Will meal kits make it to the 10-year mark?
March 13, 2020
As meal kit companies struggle to secure customer loyalty and combat churn, online grocery is gaining traction. Could dedicated meal kits soon be extinct?
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Chinese plant protein startup clinches funding from Beyond Meat backer
March 13, 2020
New Crop Capital, a pre-IPO investor in Beyond Meat, has funded Shenzhen plant-based protein startup Starfield alongside Matrix Partners and others.
Agrifoodtech is global: here’s a list of the top 15 deals outside the US in 2019
March 12, 2020
As US agri-foodtech investment slowed slightly in 2019, other markets picked up the slack. Here’s a list of the leading deals outside the US.
EXCLUSIVE: How Google got a taste for banana ketchup
March 12, 2020
Thought For Food (TFF) and Food Lab Accelerator at Google (FLAG) have unveiled a Brazilian banana peel-inspired winner of this year’s TFF x FLAG Circular Economy of Food Prize.
Foodshed.io lands deal with Schnucks to bring the farmers’ market to the produce department
March 11, 2020
Local food is hot but there’s a disconnect between local producers and grocery retailers that Foodshed.io is hoping to solve.
Meat alternatives and indoor agriculture drive investment growth in agri-foodtech startups
March 9, 2020
Venture capital investment across all industries dropped in 2019 — around 16%, according to the VenturePulse report — against a backdrop of global uncertainty related
How Culture Biosciences is helping biomanufacture agrifood, pharma products from microbes at scale
March 4, 2020
Biomanufacturing is the term used to describe the process of using biological systems as opposed to chemistry to produce commercial biomaterials. Crudely this means using certain microbes — naturally-occurring species or genetically designed — to produce certain materials.
What it takes to scale an agrifood tech startup
March 3, 2020
Scale-up businesses contend with a unique set of challenges to startups, which an emerging group of programs and resources like ScaleUp Food are trying to address.
From AgFunder with love: Global agrifoodtech funding reaches $19.8bn in 2019
February 25, 2020
there are a few ways to interpret this $19.8 billion figure. Though it signals a 4.8% drop in funding and 15% decline in deal activity year-over-year, it also represents a staggering 250% growth in five years, and proves that the huge scale of investments in 2018 was no freak outlier.
Kraft Heinz invests in $110m Series B for cloud retail robotics startup Fabric
February 25, 2020
Israel-based Fabric (formerly CommenSense) is currently working to expand its US footprint with its robot-backed software platform to provide micro-fulfillment almost anywhere
🎙️Milk from peas? Ripple Foods co-founder Adam Lowry on making protein and learning from mistakes
February 13, 2020
Climate scientist, inventor and founder of two sustainable businesses, Adam Lowry is currently CEO of Ripple Foods, a dairy-free milk products company. His first company was Method, the sustainable cleaning products brand that’s now a household name.
For Yofix, plant-based yogurt is not enough. It has to be ‘clean label’ too.
February 6, 2020
With the team at Yofix confirming the closure of a Series A funding round at $2.5 million, it is now clear that a few dairy behemoths have acquired a bit of a taste for plant-based yogurts.
These two women are taking the breast out of breastmilk
February 6, 2020
Michelle Egger and Leila Strickland are the founders of BIOMILQ, a biotech company seeking to optimize a woman’s breastmilk by culturing it in a bioreactor, rather than the natural way.
Egg white replacement ingredient company scores €500k seed funding from Dutch VCs
February 4, 2020
A Wageningen spin-out, the company claims its non-GMO animal-free replacement is more cost-effective than traditional egg whites.
Meet the FoodTech 500’s top 10 startups powering the food revolution
February 4, 2020
The top startup companies that made the 2019 FoodTech 500 list represent every sector of the FoodTech ecosystem, from farm to fork, and they are all success stories in their own right, which is why we are so proud to share them with you.
HNGRY takeaways: Food marketing’s going old school & hidden cost of ghost kitchens
February 3, 2020
It took Amazon nearly two and a half decades to capture 5% of the world’s retail. If that period was about layering technology on top of the physical world, the next will be digital-first, physical second.
What lies ahead for China foodtech in the year of the rat?
January 31, 2020
The truce in the US-China trade war came just in time for the Chinese New Year of the Rat.
EXCLUSIVE: Acre VP holds first close of Fund II, brings on Greylock’s Bill Helman as partner & LP
January 29, 2020
The firm has already made two investments from the new fund: Agrofy, the Argentinian agribusiness marketplaces that made waves a couple of weeks ago with its record-breaking Series B round, and Inari, the gene-editing for ag startup.
Tyson launches global coalition to improve sustainability of protein from all sources
January 27, 2020
Plant-based protein is leading many consumers to ask deeper questions about where their protein comes from regardless of where it comes from.
AgroSustain aims to curb food waste with time-release biologicals
January 23, 2020
The Swiss company has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from California-based Agroecology Capital, an agtech venture capital firm.
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