The Suzhou-based startup allows customers to group-buy fresh produce directly from farmers by placing orders via WeChat or local stores.
Less than 1% of the plant kingdom’s phytonutrients have been identified or studied, despite their prevalence in our diets. Brightseed wants to change that and help companies like Danone to ensure those that are beneficial are available in their food products.
The Singapore-based unicorn is extending its order-anything ‘super app’ platform to the region’s farmers, fishermen, and food traders to keep things ticking as Covid-19 continues.
Singapore Food Bowl is the new online program from GROW, the Asia-Pacific agrifoodtech accelerator by AgFunder. Applications close in 4 days – so hurry!
Tropic plans to use the funding to commercialize its tech and to add rice to the roster of tropical crop cultivars it has in development.
Facebook’s first investment in an Indonesian company has echoes of its $5.7 billion Jio deal in India earlier this year.
Born out of the National University of Singapore, Singrow is directing its efforts towards local production of temperate-zone fruits and vegetables in tropical areas. And it’s starting with strawberries.
From IT to oat milk, Bjorn Oste started working with his oat milk-inventing brother Rickard in the 1990s to build Oatly, the hugely successful, Sweden-born oat milk company, known for its quirky marketing campaigns, and more recently for selling out in major grocery stores at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
E-commerce demand has skyrocketed, while local farmers and growers are picking up a lot of the slack in supply chains, says the man in charge of RedMart.
New research suggests that there are big opportunities for alt-protein makers in the Indian market – as long as they know who their audience is.
The Swiss multinational plans to build a factory producing plant-based foods in Tianjin, joining a growing list of alt-protein businesses setting up shop in the country.
CEO Yuki Hanyu’s vision encompasses low-cost DIY protein production in the home, a meat microbrewery on every corner, and cell ag in space stations.
Editor’s Note: Disclosure – Apeel Sciences is an AgFunder portfolio company. Food waste technology startup Apeel Sciences has raised $250 million in funding taking its
What started as a concept around urban biorefineries to process food waste into fertilizer took a turn when the byproduct proved to be a natural cleaning product.
European Agri-FoodTech startups raised $3.4 billion in funding in 2019 across 419 deals, a 70% year-over-year growth, according to new research from AgFunder in collaboration
FoodShot Global explains the four pillars of its Precision Protein Innovation Map that will provide a roadmap for addressing the world’s protein needs. Applications and nominations are now open for this new FoodShot.
Urban farming gets a boost as the Singapore Food Agency and Housing & Development Board tender out nine multi-storey car park rooftops to growers.
Our food systems are swiftly reacting and adapting to the Covid-19 pandemic, creating an opportunity and need for foodtech innovation.
At F&A Next’s virtual agri-foodtech summit, participants illuminated how Covid-19 is making visible long-standing global food supply chain issues, and how tech innovation can accelerate modernization and disruption resilience.
SoftBank was among the world’s most active investors in the agrifoodtech space last year, according to AgFunder research.
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