The AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator announces 2023 cohort of agrifoodtech startups
This year’s AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator includes startups focused on planetary health, climate-smart agriculture and decarbonization, among other areas.
This year’s AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator includes startups focused on planetary health, climate-smart agriculture and decarbonization, among other areas.
Agrifoodtech investment in Europe fell 46% to $5.1bn in 2022, consistent with a 44% drop in global funding. But there were some bright spots…
Court documents show Miyoko Schinner and the board of the plant-based dairy company she founded have agreed to go through an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process, although legal experts say it doesn’t necessarily mean that their very public dispute is simmering down.
Precision fermentation startup The EVERY Co has teamed up with Alpha Foods to explore the potential of meat alternatives featuring ‘animal-free’ egg whites made with microbes instead of chickens.
GMOs still have an image problem when it comes to food. But attitudes are evolving, insists one startup on a mission to change hearts and minds, one purple tomato at a time.
Tepbac stands out for its unwavering commitment to bettering the lives of shrimp farmers and improving the aquaculture industry of Vietnam.
2022 was a grim year for agrifoodtech investment, with funding down 44% year-on-year globally, in part driven by an 81% drop in funding in China. So why did funding fall off a cliff and what can we expect in 2023 and beyond?
If you’re in space for three days, says Phnam Bagley, food is fuel. If you’re on a three-year round trip to Mars, it’s mission critical, a matter of life and death.
Running a business is demanding at the best of times. Throw in today’s unprecedented challenges and business leaders are being pulled in all directions. Introducing the Future Food & Ag Leadership program.
While the world is facing the challenges of sustainable food production intensification, new technologies offer a tremendous opportunity to address these issues, writes Marco Brini in the wake of publishing a book about digital ag adoption.
Armed with $15m in seed funding from Fall line capital, the MIT E14 fund, and FootPrint Coalition, Israeli startup Chunk Foods is building a factory for its plant-based whole cuts of meat.
Better Bite Ventures, a fund focused on alt protein startups in APAC, has invested in four startups under its early-stage First Bite initative.
French startup Ÿnsect has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Korean food company LOTTE to explore human food applications for edible insects.
While opportunistic food marketers are already jumping on the ‘regenerative ag’ bandwagon, we need more data to define what this means for individual crops before growers can see a clear business case for adopting new practices, says KIND Snacks.
Danone’s corporate venture arm Danone Manifesto Ventures has taken a minority stake in Imagindairy, an Israeli startup making ‘animal-free’ dairy proteins via precision fermentation (using microbes instead of cows).
Key barriers to widespread adoption are ‘not enough measurement and not enough funding’ for food waste solutions, says ReFED.
Later-stage deals for food waste startups increased in 2022, while larger platforms are starting to acquire smaller solution providers.
The sustainability credentials of microbial fermentation—used to make everything from lactic acid to ‘animal-free’ whey protein—would be greatly enhanced were the technology less dependent on food crops to produce its primary feedstock: sugar. But how viable are the alternatives?
Burcon NutraScience has teamed up with an unnamed “industry plant protein company” to submit a bid to acquire the assets of distressed plant protein processor Merit Functional Foods, which went into receivership on March 1.
Woodoo—a French biomaterials startup transforming low-grade wood into high-performance, low-environmental impact materials—has raised $31m.
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