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March 8, 2019
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Evolving to Serve a Dynamic Agri-Food Market – What’s Next for Benson Hill?
March 7, 2019
Matt Crisp is cofounder and CEO of Benson Hill Biosystems, a crop genomics platform using computational biology and gene editing. Here he writes about the startup’s evolution and transition to now serving a broad range of clients across the food system.
Square Roots Partners with Major US Food Service Company Gordon in Mission to Achieve Local Food at International Scale
March 6, 2019
The Brooklyn-based startup is looking to take local food and its farmer training program nationwide with new container farming campuses near Gordon’s retail locations and distribution centers.
Tech Ventures Senior Operations Analyst
March 6, 2019
Cargill provides food, agriculture, financial and industrial products and services to the world. Together with farmers, customers, governments and communities, we help people thrive by
Dutch cows are about to walk on water. Here’s how
February 27, 2019
This spring in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, cows will walk on water. Holy Cow?! Not exactly.
Motif Ingredients Raises $90m Series A to Engineer Alternative Proteins in Ginkgo Bioworks Spin-Out
February 26, 2019
Motif will focus on providing food companies with ingredients for their growing alternative protein product lines in the plant-based and meat alternative space. It will also use Ginkgo’s science and technology to design and engineer new cells to develop other new food formats.
Acceligen Will Use Gene Editing to Improve Health and Welfare of Agricultural Animals, Inc Antibiotics Reduction
February 25, 2019
Editor’s Note: Recombinetics, the gene editing company operating in agriculture and human therapeutics, is spinning out its agriculture business into a new company called Acceligen.
Washington State’s Plastic Waste Legislation Presents Opportunity for Packaging Alternative Startups
February 25, 2019
Washington State lawmakers are considering a hardline measure that would force companies to take responsibility for plastic waste or forgo using it at all.
Big Food and Non-Profits Are Promoting Organic Conversion, So Why Aren’t There More Organic-Focused Technologies?
February 21, 2019
There’s a compelling case for grain farmers to convert to organic, and agtech can help, but few digital startups are serving the organic farming community.
640 Labs Founder Raises $8.25m Series A for New Venture Tillable, an Online Farmland Rental Marketplace
February 21, 2019
Former Climate Corp CEO David Friedberg has invested in Tillable through his investment holding company The Production Board.
Kirchner Food Fellowship: Combating Global Food Insecurity & Funding Socially Responsible Agriculture with Students
February 20, 2019
Now accepting applications from students for its fifth cohort, we asked fellowship director Blair Kirchner to write about the inception of the fellowship and its core mission as a program.
Startup Spotlight: Dropcopter is pollinating orchards with drones as bee colonies decline
February 18, 2019
Pollination is one of the biggest concerns for specialty crop growers, especially as bee populations continue to decline.
Thiel-Backed Breakout Ventures Invests in Phylagen $14m Series A with Cultivian, AgFunder For Microbe-Based Traceability
February 14, 2019
Microbiome data analytics company Phylagen has raised a $14 million Series A round led by Peter Thiel-backed Breakout Ventures, agrifood tech venture pioneer Cultivian Sandbox, supply
How to Overcome the Many Challenges Associated with Agricultural Data
February 14, 2019
Flurosense, Agworld, PCT Agcloud, CSIRO, and AgLink Australia recently won a grant to build an interoperable agronomic analytics engine to resolve many of the inherent challenges surrounding agricultural data. Anastasia Volkova tells us more.
Restaurants Can Earn $7 for Every $1 They Invest in Fighting Food Waste – new report
February 13, 2019
The US restaurant industry alone is responsible for more than 11 million tons of food waste each year, or $25 billion worth of food, and Valentine’s Day is one of the industry’s biggest nights of the year.
Why did global food giant ADM invest in volcanic microbes?
February 13, 2019
ADM Ventures is purposeful about the types of companies it considers investing in.
What is the future of container farming?
February 7, 2019
Growing in retrofit shipping containers has received significant buzz over the past five to 10 years as produce is grown hyper-locally on a small footprint. But how viable is this form of growing in the long term?
Why 2019 is The Year of the Mushroom
February 6, 2019
One month into 2019, it’s clear that this year’s “it” produce is gourmet mushrooms. Smallhold’s Andrew Carter tell us why.
Chipotle Foundation Launches Inaugural Accelerator With 8 Tech Startups Setting High Standards in AgriFood
February 5, 2019
Applicants were required to fall within four categories: alternative farming and growing systems, farming with agriculture technology, food waste and recovery, and plants and alternative products.
Food Tech Startup Steps up to Alleviate Federal Workers’ Food-Related Government Shutdown Woes
February 4, 2019
On-demand food delivery startup DoorDash and social service access platform mRelief are teaming up to provide affected San Francisco residents with up to $35 in DoorDash credit while they wait for their food stamp benefit approvals.
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