AgFunderNews weekly roundup of fundings, M&A, and food and agriculture policy: what got most people talking this week was Impossible Foods’ whopping $108 million Series D round.
John Cook over at GeekWire has reported that WISErg has added another $900,000 to the $5 million Series B they raised earlier this year for
The Mosaic Company keeps getting bigger. The Mosaic Company has announced it has acquired a fertilizer distribution business in Brazil and Paraguay for $350
Enterra Feed Inc., a Vancouver-based fertilizer and animal feed company, has announced it closed a $5 million venture-funding round with Avrio Capital. “It’s particularly
Entobel says it will demonstrate that “it’s possible to produce industrial volumes of insect protein at a competitive cost… and we expect this factory will be profitable early next year.”
Jorge Heraud, VP of automation and autonomy at John Deere, talks tractors, sprayers and educating the public about the vital role of farmers.
Fund III will address “problems that transcend time and generation such as water scarcity, the food supply chain, sustainable manufacturing, mobility and energy, and under-represented healthcare.”
Water remains one of the most undervalued and underinvested resources in agrifood innovation despite its intrinsic role in the food system.
Encouraging the adoption of biofuels such as castor could boost incomes for farmers in rural Africa, claims Casterra.
Trace Genomics partners with EarthOptics, Dreamfarm secures $5 million for alt-mozzarella.
“The past 10 years were the equivalent of the late 1990s for the internet. Now is the equivalent of the dot com crash,” says Eric Archambeau, partner at Astanor.
Instead of using black soldier flies for feed and fertilizer, Singapore-based Insectta hopes to expand their applications to everything from personal wellness and pharmaceuticals to organic electronics.
The HowGood FLAG tool will help establish accurate emissions baselines and outline strategies for improving land-use and forestry practices.
We all hope that big agrifood cos will meet their regenerative ag and C02 reduction goals by 2030. But ‘hope is not a strategy,’ says Chonex.
AI analyst Cersi combines clients’ supplier data with ‘climate, economic, currency and political risk signals’ to create actionable insights for supply chain analysts and procurement teams at Fortune 500 companies in real time.
Mercy Corps Ventures and Farm Star are testing the use of Web3-enabled rewards to drive adoption of regenerative agricultural practices.
In the second segment of a three-part deep dive into AI in food, Peakbridge explores how artificial intelligence could transform the food supply chain.
Tikehau Capital invested in a biologicals startup and agrifoodtech layoffs continued.
How will artificial intelligence impact the future of farming? From disease and pest forecasting to precision insurance, SP Ventures explores AI in agriculture.
As artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics continue to evolve, smart farms will become even smarter.
Smoke & mirrors, not worth the extra cost: 50 US farmers speak out on carbon markets