The plant-based burger maker is reportedly planning to go public within the next 12 months, either via a traditional IPO listing or a SPAC merger.
New Zealand’s Scentian Bio is using insect olfactory receptors to detect volatile compounds – and it believes its tech could prove invaluable for the food industry.
AppHarvest will use the Root AI Virgo robot to help its employees with harvest as well as tidying up around its high-tech greenhouses.
Tortuga AgTech is preparing to build hundreds of robots to deploy in 2022 as Covid-19 boosted farmer interest in robotics to address labor shortage issues.
Singapore-based Trax was Southeast Asia’s highest-funded agrifoodtech startup in 2019, according to AgFunder data.
The proposed deal would value Grab at around $35 billion and could complete as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter.
The French startup uses AI to help supermarkets identify items near expiration and determine whether they should be discounted or donated to charity.
The UK-based food delivery app saw its share price nosedive by as much as 30% during its first day of trading on the London Stock Exchange yesterday.
Oishii is growing strawberries in vertical farms with the help of bees – and founder Hiroki Koga is taking his cue from none other than Elon Musk.
The app allows shoppers to form groups to collectively buy farm produce and other groceries in bulk at competitive prices.
The Breakthrough Institute argues that the US public sector should focus on increasing its investment in ag-related R&D, rather than taxing farm inputs or preventing farmland expansion.
The group will use the funding to expand in the US and China – and to “fuel acquisitions, key partnerships, and investments” in plant-based products.
Recently acquired by an affiliate of Iowa’s C9 Capital, Utah-based Fusionware uses blockchain tech to track produce from seed to shelf.
The Netherlands startup can identify male chicken eggs before a fetus develops, allowing the egg industry to avoid the culling of 6.5 billion male chicks each year.
The Newark-based company is set to merge with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp, raising as much as $357 million in gross proceeds at a $1.2 billion valuation.
In spite of the Covid-19 bump for consumer-facing solutions, downstream agrifoodtech funding actually decreased in 2020 if a few China oversize deals are discounted.
The Netherlands-based startup is culturing meat in the lab using a technique that can change pluripotent stem cells from a newborn animal into any desired cell type.
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The US biotech startup is using gene editing to increase the nutritional content of seeds such as soybean, with an eye on the booming plant-based protein market.
Eat Just made history when it became the first company in the world to get regulatory approval to serve a cell-cultured meat product last November.
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