Venture capitalists are predicting that alternative proteins will replace virtual reality as 2017’s new hype. But how will this space play out? We speak to GFI’s Bruce Friedrich to try and find out.
Feeling reflective as we approach the holiday season and the end of 2016? In this week’s podcast, we talk to two food and agtech experts about the trends they’ve noticed in ag and foodtech in 2016.
We caught up with Tyson’s head of strategy and new ventures Monica McGurk to find out more about the decision to launch Tyson New Ventures earlier this week.
A year in the life of a startup is a long time, so we caught up with Kevin France to find out about the company’s new revenue models, acreage expansion, and hiring since this time last year.
Foundations are not a regular sighting on the investor line-up of individual deals, so AgFunderNews caught up with Drew Fink to find out more.
EAZE is set to account for a large portion of 2016’s funding total for cannabis tech startups after raising $13 million at Series B last month.
We speak to Geoff Kneen, the R&D Licensing and new ventures manager, North America of Bayer’s Crop Science division, to hear more about Bayer’s strategy of outsourcing agtech investment.
Two key features of the conference this year were a panel discussion about gene editing and the issue of public acceptance and innovating around food waste.
On World Food Day, AgFunderNews caught up with Andre Laperriere, the executive director of the GODAN secretariat, to find out how the initiative hopes to use open data to reduce hunger worldwide.
IntelinAir, the aerial imagery analysis company for the agriculture industry, yesterday announced the addition of two board members and some agronomy and robotics experts to its advisory committee.
The idea for this week’s podcast came from Sanjeev Krishnan, founding partner at S2G Ventures, the Chicago-based food and agtech venture capital firm.
Ahead of a speaking slot at CropWorld in Amsterdam next month, the founder of Agri-Tech East discusses open innovation in agriculture and the trends around it.
Last week, greenhouse operator BrightFarms announced it raised $30 million in Series C funding, the largest US-based controlled environment agriculture investment round on record. But how did it get there?
Ahead of a speaking slot at the World Agri-Tech Investment Summit in London in November, we caught up with Dr. Thomas Engel, manager of John Deere’s Technology Innovation Strategy in Europe
Ahead of speaking at NYC AgTech Week, Agrilyst CEO Allison Kopf talks to us about funding options for indoor ag startups and New York’s indoor ag scene.
Ag technologies are an essential part of Spearhead’s European operations, but it also faces challenges in deploying them, according to Tom Green, CEO.
Dianna Somerville is on a mission to promote regional and rural agriculture innovation in Australia, and agtech is at the core.
“There was a period when the software was as important as the need to have incredible logistics,” says Benzi Ronen, CEO of Farmigo, which last week shocked the market by closing down its food delivery service.
In advance of a speaking slot at the Forbes AgTech Summit in Salinas, California, Kip Tom of the 20k-acre Tom Farms tell AgFunderNews his views on agtech adoption.
We caught up with Ryan Rakeshaw, venture principal at MGV, to hear more about the Resson investment.
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