
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Green Coffee Co brews up $25m, ChatGPT designs robotic harvesting, Zume shuts down
Fazla lands $6 million to stop food waste, Quorn invests in alt deli meat startup Prime Roots.
Fazla lands $6 million to stop food waste, Quorn invests in alt deli meat startup Prime Roots.
The field results and registration mark the first geographical expansion for Israel’s Grace Breeding and its biofertilizer product.
Agribusiness Marketplaces and Fintech was the most-funded upstream category for India agrifoodtech in 2022.
Nestlé is partnering with VC firm the Yield Lab Latam to support agtech startups in Latam and bolster its own sustainability goals.
Nium will use the funds to develop its small-scale, low-energy-consumption system to clean up ammonia production’s dirty footprint.
The partnership will deploy the BioLumic UV light seed treatment to Gro Alliance seed production facilities in North America, starting in Illinois.
Latam startups fight food insecurity and inequality with agrifoodtech tools like farmer financing logistics and healthier ingredients.
VCs need to put more money into women entrepreneurs as a path to profit and impact, and to generate better returns.
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.
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?
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.
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?
AI’s biggest potential impact likes in making complex analytics accessible and affordable to agrifood and agribusiness processes.
FAIRR asks companies to disclose their strategies around mitigating antimicrobial resistance and its threat to the global supply chain.
The upcoming Salinas Biological Summit aims to show growers, investors and others the benefits of using biologicals for specialty crops.
Pennsylvania-based Four Growers just released its second-generation automatic harvester for greenhouse-grown tomatoes.
Climate startup FLINTpro lands $9 million and Meatable says it can produce cultivated pork in just eight days.
eFishery aims to increase aquaculture productivity while also creating more sustainable practices for both the environment and farmers.
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.
Current Seedz customers already include major North American agrifood corporations John Deere, Mosaic, and Syngenta.
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