Meallogix raises $1.7m for food prep ERP software
The San Diego-based startup is digitalizing the meal preparation business so that smaller players can streamlime operations, cut inefficiencies, and boost profits.
The San Diego-based startup is digitalizing the meal preparation business so that smaller players can streamlime operations, cut inefficiencies, and boost profits.
The US biotech startup is using gene editing to increase the nutritional content of seeds such as soybean, with an eye on the booming plant-based protein market.
After getting historic regulatory approval in Singapore, it was about time AFN caught up with Eat Just founder and CEO Josh Tetrick.
Eat Just made history when it became the first company in the world to get regulatory approval to serve a cell-cultured meat product last November.
PepsiCo and the IDB are launching the Next Generation Agriculture Fund to promote the inclusion of women in agriculture across Latin America.
The Microsoft co-founder commented on the acquisitions for the first time since he and wife Melinda were revealed as the top private farmland owners in the US earlier this year.
As AgFunder’s 2021 AgriFoodTech Investment Report shows, exits in 2020 were centered on subsectors that grew in relevance in light of Covid-19 – such as digital platforms for food delivery.
Pinduoduo served 788 million annual active buyers in 2020 – the first time it has overtaken Alibaba in user numbers.
The Mixing Bowl released its first Indoor AgTech Landscape in September 2019. This is their first update, zeroing in on this evolving ecosystem’s role in addressing challenges facing the entire agrifood value chain.
AI can help solve one of the greatest practical challenges facing agriculture: the problem of food security, writes Joseph Byrum.
Zurich’s Mirai is initially working on non-GMO cultured beef and is “laser-focussed on developing a healthy nutritional profile” for the product, says its CEO.
Cargill is consolidating is corporate venture investing and partnership activity under a centralized unit, Cargill’s new head of corporate ventures Erin VanLanduit tells AFN.
The Singapore-based startup will use the project development grant money to commercialize OnlyEg, its legume-based egg substitute which comprises a distinct white and yolk.
Rakuten, Japan’s top e-commerce company, entered into a strategic alliance with Walmart in 2018 which saw the pair launch the country’s leading e-grocery service.
The US Congress has issued a report on dangerous levels of heavy metals in baby food. But these substances can’t simply be regulated away, a molecular biologist writes.
The Pasadena-based SPAC will aim to acquire technologies and privately held businesses in the agritech and climate change mitigation sectors.
Infarm CEO Erez Galonska declined to comment on rumors that the startup has retained perennial IPO underwriter Goldman Sachs to help it raise more funds.
We launched our new Clubhouse partnership with Food+Tech Connect in the best way possible: celebrating women innovators in food on International Women’s Day.
Japfa has partnered with AgFunder’s impact accelerator GROW to identify startups that can improve nutrition for billions of people – and help the industry emerge stronger from Covid-19.
LeapFrog primarily invests in African and Asian companies, with a focus on improving access to financial services and healthcare for low-income consumers.
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