The Week in AgriFoodTech: India’s Botanic Healthcare bags $29m, Fermata secures $10m, Plenty facing value cut
January 9, 2025
Plus: Ohalo teams with Florida farmers on “disease-resistant strawberries.”
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Brief: Vertical farmer Dream Harvest auctions off $8m of un-used kit purchased new in 2022
January 9, 2025
According to Silicon Valley Disposition, which is handling the sale on January 14-16, the auction features equipment “purchased new in 2022 for $8,000,000, never put into production.”
Deere ‘acting more like a startup’ than incumbent with its latest fleet of autonomous machines
January 8, 2025
New machines include the Autonomous 9RX Tractor for Large-Scale Agriculture and the Autonomous 5ML Orchard Tractor for Air Blast Spraying.
Can Colombia fulfill the promise of becoming an agrifoodtech powerhouse?
January 8, 2025
The agrifoodtech ecosystem in Colombia is at a key stage of transformation, says Mila Valcárcel at agrifoodtech accelerator Eatable Adventures.
Seed gene-editing startup Inari eyes commercialization with $144m round: ‘It puts us in a robust financial position’
January 7, 2025
Inari is currently working with seed company customers in demonstration plots to further showcase products.
Rumin8 CEO on livestock methane reduction: ‘It must be profitable for farmers; without them, none of this happens’
January 7, 2025
The most viable route to cost-effective production of feed supplements to reduce methane emissions is synthetic chemistry, says Australian startup Rumin8.
Guest article: Why agtech needs new capital models to transcend the caloricene — and investors who can keep up
January 7, 2025
The same venture capital funding models that built the likes of Google and Uber will not feed the world or save it.
Chinese drones under fire again as US Dept of Commerce explores national security risks
January 6, 2025
The US Dept of Commerce is considering new rules that could potentially restrict the US activities of drones made by “foreign adversaries” such as China and Russia.
What were the top 15 agtech deals of 2024?
January 2, 2025
Ag biotechnologies and robotics are two segments that have shown significant resilience in 2024 and attracted large deals.
GLP-1, GWP*, and the state of ag robotics: the top 10 guest posts on AgFunderNews in 2024
January 2, 2025
The most popular guest posts of 2024 covered GLP-1, regenerative agriculture, artificial intelligence, and more.
Guest article: Agtech poised for a rebound in 2025?
January 1, 2025
Despite some widespread challenges for agtech, Rabobank has identified multiple themes that remained resilient in 2024.
Drones, GLP-1, and gene editing: What were the most popular articles on AgFunderNews in 2024?
December 31, 2024
Given the rapid growth of drones for spraying crops—a market dominated by Chinese supplier DJI—our coverage of lawmakers’ attempts to restrict DJI’s US activities featured heavily in our ‘most read’ list this year.
2024 was ‘a year of reckoning for agtech’
December 30, 2024
Arguably more important than fundraising is the need to build further trust with the farmers meant to be using agtech solutions.
The AgFunderNews team’s favorite stories of 2024
December 26, 2024
From the XPRIZE ‘no prize’ debacle to the Israeli agrifoodtech funding scene, here are the articles we enjoyed covering the most this year.
5 ridiculous agrifood stories from 2024
December 25, 2024
The past year was chock-full of off-beat stories including everything from soup vandalism to $500,000 shots of sake brewed in space.
ClimateAi builds ‘adaptation playbook’ via long-range forecasting: ‘I think we’ll be profitable by Q3 or Q4 of next year’
December 23, 2024
A flurry of startups offering AI-powered ag insights driven by long-range weather forecasting has emerged on the scene in recent years. But are they delivering actionable info for food & ag companies?
Guest article: The real impact of tariffs on US produce prices
December 20, 2024
The past has shown that tariffs have often been more a tool for negotiation than anything else. Will 2025 be the same?
Egg proteins… in potatoes? Molecular farming startup PoLoPo makes the case
December 20, 2024
While multiple startups engineer microbes to produce animal proteins via precision fermentation, PoLoPo and others in the ‘molecular farming’ space claim the unit economics of growing them in genetically engineered plants are more favorable.
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Rebel Foods raises $210m, Terradot bags $58m, Plenty shutters Compton farm
December 19, 2024
Plus…John Kempf’s Advancing Eco Agriculture nabbed a USDA rural development award.
Exclusive: SP Ventures makes first close of new fund with backing from AGCO, FMC & others
December 19, 2024
Key areas for potential investments include bio-based crop protections, agrifintech, supply chain sectors and education.
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