
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Green Coffee Co brews up $25m, ChatGPT designs robotic harvesting, Zume shuts down
Fazla lands $6 million to stop food waste, Quorn invests in alt deli meat startup Prime Roots.
Fazla lands $6 million to stop food waste, Quorn invests in alt deli meat startup Prime Roots.
Agribusiness Marketplaces and Fintech was the most-funded upstream category for India agrifoodtech in 2022.
Microbes have been the workhorses of recombinant protein production for years. But could the humble fruit fly give them a run for their money? asks Canadian startup Future Fields.
MyForest Foods—a New York-based startup making whole cuts of meat from mushroom mycelium—has raised $15 million in Series A-2 funding and hired Greg Shewchuk as its new CEO.
Chinova Bioworks, a Canadian startup producing natural preservatives and fining agents from upcycled mushroom stalks, is expanding its capacity four-fold this year to fuel international expansion and meet demand in fast-growing markets such as non-alcoholic beer.
Latam startups fight food insecurity and inequality with agrifoodtech tools like farmer financing logistics and healthier ingredients.
VCs need to put more money into women entrepreneurs as a path to profit and impact, and to generate better returns.
Impossible Foods’ lawyers did not violate rules of professional conduct by hiring private investigators to pose as potential customers in order to obtain product information and samples from Motif FoodWorks as the companies clashed over IP, a court has ruled.
Fungi-fueled alt meat startup Meati Foods has laid off 17 of its 300 employees this week, three months after opening a new production facility in Thornton, Colorado, but says the move does not reflect weak demand for its products.
Used in everything from lipsticks to alt meat, tropical oils come with environmental costs. But can microbes give them a run for their money?
Five or six years ago the press coverage around cultivated meat was almost universally positive. Today, we’re seeing headlines about cancerous cells, ‘vaporware,’ and business failures. So where does the industry go from here?
This week, Neat Burger raised $18m to take its plant-based restaurant chain into new markets, while synthetic biology startup Debut raised $34 million to expand its cell-free biomanufacturing platform.
Some commentators argue that cultivated meat is a food tech fantasy. So are they right? It all depends on your approach, says Joshua March, cofounder and CEO at San Leandro-based startup SciFi Foods.
Between 2005-2012, venture capitalists poured millions into startups attempting to make fuel from microalgae, getting their fingers badly burned in the process. But could algae be gearing up for a second bloom?
Agrifoodtech investment in France surged 39% to $1.3 billion in 2022 against the backdrop of a 46% decline in Europe and a 44% slump in global agrifoodtech funding over the same period.
Dutch startup Meatable has slashed production times for cultivated pork from three weeks to eight days in the past year by dramatically speeding up the process by which its stem cells differentiate into fat and muscle, transforming its unit economics.
Climate startup FLINTpro lands $9 million and Meatable says it can produce cultivated pork in just eight days.
Motif FoodWorks has accused Impossible Foods of hiring private investigators to pose as potential customers to “covertly” obtain information about Motif’s business that could influence ongoing litigation between the warring foodtech companies and “circumvent the discovery process.”
eFishery aims to increase aquaculture productivity while also creating more sustainable practices for both the environment and farmers.
Israeli startup Sensifi is emerging from stealth with a technology it claims could disrupt the food testing market by enabling rapid, on-premise detection of pathogens such as E. Coli and salmonella via an ‘artificial nose.’
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