AFN has been closely tracking the progress of Memphis Meats since its first attempts to grow animal products with cell cultures. There have been a
Noquo has yet to settle its core ingredient(s), admitting it’s a hard problem to crack, but a list of heavyweight investors clearly thinks the team can go the distance.
RootWave owes its electrical spark of inspiration to years of earlier efforts from the CEO’s father who had been trying out ways to electrify weeds in the 1980s
Lever VC, a firm specializing in alternative protein investments, led the round, which was joined by Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud’s VC firm KBW Ventures and Silicon Valley investors K2 Global. The investment sums involved were not disclosed on record.
The biotech business uses co-products from the whisky distillation process to produce microalgae, which are high in omega3 and other nutrients.
Agrofy could become the Amazon of agriculture, according to one of its investors who said its potential to scale beyond borders is unparalleled.
The lead investors were Clean Energy Ventures and Skyview Ventures, with participation from Autodesk Foundation, the philanthropic investing arm of multinational software corporation Autodesk.
TechnifyBiz, a digital B2B marketplace for non-perishable food commodities like nuts, seeds, dry fruits, specialty grains, and honey, has raised $2m in seed funding from Omnivore and the Insitor Impact Asia Fund.
New Age Meats just raised $2.7m in seed funding to broaden its product offerings from sausages into bacon and pork belly.
Naïo co-founder Gaëtan Séverac is bullish about the imminent and radical adoption of agri-robots; his company placed signs at its recent event calling for an “agrobolution.”
This reporter visited This at their tech hub offices by Portobello Road in London last May to try its plant-based bacon alternative ahead of the launch that summer.
Early-stage life science and engineering investors Longwall Venture Partners led the round, which marks its inaugural agri-food tech investment.
Indigo says the new capital will support the continued global development of Indigo Grain Marketplace, as well as Indigo Carbon.
Sufresca, an Israeli startup designing edible fruit and vegetable coating solutions to reduce food waste and curb plastic packaging, has just raised $500,000 seed funding from the agri-foodtech VC Rimonim, the company disclosed to AFN.
The new funding will be used to help the North Dakota-based company launch new product features and make additional hires.
Investors included Omnivore and Better Capital, along with Omidyar Network India and Sequoia Capital India’s rapid scale-up program Surge.
xFarm’s partnership-centric approach to farm data helped it secure €3 million in equity funding from Italy’s United Ventures and Switzerland’s TiVenture.
What does a CPG company want with smart checkout technology, you ask? Data, and lots of it.
The Netherlands-based alt-protein company is one of a small number catching investor interest for farming insects for human consumption rather than for animal feed.
We asked Perfect Day why they’re leaving value on the table by focusing on partnerships and not marketing its own brand and how they’re staying ahead of the competition.
