Agrifoodtech startups tackle labour, nutrition and biosecurity issues at evokeAG 2023
APAC’s premier agrifoodtech event evokeAG brings investors, innovators and others together to address some of the biggest challenges of our time.
APAC’s premier agrifoodtech event evokeAG brings investors, innovators and others together to address some of the biggest challenges of our time.
Fresh from the recent acquisition of precision irrigation startup Tule, CropX explains how it balances M&A with internal development for agtech solutions.
Australia-based Loam Bio’s microbial seed inoculum could help farmers store more carbon in the ground and more easily enter carbon markets.
Arkeon claims that ingredients are a bottleneck in the alternative proteins and is out to produce ingredients combined with vital amino acids.
Two of the biggest hurdles facing plant-based meat, says Rebellyous Foods, are price and quality-at-scale, which the Seattle-based startup is tackling head on with technology it claims can dramatically increase yields and slash labor costs.
“I don’t know many companies who are really talking about the ethics of their supply chain in the plant-based world, other than the animal ethics part… I’m talking about the human ethics part of things and fair labor.”
A new Inmarsat report notes “improved environmental outcomes” including water conservation from leveraging satellite IoT tools for agriculture.
Israeli startup Remilk—one of the best-funded players in the nascent animal-free dairy space—has hit pause on plans to build the world’s large-scale precision fermentation facility in Denmark and is instead ramping up production with a contract manufacturer in western Europe.
The Covid-19 pandemic had a clear impact on brick & mortar restaurants and retailers, forcing them to innovate to stay afloat, so while globally there was a dip in investment during 2020, it soon picked up in 2021 as these stores adjusted to a new normal that forced many of them to digitize.
BII plans to designate $250 million to African and Indian startups by 2026, including those developing solutions for smallholder farmers.
“You can’t change how meat eaters eat by making the same thing they already consume,” says cultivated meat startup Vow’s founder George Peppou.
Agtech startup FarmWise gets a new CEO, Cargill sees a CFO shuffle, and Beyond Meat saays good-bye to its longtime branding executive.
With a fintech platform and food prescription program, About Fresh is making food accesiblity a reality for more Americans.
2022’s 10 most active food and agriculture technology venture capital firms were dominated by American firms with other leaders spread across Europe.
Entocycle, a UK startup that provides technologies and services for the insect farming industry, has secured $5 million in a Series A round from a
Powerful data and validated science were just a few of the reasons Middleland Capital led BIOHM’s recent $7.5m funding round.
‘Building an Africa that feeds itself’ is what RiceAfrika says it’s out to accomplish. Ibrahim Maigari its founder and CEO believes that if we’re serious
Operating both a B2B and B2C marketplace, Mayani has nearly 140,000 fish farmers on its platform.
As many in the vertical farming industry struggle, tech companies, growers and academics weigh in on what must happen next in order to progress.
The top 10 climate tech deals in agrifood in 2022 were almost exclusively upstream startups in vertical farming, alternative proteins and ag biotech.
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