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Vive’s nanotech-powered crop inputs land $5.4m funding
July 28, 2020
The Ontario-based startup is counting on nanotechnology to offer farmers the benefits of both traditional chemical-based inputs and newer biological products.
Canada’s largest pension fund makes alt-dairy bet in Perfect Day’s $300m Series C
July 8, 2020
Perfect Day, a Californian startup using plants and fermentation techniques to manufacture animal-free dairy products, has expanded its Series C round to $300 million. Hawk
The Pirbright Institute is testing out new Covid-19, ASF vaccines on pigs
June 23, 2020
Scientists at the UK’s Pirbright Institute, working in collaboration with the University of Oxford and the pharmaceuticals giant Astra Zeneca, have shown how a prospective Covid-19 vaccine for humans can successfully boost a pig’s immune response to the virus.
Why the world’s largest beer company is investing in agtech
June 17, 2020
“We’re the largest beer company in the world and the largest user of malting barley, so when you think about where investment into breeding research or the supporting tech comes from, if we’re not going to do it, who will?”
Clean Crop Technologies raises $3m to curb post-harvest food waste
June 10, 2020
Prime Impact Fund led the company’s seed round to support its safe, chemical-free approach to killing crop mold and toxins.
Arieli Capital hopes for desert agri-miracles with funds for a new innovation center
June 9, 2020
Few would dispute that growing fish or strawberries in a desert is a remarkable idea, even in 2020.
Syngenta invests in $7m seed round for Israeli autonomous chemical reduction tech Greeneye
May 27, 2020
Trials already indicate how a precision method like Greeneye’s can reduce a farmer’s herbicide usage by 65‒92%, according to Greeneye.
Agri-FoodTech in Europe boomed in 2019, with funding up 70% YoY. What’s in store for 2020?
May 21, 2020
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
Io sto con i ristoratori: Italy’s foodtech industry creates digital taskforce to support foodservice industry
April 27, 2020
“Social Solidarity” is beyond any doubt one of the most used phrases of recent weeks. At the same time, the foodservice industry is probably the most affected sector of the global Covid-19 pandemic, as Italy is the worst-hit European country, writes Antonio Iannone.
Earth Day: In Africa, agtech is Earth tech, even during a health crisis
April 22, 2020
Agtech adoption in Africa is limited. But where new technologies are gaining traction, there is often a clear connection to climate impact.
Can vertical farming help in the battle against Covid-19?
April 17, 2020
Vertical farming companies have largely seen Covid-19’s pressure on globalized food supply chains as a confirmation of what they had been saying already: resilient supply chains are hyper-local supply chains, especially when it comes to fresh produce. But there is also a more direct way vertical farmers want to confront the virus.
These two tests for African swine fever could help pigs continue to fly
April 6, 2020
Flying efforts to bring pigs into China and other importing countries could be thwarted by increasing Covid-19-related travel and export restrictions making testing technologies even more important if the pork industry wants to survive the continued spread of the deadly ASF virus.
Agri-foodtech VCs assess Covid-19’s impact on the sector and portfolios
April 2, 2020
As global venture capital is poised for a downturn, agri-foodtech investors observe the sector’s resilience and creativity amid near-term uncertainty.
BRIEF: Boost Biomes raises seed funding from Japan’s Kureha to develop microbial products for ag
February 25, 2020
Boost’s microbe discovery platform enables it to conduct multiple micro-experiments to measure the performance and interactions of different microbes in agriculture.
Zap! This UK startup just raised €6.5m to commit electricide on weeds
January 22, 2020
RootWave owes its electrical spark of inspiration to years of earlier efforts from the CEO’s father who had been trying out ways to electrify weeds in the 1980s
‘Vive la AgRobolution!’ Naïo Tech raises €14m Series A to build more agri-robots
January 9, 2020
Naïo co-founder Gaëtan Séverac is bullish about the imminent and radical adoption of agri-robots; his company placed signs at its recent event calling for an “agrobolution.”
Stuck for holiday gift ideas? How about … a chocolate bar-sized wheat DNA sequencer!
December 23, 2019
If you’re still on the lookout for agtech-themed holiday gifts, here’s a suggestion: How about a chocolate bar-sized portable DNA sequencer that accurately and quickly diagnoses wheat viruses? (More gift ideas welcome, by the way!)
Israel FoodTech: Turning up the heat for 2020
December 10, 2019
Amir Zaidman discusses the key pillars underpinning Israel’s strength in foodtech and offers a roundup of some of the recent big moves and funding rounds in Israeli FoodTech and the
Help us pioneer sustainable cotton tech: Apply to The Better Cotton Innovation Challenge
December 5, 2019
The global situation right now is stark. Cotton supports the livelihoods of over 250 million people, yet less than 20% of cotton is grown sustainably. The Better Cotton Innovation Challenge is on the lookout for global game-changing innovations to change this.
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