The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pula raises $20m for ag insurance, SOSV’s new planetary health fund, Impossible’s new ranch April 25, 2024 Jennifer Marston Plus: Swiss cleantech startup Bcomp raises new funds and Shake Shack expands its carbon neutral shake offerings.
From almond crops to BIPOC communities, Daily Harvest aims to transition more farms to regenerative-organic
Ketones will fuel the next generation of energy drinks, say ex-Pepsi & Coke execs behind KEY, as AgFunder leads $4m seed round
The climate change battle will be ‘won or lost’ on Scope 3 emissions. Here are the companies taking action
Exclusive: Mexico’s Verqor and Brazil’s Traive partner, plan new product to bring more AI to agrifinance
Plant-based by numbers (USA): Continued declines for alt meat, more positive news for alt dairy – GFI
Meet the Founder: Neatleaf’s Elmar Mair discusses the critical role of autonomy in ag: “It takes a lot of anxiety out of cultivation”
Exclusive: Omeat’s tumultuous year: staff cuts and leadership shake-up at startup with ‘elegant’ new approach to scaling cultivated meat
Data snapshot: Investment in food waste tech down in the US, but sector still ‘well positioned to outperform overall trends’
OlsAro raises $2.7m to expand climate smart crop breeding platform: ‘We’re enabling farming on otherwise unfarmable land’
Data snapshot: From ‘lightning in a box’ to microbial carbon capture, agrifoodtech investment moves upstream in Australia as investors focus on climate mitigation
Kenya’s Stable Foods on bolstering food security with irrigation tech: ‘The response from farmers has been encouraging’
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Windfall Bio scoops up $28m, TerraClear bags $15m, Ginkgo buys AgBiome assets
To boldly go… fueled by mycoprotein & greens: Maia Farms and Ecoation win Canadian grand prize in Deep Space Food Challenge
Ketones will fuel the next generation of energy drinks, say ex-Pepsi & Coke execs behind KEY, as AgFunder leads $4m seed round
OlsAro raises $2.7m to expand climate smart crop breeding platform: ‘We’re enabling farming on otherwise unfarmable land’
Meet the founder: Hyphen’s Stephen Klein on ‘humbling’ startup experiences, pandemic pivots, and why you don’t need a robotic sledgehammer to crack a nut
Meet the founder: FYTO’s Jason Prapas on ‘turning a nitrogen problem into high-grade protein’ for dairy farmers
Meatable CTO on the cultivated meat industry cycle: ‘Hype, stagnation, consolidation, redirection’
Meet the founder: Protix’s Kees Aarts on insect ag… ‘You can’t come in with a Silicon Valley playbook and outcompete a legacy industry in 3 years’
‘Prioritizing taste over timelines’: amidst ongoing market correction, vertical farming company Oishii raises $134m Series B
Mushroom vertical farming company Smallhold files for bankruptcy; firm in ‘worse financial shape than previously disclosed’
How HeavyFinance plans to finance the regen ag transition for more of Europe’s small and medium farmers
Meet the founder: ‘You cannot be green if you’re in the red’ when it comes to financing regen ag, says Agreena’s Simon Haldrup
Ketones will fuel the next generation of energy drinks, say ex-Pepsi & Coke execs behind KEY, as AgFunder leads $4m seed round
OlsAro raises $2.7m to expand climate smart crop breeding platform: ‘We’re enabling farming on otherwise unfarmable land’
🎥 Germin8 Ventures on a ‘bruising’ year in venture capital, and new opportunities in ‘frontier science and computation’
Meet the founder: Hyphen’s Stephen Klein on ‘humbling’ startup experiences, pandemic pivots, and why you don’t need a robotic sledgehammer to crack a nut
New AgFunder, ISF report highlights gaps and opportunities to invest in climate adaptation for smallholder farmers
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