New Zealand’s Scentian Bio is using insect olfactory receptors to detect volatile compounds – and it believes its tech could prove invaluable for the food industry.
Tortuga AgTech is preparing to build hundreds of robots to deploy in 2022 as Covid-19 boosted farmer interest in robotics to address labor shortage issues.
Singapore-based Trax was Southeast Asia’s highest-funded agrifoodtech startup in 2019, according to AgFunder data.
The French startup uses AI to help supermarkets identify items near expiration and determine whether they should be discounted or donated to charity.
Swiggy also secured investment from sovereign wealth funds Qatar Investment Authority and Singapore’s GIC, according to an internal memo.
St Louis-based CoverCress is gearing up for its first harvest and a soft launch this year, and is aiming to have 250,000 acres of its ‘cash cover crop’ planted in 2022.
The Spanish ‘q-commerce’ app delivers takeout meals, groceries, and other items on demand to more than 10 million users across 20 European countries.
Oishii is growing strawberries in vertical farms with the help of bees – and founder Hiroki Koga is taking his cue from none other than Elon Musk.
The app allows shoppers to form groups to collectively buy farm produce and other groceries in bulk at competitive prices.
The Netherlands startup can identify male chicken eggs before a fetus develops, allowing the egg industry to avoid the culling of 6.5 billion male chicks each year.
In spite of the Covid-19 bump for consumer-facing solutions, downstream agrifoodtech funding actually decreased in 2020 if a few China oversize deals are discounted.
The Netherlands-based startup is culturing meat in the lab using a technique that can change pluripotent stem cells from a newborn animal into any desired cell type.
The San Diego-based startup is digitalizing the meal preparation business so that smaller players can streamlime operations, cut inefficiencies, and boost profits.
The US biotech startup is using gene editing to increase the nutritional content of seeds such as soybean, with an eye on the booming plant-based protein market.
Eat Just made history when it became the first company in the world to get regulatory approval to serve a cell-cultured meat product last November.
“If I tell suppliers I have 25% of retailers on my platform, that’s a very solid proposition compared to 5% of farmers,” Agrim co-founder Mukul Garg tells AFN.
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This latest injection follows a $182 million round late last year which was co-led by Baidu Ventures and SoftBank Vision Fund II.
US-based Monarch Tractor will use the funding to build its “pilot series” tractors for farmers in its home state of California, Oregon, and Washington.
Zurich’s Mirai is initially working on non-GMO cultured beef and is “laser-focussed on developing a healthy nutritional profile” for the product, says its CEO.
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