AgFunderNews | Agtech, Food Tech, Planetary Health News & Analysis

From Taxol to cocoa: Can plant cell culture make the leap from drugs to food?

Could plant cell culture unlock a new category of “precision botanicals” or is it a “capital intensive money pit?” AgFunderNews caught up with a handful of key players.

Agtech

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

Liberation Bioindustries pauses construction again as it seeks funds to complete US biomanufacturing site

Liberation Bioindustries has paused construction at its US precision fermentation facility as it seeks funds to complete the 600,000-L site.

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

Deeptech

AgriFood Signals: Bayer wins roundup case, CEO change at Vow, Reservoir acquires Contain

Plus: The UK plans to introduce its own anti-deforestation laws.

Agtech

FoodTech

From Taxol to cocoa: Can plant cell culture make the leap from drugs to food?

Liberation Bioindustries pauses construction again as it seeks funds to complete US biomanufacturing site

AgriFood Signals: Bayer wins roundup case, CEO change at Vow, Reservoir acquires Contain

The bioeconomy runs on sugar. Solarferm wants to run it on gas

Why smarter water management is critical for farmer returns

Exclusive: UPSIDE Foods submits $50m stalking horse bid for Believer Meats’ US cultivated meat facility

Goterra administrator seeks buyer as founder warns of insect ag sector ‘contagion’

Cultivated meat deep dive: After the crash, who’s still standing?

Inside new company Landseed’s goal to ‘create a financial market’ for conservation projects

AgriFood Signals: Anthropic joins carbon removal coalition, Elanco launches venture arm, AeroFarms acquired

Solar Foods wins $89.2m backing for ‘protein from air’ factory, but final investment decision still pending

The food system needs a rewiring, not a reinvention, Anterra Capital says after $100m raise

Tech alone won’t future-proof the food system, experts warn

Vivici bags $14.4m EIC funding to scale precision-fermented dairy proteins

The Protein Brewery wins EU approval for Fermotein mycoprotein six years after novel foods filing

AI’s role in agrifood biotech comes into sharper focus

AI is everywhere in CPG R&D. But is it moving the needle? Turing Labs surveys the biggest players

Rainbow Crops raises $11.25m to scale AI-guided multiplex gene editing

French alt meat whole cut specialist SWAP Food enters judicial liquidation, ceases operations

Picketa Systems raises $1.5m to bring crop nutrient testing to the field

Fertilizer… without Haber Bosch: Can AI-optimized plasma make green ammonia cost-competitive?

After Meati’s collapse, Chunk Foods pitches capex-light path to whole-cut alt meat, eyes profitability in 2027

AgriFood Signals: EIF commits $29m to Irish agrifoodtech, Aphea.Bio and Bayer team up, GLP-1 pills

From Taxol to cocoa: Can plant cell culture make the leap from drugs to food?

CryoVera targets ‘silent killer in the freezer’ with antifreeze tech ‘inspired by extremophile organism’

UK’s first public-private nature fund raises $86m to restore landscapes at scale

Guest article: What the obituaries for plant-based meat miss

Topics