personalized recipes for home cooks.
The round was led by Gagarin Capital Partners, with Matrix Capital, Impulse VC, IMI.VC, along with various undisclosed business angels joining in.
EIT Food will inject $6.45 million into 13 agrifood startups to ride out the Covid-19 crisis – something CEO Andy Zynga calls “a vital lifeline” for its recipients.
The Faroese company wants to make sea-bound macroalgae farming less labor intensive, and more able to withstand the elements.
S2G Ventures and Horizons Ventures co-led the seed round, with AgFunder and Bessemer Venture Partners also participating.
Impact investor Astanor Ventures led the round, joined by similarly impact-minded WakeUp Capital
The team at Spotta wants to enable a lighter use of pesticides by building networks of accurate real-time insect detectors.
Is there a case to be made for distributed, hyper-local food processing models? SavorEat CEO Racheli Vizman thinks so.
