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Dairy supply chain software maker Dairy.com purchases Orbis to up traceability offering
The dairy SaaS giant has positioned itself as the digital backbone of the dairy manufacturing supply chain since it launched in 2000.
The dairy SaaS giant has positioned itself as the digital backbone of the dairy manufacturing supply chain since it launched in 2000.
We’re proud to announce Brightseed, Trace Genomics, and Phylagen were all recognized by the World Economic Forum as Technology Pioneers.
With the pursuit of carbon neutrality still looming large over political and corporate agendas, companies across Europe have been searching for new ways to unplug their production lines from petroleum-based products.
Food delivery services are bigger than ever, as locked-down consumers turn to apps for meals and groceries. But the economic outlook for service providers remains tough.
The Chengdu company is part of China’s booming trend in ‘new convenience foods,’ with online marketing channels such as livestreaming driving 55% of its sales.
CEO Leonardo Álvarez said there were near-term gains to be made by zeroing in on replacing unhealthy and ineffective ‘E-number’ chemical preservatives.
Two European testing technologies promising to avoid future scandals like horsemeat and olive oil fraud have raised funding this week.
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.
Bjorn Oste started working with his oat milk-inventing brother Rickard in the 1990s to build Oatly, Sweden’s widely-recognized plant-based milk company.
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.
Founded in 2012 with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Santa Barbara-based startup uses a plant-derived solution to add an extra ‘peel’ to the surface of fruits and vegetables.
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