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Category: Novel Farming Systems

Brazil’s KPTL invests in poultry management platform Agrisolus

March 2, 2021

Agrisolus captures real-time data about a variety of metrics to optimize poultry production and prevent disease in the flock.

Brief: Infarm launches modular growing & distribution center to expand footprint faster

February 24, 2021

The new growing center takes six weeks to construct and can produce the equivalent of up to 10,000-square-meters of farmland, according to InFarm.

Thai precision ag startup ListenField gets strategic backing from Kubota

February 16, 2021

ListenField’s API ecosystem combines satellite, weather, and in-field data with crop modeling, phenology, and genotype selection to improve yields for rice and other crops.

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Cattle seaweed supplement, pregnancy test get Australian government funding

February 15, 2021

Sea Forest will use the funds to start supplying commercial quantities of seaweed that Australian science agency CSIRO has shown to reduce cattle methane emissions by as much as 80%.

Bucharest, Romania - November 27, 2019: View of Microsoft Romania headquarters in City Gate Towers situated in Free Press Square, in Bucharest, Romania.

BRIEF: Microsoft to purchase up to $2m in carbon credits from Land O’Lakes

February 8, 2021

TruCarbon, the new carbon credits program from Land O’Lakes, will help the co-op’s farmers to measure and monetize sequestered carbon on their land.

BRIEF: AppHarvest completes SPAC merger to go public at $1bn+ valuation

February 2, 2021

AppHarvest is the first CEA tech company to go public in the US, and is one of just a handful of agrifoodtech startup IPOs to date.

Ex-Impossible Foods VP Dana Worth on his new role at Plenty & the future of indoor farming

February 1, 2021

After six years at Impossible Foods, Dana Worth is joining CEA startup Plenty as senior vice president – just as indoor farming begins to really heat up.

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GROW Impact Accelerator invites applications from startups fostering food sustainability

January 19, 2021

Supported by AgFunder and Enterprise Singapore, GROW is advancing innovation, sustainability, and resilience in the agrifood ecosystem.

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese precision ag platform Kebai secures Series B funds from Auchan owners

January 14, 2021

The Beijing-based startup will use the funding to accelerate its global expansion, partnering with other agrifood businesses in Creadev’s portfolio.

Behind the greens: Why greenhouse lettuce is not competitive yet

January 11, 2021

Economic and retail data may help to explain why hydroponic lettuce has some way to go before it can compete on price with conventionally grown plants.

Quantum dot startup UbiQD raises $7m Series A for electricity free CEA lighting

December 21, 2020

The New Mexico startup embeds quantum dot technology into glass and pliable films, offering a lighting source that doesn’t need a mains electricity supply.

iUNU raises $7m as S2G Ventures gets bullish on greenhouse tech

December 15, 2020

Launched in 2013, the Seattle-based startup targets the precision greenhouse space with its platform called LUNA.

EXCLUSIVE: Beta Hatch banks $9.3m Series A, breaks ground on US’s largest insect farm

December 10, 2020

At full capacity, Beta Hatch’s new facility will produce one ton of insect protein every day. It is scheduled to open sometime in 2021.

Gotham Greens raises $87m Series D funding to decentralize food production

December 9, 2020

The New York startup claims to have doubled its revenue over the past year, selling its leafy greens in 40 US states and across 2,000 retail stores including Whole Foods, Albertsons, Meijer, Target, and Sprouts.

Covid-19 & shifting regional relations put agrifoodtech top of mind for UAE

December 8, 2020

Abu Dhabi has been looking at ways to produce more of its food closer to home in light of the pandemic, geopolitical flux, and advances in agtech.

Southeast Asia will make $205bn each year if it builds sustainable agrifood system – Bain

November 25, 2020

The US firm is establishing its Global Sustainability Innovation Center in Singapore; while spin-out Bain Capital has raised $800m for its second impact fund.

With companies like Aphea Bio & Biotalys, Ghent is Europe’s hidden gem for ag biotech

November 24, 2020

Ghent’s Aphea Bio – which offers a novel, algorithm-driven approach to biological crop protection – just raised $16.6 million in a Series B round led by Astanor Ventures.

Food waste to indoor farming input: Re-Nuble raises $1.1m seed funding

November 23, 2020

The New York startup ‘upcycles’ organic compounds from unrecoverable vegetable food waste, generating water-soluble, organic hydroponic nutrients for soilless farms.

‘Silicon meets Salinas’: Unfold’s CEO talks tech convergence, startup culture & seed science

November 12, 2020

Unfold launched in August with $30m in funding from Bayer and Temasek. John Purcell, CEO and Bayer’s former vegetable R&D chief, has had a busy few months.