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Senior Director of Plant Science

June 14, 2023

About FYTO Do you strive to improve the world through sustainable agriculture? Do you want to develop technological solutions to grow more food while using

How the Croptix platform is changing plant nutrition and disease monitoring

June 14, 2023

AEA’s John Kempf on why his company led the recent seed round for US-based precision agriculture startup Croptix.

Meet the founder: Tawi Fresh’s Cherotich Rutto on empowering women and youth through agribusiness

June 9, 2023

Tawi Fresh launched this year to connect smallholder farmers in Kenya more directly to markets, financing and fairer pricing.

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Green Coffee Co brews up $25m, ChatGPT designs robotic harvesting, Zume shuts down

June 8, 2023

Fazla lands $6 million to stop food waste, Quorn invests in alt deli meat startup Prime Roots.

Matt Anderson-Baron cofounder and CEO Future Fields

🎥 Could fruit flies give microbes a run for their money? Future Fields thinks outside the fermentation tank

June 7, 2023

Microbes have been the workhorses of recombinant protein production for years. But could the humble fruit fly give them a run for their money? asks Canadian startup Future Fields.

Nium raises $3m seed round from AgFunder, DCVC to eliminate Haber-Bosch from ammonia production

June 6, 2023

Nium will use the funds to develop its small-scale, low-energy-consumption system to clean up ammonia production’s dirty footprint.

From fintech to alt protein, Latam’s next generation of agrifood startups is building a farmer-first food system

June 6, 2023

Latam startups fight food insecurity and inequality with agrifoodtech tools like farmer financing logistics and healthier ingredients.

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Neat Burger raises $18m, Debut bags $34m to expand cell-free biomanufacturing platform

June 1, 2023

This week, Neat Burger raised $18m to take its plant-based restaurant chain into new markets, while synthetic biology startup Debut raised $34 million to expand its cell-free biomanufacturing platform.

Algae’s second bloom? ‘Resiliency and productivity are key,’ say second generation startups

May 31, 2023

Between 2005-2012, venture capitalists poured millions into startups attempting to make fuel from microalgae, getting their fingers badly burned in the process. But could algae be gearing up for a second bloom?

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pluton Biosciences bags $16.5m, Babylon Micro-Farms secures funds, José Andrés launches climate institute

May 25, 2023

Climate startup FLINTpro lands $9 million and Meatable says it can produce cultivated pork in just eight days.

Spend 80% of your time on HR: How Agroprosperis partnered with employees to create a profitable agribusiness

May 23, 2023

When the team at NCH Agriculture, a $1bn agriculture investment business, founded Agroprosperis in 2006, they didn’t have a plan and understood little about farming. Today Agroprosperis is the largest producer of crops in the Black Sea region, and is returning 15% a year to its investors.

From down under to outer space: 3 Australian startups leading the next era of novel farming systems

May 23, 2023

From insects to indoor greens, Australian startups demonstrate the potential for novel farming systems at home and abroad.

Meet the founder: Insectta’s Chua Kai-Ning taps black soldier flies for high-value functional ingredients

May 19, 2023

If you’re farming edible insects for protein, scale is the name of the game, says Singapore-based startup Insectta. But if you’re mining bugs for higher-value functional ingredients, even a tiny startup can potentially compete on the global stage with the right technology.

Synthetic biology in food & ag: We’re just getting started, says SynBioBeta founder, ‘Biology isn’t easy to engineer’

May 16, 2023

“We’ve got a groundswell of young people who are trained in molecular biology,” says SynBioBeta founder Dr John Cumbers: “They’re not scared of GMOs. But they are scared of the environmental impacts of climate change and the unsustainability of our consumer culture.”