Carbon Collective hopes to give individual sustainable investment portfolios more power and in doing so force corporations to decarbonize faster.
In 2021, eGrocery dominated dealmaking yet again; but upstream startups vastly increased their share of funding.
Most of the top deals involved eGrocers and Restaurant Marketplaces, highlighting the continent’s thirst for ‘quick commerce.’
It’s scouting the globe for tech startups and solutions that can take the country’s world-leading grains industry to new heights.
IFG and other fruit breeders are racing against time to create new, climate-resilient varieties, the company’s CEO tells AFN.
Future Crops vertically farms its produce in a soil-based substrate which “sticks with what Mother Nature tells us,” Grinspan tells AFN. Plus it’s kosher.
SuperMeat’s co-founder and head of communications talks regulatory approvals, transparency with consumers, and the long-term promise of cultivated meat.
Bhattacharya tells AFN what Next Gen has planned for Tindle, and what it was about the startup that tempted him away from Temasek.
The chief marketing officer discusses the risks of CEA, the crops we’ll grow indoors in the future, and how indoor agtech will change.
The entrepreneur discusses her path to agtech and the role farm robots have in helping growers address crops, yields, and labor challenges.
Jackie Jones and Rachel Downing are two of the major forces behind CEA company Amplified Ag and its mission to evolve container farming.
Ag journalist-turned-startup founder Tamara Leigh discusses a career spent championing the community, the cows, and other women.
The chief technology officer is leading the charge to make precision irrigation available to women smallholders worldwide.
The Mushroom Meat Co.’s CEO explains the ups and downs of starting (and growing) a clean-label protein company in today’s crowded industry.
Fresh off its $110 million funding round, Nigeria’s TradeDepot is pushing the boundaries of digitalization and financing for Africa’s small food businesses and retailers.
Chicago-based impact investment fund VestedWorld has supported more than 20 African startups addressing critical social and market needs, like improving cost and value chain for food.
Co-founder and CEO Jason Green discusses its new 250,000-square-foot facility and the importance of the microbiome.
The Food Security Fund will be used to finance 250,000 hectares of commercial and smallholder farmland in Nigeria for climate-smart production.
The Seoul-based startup closed a $15 million Series B round last month, with the Asian Development Bank among the participating investors.
The Annapolis, Maryland-based company uses microbes to convert agrifood byproducts into fuel and fertilizer.
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