Rabobank and RocketSpace Launch Terra Agtech Accelerator
Rabobank, a global financial services company operating in over 40 countries, has teamed up with San Francisco tech campus RocketSpace to launch a new accelerator
Rabobank, a global financial services company operating in over 40 countries, has teamed up with San Francisco tech campus RocketSpace to launch a new accelerator
Food fraud and safety is a growing global concern that’s capturing the attention of an increasing number of resources worldwide, including the Department of Homeland Security.
The startup combines natural ingredients and patented biochemistry with traditional cheese- and dairy-making techniques to create dairy alternatives.
Walmart, Sam’s Club to Test “Last-Mile Grocery Delivery” Using Ride Share Services Uber, Lyft Mega grocery retailer Walmart and its wholesale chain Sam’s Club are
Over $60m of agtech fundings this week include Engender Technologies, Inocucor, WiseRG, Planetary Resources, MastiLine, Chef’d and Kazzit.
Whole Foods Market is embracing food technology and we caught up with Karen Christensen to find out more about how consumer preferences are informing how the business operates and uses technology.
A few themes standout among the finalists this year including technologies serving the seafood and aquaculture segment of the food and agtech market.
Calyxt, the gene editing ag biotech company has hired Federico Tripodi as its new CEO replacing Luc Mathis who co-founded the company.
Trace Register won the contest entitled “Rethink Supply Chains: The Tech Challenge to Fight Labor Trafficking” held by San Francisco-based Humanity United.
Representatives from the three startups spoke at the Future Food-Tech conference in the same week that Beyond Meat released its new burger into Whole Foods and Hampton Creek revealed it’s raising $200m in new funding.
This week, PURE Bioscience raises $1.27 million, while Farmers Edge gets another $3.2m, hyperspectral drone imagery company Gamaya raises $3m, and five food e-commerce startups from the Europe, Asia and the US raise $131m collectively. Impossible Foods is also on the road for $200m.
The Finnish software company helping grocery retailers launch online food delivery services has raised funding from EnterWorks and Black Dragon Capital.
The indoor agriculture software service Agrilyst raised the round ahead of a cannabis platform rollout, while 4 M&A deals this week span ingredients, biofuel, meat products, and food e-commerce.
Vermont’s impending GMO labeling is also covered in this week’s industry-in-brief as well as a cartoonist who got fired from Farm News for offending a seed company.
BiOWiSH Technologies, a company using microorganisms to increase the efficiency of fertilizers; promote drought resistance in crops; and extend the shelf-life of fresh fruit and vegetables, has raised $5m in Series B funding.
Food + Future coLab is now testing two new technologies aimed at finding out what information consumers want about their food while they shop.
In honor of Earth Day, Souper Seconds has launched a mobile app designed to help chefs and other food manufacturers get their hands on “seconds”, ugly fruit and vegetables that go wasted each year.
Capital raisings for predictive food industry forecasting company Fiddlehead, drone tech company PrecisionHawk, and food hyperlocal marketplace contribute to this week’s funding-in-brief.
The USDA’s lacking regulation of gene-edited mushrooms has raised criticism while citizens in China protest Chem China’s acquisition of Syngenta over GMO Concerns in this week’s industry-in-brief.
Food delivery, processing and e-commerce fundings dominate this week’s Fundings-in-Brief.
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