Albertsons reached out to the indoor farming startup amid the Covid-19 pandemic to find a new source of fresh produce to keep up with consumer demand.
S2G Ventures and Horizons Ventures co-led the seed round, with AgFunder and Bessemer Venture Partners also participating.
Food4All is using a $100k loan from the USDA’s Small Business Innovation Research program to help small and midsize farms tap into wholesale and institutional buyers.
The Korean chemical giant’s Singapore agribiz hub will “pioneer solutions for the world food supply chain through innovation, not just plain food trading,” its CEO tells AFN.
The need to revolutionize our food system is becoming critical. The problems are manifold and acute.
The NW Arkansas-based company sells its slow-growth heritage breed chickens through retail and its direct-to-consumer e-commerce platform.
Downstream investment declined by 67% year-on-year. But upstream funding more than doubled, as startups and investors zeroed in on farm and supply chain solutions.
Is there a case to be made for distributed, hyper-local food processing models? SavorEat CEO Racheli Vizman thinks so.
It’s one of several online group-buying platforms for fresh produce in China that has raised major funding from investors in recent months.
It offers a white-label solution to food manufacturers who want to make their meat go further with healthier, more sustainable plant-based protein.
The off-the-shelf animal-free ingredients provider is stepping into bespoke formulations as it eyes a food & bev debut in 2021.
Indian actors Genelia and Riteish Deshmukh launched Imagine Meats with Good Food Institute and Archer Daniels Midland support, marking the latest celebrity foray into agrifoodtech in recent months.
StepStone paid roughly $40m for the portfolio which includes FBN, plus a bit extra for follow-on investments in Fund I companies, according to calculations based off Campbell’s regulatory filings.
MissFresh was the highest-funded agrifoodtech startup in China last year, raising $700 million in a debt round from a local government-linked fund, according to AgFunder research.
The year 2019 was a breakout year for Latin American agrifoodtech and 2020 is already shaping up to beat those records, in spite of the global pandemic. Here’s a look at the key categories pushing the industry forward.
Dolly the Sheep creator Roslin Technologies is backing the Singapore-based startup and taking it to its new genetic research facility in Scotland.
The proteins are derived from exotic fruits and are tinkered with using Joywell’s fermentation tech to transform them into products suitable for the food industry.
The bulk of food safety claims, such as “antibiotic-free”, “never-ever-antibiotic” and “hormone-free,” are based on little more than producer affidavits.
Australia is technologically advanced, highly urbanized, and has farmers aplenty – but its urban ag industry is practically non-existent. Sydney startup Blakthumb finds out why.
AquaBounty has been swimming upstream against a wave of opposition since receiving FDA approval for its GE salmon in 2015. But it has finally caught a rising tide.
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