Users can order health-conscious meals, groceries, and supplements through the Indian startup’s wellness marketplace.
The Singaporean startup’s blockchain platform offers enhanced supply chain visibility to the fruit industry – and it has Latin America in its sights.
The third edition of AgFunder’s annual China AgriFood Startup Investing Report shows that the trade war and swine flu have taken a toll – but there are still plenty of reasons to be bullish.
Nature’s Fynd is a food brand using a proprietary volcanic microbe-produced protein, dubbed Fy, which contains all nine essential amino acids as well as dietary fiber, calcium, and vitamins.
Nusantics is aiming for a “bio-based future [of] value-added lifestyle products such as skincare, personal care, food, and beverage”.
The investment dovetails neatly with Meituan Dianping’s wider offerings, including doorstep meal delivery, groceries delivery, and restaurant reservations and recommendations.
A digital hospitality management point of sale system managed to close an oversubscribed investment round despite the global backdrop perhaps bolstered by its food delivery-related offering as other startups offer other means to avoid human interaction in the restaurant space.
The Livekindly Company — a collective of plant-based brands — lifted the lid this month on a $200-million founders’ funding round, a move designed to help its brands keep pace with an increasingly competitive peloton of global plant-based protein brands
Gojek and archrival Grab are rumoured to have held discussions about a potential merger.
South Korea’s Mirae Asset led the round, with existing backers including Hong Kong-based Horizons Ventures and Singapore sovereign fund Temasek joining in.
New Crop Capital, a pre-IPO investor in Beyond Meat, has funded Shenzhen plant-based protein startup Starfield alongside Matrix Partners and others.
As US agri-foodtech investment slowed slightly in 2019, other markets picked up the slack. Here’s a list of the leading deals outside the US.
Canada’s NovoBind, which is developing a precision biologics platform to protect livestock against pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and parasites, has closed a Series A round of funding.
In the bio-based inputs race, this California-based startup thinks a foliar coating approach for tackling pests can overcome the biologics efficacy debate.
Brazil’s small farmers are worth an estimated $20bn in crop protection buying power but most ag retailers cater to larger commodity-focused operations.
Chemical fungicides are a tried and tested way to get rid of fungal outbreaks like powdery mildew and botrytis; but many of these are coming under scrutiny from consumers and regulators. So Biotalys is working to produce biological alternatives by mimicking the immune response of certain animals, such as llamas.
Venture capital investment across all industries dropped in 2019 — around 16%, according to the VenturePulse report — against a backdrop of global uncertainty related
“GrainChain has quietly become one of the most successful blockchain-meets-agriculture platforms on the market by allowing more and more farmers to receive fair value and prompt payment for their crops, while also selling to a larger pool of buyers,” said Overstock CEO and Medici Ventures president Jonathan Johnson
Syngenta Ventures’ Michael Lee tells AFN how the firm is viewing the biologics space and why WeedOUT’s species-specific approach is so important.
Biomanufacturing is the term used to describe the process of using biological systems as opposed to chemistry to produce commercial biomaterials. Crudely this means using certain microbes — naturally-occurring species or genetically designed — to produce certain materials.
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