***VOTING CLOSED*** It’s that time of year again to recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward with the AgFunder Innovation Awards.
The USDA is shuffling its digital tools to catch up with times while Argentina’s government sends millions toward agrifood startups and more in our weekly brief.
Cargill and other unspecified “food industry giants” joined the round, bringing the cultured meat company’s all time fundraising total to $22 million.
With its irresistible market size and a growing appetite for healthier food options, a fertile ground for global startups is forming for meat alternatives in China.
Bill Gates invests $40 million in livestock health research through a Scottish non-profit, Kroger wants to challenge Amazon with the help of Alibaba, and more in our weekly brief.
Today dairy is our most efficient form of animal protein delivery, but large efficiency improvement opportunities remain and dairy tech can help.
Indoor farm Plenty makes plans in China while startups merge and launch new products in this week’s brief.
Food waste-to-fertilizer technology startup WISErg has raised a $19.2 million Series C round, bringing the company’s total fundraising to $56.6 million.
Novolyze develops and manufactures microorganisms to improve food safety validation processes for food processors and manufacturers.
Israeli foodtech incubator The Kitchen has made two new investments in food safety device Inspecto and sugar reduction technology Better Juice, both of which are responding to pressing consumers demands.
President Trump and the Supreme Court weigh in on agriculture issues while startups launch new products in this week’s brief.
As several US make progress toward legalizing cannabis, the federal government makes motions towards stricter enforcement of the federal cannabis ban, plus more news from the agrifood industry in this week’s brief.
If your resolutions skew toward agriculture and food rather than the treadmill, there is a whole host of startups with technology that can help.
Israeli cultured meat startup SuperMeat has raised a $3 million seed round to continue to develop its cultured chicken product in the first of what will likely be several funding rounds in the area of cellular agriculture this year.
Plant-based protein startups using technology to create and mass produce their products have traditionally received support from a small but dedicated group of investors, which is increasingly being joined by major food and agriculture players as this trend solidifies.
Every year, grocery retailers and food media put out trend lists for the coming year, predicting what’s going to be big in food. A careful look at these lists can help us predict, not what technologies are going to get a vote of confidence from VCs and investors – but rather, which technologies are going to have the attention of consumers in the year ahead.
Are you ready to start a new tradition and eat reindeer meat on Christmas Day? Whether the answer is yes or no, at least with new wearable tech, we’ll be able to prove once and for all if they really can fly.
The Irish company will launch the first food ingredient discovered using artificial intelligence next year.
A new fund will address the credit gap in the agriculture industry by raising capital from institutional investors and lending to agricultural aggregators like cooperatives, traders, and processors in developing countries and more in our weekly brief.
The new funding will go toward building out the company’s “Bioworks3” production facility and branching out into more industries beyond the company’s mainstays of agriculture and pharmaceuticals.
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