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,
CEO Yuki Hanyu’s vision encompasses low-cost DIY protein production in the home, a meat microbrewery on every corner, and cell ag in space stations.
New facilities, entrepreneurship programs, collaboration with global ag companies, and startups are making the Ames-based university the place to be.
“You have 130 million farmers plus their families who are vulnerable… Traditional urban insurance brokers do not understand [their] needs,” founder Jatin Singh told AFN.
A global pandemic provides the industry with an opportunity to demonstrate not only its staying power but its strong consumer demand, as well.
The funding will be used to construct what it describes as the largest mealworm facility for animal feed in North America.
The world’s banana crop is at risk due to a number of diseases that threaten to wipe it out.
European Agri-FoodTech startups raised $3.4 billion in funding in 2019 across 419 deals, a 70% year-over-year growth, according to AgFunder’s latest research. Looking ahead to
Urban farming gets a boost as the Singapore Food Agency and Housing & Development Board tender out nine multi-storey car park rooftops to growers.
Red Sea Farms and Kirchner Group are joining forces to help climatically challenged communities “grow local” in the face of supply chain fragility.
We catch up with Bechdol and reflect on her time at AgriNovus while learning more about the new CEO and his plans for Indiana’s future.
Olam set up a “war room” of top execs to tackle Covid-19’s immediate impact on its business. But it’s counting on digitization as a longer term fix.
The startup offers a molecular biology-backed line of crop inputs as well as a platform to rapidly create new seed traits without gene-editing techniques.
At F&A Next’s virtual agri-foodtech summit, participants illuminated how Covid-19 is making visible long-standing global food supply chain issues, and how tech innovation can accelerate modernization and disruption resilience.
SoftBank was among the world’s most active investors in the agrifoodtech space last year, according to AgFunder research.
The Singapore-based agribusiness became the first-ever recipient of a ‘Digital Loan’ based on Boston Consulting Group’s digital maturity index last year.
This first-of-its-kind accelerator program brings industry and startups together to build more resilient local agrifood ecosystems in the wake of Covid-19.
In our third digitalk, S2G exclusively discusses new research, which looks at how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting global supply chains, and the role that tech can play in creating a more resilient agrifood ecosystem.
Despite a slow down in investment in 2019, Ag Biotech was still one of the top categories for seed funding, and the most active upstream category.
Maintaining a functioning global food chain has catapulted agri-foodtech to “essential” status. During the F&A Next virtual summit, eight agri-foodtech startups will showcase the latest innovations shaping the future of food.
Americans need better access to healthy food to lower risk of Covid-19 complications