50,000 petunia plants that glow in the dark are being made available direct to consumers in the US via Light Bio’s website at $29/plant.
With this latest round, Inari will ready its multiplex gene-editing platform for row crops for commercialization in the US and elsewhere.
Overhauling the global food system could end undernutrition by 2050 and provide sufficient income to millions, says nonprofit.
Swiggy makes more cuts to its workforce, France contemplates a ban on cultivated meat.
Agrifood VC funds grew from 42 in 2013 to more than 280 by the third quarter of 2023, though that growth has slowed in the last few years.
The capital injection will also help advance work to develop Cavendish bananas engineered to resist the devastating fungal disease Fusarium wilt.
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?
Methane emissions from agriculture are finally getting more attention, says Nusa Urbancic at Changing Markets Foundation. “But parts of the industry are working behind the scenes trying to derail climate action in the sector.”
Can money really grow on trees? Undoubtedly, says Ethan Steinberg at agroforestry startup Propagate. But it doesn’t happen overnight, so farmers looking to plant trees among their crops need support, and upfront capital.
Plus: much ado (and fundraising) about ag robotics and many updates from Israel’s startup scene.
Edete—which offers precision pollination as a service (PPaS)—helps Mother Nature by applying pollen directly to trees in a highly targeted manner.
California-based farm-ng aims to lower the adoption and innovation barriers for small and medium growers adopting robotics.
New funding will enable SeeTree to work with new crop types and expand into new territories around the world.
Burro will use the new funds to broaden its product line and reach more areas of agriculture struggling with labor.
AgFunder partner Michael Dean on discovering the huge opportunity for new technology development and deployment across the food system.
Plus, corporate restructuring at FreshDirect and R.I.P. for RIP Foods.
Funding in Novel Farming Systems—an AgFunder category spanning indoor farming, insect ag, aquaculture, and algae production—fell off a cliff last year.
AgFunderNews head Louisa Burwood-Taylor on the origins of the now much-used term and how the food and ag industries evolved with it.
A new One Acre Fund program will act as a “resilience shield” for the 97% of smallholder farmers in Africa lacking insurance.
Flexible financing solutions for equipment can drive scalability and enable an organization to reach milestones sooner.
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