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Asia’s first agritech and foodtech startup up competition will take place in Singapore later this month.
Asia’s first agritech and foodtech startup up competition will take place in Singapore later this month.
The financing will enable the business to achieve commercial scale manufacturing of its FeedKind protein, which is an alternative feed ingredient for fish, livestock and pet nutritional products.
Cool Planet, the biofuel-turned-biological ag products company, has raised $19.3 million in venture funding from existing investors to drive the commercialization of its first products.
Investment in seafood and aquaculture technology increased 271% compared to the $52 million raised across both 2014 and 2015, but there is still a huge need for technology to bring efficiency and sustainability to the industry.
The Yield Lab has made three new investments of $100k each in agritech startups joining its 2017 cohort in St Louis.
Catalina Sea Ranch, the first offshore shellfish ranch in US federal waters, has raised funding for its mussel farm off the coast of Southern California, and for research into growing environmentally-beneficial giant kelp.
Consumers, educated about food waste but told their waste was going to be composed wasted just as much food as those who were uneducated about the perils of waste.
The White House, FDA, and NOAA made key moves that could impact the food & ag industry during the first few days of 2017.
French startup Algama raised a $3.76 million venture round led by Hong Kong billionaire Li-Ka Shing’s venture arm Horizons Ventures as algae continues to make new waves with diversified uses.
Australia’s national body for science and innovation CSIRO is trying to change the country’s poor record for collaboration between research and industry with its innovation accelerator ON.
Agriculture technology has emerged as a new destination for investors, but it still lacks definition. Here are five ways to think about it.
Monsanto’s CRISPR license comes with restrictions.
IntelinAir, a San Jose-based automated aerial imagery analytics startup, closed its seed round consisting of $3 million in equity and $500k in venture debt from
Ahead of a speaking slot at next month’s World Agri-Tech Investment Summit in San Francisco, the secretary for agriculture for California talks about how the state government supports agtech innovation.
Cargill, the Municipal Employee Retirement System of Michigan and multi-family office Bessemer Trust joined existing investors to fund commercialization of Calysta’s FeedKind range.
In the first week of COP21, the Paris Climate Change conference, Monsanto announced a carbon neutral crop production plan as a group of food, farming and environmental organizations announced plans to put the agribusiness on trial for crimes against humanity at the Hague.
The Ag Innovation Showcase, one of agtech’s first conferences, is in its seventh year, and will feature presentations from its highest number of women-owned startups.
Electrochaea, which uses a biological process to convert low-cost and stranded electricity into pipeline-grade renewable case has raised ‘several million euro’ in their Series A
If you’ve ever driven by a landfill, you have had the horrendous experience of smelling the waste of thousands of people. Now, imagine if that
Not all plants are created equal, but traditional farming practices treat them as such. And it’s this one-size-fits-all approach to commercial farming and fertilizer application that is contributing to a spike in greenhouse gas emissions.