Singapore offers $206m Covid-19 boost for startups that “contribute to national priorities”
Covid-19 has accelerated the country’s efforts to enhance food security, so agrifoodtech startups are among those that could benefit most from the new fund.
Covid-19 has accelerated the country’s efforts to enhance food security, so agrifoodtech startups are among those that could benefit most from the new fund.
Few would dispute that growing fish or strawberries in a desert is a remarkable idea, even in 2020.
Although microbe-based feed additives are nothing new in animal feed, the space has fallen behind on innovating new solutions.
Agrocorp, which recently made a groundbreaking $12m blockchain wheat trade, will use the funds to “ensure a continuous flow of food from farmers to end-consumers.”
Farm tech investment has increased 370% over 6 years, bucking the trend across venture capital sectors, which have had a bumper ride. But why?
Tropic plans to use the funding to commercialize its tech and to add rice to the roster of tropical crop cultivars it has in development.
Facebook’s first investment in an Indonesian company has echoes of its $5.7 billion Jio deal in India earlier this year.
Born out of the National University of Singapore, Singrow is directing its efforts towards local production of temperate-zone fruits and vegetables in tropical areas. And it’s starting with strawberries.
The generalist investor group has launched a new fund dedicated to accelerating regenerative agriculture and wasted no time making its first deal.
Expanding the cold chain across the African continent is both necessary and hard.
The Swiss multinational plans to build a factory producing plant-based foods in Tianjin, joining a growing list of alt-protein businesses setting up shop in the country.
The funding will be used to construct what it describes as the largest mealworm facility for animal feed in North America.
The world’s banana crop is at risk due to a number of diseases that threaten to wipe it out.
European Agri-FoodTech startups raised $3.4 billion in funding in 2019 across 419 deals, a 70% year-over-year growth, according to new research from AgFunder in collaboration
Olam set up a “war room” of top execs to tackle Covid-19’s immediate impact on its business. But it’s counting on digitization as a longer term fix.
The startup offers a molecular biology-backed line of crop inputs as well as a platform to rapidly create new seed traits without gene-editing techniques.
SoftBank was among the world’s most active investors in the agrifoodtech space last year, according to AgFunder research.
The Singapore-based agribusiness became the first-ever recipient of a ‘Digital Loan’ based on Boston Consulting Group’s digital maturity index last year.
This first-of-its-kind accelerator program brings industry and startups together to build more resilient local agrifood ecosystems in the wake of Covid-19.
In our third digitalk, S2G exclusively discusses new research, which looks at how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting global supply chains, and the role that tech can play in creating a more resilient agrifood ecosystem.
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