Punching Above Your Wheat: How Israel Became a Hub for Agtech Startups
Even before the state of Israel’s founding, pioneers emphasized cultivating the land through innovative and efficient agricultural work, writes Ofir Schlam.
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From Sweden to India: Opportunity Abounds for India’s Food Tech Industry
For the past few days, Sweden Foodtech has been at the Tasting India Symposium in New Delhi. It is a magic experience. And we haven’t even mentioned the food, writes Johan Jorgensen.
Don’t Trust Corporate Venture Capitalists! (Or What You Need to Know First)
You will find a lot of views online on why not to take corporate venture money in your startup. However, the reality today is that corporate venture capital (CVC) is becoming an important part of the startup ecosystem, writes Amit Sridharan.
AgriFood Tech Startup Spotlight: Europe’s ViroVet is Developing Novel Livestock Vaccines
This week we spoke with Belgian animal health startup ViroVet to learn more about its mission to tackle health and wellness in the livestock industry with novel vaccine and antibiotic reduction technology.
A European View: Real Potential at Startupbootcamp FoodTech Demo Day in Paris
We’re talking early stage, but there was real quality in the room, writes Johan Jorgensen from Sweden FoodTech.
How Jain USA Has Quietly Built a High-Tech Irrigation Platform Through Acquisitions
I caught up with Aric Olsen, president of Jain USA, are his most recent acquisition of ETWater, a weather data analytics and sprinkler control company using machine learning to measure the evapotranspiration rate of grass.
AgriFood Tech Startup Spotlight: Brazil’s Verde Marketplace for Sustainably-Grown Crops
Verde AgriTech, a fertilizer business operating in Brazil, recently launched a new business unit called Verde Marketplace, which it hopes will become the first B2B platform for farmers to offer sustainably-produced food on a large scale to interested corporate buyers.
3 Ways Ag Startups Can Strengthen the Enabling Environment for their Businesses in Developing Markets
Here are three ways private sector agricultural businesses can engage to strengthen policies, regulations, and laws with benefits to both their business and the agricultural sector more broadly.
What Do Investors Need to Know About the Future of LED Grow Light Technology?
Patrick Flynn, founder of Urbanvine.co, asks Jeff Mastin, director of R&D at Total Grow LED Lighting, to discuss what the future of LED grow light technology for agriculture looks like.
Indian Agritech: Accelerate the Adoption of Agritech Innovations By Enabling the Ecosystem
There is a weak link in the current ecosystem for Indian agritech entrepreneurs and businesses, and it's the link with corporates, writes Hemendra Mathur.
Why Olam is Deploying Tech First, Then Thinking About CVC
"We have realized that some companies have gone down the wrong path by adopting the approach of inventing the problem. They find a technology that's exciting and try to force-fit that technology for a problem that they don't have, Suresh Sundararajan tells AgFunderNews.
AgTech Adoption: Engage the Right Talent with the Right Technology on the Right Problems
There’s a digital revolution happening across food & agriculture and it's driven by human talent, writes Janette Barnard.
What the Science of Food Manufacturing Reveals About our Food System
Few of us get excited by the operational minutia and complexities involved in the food supply chain, yet those operational details are where the magic, or lack thereof, happens, writes Noemie Delfassy.
Bayer Growth Ventures: What We Don’t Know Yet
Venture capital at Bayer Crop Science, which has until now focused mainly on investing in external funds, is just beginning to firm up with the creation of Bayer Growth Ventures (BGV). But there are still a lot of unknowns.
Why Has Edible Magazine Editor Brian Halweil Become a Venture Capital Investor?
Brian Halweil was recently named portfolio manager at Almanac Investments, a relatively new $30 million agrifood tech venture capital fund. Almanac was founded by David Barber, the co-founder of the renowned Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture and Blue Hill Farm in upstate New York in January of this year.
Mimica is Creating Alternative Food Labels for Consumers to Feel When Food Has Expired
Solveiga Pakštaitė is founder and director of Mimica, a food labeling technology startup that recently won the People’s Choice Award at Rabobank’s startup pitch event FoodBytes! in London. We caught up with her to find out more about how she created the technology and how it will be deployed.
Norway AgriTech: Punching Above its Weight
During this year’s World Agritech Innovation Summit in London, five out of the 13 startups showcased were Norwegian. Why does this small mountain nation have so many technology ideas?
Changing Consumer Preferences Will Impact The Farm
Falling behind the times can be detrimental to a business. This is especially true for farming, where changing consumer preferences can affect what growers produce and how they operate their farms, writes Remi Schmaltz.
SOS! The Food System Needs a New Soil Operating System
Clearly, our food system needs to change, radically and quickly, and we have to start at its foundation: the soil, writes Victor Friedberg.
Meet the Largest Multi-State Cannabis Company You’ve Never Heard Of
Grassroots Cannabis operates in seven states and plans to add two more states to its roster by the end of the year, as a vertically integrated grower, processor and retailer of branded cannabis products.