Asia Funding Frenzy: 5 Food & Farm Tech Startups Raise $40m
Five startups raised $40m in funding this week for a variety of tools primarily aimed at helping farmers capture better margins and bring consumers better offerings.
Category Archives: FoodTech
The FDA and Food Entrepreneurs Need to Better Define the Consumer
Here Shmuel Rausnitz writes about his concerns relating to the FDA and foodtech entrepreneur's tendency to oversimplify consumer demands and needs across demographics.
Letter from London: Britain’s ‘Food Waste Tsar’ Wants Radical, Drastic Change
These notes from our London-based reporter include a food waste symposium, London Food Tech Week and a bevy of startups.
Why FoodBytes! is Heading to Chicago
FoodBytes! Chicago is seeking startups focused on animal health, sustainable production, robotic process automation, precision agriculture, food safety, food waste, food as medicine, sugar reduction, novel healthy ingredients.
Who Are the Most Active AgriFood Tech Investors?
The majority of agrifood tech investors are generalist tech investors but there is also a growing number of dedicated funds focused on foodtech and agtech. Here's a list of the top 10 in 2018.
Farm Tech & Supply Chain Tech Drive $1.6bn in Funding to European AgriFood Tech Startups in 2018
Europe's agrifood tech ecosystem raised just 9% of the funding that went to foodtech and agtech startups globally in 2018. But deal activity increased 23% as agrifood tech startups in the region closed a similar number of deals as in the US.
Food’s ‘alternative’ future and other takeaways from F&A Next
Here are five takeaways about how “alternative” food ideas, technologies and actors are shifting the mainstream as we know it, from the F&A Next conference in The Netherlands last week.
Reddit CoFounder’s Fund Initialized Capital Invests in Perishable Food Marketplace Silo
Silo, a marketplace for perishable food producers and distributors, has raised $3 million in seed funding led Initialized Capital, the fund founded by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan.
Applications Open for Rockstart AgriFood’s Inaugural Accelerator Program
Every accelerator participant will receive a convertible note of €100k for participating in the program, and Rockstart can invest up-to €2 million in those it supports into later stage alongside investor partners.
Future Food: A Moonshot Idea of Avocados? Nadia El Hadery from UK’s YFood Shares Her Food Tech Journey
“What is foodtech? Isn’t that delivery? Delivery is so done!”
That’s what Nadia El Hadery remembers people saying back in 2015 when she held the first-ever London Food Tech Week.
Impossible Eyes Asia, Europe After $300m Celebrity Whopper
A glitzy red carpet’s worth of celebrity investors contributed to Impossible Foods' latest round as well as Singapore state fund Temasek as the company plans to scale in a big way.
Cultured Meat Startup Aleph Farms Raises $12m Series A from VisVires New Protein and Cargill
Aleph Farms claimed in December 2018 that it was the first company to demonstrate that it can grow steak directly from bovine cells without harming the cow.
Food Tech Innovators Need to Focus More on Global Nutrition
Despite their ingenuity and a commendable focus on sustainability and food loss, entrepreneurs are missing a huge opportunity by not prioritizing nutrition, writes Amy Beaudreault.
Chef Tom Colicchio on Why He’s Backing Indoor Ag and Whether We’ll See Alt Meats on His Menus
Colicchio is slated to appear at the Indoor AgTech Innovation Summit in New York next month so we caught up with him to discuss indoor farming, alternative protein, and restaurant tech.
We’re only in the second innings of plant-based meats
Rob Leclerc, Founding Partner at AgFunder, will be participating in the online conference Virtual Summit on AgTech next week alongside alternative meat leaders such as Ethan Brown from Beyond Meat.
Spent Grains Upcycler ReGrained on the ‘Powerful Experience’ of Meeting Griffith Foods through TERRA
Before applications close on Sunday May 12, TERRA alum ReGrained shares insights about the benefits of working with corporates on scaling the business.
New Report: $16bn Invested in US Plant-Based Protein Market Since 2009
Alternative dairy products are leading the way while mainstream restaurants start to add plant-based burgers to their menus.
Plant-based protein alternative companies have attracted $16 billion in investment during the last 10 years, including venture capital funding and acquisitions.
PeakBridge to Manage EIT FoodSparks Seed Fund, Hires Peter Kruger to Lead Efforts
Asset management firm PeakBridge Partners has hired food investment veteran Peter Kruger to manage the EIT FoodSparks seed fund in collaboration with EIT Food. The fund will invest in early stage agrifood tech startups in Europe.
Coca-Cola, Danone, Louis Dreyfus Among 10 Multinational AgriFood Corps Joining China Food Tech Hub
Chinese food tech VC Bits x Bites has created The China Food Tech Hub, a new model to foster cooperation between startups and corporations in collaboration with a multinational consortium of biotech firms, agricultural processors, flavor houses, consumer food companies.
Two AgriFood Robotics Startups Raise $15m for Diverse Applications across Supply Chain
One robot climbs into hard-to-reach places to perform critical inspections while the other helps farmers rid their fields of rocks.