Data snapshot: Meet the startups tackling conservation and deforestation in Latin America
Conservation tech is a small-but-vital slice of agrifoodtech investment in Latin America to fight climate change and boost planetary health.
Conservation tech is a small-but-vital slice of agrifoodtech investment in Latin America to fight climate change and boost planetary health.
Coca-Cola and eight bottling partners have closed a $137.7m VC fund focusing on sustainability investments that will be managed by Greycroft.
Oritain —a New Zealand-based firm using forensics to verify the origin of everything from cocoa to coffee—has raised a $57m series C round.
Perfect Day plans to sell its consumer brands so it can focus on its core business as a b2b supplier of whey protein via precision fermentation.
Nexus PMG has raised a $50 million growth equity round to expand its infrastructure advisory business to investors and developers creating projects that convert waste into everything from fuel to animal feed.
Norfolk Plant Sciences has completed a pre-market consultation process with the FDA for its antioxidant-packed GM purple tomatoes.
Israeli startup ReaGenics is developing plant cell culture techniques to grow everything from saffron to cannabinoids, peyote, resveratrol, and anthocyanins from purple maize.
The bioeconomy will only take off if we can find a way to make the precision fermentation process more efficient, says Berkeley-based startup Pow.bio.
Each month, AgFunder News publishes a column of the agrifood industry’s biggest leadership changes, layoffs and more.
Ÿnsect COO Shankar Krishnamoorthy will assume the role of CEO; founder Antoine Hubert will pivot to focus on science, IP and strategy.
Impossible Foods has added Ginkgo Bioworks as a defendant in its patent infringement lawsuit against foodtech rival Motif Foodworks over meaty-tasting heme proteins.
Tattooed Chef—best known for its plant-based bowls, zucchini spirals, and plant-based pizza—intends to file for bankruptcy protection.
Peter R. Mueller talks food security, efficacy and a host of other reasons we need both biological and chemical crop protection.
Startups in the Ag Marketplaces & Fintech category raised $191 million in 2022 to bring more efficiency to the agrifood supply chain.
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Louisa Burwood-Taylor heads to São Paulo, Brazil, to explore the latest developments in foodtech and agtech.
The landmark EAT–Lancet Commission’s ‘planetary health diet’ would improve food security, decrease noncommunicable diseases and reduce the environmental impact of food. But is has two problems, claims Ty Beal.
Agriculture must slash its emissions by nearly 80% by 2050; it will take the entire agrifood value chain to accomplish this.
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