Rabobank’s FoodBytes! Selects 10 Startups to Pitch in SF
May 31, 2016
A few themes standout among the finalists this year including technologies serving the seafood and aquaculture segment of the food and agtech market.
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Calyxt Hires Monsanto Exec as New CEO, Organic Sales Reach $45bn, Investors Back Animal Welfare, more
May 27, 2016
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’s Seafood Traceability Tech Wins $250k Humanity Contest
May 26, 2016
Trace Register won the contest entitled “Rethink Supply Chains: The Tech Challenge to Fight Labor Trafficking” held by San Francisco-based Humanity United.
Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat, and Hampton Creek Go to Market with Alternative Protein Products
May 26, 2016
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.
Fundings-in-Brief: Antimicrobial Startup Raises $1.3m, Food E-Commerce Raises $131m, Farmers Edge Raises $3m, more
May 26, 2016
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.
Digital Foodie Raises Funding for Food Delivery SaaS Platform
May 24, 2016
The Finnish software company helping grocery retailers launch online food delivery services has raised funding from EnterWorks and Black Dragon Capital.
Fundings-in-Brief: Agrilyst Scores $1m Seed Round During a Busy Week for M&A
May 12, 2016
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.
Industry-in-Brief: Glyphosate Debate Deepens, USDA Offers More Research Grants, Cultivate Ventures Launches, more
May 9, 2016
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.
Microbe-based Food & Agriculture Products Company BiOWiSH Raises $5m Series B
May 4, 2016
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.
Target Tests Food Transparency Innovations from its CoLab with MIT and IDEO in Store
April 29, 2016
Food + Future coLab is now testing two new technologies aimed at finding out what information consumers want about their food while they shop.
On Earth Day Souper Seconds is Battling Food Waste One Ugly Food Item at a Time
April 22, 2016
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.
Fundings-in-Brief: Fiddlehead Raises $1.8m Seed Capital, Jungoo Closes $10m Series B, more
April 21, 2016
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.
Industry-in-Brief: CRISPR Mushrooms Avoid USDA Regulation, Google Earth Partners with FAO, more
April 15, 2016
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.
Fundings-in-Brief: Israeli Seed Breeding Startup Raises $1.25m, Alibaba Invests $2.3bn in Ele.me, more
April 14, 2016
Food delivery, processing and e-commerce fundings dominate this week’s Fundings-in-Brief.
Food Waste Startups Grab More Attention as WISErg Raises $12.3m
April 14, 2016
Food waste is starting to get the attention it deserves. It remains one of the biggest problems affecting the global food system and is particularly troublesome in the United States.
How Technologies Developed for Other Sectors are Revolutionizing Food Production
April 12, 2016
Kevin Zussman is an agtech investor with Cultivian Sandbox, a venture capital firm that invests in food & agriculture technology startups. Here writes about pivoting into food and agriculture from other industries.
Industry-in-Brief: Farmobile Launches Data Store, Sam Kass Joins Innit and Acre Venture Partners, more
April 8, 2016
The Data Store offers farmers a way to sell their agronomic and machine data to third parties and split the proceeds with Farmobile. Plus former White House staff Sam Kass makes move into food tech.
4 Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs from the Food + Enterprise Summit
April 8, 2016
There was no lack of new innovations and ideas at the conference in Brooklyn, New York today, but there were clear challenges in scaling sustainable, local food products and technologies.
Food-X Picks 10 Food Tech Startups for Fourth Cohort and $500k of Investment
April 8, 2016
FreshSurety, which is using IoT to report real-time freshness, location, and temperature of food, and Plasma Nutrition are two startups receiving $50k each.
Fundings-in-Brief: Food E-commerce Startups Raise $58m, Israeli Precision Ag Player Acquires Agam, more
April 7, 2016
An organic, vegan food delivery service, a Spanish e-grocer, and a social impact-focused meal delivery company are some of this week’s fundings as the food e-commerce segment shows no signs of slowing.
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