Colicchio is slated to appear at the Indoor AgTech Innovation Summit in New York next month so we caught up with him to discuss indoor farming, alternative protein, and restaurant tech.
Rob Leclerc, Founding Partner at AgFunder, will be participating in the online conference Virtual Summit on AgTech next week alongside alternative meat leaders such as Ethan Brown from Beyond Meat.
Before applications close on Sunday May 12, TERRA alum ReGrained shares insights about the benefits of working with corporates on scaling the business.
Alternative dairy products are leading the way while mainstream restaurants start to add plant-based burgers to their menus. Plant-based protein alternative companies have attracted $16
Asset management firm PeakBridge Partners has hired food investment veteran Peter Kruger to manage the EIT FoodSparks seed fund in collaboration with EIT Food. The fund
Chinese food tech VC Bits x Bites has created The China Food Tech Hub, a new model to foster cooperation between startups and corporations in
One robot climbs into hard-to-reach places to perform critical inspections while the other helps farmers rid their fields of rocks.
Elo Life Systems, the food-focused subsidiary of the recently listed gene-editing group Precision Biosciences, is focused on developing food crops with nutritionally-improved characteristics.
With the largest population in the world and as one of the largest agricultural economies in the world, China represents a major opportunity for startups
Beyond Meat lists on the Nasdaq today after raising $240m in IPO funding at a valuation of $1.46bn, pricing the deal at the top of an increased price range – highlighting strong investor demand for the stock.
Just as it has for most of its history, the ample and multi-leveled agricultural and agri-food sector of Canada continues to play a fundamental role
In this second edition of Future Food, I chat to Robb about his food preferences, his contrarian views of the plant-based meat trend, the role of big data in food, and how the Amazon deal came about.
Cafe X, a runner-up in the recent AgriFood Innovation Awards, remained tight-lipped about where it plans to open new cafes but is focusing on research & development to stay ahead of the competition.
For the F&A Next conference at Wageningen University next month, Anterra has selected seven food tech companies to pitch their novel technologies including logistics, gut microbiome testing, flavor analysis, novel milk proteins, and plant-based health products.
While the final size of the Series B has yet to be disclosed — there are still some more potential investors coming into the round, according to CEO Arturo Elizondo — sources close to the deal say it was raising $40 million.
Cultivian Sandbox Ventures was the first to focus entirely on technology startups operating across the food and agriculture value chain.
Blendhub is a Spain-headquartered global business that’s been designing and powdering food products for clients for over 20 years.
TERRA, a non-equity-based accelerator program, is unique in its approach to acceleration by focusing on startups that are ready to scale their businesses, as opposed to those at the proof of concept stage refining their pitches for seed funding.
There is a need for patient capital in the agrifood sector to give startups more time to prove out their business models, according to Rockstart agrifood program director Mark Durno.
The livestock industry is gearing up for its turn in the innovation saddle as more startups like Performance Livestock Analytics tap corporate partners like Wilbur-Ellis to pick up the pace
