Cultured meat manufacturer Memphis Meat, UK farm-2-consumer company FarmDrop and Syngenta’s acquisition by ChemChina are some of this week’s Fundings-in-Brief.
Microsoft and the USDA have announced the winners of their Innovation Challenge, a competition tasking entrepreneurs with making good use of the USDA’s recently-released data.
Noah Deich, executive director of the Center for Carbon Removal, shares insights heard at COP21 into how agtech can play a role in keeping global temperatures down.
The food technology-focused accelerator’s new managing director, Andrew Ive, talks to AgFunderNews about getting to know the sector since joining in November.
The agtech startup accelerator, which already has five companies in its portfolio from the 2015 cohort, selected six businesses ranging from gene technologies to frozen fish eggs.
A $110m financing for a refrigerated warehouse, a microbiome research company’s Series B funding and ChemChina’s continued bid for Syngenta contribute to this week’s fundings-in-brief.
Monsanto’s lawsuit, cannabis legalization in New Zealand, and continued drama around GMO-labeling are some of the stories covered in this week’s Industry-in-Brief.
Farmers are playing a larger role in funding agtech startups than you might think. Here are 4 ways they are doing so.
RFD-TV and The Weather Channel have launched the Farm & Ranch Forecast as a “tool” to help farmers make everyday decisions.
Strider, a decision support technology offering farmers a relatively simple data aggregation and pest management tool, brought on its first US customers at the end of last year.
AgFunderNews caught up with McDonald’s UK supply chain director Connor McVeigh to find out more about the fast food restaurant chain’s influence on farming practices and his views on agriculture technology.
Secretary Vilsack hosted a private meeting to hash details of a GMO labeling deal, while applications opened for organic research grants and poultry producers moved to organic and cage-free.
The UK-based agtech business competition is organized by Agri-Tech East, a cluster organization for the sector. Initial expressions of interest are due March 7, 2016.
Last year, we saw a surge in the number of policy shifts and regulatory moves affecting food and agriculture in the US. Here’s five from 2015 that will likely have a ripple effect into the new year.
An agtech entrepreneur and former venture capitalist, Matthew B. Crisp recently closed a Series A funding round for Benson Hill Biosystems, and here he shares some of his key takeaways.
Asian demand for ‘clean food’ amid rising pollution, food scandals and increasing discomfort around the use of pesticides, is driving the region’s indoor agriculture sector, according to a new whitepaper from Newbean Capital.
The first FoodBytes! Summit for 2016 is set to take place in Brooklyn, New York, on March 3, 2016, and applications are now open.
Drones across industries raised this funding, according to CB Insights, while growers debate the efficiency of the technology for agriculture.
Farmland fund manager SLM Partners argues that ecological farming provides an alternative way to produce more with less, through deeply science-based and knowledge-intensive farming systems.
Startup Weekend, a 54-hour startup competition that fosters ecosystem development, is coming to Ventura County, California.
