Regenerative agriculture is having a moment. For long-time regen ag practitioners and proponents, this is probably jarring. But having written about regenerative agriculture for five years now, I’ve never seen such engagement or our stories about this ultra-sustainable method of farming perform so well.
Japan’s Connected Robotics first made waves in Tokyo’s food tech space with its ballsy launch of OctoChef, a robot that serves hot octopus balls, and now it’s adding to its portfolio with an ice cream-making bear, and breakfast in bed robot.
New York is a leading agricultural state in the US and NYFVI is hoping to spur agrifood tech innovation in the state by letting a group of farmers pick which grant projects get funded each year.
AeroFarms has now raised over $230 million in total but has been slow to expand, particularly overseas despite plans to do so.
Finding alternative uses for methane could be an important tool in the fight against climate change as the gas is responsible for at least a quarter of global warming and is over 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.
Cannabis crop science and growing practices are decades behind almost every other cultivated crop.
The deal was led by Singapore-based BlueRed Partners, Südzucker AG, Royal DSM, and Singha Ventures.
We’re excited to announce that Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS), a Scottish vertical farming tech provider, has raised £5.4 million in Series A funding. The round
That is rather a lot of dough for a pizzeria.
Vestaron wants farmers to know that its peptide-based products are different from existing microbial products, offering more consistent efficacy with the same environmental benefits.
Berlin-based portable vertical farm startup InFarm on Tuesday disclosed a vast Series B raise of $100 million, bringing its total funding to over $134 million.
Paris-based insect farming venture Ÿnsect has been awarded a €20 million grant from the European Commission and a €3.7 billion European public-private partnership to build an industrial-size facility in northern France.
The multistakeholder investment platform catalyzed $3m in equity investment soil microbiome testing startup Trace Genomics and $535k in grant funding for three research projects.
Farming is expensive and the payout isn’t always guaranteed, but DeHaat hopes to soften the financial stress for its members with new offerings like credit and insurance.
The majority of agrifood tech investors are generalist tech investors but there is also a growing number of dedicated funds focused on foodtech and agtech. Here’s a list of the top 10 in 2018.
Europe’s agrifood tech ecosystem raised just 9% of the funding that went to foodtech and agtech startups globally in 2018. But deal activity increased 23% as agrifood tech startups in the region closed a similar number of deals as in the US.
The startup has an SaaS platform that provides users with forward-looking views of commodity markets that they can translate into actionable business decisions.
Silo, a marketplace for perishable food producers and distributors, has raised $3 million in seed funding led Initialized Capital, the fund founded by Reddit co-founder
The indoor ag software developer has also added former Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan to its Board of Directors.
Red Sea Farms, a Saudi Arabian startup developing saltwater-tolerant crops and saltwater-based greenhouses in the Middle East, has secured $1.9 million in funding. The startup
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International Fresh Produce Association launches year 3 of its produce accelerator