NextProtein, a French-Tunisian startup working on new ways to produce insect-based animal feed and fertilizer, has raised €10.2 million ($11.2 million) in Series A funding,
Many of America’s animal protein powerhouses are looking to capitalize on rising consumer demand for plant-based products. Michael Foods just joined the club.
European Agri-FoodTech startups raised $3.4 billion in funding in 2019 across 419 deals, a 70% year-over-year growth, according to new research from AgFunder in collaboration
US alternative protein investment in the first quarter of 2020 reached $741m, just shy of the $741m total in the whole of 2019, according to GFI.
Duckweed is rich in protein and grows incredibly fast. It can double in biomass every two days.
Come rain, shine, or coronavirus, there’s just no halting the AgFunder Research mothership. AgFunder just unfurled its new 2020 Farmtech Investment Report — a data-driven snapshot of global investment in startups building technologies for the farm.
The Welsh controlled environment farming company Phytoponics designs, develops, and supplies Deep Water Culture systems for large scale hydroponic crop production.
While other investors are tightening their purse strings as the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps the world, Jerusalem Venture Partners has neither stalled nor scrapped its new plant-based protein deal.
Slugs are greedy guests on farms. Some estimates reckon a single slug is capable of killing up to fifty wheat seeds within one week of sowing. A group of UK innovators and farmers are working on a robotic solution.
Vertical farming companies have largely seen Covid-19’s pressure on globalized food supply chains as a confirmation of what they had been saying already: resilient supply chains are hyper-local supply chains, especially when it comes to fresh produce. But there is also a more direct way vertical farmers want to confront the virus.
Gousto, a UK meal kit company, is seizing the moment either way; it has tapped its investors for an additional £33 million ($41 million) in a funding round led by Perwyn, BGF, MMC Ventures and the influencer and fitness guru Joe Wicks.
Flying efforts to bring pigs into China and other importing countries could be thwarted by increasing Covid-19-related travel and export restrictions making testing technologies even more important if the pork industry wants to survive the continued spread of the deadly ASF virus.
Dutch company VanderSat’s technology is kind of out of this world; measuring and mapping the soil’s moisture from a constellation of satellites in space using “passive microwave” technology, accompanied by a lot of complex mathematics to make sense of the data.
A recent study from EOS Crop Monitoring identified millions of acres of “shadow” farmland in Ukraine, offering a case study on satellite data’s value in agriculture.
Vertical farming venture Infarm’s Emmanuel Evita shares with AFN how Covid-19 is disrupting and driving its expansion and demand for hyper-local fresh food.
A digital hospitality management point of sale system managed to close an oversubscribed investment round despite the global backdrop perhaps bolstered by its food delivery-related offering as other startups offer other means to avoid human interaction in the restaurant space.
The Livekindly Company — a collective of plant-based brands — lifted the lid this month on a $200-million founders’ funding round, a move designed to help its brands keep pace with an increasingly competitive peloton of global plant-based protein brands
Canada’s NovoBind, which is developing a precision biologics platform to protect livestock against pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and parasites, has closed a Series A round of funding.
Thought For Food (TFF) and Food Lab Accelerator at Google (FLAG) have unveiled a Brazilian banana peel-inspired winner of this year’s TFF x FLAG Circular Economy of Food Prize.
Chemical fungicides are a tried and tested way to get rid of fungal outbreaks like powdery mildew and botrytis; but many of these are coming under scrutiny from consumers and regulators. So Biotalys is working to produce biological alternatives by mimicking the immune response of certain animals, such as llamas.
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