The Week in AgriFoodTech: eGrocer Rohlik raises $170m, eAgronom bags new capital for carbon
Plus: Tyson’s backpedaling on its beef pledge and another biomaterials startup makes a splash.
Plus: Tyson’s backpedaling on its beef pledge and another biomaterials startup makes a splash.
Plus: Denmark to tax livestock farming emissions and Ohio lawmakers create a stink about cultivated meat.
Plus: New funds from Proterra, Asian Development Bank and others, and lawsuits aplenty.
Meanwhile, a longtime hot-dog-eating champion got the boot from a famous contest, and plant-based meat is the culprit.
Plus: new funding for Packwise, Aeropowder, and HerdDogg
Plus: new fundraises from MENA-based startups Grubtech, YoLaFresh, and Mileutis.
Plus: more layoffs at Deere and new fundraising to bring AI into the hospitality biz.
Plus: Rize raises new capital to decarbonize rice, Uber scoops up Delivery Hero’s Taiwan business.
Plus: alt-protein investor Big Idea Ventures enters the biologicals sector.
Plus: Delivery platform Pipedream raises $13 million and Florida signs a ban on cultivated meat.
Plus: Swiss cleantech startup Bcomp raises new funds and Shake Shack expands its carbon neutral shake offerings.
Plus: more pesticide alternatives enter the agtech arena.
Plus: Science Based Targets initiative’s new rules for Scope 3 emissions are causing more than a little chaos.
Also: farm labor management platform Seso raises $26 million, L’Oreal backs sustainable pigment producer.
Plus: more funding for ag robotics and bad news for Kroger’s e-commerce business.
Plus, meet the Internet of the Forest.
Plus: Impossible Foods unveils a “meatier” new look to attract more carnivorous customers.
Plus: Plant-based “NotDogs” from Oscar Mayer and NotCo, John Deere’s “right to repair” case drags on, new meat labeling beef in Iowa.
Meanwhile, France bans the meat from plant-based meat labeling, the US aims for more wind-powered farms.
Plus: Syngenta develops new bioinsecticide, layoffs at Meati, and Miruku raises $5m for molecular farming.
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