Women in AgTech: Fighting machismo in Latin America
“I am woman, hear me roar,” belts Helen Reddy. That bravado reverberates in Chipsafer’s Victoria Alonsoperez & Agrosmart’s Mariana Vasconcelos’ daily lives.
“I am woman, hear me roar,” belts Helen Reddy. That bravado reverberates in Chipsafer’s Victoria Alonsoperez & Agrosmart’s Mariana Vasconcelos’ daily lives.
The Israeli startup combs thousands of recipes, menus, and social media conversations to figure out what food and beverage trends consumers will crave next.
Indian cloud kitchen giant Rebel Foods has raised $125m in Series D funding from Goldman Sachs, Sequoia Capital, Gojek, and others.
Beware, food tech dilettantes: Do not go charging headlong into London’s Future Food Tech event this October without a good game plan.
Narrowed down from over 160 applicants, the GROW accelerator showcased its nine talents to a turnout with big names like Temasek, ESG and Mondelez.
Watch out, Beyond Meat. Edible cricket farmer and roaster, ENTO, is coming for you with a bug-based burger patty. And it’s probably healthier.
Asia and Africa are home to 80% of the world’s population and with rising incomes, they are craving and demanding more animal-sourced foods, GFI India’s head Varun Deshpande told AFN on the sidelines of the Good Food Conference in San Francisco today.
The Yelp for vegans is here. And it has $2.6m in its pocket. abillionveg is on a mission to capture $1bn in animal welfare causes and one billion users.
AquaBounty was the first company to obtain FDA approval for genetically modified seafood intended for human consumption. We spoke to COO Alejandro Rojas ahead of the Animal AgTech Innovation Summit in Amsterdam in October.
Christine Pitt is executive director of GROW, the new foodtech and agtech accelerator we’ve launched with Rocket Seeder in Singapore. (Applications are now open until August 19 so apply now!)
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.
Focused on cotton and grain production, FluroSat’s flagship product FluroSense uses hyperspectral imaging to predict disease and support better crop health decision making. Agronomic data
Europe’s agrifood tech ecosystem raised just 9% of the funding that went to foodtech and agtech startups globally in 2018. But deal activity increased 23% as agrifood tech startups in the region closed a similar number of deals as in the US.
Here are five takeaways about how “alternative” food ideas, technologies and actors are shifting the mainstream as we know it, from the F&A Next conference in The Netherlands last week.
Rob Leclerc, Founding Partner at AgFunder, will be participating in the online conference Virtual Summit on AgTech next week alongside alternative meat leaders such as Ethan Brown from Beyond Meat.
Just as it has for most of its history, the ample and multi-leveled agricultural and agri-food sector of Canada continues to play a fundamental role
Tom Mastrobuoni, CFO of Tyson Ventures, speaks in-depth about the company’s targeted investment areas and the rationale for investing in Beyond Meat, Memphis Meat, Future Meat, Tovala and FoodLoqiQ.
Two weeks ago, our CEO Rob Leclerc went to Israel to attend Food and Ag Week and here’s what he discovered.
Since 2014, insect startups raised $124 million. Of this, $4.2 million went to companies creating consumer products for human consumption – the rest went to insect farming operations.
High-profile startup hires, a startup IPO, and new startup resources also make up part of this week’s brief.