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Category: FoodTech

How Argentina’s GridX is building foodtech and agtech companies with backing from billionaires

August 15, 2019

AFN speaks with Matias Peire, founder of Grid Exponential (GridX), a company builder focused on high-impact science and tech ideas in Argentina.

25 startups innovating with sustainable packaging solutions

August 14, 2019

Companies are feeling public pressure to reduce the amount of plastic they use. A new breed of innovators is responding with eco-friendly alternatives to conventional materials.

Meet TRAY, our first investment in Restaurant Tech

August 14, 2019

Ever walked into a quick-serve restaurant only to find an anything-but-quick line that makes you turn around and walk straight back out again? Those lines may soon become a thing of the past, with the help of our latest investment, Tray.

Who’s bringing China its bacon now that it’s running low?

August 12, 2019

A worldwide pork deficit is impending and one virus is to blame. But who’s going to fill in the gaps? Meat giant Tyson’s latest earnings reveal it’s not them, with the US-China trade war largely to blame. Could they lose out to alternatives like Impossible Foods?

Rabobank and Caspian partner to fill the debt gap for India’s agri-foodtech startups

August 12, 2019

Dutch banking giant Rabobank is teaming up with impact investment firm Caspian to lend $2 million to India's agtech startups, which are hot with venture capital firms, but not so much with banks.

Food waste startup Hazel Technologies raises oversubscribed $13m Series B to scale up production

August 12, 2019

Pangea Ventures, which focuses on advanced materials venture capital, alongside existing ag-focused investor S2G Ventures led the round supporting Hazel's package technology that helps extend foods’ shelf life.

The Yield Lab LatAm reveals 2nd cohort and increasing diversification among LatAm agrifood entrepreneurs

August 8, 2019

The Yield Lab Latin America (YL) has revealed the startups joining its second cohort based out of Buenos Aires, Argentina where I was lucky enough to meet them during AgTech Week.

GROW Accelerator’s Christine Pitt on corporate approach to innovation and solving customer painpoints

August 6, 2019

Christine Pitt is executive director of GROW, the new foodtech and agtech accelerator we’ve launched with Rocket Seeder in Singapore. (Applications are now open until August 19 so apply now!)

Tariq Farid is taking edibles back with launch of new CBD business focused on traceability

August 6, 2019

Tariq Farid has been in the edible space for 20 years, but it’s not what you think.

This volcanic microbe startup is taking on Beyond Meat and Impossible in plant-based race

August 5, 2019

With big-name CVC investors like ADM Ventures and Danone Manifesto Ventures, Sustainable Bioproducts is preparing to unveil new plant-based product offerings targeting what it describes as the white space in the plant-based segment.

New Harvest 2019: Envisioning a food system built around cells, not animals

August 1, 2019

Investors are paying attention. So are larger meat, dairy and seafood groups. And yet the cell ag industry still has a long way to go, agreed delegates of the recent New Harvest conference in Boston. Brittany Solano reports for AFN.

Eatsa is dead; long live Brightloom! (And its leading robotic retail & software as a service)

August 1, 2019

There was something of a Mark Twain twang about investigating the curious disappearance of Eatsa, a partly-automated healthy fast-food chain where robots rustled up nutritious bowls of quinoa, writes Richard Martyn-Hemphill

15 next generation agri-food startups set to pitch at FoodBytes! Chicago

July 31, 2019

Functional foods, alternative proteins, digital and bio-farmtech all feature in the list of companies set to pitch at the inaugural FoodBytes! Chicago in September.

Impossible Foods teams up with OSI to ramp up production in busy week for plant-based meat

July 31, 2019

Impossible is ramping up production with this deal that follows fellow plant-based meat producer Beyond Meat's earnings earlier this week that sent the stock down 15% yesterday.

Future Food: ‘From the moment we’re born, we’re going to know exactly what foods we should eat, for what purpose’

July 29, 2019

Did you know one of our most common drugs was derived from plants? In this episode of Future Food, I speak to Sofia Elizondo, cofounder of Brightseed.

Does the WRI’s new Sustainable Food Future report need an update already?

July 25, 2019

As a tech journalist aware of the potential for rapid change and transformation in this and any other industry, it seems crazy to me to be using nearly 10-year old data as a guide for decision making today and in the future.

Singapore’s First Agri-FoodTech Accelerator Opens for Applications in ‘Much-Needed Support’ for Startups

July 25, 2019

Applications are now open for GROW, the first agri-foodtech accelerator program in Singapore, and judging by the number of applications we've had already, everyone's pretty excited about it!

FAIRR: Companies Have a Long Way to go to Meet Alternative Protein Demand

July 24, 2019

Major multinational food companies aren’t being proactive enough in offering more alternative protein options, according to investor network FAIRR, but plenty of challenges still lie ahead in alternative protein’s mission to disrupt meat.

The Plant-Based Meat Revolution is Not “Inevitable”

July 24, 2019

Plant-based meat still costs two-to-five times as much as its animal counterparts and solving this problem is far from an inevitability, writes Christie Lagally.

The Numbers Don’t Add up for Meat-Free Future, says 3F BIO Founder in €17m Alt Protein Partnership

July 22, 2019

3F manufactures mycoprotein as a plant-based protein ingredient for food companies, but the founder is more positive about the potential for hybrid meat products than meat-free and has partnered with various industry players in Europe to work on it.

AgFunder Network Partners

Category: FoodTech

How Argentina’s GridX is building foodtech and agtech companies with backing from billionaires

25 startups innovating with sustainable packaging solutions

Meet TRAY, our first investment in Restaurant Tech

Who’s bringing China its bacon now that it’s running low?

Rabobank and Caspian partner to fill the debt gap for India’s agri-foodtech startups

Food waste startup Hazel Technologies raises oversubscribed $13m Series B to scale up production

The Yield Lab LatAm reveals 2nd cohort and increasing diversification among LatAm agrifood entrepreneurs

GROW Accelerator’s Christine Pitt on corporate approach to innovation and solving customer painpoints

Tariq Farid is taking edibles back with launch of new CBD business focused on traceability

This volcanic microbe startup is taking on Beyond Meat and Impossible in plant-based race

New Harvest 2019: Envisioning a food system built around cells, not animals

Eatsa is dead; long live Brightloom! (And its leading robotic retail & software as a service)

15 next generation agri-food startups set to pitch at FoodBytes! Chicago

Impossible Foods teams up with OSI to ramp up production in busy week for plant-based meat

Future Food: ‘From the moment we’re born, we’re going to know exactly what foods we should eat, for what purpose’

Does the WRI’s new Sustainable Food Future report need an update already?

Singapore’s First Agri-FoodTech Accelerator Opens for Applications in ‘Much-Needed Support’ for Startups

FAIRR: Companies Have a Long Way to go to Meet Alternative Protein Demand

The Plant-Based Meat Revolution is Not “Inevitable”

The Numbers Don’t Add up for Meat-Free Future, says 3F BIO Founder in €17m Alt Protein Partnership

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