Tom Shields is a venture partner at AgFunder and works with the deal team on sourcing and leading investments. A serial entrepreneur, he has co-founded two highly successful companies, NetGravity (IPO 1998) and Yieldex (acquired by AppNexus/AT&T in 2015).
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This episode is perhaps a tad awkward as I interview my boss Rob Leclerc, founding partner of AgFunder, but Rob was as insightful as ever, sharing his thoughts on working in and around the agriculture sector for the past decade.
Agri-food tech events all too often fall victim to an extremely irritating shortcoming — the food served is bland and unimaginative. Thankfully, that stodgy fate did not await delegates at this year’s Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Week in Singapore.
Sufresca, an Israeli startup designing edible fruit and vegetable coating solutions to reduce food waste and curb plastic packaging, has just raised $500,000 seed funding from the agri-foodtech VC Rimonim, the company disclosed to AFN.
What does a CPG company want with smart checkout technology, you ask? Data, and lots of it.
In the UK, the practice of Veganuary — being vegan for the month of January — is starting to catch the attention of the fast-food giants.
This article is intended to demystify IP in the food and drink industry and shed light on the full extent of the opportunities available to companies to protect and benefit from their IP, with a particular focus on the role patent protection can play.
We asked Perfect Day why they’re leaving value on the table by focusing on partnerships and not marketing its own brand and how they’re staying ahead of the competition.
Did you know that if America’s cats and dogs were a country, they’d be the fifth largest consumer of meat products globally? Now add the world’s pets into that; that’s a big contribution to the carbon footprint of the world’s meat industry.
So far, checkout-free technologies appear to be using the same recipe of technology: will they be forced to diversify or die?
My time spent scouting out various ASF tech solutions at the Asia-Pacific Agri Tech Innovation Week in Singapore has given me cause for cautious optimism.
Hint: Jinx isn’t really about dogs. It’s about the people who own dogs.
As US consumers show more interest in online offerings, retailers are upping their digital game this holiday season — including food retailers.
I tried Karana’s alt turkey at the recent Asia Agri-Food Innovation Week in Singapore. Here’s what I thought.
Luckily I didn’t have to choose. Here’s a few things I heard while living it up at the St Regis and bumping into celebs at every turn.
One could be forgiven for questioning why the world needs a robot that can make 300 pizzas an hour. Clayton Wood, CEO of robot making startup Picnic, often has to answer for that.
Hundreds of thousands of species of micro-algae float through the world’s waterways. Just a fraction have been categorised or studied. It leaves an imaginarium of
The idea for the FoodTech 500 first came over a team lunch at Forward Fooding HQ, where we were debating the recent IPO of Beyond Meat and wondering who will be the next big player in AgriFoodTech to IPO, writes Lesley Stonier.
With Idea2Scale, we conducted a survey of 50 global venture capital firms that invest in foodtech and agtech and asked them about the categories and geographies they were most excited about as well as the key challenges to investing in the sector.
