European Agri-FoodTech startups raised $3.4 billion in funding in 2019 across 419 deals, a 70% year-over-year growth, according to new research from AgFunder in collaboration
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.
Covid-19 ravaged Asia before going global. We talk to three thought leaders in the region about how their strategies and investment priorities have changed.
In an effort to try and navigate how our growing but still relatively small asset class gets through the Covid-19 crisis, we’ve launched a series of digital talks for our community. In the first, we chatted with Climate Corp’s Dave Friedberg and Alexandria’s Blake Stevens.
We caught up with Cattle Eye co-founder Terry Canning ahead of the Animal Agtech Innovation Summit where it will be featured in a startup spotlight.
Scale-up businesses contend with a unique set of challenges to startups, which an emerging group of programs and resources like ScaleUp Food are trying to address.
As scrutiny over livestock production intensifies, some ranchers are highlighting the ecosystem services that they can provide and their capacity to combat climate change.
Climate scientist, inventor and founder of two sustainable businesses, Adam Lowry is currently CEO of Ripple Foods, a dairy-free milk products company. His first company was Method, the sustainable cleaning products brand that’s now a household name.
We spoke to Banks Baker ahead of his speaking slot at the Animal AgTech Innovation Summit in San Francisco in March.
It took Amazon nearly two and a half decades to capture 5% of the world’s retail. If that period was about layering technology on top of the physical world, the next will be digital-first, physical second.
Apply to pitch at F&A Next in The Netherlands in May in front of leading corporations such as Unilever and Nutreco, investors and media and be in with a chance of becoming the ‘Next Hero in Food & AgTech 2020’ and other perks.
5G loomed large at CES 2020. “5G” was written in the sky Tuesday morning in Las Vegas as the show kicked off. The technology now has real-world applications and the nation’s carriers are building out their 5G networks as we speak. But how relevant is this development for farming?
One of the robo-stars of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was a slightly wacky invention from Switzerland: a robot that has been
The competition welcomes agtech startups across many categories including everything from crop enhancement to animal health to supply chain innovations.
“There is far too little deal flow with women,” said one panelist. “I’m that person who has not made investment deals with women. Not because I did not want to, but I have only ever met four women who pitched for investment out of many men,” said a senior, female banking official.
Robotics and predictive analytics are becoming frontrunners in the poultry innovation race but moving companies from tech observers to tech investors will be the main challenge for the industry.
There’s no question that Silicon Valley is touted as the epicenter of innovation and venture capital in the world, but a few folks are starting to question whether the agri-foodtech investment ecosystem needs to plant roots elsewhere.
Agri-food tech events all too often fall victim to an extremely irritating shortcoming — the food served is bland and unimaginative. Thankfully, that stodgy fate did not await delegates at this year’s Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Week in Singapore.
Next week I’ll be singing au revoir Londres, bonjour Toulouse! as I fly to France for the International Forum of Agricultural Robotics, known by its French acronym of FIRA.
Part of the award saw SinGrow’s CEO, Dr Shengjie Bao, present the company’s breakthrough indoor strawberry farming tech to an audience of 800 conference delegates the day after in Singapore.
