Venture builder Enviu has released a report after surveying Kenyan farmers to get their take on the regenerative ag movement.
The Yield Lab Latam is targeting a $50m final close by the end of the year.
The women-led investment firm says this early stage fund will help get new innovations to Canadian producers.
This year’s AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator includes startups focused on planetary health, climate-smart agriculture and decarbonization, among other areas.
Tepbac stands out for its unwavering commitment to bettering the lives of shrimp farmers and improving the aquaculture industry of Vietnam.
While opportunistic food marketers are already jumping on the ‘regenerative ag’ bandwagon, we need more data to define what this means for individual crops before growers can see a clear business case for adopting new practices, says KIND Snacks.
Later-stage deals for food waste startups increased in 2022, while larger platforms are starting to acquire smaller solution providers.
Tevel is partnering with ag machinery manufacturers and integrating its robots and ground computing software system with harvesting machinery.
California startups raised nearly twice as much funding as the second-largest global market for VC investment in agrifoodtech.
Copper has been used as a fungicide since the 1800s with no pathogen resistance. VM Agritech builds on this ancient solution with a broad-spectrum, copper-and-zinc-based fungicide.
S2G will provide funding for startups in capital-intensive, asset-oriented industries including agriculture, energy and oceans.
Investors poured money almost equally into the Recycling and Prevention categories of food waste mitigation in 2022 in North America.
Investment from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) and the OCP Group will enable Bidra to expand the scope of its agrifood fund for climate startups.
The company’s freshly raised Series A funding will go towards expanding the reach of its remotely managed network of modular veritcal farms.
The soil carbon project which already has 2700 farmers on board will help farmers adopt climate smart ag practices while connecting them to carbon markets.
Innovators creating bio-based alternatives to synthetic, fossil fuel and animal-based products and materials are capturing investor attention.
2023 will be a pivotal year for cultivated meat, as a handful of well-capitalized startups hit the market and early-stage players wait with bated breath to see if consumers are sufficiently enthused to motivate anxious investors to keep funding the nascent space, said investors at the Future Food Tech conference.
Oatly raised $425m as it “moves towards reaching financial self-sufficiency,” cultivated meat startup Fork & Good opened a pilot plant in New Jersey, and Klimato secured €4.2 million ($4.5 million) to expand its platform to help restaurants report the carbon footprints of their cuisine.
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has launched a new tool for agriculture impact investment funds to measure the impact of their investments against others.
eGrocery is still the biggest subsegment in agrifoodtech investing, attracting a cool $5.1 billion in funding in 2022. But that pales in comparison to the jaw-dropping $19 billion raised by food ecommerce startups in 2021, according to AgFunder’s new global investment report.
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