Next Gen Foods has secured plant-based protein’s biggest Series A funding to date from investors including Temasek, GGV Capital, and Paul McCartney’s MPL Ventures.
The US-based investment platform’s third installment wants to make food more nutritious, sustainable, and accessible through bioactive elements.
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.
The woman-led fund has raised $5.7 million to help the country’s ag sector embrace technology, improve climate resilience, and empower women.
The agency will fund pilot projects to produce commodities “using farming, ranching or forestry practices that reduce emissions or sequester carbon.”
Greenlight Biosciences develops RNA products for agriculture and human health, including in the Covid-19 vaccine arena.
Copia’s food and products delivery service is one of a kind as it aims to revamp e-commerce models in Africa with a team of local agents.
The deal with Nasdaq-listed SPAC Agrico Acquisition Corp is expected to close in the second quarter of 2022.
A few months ago, Bayer and Microsoft announced a partnership. Our article about it went quasi-viral and spurred a number of responses. Here’s what the industry said.
Soil microbial products for farmers have typically been unreliable. Kula Bio has changed that, writes AgFunder’s Rob Leclerc.
The Boston, US-based startup says its natural, microbial alternative to traditional nitrogen fertilizer is crop-agnostic, non-GMO, and cost-effective for farmers facing rising fertilizer costs.
Farmers can use the R3 web app to forecast their potential return on investment for implementing various regenerative ag practices.
Cultured Decadence has developed “proprietary cell lines and cell feed” for seafood products including lobster and other crustaceans.
Chicago-based impact investment fund VestedWorld has supported more than 20 African startups addressing critical social and market needs, like improving cost and value chain for food.
The country looks set to creep up the agtech investment rankings.
A strategic partnership with Walmart includes putting Plenty’s vertically-grown greens on Californian store shelves this year.
The timing of KKR’s vote of confidence is particularly interesting as concerns mount about the future of some vertical farms, but Bowery CEO Irving Fain says it’s a positive inflection point for the industry.
It aims to create a “universally accessible cellular agriculture platform” by providing growth media and other solutions at relatively low cost.
The Dutch VC invested in the 25-year-old tilapia farming company to curb Africa’s reliance on food imports and address skyrocketing protein needs.
