Meet the founder: Four Growers on what it takes to build ag robots that harvest faster than humans
Pennsylvania-based Four Growers just released its second-generation automatic harvester for greenhouse-grown tomatoes.
Pennsylvania-based Four Growers just released its second-generation automatic harvester for greenhouse-grown tomatoes.
Israeli startup Sensifi is emerging from stealth with a technology it claims could disrupt the food testing market by enabling rapid, on-premise detection of pathogens such as E. Coli and salmonella via an ‘artificial nose.’
Ending food waste may calls for bolder action (and thinking) than any one behavioral change or technology can provide.
Current Seedz customers already include major North American agrifood corporations John Deere, Mosaic, and Syngenta.
When the team at NCH Agriculture, a $1bn agriculture investment business, founded Agroprosperis in 2006, they didn’t have a plan and understood little about farming. Today Agroprosperis is the largest producer of crops in the Black Sea region, and is returning 15% a year to its investors.
2022 was a lousy year for agrifoodtech investing, and India was not immune to the headwinds impacting global markets, with funding to Indian startups in the field dipping 33% year-over-year to $2.4 billion, according to AgFunder’s new India AgriFoodTech Investment Report 2023.
If you’re farming edible insects for protein, scale is the name of the game, says Singapore-based startup Insectta. But if you’re mining bugs for higher-value functional ingredients, even a tiny startup can potentially compete on the global stage with the right technology.
Miyoko Schinner and the board of the plant-based dairy company she founded have agreed to bury the hatchet, withdraw their respective lawsuits and end their very public spat.
Japanese dairy giant Megmilk Snow Brand Co is investing in plant-based proteins via a joint venture with Singapore-based Agrocorp International.
“Ninety percent of things don’t happen because people don’t ‘ask’. Female reflections as Grow-NY opens for applications.
ADM has entered a strategic development agreement with Air Protein, a startup seeking to decouple food production from agricultural land by using carbon dioxide and hydrogen, rather than sugar, to fuel its fermentation-based food production platform.
The Americas and Asia tied as regions with the most ag biotech funding in 2022, with each raising $1.3 billion.
The Egg-Tech Prize—a global competition to find scalable technologies to sex chicks before they hatch—remains unclaimed because none of the applicants meet the criteria. It’s time to explore gene editing approaches, says eggXYt CEO Yehuda Elram.
Alt protein investor Lever VC has released its internal playbook for assessing the scientific progress of early-stage cultivated meat companies to help investors place more informed bets in a “complex and nascent industry” and help avoid a “Theranos-style outcome.”
“We’ve got a groundswell of young people who are trained in molecular biology,” says SynBioBeta founder Dr John Cumbers: “They’re not scared of GMOs. But they are scared of the environmental impacts of climate change and the unsustainability of our consumer culture.”
The company’s first product will be a “clean propagation system” to ensure healthier, higher-quality plants.
“Wood Milk started with a simple idea,” says actress Aubrey Plaza in a new spoof ad from MilkPEP, the dairy industry-backed body behind the iconic ‘Got Milk’ ads. “I saw a tree and I asked myself: Can I drink this?”
IFT FIRST’s Startup Pavilion brings technical, business and scientific professionals under one roof — a true rarity at agrifood events.
Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown says he is confident of returning to growth and achieving cashflow positive status in the second half of this year, after posting a 17.7% decline in net revenues to $195.5m in the first quarter of 2023.
Investment for Australia agrifoodtech dropped 40% year-over-year in 2022, but enthusiasm for climate-focused companies remains robust.