Ai Palette has developed an end-to-end platform enabling clients to identify trends, generate new product concepts and screen them at the click of a button, aided by a new conversational chatbot called FoodGPT.
The Varaha platform measures and quantifies carbon sequestration for regenerative agriculture, afforestation and biochar projects.
Insect breeding and rearing/processing require very different skillsets, claims FreezeM, which supplies insect farmers with neonates in a state of ‘suspended animation.’
When it comes to data management for dairy producers, there’s a massive untapped opportunity for innovation, says VC investor Innova.
The capital injection will also help advance work to develop Cavendish bananas engineered to resist the devastating fungal disease Fusarium wilt.
Industrial-scale insect farming is not for the faint-hearted. So what business models make sense, and who is going to fund the next wave of facilities?
California-based farm-ng aims to lower the adoption and innovation barriers for small and medium growers adopting robotics.
MFL combines solid state fermentation technology with an AI-driven computational platform to create clean label savory ingredients that give depth, body, and meaty flavors to plant-based foods.
The startup’s enzymatic technology converts up to 80% of the sugars in juice into dietary fibers and non-digestible sugars without impacting the vitamins, minerals and organic acids in the final product.
Fund II will invest in disruptive consumer brands at seed stage up to Series A, cutting checks of around a million dollars with 25-30% of the fund reserved for follow on investments
“We’re the really the first ag robotics that I’ve seen that relies on solar as the primary energy source,” says ag robotics company Aigen.
Verqor will become a direct financial lender to farmers and approve loan applications in “48 hours or less.”
Triplebar’s system enables it to screen millions of mutations and optimize a yeast strain, for example, over many generations at record speed, effectively “running evolution at hyper-speed.”
Barely a month goes by without a new startup producing ‘animal-free’ dairy proteins via genetically engineered microbes or plants. But what will distinguish the winners from the losers in this nascent space?
Pow.bio, a Berkeley-based startup promising to change the economics of precision fermentation by enabling a continuous process, has raised a $9.5m series A round led by Re:Food and Thia Ventures.
While spray drone uptake in agriculture has been hampered by high costs and low capacity, speed and payloads are increasing continuously, says Rantizo.
Humble Growth—a New York based growth equity investment firm launched by three CPG veterans—has closed a $312m fund to invest in ‘disruptive’ consumer brands.
Toopi Organics will collect and convert more than 2 million liters of urine for its biostumulant that reduces need for mineral fertilizers.
ZoomAgri will use the new capital to expand availability of its AI-based system for improving varietal and quality detection.
Pano AI says the Series A extension highlights the urgent need for more innovations around climate mitigation and adaptation.
