Gaming brand Razer launches $50m green fund, backs bamboo startup
The Singapore-based company has invested in The Nurturing Co as part of its wider ‘Go Green With Razer’ initiative, which aims for a 100% ‘carbon neutral’ organization by 2030.
The Singapore-based company has invested in The Nurturing Co as part of its wider ‘Go Green With Razer’ initiative, which aims for a 100% ‘carbon neutral’ organization by 2030.
The North Dakotan startup is on a mission to digitalize the grain supply chain and now plans to add fintech offerings to its app-based trading platform.
The Singapore-based app claims to be the category leader for online food delivery, ride-hailing, and digital payments in Southeast Asia.
The USDA-backed startup produces vapor-releasing sachets that extend the life of fresh produce when it’s in transit from the farm.
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.
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.
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 group will use the funding to expand in the US and China – and to “fuel acquisitions, key partnerships, and investments” in plant-based products.
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 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.
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.
This latest injection follows a $182 million round late last year which was co-led by Baidu Ventures and SoftBank Vision Fund II.
The Brisbane-based startup wants to lower the financial and ecological costs of crop pest management with its low-power insect sensor technology.
The Danish startup aspires to become the leading supplier of concentrated pheromones as an active ingredient to companies formulating spray-on inputs for row crops.
It’s environmentally clean, growing at double digits, and able to increase the convenience of doorstep grocery delivery, writes Manuel Gonzalez.
TenderCuts is the first consumer-focused investment by the VC arm of state-owned agricultural bank NABARD, the fund’s CEO Rajesh Ranjan tells AFN.
FMC Ventures’ Amar Singh speaks with AFN about the advantages and challenges of being the newcomer in agrifood corporate venture investing and its laser-focus on crop protection.
The Tennessee startup is the first company in the US to grow the indigo plant at a scale usable by the commercial denim industry.