How can New Zealand’s agri-innovation ecosystem become the world leader it should be?
Agriculture is the beating heart of New Zealand. So why is New Zealand still not delivering on its full potential as an agri-innovation ecosystem?
Agriculture is the beating heart of New Zealand. So why is New Zealand still not delivering on its full potential as an agri-innovation ecosystem?
The Americas and Asia tied as regions with the most ag biotech funding in 2022, with each raising $1.3 billion.
The Yield Lab Latam is targeting a $50m final close by the end of the year.
Precision fermentation startup The EVERY Co has teamed up with Alpha Foods to explore the potential of meat alternatives featuring ‘animal-free’ egg whites made with microbes instead of chickens.
2022 was a grim year for agrifoodtech investment, with funding down 44% year-on-year globally, in part driven by an 81% drop in funding in China. So why did funding fall off a cliff and what can we expect in 2023 and beyond?
Arado’s digital agribusiness marketplace connecting farmers directly with retailers and restaurants grew 30x in 2022.
Tablepointer aims to be the partner of small-to medium-sized businesses, helping them optimise energy usage and increase profitability.
With its plug-and-play system, TablePointer hopes to enable small- and medium-sized enterprises to manage their energy cheaply and more efficiently.
While investor sentiment has soured on alternative proteins, last month’s Future Food Tech summit in San Francisco attracted a record number of foodtech startups showcasing everything from foodie chatbots to upcycled prebiotic fibers.
Innovators creating bio-based alternatives to synthetic, fossil fuel and animal-based products and materials are capturing investor attention.
eGrocery is still the biggest subsegment in agrifoodtech investing, attracting a cool $5.1 billion in funding in 2022. But that pales in comparison to the jaw-dropping $19 billion raised by food ecommerce startups in 2021, according to AgFunder’s new global investment report.
Thanks to advances in synthetic biology, startups are now programming microbes to express everything from egg albumin without chickens to whey protein without cows. But when animal products are no longer made by animals, what do we call them?
Ongoing labor shortages and a need to cut costs are fueling a new class of foodservice robotics, from ‘bots that mix drinks to burger vending machines.
Learn from other geographies with similar challenges, create room for blended financing and other snippets from the Africa-Korea Agtech Summit
“I don’t know many companies who are really talking about the ethics of their supply chain in the plant-based world, other than the animal ethics part… I’m talking about the human ethics part of things and fair labor.”
Operating both a B2B and B2C marketplace, Mayani has nearly 140,000 fish farmers on its platform.
It’s been a tough few months for the alternative protein startup category, particularly companies developing plant-based meat, dairy, and seafood alternatives
Agrifoodtech startups working to build a more sustainable, reliable agrifood system are invited to apply to the five-month-long program
As demand for greater food security and traceability increases, so too will the size of the rounds for Novel Farming Systems in APAC.
Forsea, an Israeli cultured seafood startup is using organoid technolog, mostly used in phrama and developmental biology, to produce cultured seafood.