The Week in AgriFoodTech: Hysata snags $111m for green hydrogen, Ocean 14 launches $200m+ fund
May 16, 2024
Plus: Rize raises new capital to decarbonize rice, Uber scoops up Delivery Hero’s Taiwan business.
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With a fresh $13m, Niqo Robotics aims to help smallholders ‘lead the innovation curve’ in AI farming
May 16, 2024
Niqo will use new funding to expand its spot-spraying tech across India and into horticulture markets around the world.
‘People don’t realize how much fashion needs new materials’ but biomaterials investors can be hard to find, say experts
May 16, 2024
From setting investor expectations to communicating the realities of R&D, here’s what biomaterials startups should be considering.
From novel cereals to electrostimulation for plants: AgFunder’s GROW Impact Accelerator selects 8 startups for 5th cohort
May 14, 2024
This year saw Singapore-based agrifoodtech ecosystem builder GROW attract the highest-quality applicant pool in the accelerator’s history.
‘We predicted increases in cocoa prices months before the market.’ Helios taps AI to power forecasting platform for soft commodities
May 14, 2024
AI-powered startup Helios has launched what it claims is the world’s first global platform to forecast prices and availability of soft commodities from fruits and vegetables to cocoa.
Brief: ‘A fundamental quantum shift’ as agrifood corporates call for gov’t action to fix food system
May 13, 2024
Nestlé, Danone and others signed the Hope Farm Statement calling for the UK government to enact “a bold national food and farming strategy”
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Voyage Foods raises $52m, ArkeaBio bags $27m, a ‘regulation-free’ zone for biotech
May 9, 2024
Plus: alt-protein investor Big Idea Ventures enters the biologicals sector.
Brief: NVIDIA’s venture arm invests in autonomous weeding startup Carbon Robotics
May 7, 2024
Carbon Robotics will use the investment to expand development and distribution of its LaserWeeder machines in speciality crops.
Seed treatment, without compromise? Cold plasma is ready for prime time, says Clean Crop Technologies
May 7, 2024
Clean Crop Technologies has launched a commercial cold plasma seed treatment facility, signed $3.4m in purchase orders, and has a pipeline worth $47m in ARR, claims the startup.
Middle-income countries hold 75% of all climate mitigation opportunities, says new World Bank report
May 6, 2024
MICs have “an outsized role to play” when it comes to climate mitigation, says a new report from World Bank.
Meet the founder: AgZen’s Vishnu Jayaprakash on spraying, praying, and sticky droplets…
May 3, 2024
Even when they are spraying on target, most farmers have no idea how much spray is staying on the plant and actually making a difference, says AgZen.
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Oishii bags another $15m, BTG launches Betagro Ventures, HeavyFinance eyes Ukraine
May 2, 2024
Plus: Delivery platform Pipedream raises $13 million and Florida signs a ban on cultivated meat.
New report: India’s 60% drop in agrifoodtech investment is ‘a reversion to the mean’
April 30, 2024
Bucking the overall global agrifoodtech investment trend, funding returned to pre-Covid levels.
BREAKING: Apps are open for 2024 GLOCAL Game Changers Latin America agrifoodtech accelerator!
April 29, 2024
The Game Changers program offers Latin American startups the chance to join GLOCAL’s portfolio and grow their businesses.
With 2,000+ experts on hand, Partners in Food Solutions looks to boost Africa’s food security through food processing
April 29, 2024
The PFS consortium shares technical and business expertise with entrepreneurial food companies in 11 African countries.
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pula raises $20m for ag insurance, SOSV’s new planetary health fund, Impossible’s new ranch
April 25, 2024
Plus: Swiss cleantech startup Bcomp raises new funds and Shake Shack expands its carbon neutral shake offerings.
From almond crops to BIPOC communities, Daily Harvest aims to transition more farms to regenerative-organic
April 25, 2024
“There is no regenerative without organic,” says Daily Harvest’s CEO Ricky Silver.
Red seaweed was billed as a gamechanger for livestock methane reduction… so when will it deliver?
April 23, 2024
Asparagopsis is one of the most promising tools in the enteric methane reduction toolkit, but there are challenges to growing it at scale and establishing tools to deliver a return on investment for farmers, says FutureFeed.
The climate change battle will be ‘won or lost’ on Scope 3 emissions. Here are the companies taking action
April 22, 2024
Scope 3 emissions can account for the bulk of a company’s carbon impact, and are typically also the hardest to track.
Exclusive: Mexico’s Verqor and Brazil’s Traive partner, plan new product to bring more AI to agrifinance
April 22, 2024
Using Verqor’s market reach and Traive’s AI tech, the new product will speed up access to credit for smallholder farmers.
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