BRIEF: Commercial kitchen food waste startup Winnow raises $12m Series B
The UK startup has developed a smart kitchen tool that helps restaurants account for their food waste to see where they can improve.
The UK startup has developed a smart kitchen tool that helps restaurants account for their food waste to see where they can improve.
The startup’s robots roam around poultry houses floors to encourage more bird movement and to prevent hens from laying eggs outside designated nest boxes.
UK startup Hummingbird Technologies tells us it plans to expand into North America with its fresh injection of funds from BASF VC and TELUS Ventures.
Provivi produces pesticide alternatives for farmers based on insect pheromones, the natural secretions animals use to find one another for mating.
Cricket One is another insect-based protein startup that’s taking off in Asia, but why? AFN speaks with its founder, Nam Dang, to find out.
LeadX Capital Partners, which is backed by German retailer Metro Group, led the round, joined by the likes of Ingka Group (IKEA), Northzone, D-Ax, and Norrsken.
Asia’s getting richer faster than anywhere else, and there’s a huge need to produce enough food for growing populations. Here’s why you should get into it.
Are you an allergy sufferer and in need of peace of mind? Israeli startup allerguard could help out. It just got $1.5m in backing for its detection tech.
The Greek tech startup will use the funds to support commercialization of its real-time device that analyzes crops and manages input application.
Just 8% of venture capital dollars invested in agri-foodtech in 2018 went to founding teams with at least one female, according to a new report by AgFunder, KK&P and The New Food Economy with support from S2G Ventures.
The Arizona-based startup initially developed to test pathogens on cannabis is now preparing to expand into the broader food and beverage space.
The Israeli startup combs thousands of recipes, menus, and social media conversations to figure out what food and beverage trends consumers will crave next.
Indian VC firm Omnivore tells AFN that aquaculture tech app Aquaconnect has raised a $1.1m seed round from Omnivore and HATCH. Read on to find out more.
The Israeli agritech company FruitSpec — which is carving out a niche using hyperpectral imagery to count fruits —is set to officially close its $4 million Series A fundraise at the Agrivest conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. Get the scoop here!
Indian cloud kitchen giant Rebel Foods has raised $125m in Series D funding from Goldman Sachs, Sequoia Capital, Gojek, and others.
Danish vegetarian meal delivery startup Simple Feast plans on taking on the US, after its latest funding round. But will Americans have the appetite?
The startup supports the breeding and production of new plant varieties and seeds in hemp, coffee, and regulated cannabis.
The startup has developed an automated service that helps eliminate human error in the legally required cannabis lab testing industry.
The robotics-as-a-service company helps farmers weed their crops and hopes to move into other applications in the future like plant health and monitoring.
The Swiss company’s software that can be programmed to identify and map objects in satellite and drone images for a wide range of uses, from precision agriculture to humanitarian aid.
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