DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW The Research and Development Department is responsible for the development of technology platforms and products designed to support the future growth, competitiveness, and
About Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, tasty and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform
Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, tasty and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines
“We’re the largest beer company in the world and the largest user of malting barley, so when you think about where investment into breeding research or the supporting tech comes from, if we’re not going to do it, who will?”
Tropic plans to use the funding to commercialize its tech and to add rice to the roster of tropical crop cultivars it has in development.
Despite a slow down in investment in 2019, Ag Biotech was still one of the top categories for seed funding, and the most active upstream category.
Agri-TechE’s Belinda Clarke and colleagues went on a trade mission to St Louis, Missouri in the US to discover how it’s built an ecosystem for agritech innovation and investment. Here are her takeaways.
What a decade it’s been for the advancement of the food and agriculture industries! It was a decade spent catching up with other industries in the technological revolution. What’s in store for 2020? Five of the industry’s leading investors tell AFN.
Weather events have plagued US crop production throughout the year, including severe floods and an early freeze. Using Indigo’s GeoInnovation platform, we take a deeper look and ask, could technology have helped farmers weather the storms better?
Most ag investment flows to high-income countries, and currently very little reaches the food systems of low-income regions like Africa, with virtually none going to support highly nutritious foods, according to GAIN.
Description Benson Hill empowers innovators to unlock the global genetic potential of plants benefiting people and our planet. We are building the future of agricultural
Description Join Benson Hill Biosystems (BHB) to work on the cutting edge of crop design. Our CropOS™ is the industry’s leading platform for gene editing
Description Join Benson Hill to work on the cutting edge of crop design. CropOS™ is the industry’s leading platform for computational breeding and gene editing.
With plans to accelerate commercialization in the US corn and soybean markets, this next-gen seed company claims that this is the largest funding round secured by a female CEO for an ag biotech startup to date.
It has been a wild ride watching the agtech landscape explode these past five years, writes Seana Day – who’s now tracking over 1,600 startups globally in her latest market map.
The majority of agrifood tech investors are generalist tech investors but there is also a growing number of dedicated funds focused on foodtech and agtech. Here’s a list of the top 10 in 2018.
A lot of the questions surrounding the technology are not really scientific but about what this technology is feeding into: power politics, the changing structure of agriculture and smallholder farmers, and long-term effects.
PIP, a $15 million public-private partnership of leading agtech startups, agribusinesses, and biotech companies will research the potential for indoor farms to grow crops with improved nutrition, taste and other characteristics hard to achieve outdoors.
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.
With the growth of the event, we are hearing different voices, including changing corporate cultures and new business models.
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