As pricing parity gets closer to conventionally grown produce, focus on demand attributes will be increasingly important to the whole industry.
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has launched a new tool for agriculture impact investment funds to measure the impact of their investments against others.
eGrocery is still the biggest subsegment in agrifoodtech investing, attracting a cool $5.1 billion in funding in 2022. But that pales in comparison to the jaw-dropping $19 billion raised by food ecommerce startups in 2021, according to AgFunder’s new global investment report.
Panelists at World Agri-Tech and in AgFunder’s new report say agrifoodtech investment will get worse, but those solving ‘the right’ issues have opportunity.
So far, carbon markets have proven more beneficial to corporates trying to offset emissions than to the farmers themselves.
Panelists at the AgFunder 2023 Global Report launch party discussed the challenges for alt protein and eGrocery, and why capital is swimming upstream.
Bayer and Microsoft will offer off-the-shelf digital tools to aggregate ag data and better track everything from plant growth to supply chain visibility.
Real cost and productivity loss on the farm are creating a catalyst for agriculture to take a big leap forward in its digitization journey.
The macro headwinds startups face right now are also driving more interest in agrifoodtech as a solution to some of today’s most pressing climate issues.
As we look to the next decade there’s an underserved, tech-driven opportunity for founders and investors alike: serving the ag service providers.
Global public debt, the highest seen in 60 years, is causing a spike in food insecurity, according to a new iPES Food report that exposes a debt and hunger loop forcing countries to choose between feeding people and repaying debt.
Unless it mitigates emissions, PepsiCo will miss its Science-Based targets for 2040 by 58%, according to think tank Planet Tracker.
Companies big and small are making commitments to launch regenerative products, but what does regenerative product design actually look like? How do we measure the impacts of product design and ingredient choices on people and our planet?
Billions of dollars have flowed to precision fermentation and biomass fermentation companies in recent years, says Synonym Bio. “But achieving commercial adoption requires a network of large-scale infrastructure, which does not yet exist.”
Arkeon claims that ingredients are a bottleneck in the alternative proteins and is out to produce ingredients combined with vital amino acids.
A new Inmarsat report notes “improved environmental outcomes” including water conservation from leveraging satellite IoT tools for agriculture.
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.
The top 10 climate tech deals in agrifood in 2022 were almost exclusively upstream startups in vertical farming, alternative proteins and ag biotech.
Despite an overall increase in agtech adoption, farmers around the world still lag in terms of adding new sustainability practices to their operations.
It’s been a tough few months for the alternative protein startup category, particularly companies developing plant-based meat, dairy, and seafood alternatives
