Village Capital just wrapped up demo day for Batch 2 of their Agtech accelerator program (Ag Global Program), and have announced the the peer-selected recipients
Some more news has emerged from the Soylent deal. On Sunday we reported that health drink maker Soylent was raising $10 million, but yesterday Chris Dixon of
Venture Beat is reporting that Soylent, a meal-replacement startup, is raising $10 million lead by investor Andreessen Horowitz. According to Re/Code, Soylent has previously raised
Hampton Creek has just announced a huge $90 million Series C financing led by Li Ka-Shing’s Horizons Ventures and Khosla Ventures. This comes just ten months after
The Boston Business Journal reports that food diagnostics company, Sample6, has raised an additional $2.5M from founder and board member Tim Lu, adding to the
The discussion, Technology on the Menu: Food of the Future, focused on advancements within the AgTech space and how new technologies and methods from each sector might shape the way the global community produces its food in the coming decades.
John Cook over at GeekWire has reported that WISErg has added another $900,000 to the $5 million Series B they raised earlier this year for
This spring Bon Appetech is hosting a foodtech focused conference to jumpstart the “Good Food Innovation” movement, and build a more robust ecology around food and
Foodtech big-data company FoodEssentials which collects, aggregates and analyzes food label data for government, retailers and manufacturers has raised a $1.5M Series A, according to their SEC filing. Edward
The leafy green that gave Popeye his unusually muscled forearms has lost some salad-bowl clout to the trendier kale in recent years. But now, new research suggests that the “superfood” could soon have more power in its corner.
This post originally appeared on Ensia. Infographic design by Anna Egelhoff, research by John Sisser, and writing by Todd Reubold. If you have
Imagine a world in which animal products are produced without harming or slaughtering any animals. Modern Meadow, the bioengineering startup using tissue-engineering techniques to
West coast composting is soon to get bigger (but not smellier) after a recent round of funding. WISErg Corporation, a Redmond, Washington-based bio-clean technology
One in every 13 kids has a food allergy. That’s about two kids in every classroom in America. The national cost of dealing with these
About 40 percent of food in the US is wasted each day. Each year, the average American family spends $2,200 on wasted food. One company,
AgLocal, a company that previously a ‘meat marketplace’ has shifted to be a meat subscription service. And, they’ve just raised $1.3 million to bolster their
Think of an agriculture system that leads to better nutrition, higher wages, fair global trade, and more security for each person along the supply chain.
Stickers aren’t just for price tags anymore. Researchers from Tufts University have shown that high-tech silk stickers may soon be used to tell the
