Bioenergy Devco raises $100m to build anaerobic digesters across North America
The Annapolis, Maryland-based startup uses anaerobic digestion to convert organic waste, such as discarded food or ag byproducts, into fuel and fertilizer.
The Annapolis, Maryland-based startup uses anaerobic digestion to convert organic waste, such as discarded food or ag byproducts, into fuel and fertilizer.
Wolt CEO Miki Kuusi will become head of DoorDash International, leading its global expansion efforts and reporting directly to the US company’s CEO Tony Xu.
The Kenyan fund’s CEO talks about its own hard-learned lessons in everything from promoting tech as a tool, to fighting climate change on the continent.
US Farmers & Ranchers in Action, the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research, and the World Farmers’ Organization are also participants.
The US startup brings work-from-home to the gig economy, giving drive-thru restaurants a virtual, on-demand workforce, writes AgFunder partner Manuel Gonzalez.
US-based Robigo engineers plant microbiota into ‘molecular vigilantes,’ according to co-founder Connor Sweeney.
The St Paul, Minnesota-based startup will continue to build out its technology that connects lenders and farmers, giving the latter improved access to working capital.
Supply chain, warehousing, and logistics solutions led the investment rounds for Midstream Technologies in the first half of the year.
If this is really is our “last, best chance,” the UK royal’s well-researched and well-grounded approach is worth taking seriously.
Nuro and Google will additionally “explore opportunities together to strengthen and transform local commerce,” the Californian startup said.
The Chilean startup is building what it says is Latin America’s first large-scale sustainable vertical farming plant, powered completely by renewables.
The Bangkok-based startup makes pet food products out of black soldier fly larvae, feeding them “a diet from pre-consumed food waste” and other “food surpluses.”
The Melbourne-based startup has combined an easy-to-use handheld scanner with machine learning analytics to make non-destructive fruit testing and future quality predictions as easy as picking up cheap mangoes in summer.
The indoor soil-based farming company will build new facilities with financing from real estate firm Decennial Group.
The Abu Dhabi-based company will add over 100 crops to its portfolio, as well as new CEA technologies, through its collaboration with PlanTFarm.
The top three destination countries for agrifoodtech investment remained the same in H1 2021 – but there were a few surprises further down the list.
The Patna-based startup says it serves 650,000 smallholders and collaborates with 3,000 rural micro-entrepreneurs.
Soil Metrics was spun-out of Colorado State University in 2019 to commercialize “biogeochemical” soil modeling techniques.
It aims to “get cell-cultured meat onto the tables of Chinese consumers, providing them with healthier, safer, and lower-carbon meat products,” according to co-founder Ding Shijie.
“Our mission [is] to drive the widespread adoption of regenerative farming practices,” said CEO Daniel Ryan.