Plenty will use the funding to build out its new Compton, CA, facility and to research strawberry cultivation alongside new investor Driscoll’s.
Our visual market map includes 78 South and Central American agrifoodtech startups that cover the value chain from farm inputs to consumer-facing solutions.
Agricultural logistics management software can help reduce food loss and waste, while also offering transparency for stakeholders throughout the value chain.
Dutch startup Mosa Meat is expecting a second close of its Series B round in “the next few months” following a $55 million first tranche.
Forager was dedicated to growing local food economies well before Covid-19 but is seeing a new bout of opportunity as consumer habits change.
Ninjacart, which helps farms sell produce directly to restaurants and retailers, previously received investment from the pair in December last year.
In the last of our series profiling the first-ever Food Bowl cohort, AFN speaks to four startups offering solutions to make farming more sustainable.
Fund II is timely given “scarcity of sector-focused growth capital and challenges and opportunities created by Covid-19,” managing partner Phil Erlanger told AFN.
Singapore Food Bowl is our fully-online impact accelerator program aimed at building a more resilient, sustainable, and decentralized agrifood system.
The French startup – which farms mealworms to produce ingredients for fish feed, pet food, and crop fertilizers – claims it’s the biggest insect protein round ever.
Italy’s Valagro produces biostimulants and specialty nutrients for farming, as well as specialty ingredients for use in food, cosmetics, and animal feed.
Microbes such as mycoprotein and microalgae can be used to produce biomass, improve plant-based products, and create paradigm-changing functional ingredients.
AFN meets 3 startups bringing more efficiency and sustainability to the agrifood supply chain, with blockchain, coconut husks, and cold storage in the mix.
Shiok Meats is the first ‘lab-grown seafood’ venture in the aquaculture-focused VC’s portfolio, Aqua-Spark co-founder Amy Novogratz told AFN.
To mark International Food Loss & Waste Awareness Day, AFN spoke to three startups who are taking three very different approaches to food waste reduction.
The San Francisco-based startup aims to streamline the food supply chain and reduce food waste by improving digital linkages between producers, distributors, and retailers.
Find out how three of the world’s biggest retailers – Carrefour, Ikea, and Tesco – are tackling food waste within their own operations and supply chains.
Phytolon has been working on a proprietary, fermentation-based technology to produce its own spectra of plant-based food colors.
The round was led by The Rise Fund – a unit of US private equity giant TPG Capital – and Swire Pacific, an arm of Hong Kong trading house Swire.
AFN speaks to the innovative foodtech startups taking part in the sustainability-focused program run by AgFunder-backed impact fund and accelerator GROW.
