Neatleaf’s CEO and co-founder talks ag robotics, scaling a hardware startup, and why it started in cannabis.
Plus: more pesticide alternatives enter the agtech arena.
Via an irrigation-as-a-service platform, Stable Foods tackles the prevalent challenge of food insecurity and poverty in East Africa.
ReFED’s Dana Gunders discusses why interest in food waste solutions from US businesses, investors and consumers remains high.
The company will also introduce new capabilities to its system, which farmers can retrofit to existing machinery.
“In 2016, I spoke to a lot of investors that said, ‘Why would anybody produce casein in plants when you can easily do it via precision fermentation?’ The same people are now coming back and saying, ‘Actually what you’re doing makes a lot of sense,'” says Alpine Bio founder Magi Richani.
While a fair amount of work has gone into research on salt tolerant rice, there are “not many valid commercial options on the wheat side,” claims OlsAro.
Plus: Science Based Targets initiative’s new rules for Scope 3 emissions are causing more than a little chaos.
Equipment manufacturers have a critical role to play in changing both costs and regulations for biologicals, says a new report.
The Maia Farms & Ecoation growing system for mycelium and fresh produce can make 700kg of food a year in a device the size of a wardrobe.
After seven years at Deere, the agtech vet joins Rootwave as a newly appointed board member.
Industrial-scale insect farming is not for the faint-hearted. So what business models make sense, and who is going to fund the next wave of facilities?
Proprietary tech and proprietary strains of seaweed provide a model that’s scalable anywhere in the world, says Seadling founder Simon Davis.
The team recounts its days from university students to founding Agrospheres, a startup delivering novel encapsulation tech for biologicals.
Gates Ag One will focus on crop innovations that benefit yields and livelihoods of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
“One thing we’ve recognized is that sometimes breakthrough technologies that map really well to a very positive and impactful food and agri thesis might originate outside of the sector,” says Michael Lavin.
Also: farm labor management platform Seso raises $26 million, L’Oreal backs sustainable pigment producer.
Funding into Australian agrifoodtech startups fell 33% last year according to AgFunder data… But it could have been worse: global agrifoodtech funding fell 49% over the same period.
The R&D partnership aims to eventually develop a commercial product.
The Israeli startup leverages AI technology from computational biology specialist Evogene it claims will dramatically speed up the R&D process.
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