What makes a good agtech investment? ‘Clear ROI at the farm level,’ says Fulcrum Global Capital
November 8, 2024
“Fulcrum maybe isn’t the most trendy investor, but we care a lot about what has real impact on the farm.”
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Are agtech stakeholders actually collaborating? FIRA USA 2024 attendees weigh in
November 1, 2024
The industry is moving in the right direction, said various growers, startups, agribusinesses and investors polled by AgFunderNews.
🎥 Heura CEO: ‘We can transform ultra-processed foods into highly nutritious options’
October 18, 2024
Barcelona-based Heura made its name selling alt meat but has since developed novel texturizing technology that can be applied to everything from cheese to pasta.
Regulatory bottleneck is thwarting biologicals, says Biotalys CEO: ‘We’ve got to figure out another way’
October 17, 2024
“Put it this way,” says Kevin Helash. “If you’re trying to fund an eight-year regulatory process with investors who have a window of five years, there’s a disconnect there.”
🎥Insulin… from black soldier flies? FlyBlast makes the case for bugs vs microbes for recombinant protein production
October 14, 2024
Antwerp-based FlyBlast has a stable black soldier fly breeding line that expresses human insulin “at very high yields,” claims CEO Johan Jacobs.
🎥 ENOUGH CEO on a ‘hard 12 months’ scaling up mycoprotein production, buoyed by ‘stunning interest’ from Big Meat
October 11, 2024
“For me, supply is the absolute constraint in this [mycoprotein] market right now,” says ENOUGH CEO Jim Laird.
Guest article: Lessons for regenerative agriculture investors from Groundswell 2024
July 24, 2024
Events like Groundswell UK are key to understanding agricultural practices and forging relationships with pioneering regenerative farmers.
Western Growers & Wharf42 initiative Platform 10 launches global grower trial network to speed up adoption of biologicals
June 26, 2024
The grower trial network will conduct extensive global field trials of promising biologicals on grower farms.
Report card from California: Lack of education around biologicals still problem #1 for the industry, says Dr. Pam Marrone
June 25, 2024
Challenges for the biologicals sector right now include dispelling a number of myths still prevalent in the industry.
What agtech can learn from the Indy 500: a conversation about data and uncertainty with Purdue’s Chad Fiechter
June 24, 2024
In the race to digitize agriculture we must remember to keep growers and producers at the center of operations and innovations.
Farmers ‘ready and willing to try’ biological crop solutions. Only ‘strong business models’ need apply
June 18, 2024
Adapting to a changing environment while supporting growers is the over-arching theme of this year’s Salinas Biological Summit.
🎥Pow.bio CEO: Continuous fermentation can deliver ‘multi-fold increases in productivity’
May 29, 2024
Smarter, not bigger, bioreactors operating a continuous process will unlock the economic viability of precision fermentation for a broader range of bioproducts, claims Pow.bio.
Biomass fermentation space heats up as Enifer raises $39m to scale mycoprotein plant in Finland
May 23, 2024
While this is not the optimal time to raise capital, the fact that Enifer’s PEKILO strain has been grown at industrial scale before has de-risked the enterprise for investors, says its CEO.
🎥Hyfé looks to waste streams to power the next generation of sustainable feedstocks for biomanufacturing
May 21, 2024
The race is on to find cheaper and more sustainable feedstocks to fuel the bioeconomy, says Hyfe cofounder and CEO Michelle Ruiz.
‘People don’t realize how much fashion needs new materials’ but biomaterials investors can be hard to find, say experts
May 16, 2024
From setting investor expectations to communicating the realities of R&D, here’s what biomaterials startups should be considering.
🎥Terviva’s strategic pivot: ‘The development cycles of our tech are longer than the economic cycles in which we operate’
March 28, 2024
Scaling and commercializing products from a completely new crop takes time and patient capital, says Terviva cofounder and CEO Naveen Sikka.
🎥Vivici CEO on whey from fermentation: “If we narrow the message only to ‘animal-free,’ we’re pigeonholing ourselves”
March 26, 2024
If the marketing of whey from fermentation is too narrowly focused on the ‘animal-free’ aspect, it potentially limits the market, says Netherlands-based startup Vivici.
🎥 Supergut shines in Ozempic era: ‘We’ve tripled the business over the past 5-6 months’
March 25, 2024
Are GLP-1 drugs “an existential threat to the processed food industry,” as one academic recently told the New York Times, or are they creating new opportunities for companies to create new products or reposition existing ones?
Strong partnerships ‘at the core’ of Africa’s agrifoodtech transformation, say AAII forum panelists
December 4, 2023
AAII participants said collaboration can positively impact everything from policy to infrastructure gaps to supply chain issues.
Letter on the way to the desert via MEASA
November 16, 2023
The Middle East, Africa and South Asia have many ties between them that create a huge market opportunity for agrifoodtech.
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