Facebook and Paypal join Google, Tencent to back Indonesian food and payments giant Gojek
Facebook’s first investment in an Indonesian company has echoes of its $5.7 billion Jio deal in India earlier this year.
Facebook’s first investment in an Indonesian company has echoes of its $5.7 billion Jio deal in India earlier this year.
Agroforestry offers soil health improvements, biodiversity, and new income for farmers but lack of capital to plant a tree crop is often a non-starter.
Former investors in Saturas — Gefen Capital and Hubei Forbon Technology — have committed to the round, alongside the Trendlines Agrifood Fund
The startup hopes to shake up some longstanding ways of thinking about how to measure pollination while improving bee health.
Melbourne-based DAS is partnering with IAG to speed up risk assessment for rural insurance customers and provide them with ag, climate, and real estate insights.
Trials already indicate how a precision method like Greeneye’s can reduce a farmer’s herbicide usage by 65‒92%, according to Greeneye.
NextProtein, a French-Tunisian startup working on new ways to produce insect-based animal feed and fertilizer, has raised €10.2 million ($11.2 million) in Series A funding,
CEO Yuki Hanyu’s vision encompasses low-cost DIY protein production in the home, a meat microbrewery on every corner, and cell ag in space stations.
Founded in 2012 with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Santa Barbara-based startup uses a plant-derived solution to add an extra ‘peel’ to the surface of fruits and vegetables.
“You have 130 million farmers plus their families who are vulnerable… Traditional urban insurance brokers do not understand [their] needs,” founder Jatin Singh told AFN.
The funding will be used to construct what it describes as the largest mealworm facility for animal feed in North America.
European Agri-FoodTech startups raised $3.4 billion in funding in 2019 across 419 deals, a 70% year-over-year growth, according to new research from AgFunder in collaboration
The startup offers a molecular biology-backed line of crop inputs as well as a platform to rapidly create new seed traits without gene-editing techniques.
The Indian startup offers a suite of software and hardware tools for assessing the quality of fresh produce. It will use the funding to expand in Asia and the US.
The Indonesian startup will use the funds to expand at home and farther afield, as it bets on tech to change F&B after Covid-19.
The Yield – an AgFunder portfolio company – is “poised to be The Climate Corp of horticulture,” said Yamaha Motor Ventures’ Nolan Paul.
The Guangzhou-based startup raised a total of $29 million across two rounds last year. On-demand giant Meituan Dianping co-led the latest fundraise.
Ecoinno wants to offer a ‘third way’ between traditional, petroleum-based plastics, and bioplastics produced from non-naturally occurring polymers.
Duckweed is rich in protein and grows incredibly fast. It can double in biomass every two days.
The effort provides funding to organizations that can rescue food before its wasted and redirect it to individuals in need.
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