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🎥 Inside Tate & Lyle’s open innovation model: In conversation with Karen du Plessis

“We’re always looking at what else could we potentially be doing through collaborations to augment our portfolio,” says Tate & Lyle’s head of open innovation.

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

Corporates

Karen du Plessis, head of open innovation, Tate & Lyle. Image credit: Elaine Watson

AgriFood Signals: GoPuff nets $250m, Microsoft, Land O’ Lakes partner on AI, M&A for carbon markets, COP30 protests

Plus: Qorium raises funds to scale cultivated leather and Number8 Bio raises $11m for livestock methane reduction.

Agtech

FoodTech

KÄÄPÄ Biotech CEO Eric Puro. Image credit: KÄÄPÄ Biotech

Japan’s maturing agrifoodtech ecosystem takes larger slice of Asia pie

The momentum behind Japan’s growing agrifoodtech ecosystem was clearly on show at last month’s SKS Japan summit in Tokyo.

APAC

Corporates

🎥 Inside Tate & Lyle’s open innovation model: In conversation with Karen du Plessis

AgriFood Signals: GoPuff nets $250m, Microsoft, Land O’ Lakes partner on AI, M&A for carbon markets, COP30 protests

Japan’s maturing agrifoodtech ecosystem takes larger slice of Asia pie

Guest article: The lean foodtech startup: strategies for staying small and nimble

EPG showdown: Startups warn of ‘imminent permanent closure’ in fight with David Protein

🎥 Tufts MD on GLP-1 and the protein obsession: ‘I worry we might be missing the mark’

Beyond Meat CEO says ‘plenty of fight left in us’ after gloomy Q3, unveils plan to ‘build a global protein company for tomorrow’

New owner now controls Meati ‘debt-free’; rebranding planned in 2026

Foodora’s Herbert Haas talks affordable quick commerce and ‘human-centered’ AI in food delivery

‘Philanthropy can’t do it alone’ says Gates Foundation as climate adaptation funding jumps 120%

Breaking: Miyoko Schinner fails to buy back namesake brand

‘New Milk’ signals new phase for recombinant dairy, says Remilk: ‘It doesn’t look like another alternative product’

Guest article: Agtech VCs must stop competing over crumbs and start collaborating

A new fund will help more Latin American agtech startups access US markets, starting in St. Louis

New owner of Meati insists brand ‘poised for growth’ after mass layoffs; staff say there’s ‘no plan, just a shutdown and silence’

Guest article: Making agricultural subsidies part of social welfare is a step towards a just rural transition

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Funding for insect protein, Believer Meats USDA approval, Pow.Bio scales continuous biomanufacturing

Corteva unveils its first-ever bioinsecticide: ‘Combining biologicals with synthetics is critical’

Appetronix raises $6m to scale robotic kitchens: ‘Quick service is going to get more and more automated’

Ag robotics startup Naïo bounces back after a year of financial turmoil

Exclusive: Miyoko’s founder plans bid to buy back brand from liquidator

Guest article: Agtech is dead. Long live the system

Atinary partners with ABB Robotics, others to accelerate R&D with self-driving lab

Japan’s new agriculture minister breaks with tradition in foodtech summit speech: “Earn, earn!”

Exclusive: Mass layoffs at Meati after weeks of payroll glitches

Breaking: Danish insect ag firm ENORM declared bankrupt after failed reconstruction process

Cargill’s new robot dog is ‘one part of a much larger shift’ towards ‘responsible’ AI

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