Data Snapshot: Over a third of 2021 agrifoodtech investment went to e-grocers
China’s Furong Xingsheng and rapid delivery services in the US, Germany, and Turkey made eGrocery the most funded agrifoodtech category of 2021.
China’s Furong Xingsheng and rapid delivery services in the US, Germany, and Turkey made eGrocery the most funded agrifoodtech category of 2021.
Venture investors pumped $51.7 billion into agrifoodtech startups in 2021, according to AgFunder’s latest global investment report.
Late-stage investment into European agrifoodtech ventures totalled $476 million in 2020 – less than a third of what they raised the previous year.
The region is still not among the top destinations for climate tech capital, despite its huge potential.
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Hemp hulls are normally discarded. But Brightseed says they contain compounds that could help treat metabolic diseases.
Data from AgFunder shows a steady increase in the number of female founders in both upstream and downstream agrifoodtech startups.
Funding for food waste solutions up and down the supply chain reflects the growing importance of the category for businesses, consumers, and investors alike.
Latin America and the Middle East also saw their respective shares of global alt-protein funding increase year-on-year.
More than half of survey respondents said grocery stores must improve their sustainability claims and avoid greenwashing.
The vaccine developed by Canadian company Medicago highlights the role plant-based proteins could play in speeding up response times to global health crises.
Premium Branded Foods remained one of India’s most active categories, despite a pandemic-related slowdown.
Subsidies are “driving the destruction of ecosystems and species extinction,” according to a new report from The B Team and Business For Nature.
Startups developing biological crop inputs secured a total of $892 million in funding last year.
Nearly two-thirds of the world’s largest meat, fish, and dairy suppliers present a “high risk” of spreading zoonotic disease from livestock to humans.
Credits generated under older, less-rigorous schemes have questionable impact – and could damage confidence in nascent carbon markets.
Check out AFN’s list of corporate climate commitments, net-zero pledges, and regen ag initiatives.
Cultivated meat and other “future foods” startups raised a total of $127 million in China during 2020.
Widespread adoption of plant-based diets would result in lower emissions and higher carbon sequestration, researchers claim.
Pandemic-related labor shortages and supply chain issues drove early-stage investment in solutions closer to the farm for India’s agrifood startups.
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