Israel’s most active venture investor partners New Zealand’s Sprout on agrifoodtech
November 17, 2020
OurCrowd is teaming up with agtech accelerator Sprout to take a little of the ‘Startup Nation’ magic down under.
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Category: Q&A
‘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.
Here’s how one of Asia’s biggest noodle makers is turning to tech
October 30, 2020
Ho Ren Hua, CEO at Bangkok-based Thai Wah, shares how the 70 year-old starch and noodle manufacturer is embracing technology and the startup ecosystem.
Startup Spotlight: Aquaponics AI talks fish farming in the Middle East
October 26, 2020
The Jordanian startup provides fish, plant, and disease libraries and a platform for managing aquaponic systems, which it sees as key for food resilience in the region.
Startup Spotlight: Forager wants to help local food digitalize by connecting farmers and buyers
October 13, 2020
Forager was dedicated to growing local food economies well before Covid-19 but is seeing a new bout of opportunity as consumer habits change.
3 Singapore Food Bowl startups strengthening the supply chain after Covid-19
October 5, 2020
AFN meets 3 startups bringing more efficiency and sustainability to the agrifood supply chain, with blockchain, coconut husks, and cold storage in the mix.
On #FLWDay, meet the Singapore Food Bowl startups tackling Asia Pacific’s food waste problem
September 29, 2020
To mark International Food Loss & Waste Awareness Day, AFN spoke to three startups who are taking three very different approaches to food waste reduction.
Unilever’s sustainable sourcing supremo talks radical supply chain transparency
September 16, 2020
Giulia Stellari, sustainable sourcing director at Unilever, explains how the consumer goods giant is responding to food traceability concerns amid Covid-19.
From Francis Ford Coppola to foodtech: FTW Ventures’ Brian Frank on latest fund
August 28, 2020
FTW Ventures has just unveiled a new $4 million fund, with food and ag biosciences and automation among the areas it’s targeting for investment.
Farm-to-fork models, new retail drove $165m agrifoodtech funding in Indonesia last year
July 14, 2020
Infrastructure, crop cultivation, and logistics and distribution are set to be the leading areas for funding in the years ahead, says East Ventures partner Melisa Irene.
Q&A: MoFo partners talk agrifoodtech exits, regenerative tech, and Covid-19
July 10, 2020
We catch up with Ward and Presser about agrifood tech investing as Presser joins NY-based law firm MoFo’s M&A and PE practices.
Future Food: From software to regen ag, Soilworks says key to better health is in the ground
July 6, 2020
Soilworks’ co-founders formed the regenerative ag-focused investment group after working together at B2B SaaS investor Scaleworks.
Should regenerative agriculture embrace gene editing? This startup says it must
June 29, 2020
Incorporating CRISPR and other biotech tools in the still-forming regenerative ag movement will undoubtedly cause some controversy.
Future Food: How the digitization of ag will increase food’s sustainability, with IntelinAir’s Al Eisaian
June 18, 2020
How does an environmentalist become an aerial imagery data analytics and AI entrepreneur?
Future Food 🎙️: Oatly co-founder on scaling alt milk and the need for local food production
June 2, 2020
Bjorn Oste started working with his oat milk-inventing brother Rickard in the 1990s to build Oatly, Sweden’s widely-recognized plant-based milk company.
Q&A: Covid-19 has made us turn to local farmers, says head of Singapore’s top e-grocery site
June 1, 2020
E-commerce demand has skyrocketed, while local farmers and growers are picking up a lot of the slack in supply chains, says the man in charge of RedMart.
Startup Spotlight: With a decade of R&D under its belt, MustGrow wants to make biopesticides easy for growers to adopt
June 1, 2020
The publicly-traded company is responding to the increasing number of countries banning chemical inputs by innovating bio-based solutions.
Future Food Podcast: Ambrosia wants to clean your house with food waste
May 21, 2020
What started as a concept around urban biorefineries to process food waste into fertilizer took a turn when the byproduct proved to be a natural cleaning product.
Q&A: How is Covid-19 impacting fresh produce businesses globally?
May 8, 2020
In this roundtable, execs from Waycool, Future Group, and RipePlanet give a detailed picture of Covid-19’s impact on the fresh produce sector.
AgFunder Digitalk: What’s in store for agrifood investing in the wake of Covid-19?
April 23, 2020
In an effort to try and navigate how our growing but still relatively small asset class gets through the Covid-19 crisis, we’ve launched a series of digital talks for our community. In the first, we chatted with Climate Corp’s Dave Friedberg and Alexandria’s Blake Stevens.
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