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Category: AgTech

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Green Coffee Co brews up $25m, ChatGPT designs robotic harvesting, Zume shuts down

June 8, 2023

Fazla lands $6 million to stop food waste, Quorn invests in alt deli meat startup Prime Roots.

Brief: Grace Breeding trials shows 50% reduction in nitrogen application with biofertilizer, registers in Brazil

June 8, 2023

The field results and registration mark the first geographical expansion for Israel’s Grace Breeding and its biofertilizer product.

Data snapshot: Agribusiness Marketplaces & Fintech continue to dominate India’s upstream investments

June 7, 2023

Agribusiness Marketplaces and Fintech was the most-funded upstream category for India agrifoodtech in 2022.

Exclusive: Nestlé invests in Latin American startups via partnership with the Yield Lab Latam

June 7, 2023

Nestlé is partnering with VC firm the Yield Lab Latam to support agtech startups in Latam and bolster its own sustainability goals.

Nium raises $3m seed round from AgFunder, DCVC to eliminate Haber-Bosch from ammonia production

June 6, 2023

Nium will use the funds to develop its small-scale, low-energy-consumption system to clean up ammonia production’s dirty footprint.

BioLumic’s UV light tech for corn & soybean seeds scales commercially with Gro Alliance deal

June 6, 2023

The partnership will deploy the BioLumic UV light seed treatment to Gro Alliance seed production facilities in North America, starting in Illinois.

From fintech to alt protein, Latam’s next generation of agrifood startups is building a farmer-first food system

June 6, 2023

Latam startups fight food insecurity and inequality with agrifoodtech tools like farmer financing logistics and healthier ingredients.

Women entrepreneurs are a missed opportunity in venture capital. Here’s how investors and policymakers can change that

June 5, 2023

VCs need to put more money into women entrepreneurs as a path to profit and impact, and to generate better returns.

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Neat Burger raises $18m, Debut bags $34m to expand cell-free biomanufacturing platform

June 1, 2023

This week, Neat Burger raised $18m to take its plant-based restaurant chain into new markets, while synthetic biology startup Debut raised $34 million to expand its cell-free biomanufacturing platform.

What’s holding back agtech adoption in Latam? BASF’s director of digital ag weighs in

June 1, 2023

The Latin American agtech startup ecosystem may have been slow to emerge compared to other regions in the world but in recent years, increasing numbers of startups from the region have hit the market regionally and overseas. How is that translating into adoption?

Data snapshot: France bucks global trend as agrifoodtech investment surges 39% in 2022

May 31, 2023

Agrifoodtech investment in France surged 39% to $1.3 billion in 2022 against the backdrop of a 46% decline in Europe and a 44% slump in global agrifoodtech funding over the same period.

Rise of the machines: What will drive adoption of robotics and automation in specialty crops?

May 30, 2023

Rice and wheat are harvested with combine harvesters. Yet strawberries are still picked by hand at a time when growers are facing rising labor costs and serious labor shortages. So why aren’t we seeing more mechanization being deployed for specialty crops?

Here’s where AI could make the biggest impact in the agrifoodtech sector

May 30, 2023

AI’s biggest potential impact likes in making complex analytics accessible and affordable to agrifood and agribusiness processes.

Investor network FAIRR calls on fast food restaurants to do more about AMR in their supply chains

May 29, 2023

FAIRR asks companies to disclose their strategies around mitigating antimicrobial resistance and its threat to the global supply chain.

What the growing biologicals market can do for speciality crops around the world

May 28, 2023

The upcoming Salinas Biological Summit aims to show growers, investors and others the benefits of using biologicals for specialty crops.

Meet the founder: Four Growers on what it takes to build ag robots that harvest faster than humans

May 26, 2023

Pennsylvania-based Four Growers just released its second-generation automatic harvester for greenhouse-grown tomatoes.

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pluton Biosciences bags $16.5m, Babylon Micro-Farms secures funds, José Andrés launches climate institute

May 25, 2023

Climate startup FLINTpro lands $9 million and Meatable says it can produce cultivated pork in just eight days.

Brief: Aquatech startup eFishery raises $108m Series D to reach unicorn status

May 25, 2023

eFishery aims to increase aquaculture productivity while also creating more sustainable practices for both the environment and farmers.

a panel discussion about carbon offsetting

🎥 Carbon offsetting: the good, the bad and the ugly

May 25, 2023

While many commentators have likened carbon offsetting to the Wild West of agriculture for a while now, the cracks are now starting to show with the fall from grace of key certifying body Verra and other questionable initiatives. I discussed this and more with panelists at the recent Hack Summit.