Midweek Digest: Stryve SPACs, Future Meat’s first factory opens
Snack maker Stryve is set for a SPAC merger, while Israel’s Future Meat has unveiled what it says is the “world’s first industrial cultured meat facility.”
Snack maker Stryve is set for a SPAC merger, while Israel’s Future Meat has unveiled what it says is the “world’s first industrial cultured meat facility.”
AgBiome is using its intricate understanding of the plant-related microbiome to develop biological solutions to infections, insects, and nematodes.
The Netherlands-based startup is culturing meat in the lab using a technique that can change pluripotent stem cells from a newborn animal into any desired cell type.
The Danish startup aspires to become the leading supplier of concentrated pheromones as an active ingredient to companies formulating spray-on inputs for row crops.
Two European testing technologies promising to avoid future scandals like horsemeat and olive oil fraud have raised funding this week.
The startup offers a molecular biology-backed line of crop inputs as well as a platform to rapidly create new seed traits without gene-editing techniques.
Announcements are coming thick and fast out of Climate Week NYC as a range of organizations take advantage of the spotlight to push forward their environmental agendas.
Five startups raised $40m in funding this week for a variety of tools primarily aimed at helping farmers capture better margins and bring consumers better offerings.
Ninjacart, an Indian agritech startup that connects farmers to retailers, has raised Rs625 Cr ($89.5m) from New York-based hedge fund Tiger Global, taking its valuation
Many Kenyan farms struggle for access to quality farming products like vaccines, fertilizers or diagnostic equipment; the farmers also find it hard to attain or acquire sound veterinary or technical expertise, according to Sidai.
Startups in the category we call Midstream Technologies raised $1.35 billion in 2018, climbing from the third-best funded category to the second-best funded sector behind Ag Biotechnology.
Alexandria Real Estate has launched a multi-faceted agtech investment strategy including physical facilities for agtech businesses to operate out of and an early-stage funding platform.
This week we spoke with Belgian animal health startup ViroVet to learn more about its mission to tackle health and wellness in the livestock industry with novel vaccine and antibiotic reduction technology.
There is a growing number of dairy tech startups on the market but there are challenges impacting dairy farmers’ ability and desire to adopt these innovative tools.
CropIn Technology Solutions, an Indian agriculture technology startup, has raised Rs58 crores ($8 million) in Series B financing from Chiratae Ventures (formerly IDG Ventures India) and
“Pivot Bio is addressing one of the largest sources of GHGs on the planet – the potent nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide emissions associated with the use of synthetic fertilizers,” said Carmichael Roberts of Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
The investment round was led by Viking Global Investors, an American-based hedge fund based in Greenwich, Conn., with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Upfront Ventures and S2G Ventures.
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An agrifood tech investor takes leave after accusations of sexual misconduct, plus more personnel changes and agtech team-ups in this week’s brief.
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