Startup Spotlight: Forager wants to help local food digitalize by connecting farmers and buyers
Forager was dedicated to growing local food economies well before Covid-19 but is seeing a new bout of opportunity as consumer habits change.
Forager was dedicated to growing local food economies well before Covid-19 but is seeing a new bout of opportunity as consumer habits change.
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.
Singapore Food Bowl is our fully-online impact accelerator program aimed at building a more resilient, sustainable, and decentralized agrifood system.
AFN meets 3 startups bringing more efficiency and sustainability to the agrifood supply chain, with blockchain, coconut husks, and cold storage in the mix.
To mark International Food Loss & Waste Awareness Day, AFN spoke to three startups who are taking three very different approaches to food waste reduction.
An agriculture tech consultant shares his insights on how to make the most of the burgeoning market for agtech solutions in South America.
The Bakersfield-based startup aims to improve the most time-consuming, labor-intensive, and riskiest part of the grape harvest: moving fruit to the end of the rows.
The Dutch-Danish startup thinks that toxicity and growing pathogen resistance to chemical aqua-pesticides means that now’s the time to shine for biological alternatives.
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.
Atomo! co-founder Jarret Stopforth happens to have a DIY food science lab in his garage. While some people build cars on their weekends, Jarret builds food.
The foodtech startup is using AI to build a “digital chef” that creates sustainable, personalized recipes for home cooks.
EIT Food will inject $6.45 million into 13 agrifood startups to ride out the Covid-19 crisis – something CEO Andy Zynga calls “a vital lifeline” for its recipients.
Focused on food resilience, sustainability, and health, Pivot East will help UK and EU startups test-run their entry into Asia Pacific using Singapore as a springboard.
UK Research & Innovation, the UK government’s tech grant body, has upped the amount handed out for its latest food production challenge. But grant success isn’t just about money.
The bulk of food safety claims, such as “antibiotic-free”, “never-ever-antibiotic” and “hormone-free,” are based on little more than producer affidavits.
Few startups can say they’ve had an easy time fundraising this year. But Soplaya says the round it just closed was fast and painless, all things considered.
GROW’s first Singapore Food Bowl cohort specializes in areas including urban farming, ‘clean meat’ production, and food waste valorization.
Developed by Los Angeles-based Circular Systems, Agraloop transforms food-crop waste into natural fiber products, with energy and soil amendments as handy byproducts.
Solectrac says its biggest challenge is convincing farmers and investors that electric tractors can perform equally to, or better than, diesel models.
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