From Burger King to Saudi prince: Bond founder on why cats & dogs could be cultured meat’s first mass consumers
Colorado-based Bond Pet Foods just secured bridge financing to take its total funding to date to $2 million.
Colorado-based Bond Pet Foods just secured bridge financing to take its total funding to date to $2 million.
To spray, or not to spray: That is the question Trapview wants to answer, with the hope its tech can reduce reliance on potentially harmful insecticides.
The Indonesian startup seeks to optimize land and sea transportation, freight forwarding, warehousing, and cold storage for clients including Unilever and Indofood.
Bunny Maicai is one of several ‘group-buying’ startups in China to have pulled in big bucks lately.
Investment into Innovative Food – which includes cultured meat, plant-based and fermented proteins, and novel ingredients – has been bolstered by Covid-19.
Two $100-million fund announcements and a spate of deals in August signal growth in sustainable seafood and aquaculture investment opportunities.
Despite its disastrous impact elsewhere, Covid-19 may have improved the investment outlook for farm robots, according to Saga Robotics’ latest backers.
Delivery app Dunzo reported a tripling in demand amid the country’s continuing Covid-19 outbreak, while rival e-grocer BigBasket saw new customer numbers rise 84%.
As the restaurant industry turns to tech amid Covid-19, startups are landing investment – and have a unique opportunity to accelerate tech adoption.
The foodtech startup is using AI to build a “digital chef” that creates sustainable, personalized recipes for home cooks.
Emerging from stealth, GrainCorp-backed FutureFeed will build a value chain from the ground up to cultivate and commercialize its seaweed additive.
The round was led by Gagarin Capital Partners, with Matrix Capital, Impulse VC, IMI.VC, along with various undisclosed business angels joining in.
EIT Food will inject $6.45 million into 13 agrifood startups to ride out the Covid-19 crisis – something CEO Andy Zynga calls “a vital lifeline” for its recipients.
Agrifoodtech startups and investors are plugging away in 2020 as if we weren’t all caught in the midst of a global pandemic. Well, almost.
Singapore’s VisVires New Protein and Switzerland’s Redalpine co-led the Series A funding, which will assist Mushlabs with scaling up its mycelium growing operations.
The Faroese company wants to make sea-bound macroalgae farming less labor intensive, and more able to withstand the elements.
It may be smaller than previous rounds; but with another big-name backer on board and demand rising, the plant-based protein maker still has plenty to be happy about.
The Richmond, Virginia-based startup is ramping up production to meet the surge in demand for meal kits and other food e-commerce offerings amid Covid-19.
S2G Ventures and Horizons Ventures co-led the seed round, with AgFunder and Bessemer Venture Partners also participating.
Impact investor Astanor Ventures led the round, joined by similarly impact-minded WakeUp Capital
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