Meet the founder: InnerPlant’s Shely Aronov on recoding plant DNA to improve crop health
The US startup embeds “living sensors” in seeds that can signal plant distress, helping to mitigate crop loss and over-reliance on pesticides.
The US startup embeds “living sensors” in seeds that can signal plant distress, helping to mitigate crop loss and over-reliance on pesticides.
If this is really is our “last, best chance,” the UK royal’s well-researched and well-grounded approach is worth taking seriously.
His startup aims to combine the nutrients of traditional whey powder with a taste that’s superior to existing plant-based offerings.
But Danish Crown’s Jais Valeur expects pork production to remain at present levels into the future because it’s “a good bet for a climate-friendly protein.”
The Hollywood actor, who’s also joining the startups in an advisory capacity, said they’re solving “some of the most pressing issues [in] industrial beef production.”
GOOD Meat, the cell-cultured meat business of US alt-protein startup Eat Just, has secured $97 million in funding as a continuation of the $170 million
Gates isn’t the only one to have recognized that farmland investments can lead to solid returns.
AppHarvest also announced the appointment of former Amazon tech exec Mark Keller to head up its on-farm robotics efforts.
Female agrifoodtech entrepreneurs experience persistent negative gender bias, according to a new report published by KK&P and EIT Food.
Having overtaken e-commerce behemoth Alibaba on the active buyers front, Pinduoduo’s looking upstream at alt-protein and logistics tech, its sustainability head tells AFN.
It claims to be the US’s largest indoor farming operation to be certified organic by the USDA – and the country’s leading supplier of fresh herbs.
CEO Sriram on why she made the leap from full-time scientist to founder – and how she reconciles vegetarianism with being a cultured meat eater.
“We have absolutely no aversion to doing that, we just haven’t had the bandwidth,” he said.
In this role, you’ll represent AgFunder to some of the smartest and most talented founders and investors in the industry, and you’ll need to be at least their equal.
He also said that the agribusiness giant doesn’t expect China’s domestic livestock feed industry to become self-sufficient anytime soon.
AgBiome is using its intricate understanding of the plant-related microbiome to develop biological solutions to infections, insects, and nematodes.
When New Zealand came calling, other agrifoodtech investors saw ‘just sheep and cows.’ But Gil Meron sensed one of the sector’s biggest opportunities.
Bowery just closed the biggest-ever vertical farming funding round. Listen to our recent podcast with its CEO Irving Fain here.
Dr Robb Fraley, former CTO of Monsanto, has joined the board of directors at soil health diagnostics startup Trace Genomics.
Pinduoduo served 788 million annual active buyers in 2020 – the first time it has overtaken Alibaba in user numbers.