Data snapshot: Ag biotech overtakes downstream categories for British agrifoodtech investment
July 19, 2023
UK agrifoodtech startups raised nearly $400 million across 77 deals, according to the latest data from AgFunder.
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Q&A: GRIDX CEO on why Argentina is leading Latin America’s boom in biotech innovation
July 18, 2023
GRIDX cofounder and CEO Matías Peire on how his company helps scientists build startups that are leading the way for Latin America biotech.
Africa needs more ag biotech investment. Here’s why
June 20, 2023
Private sector investment in ag biotech is urgently needed in Africa to develop crops resistant to multiple stressors, says Jonathan Gressel.
Data snapshot: VC funding for ag biotech increases thanks to mega-rounds from the US, China & India
May 17, 2023
The Americas and Asia tied as regions with the most ag biotech funding in 2022, with each raising $1.3 billion.
Exclusive: Resurrect Bio lands $2m from AgFunder & others to build up plants’ immune systems
May 16, 2023
Resurrect Bio uses gene editing to fix the innate immune system of crops and make them more resistant to disease.
Apply to GLOCAL’s 2023 program to help advance Latin American agrifoodtech
April 20, 2023
Latin American agrifoodtech startups hoping to scale their solutions can now apply to the GLOCAL Game Changers LatAm Series 2023.
NEW REPORT: Climate agrifoodtech bucks global funding decline as sector brings in $29.6bn in 2022
March 9, 2023
The macro headwinds startups face right now are also driving more interest in agrifoodtech as a solution to some of today’s most pressing climate issues.
Agrifoodtech startups tackle labour, nutrition and biosecurity issues at evokeAG 2023
February 13, 2023
APAC’s premier agrifoodtech event evokeAG brings investors, innovators and others together to address some of the biggest challenges of our time.
Exclusive: Loam Bio raises $73m Series B from Lowercarbon, Acre, others to boost soil carbon
February 13, 2023
Australia-based Loam Bio’s microbial seed inoculum could help farmers store more carbon in the ground and more easily enter carbon markets.
Temasek, Lowercarbon Capital, Toyota, Felicis invest in $21m Series A for Living Carbon’s ‘super trees’
January 17, 2023
Climate biotech startup Living Carbon says its “photosynthesis-enhanced trees” can grow twice as fast as other trees and capture more carbon.
Data snapshot: India, China & Indonesia lead Asia-Pacific’s farmtech investment right now
November 2, 2022
India is by far the region’s most advanced farmtech ecosystem, while a Chinese agricultural drone service raised the biggest farmtech round in 2021.
Meet the Founder: Solis Agrosciences’ Mary Fernandes on agbiotech, immigration and female entrepreneurship
October 14, 2022
Solis Agrosciences’ CEO discusses the future of biotech, role of farmers, and how her experience as a woman and an immigrant has informed her work.
Gene editing startup Inari bags $124m to ‘unlock the full potential’ of seeds
October 4, 2022
Inari uses gene-editing tools to enhance the natural diversity of seeds while enabling higher crop yields with fewer inputs.
Meet the final pitch day winners of the GLOCAL Game Changers LatAm Series 2022
September 6, 2022
Soil biotech, food waste, and sustainable beverages were among the winning concepts Latin American agrifoodtech startups pitched to an audience last month.
The power of genetics and environment in indoor agriculture
August 31, 2022
How can a crop’s biology be manipulated through breeding for higher profits in the fast-growing indoor agriculture market? Vonnie Estes digs in.
Startup profile: Peptyde Bio targets high costs and chemical-resistant pests with new bio-fungicide platform
August 25, 2022
St. Louis-based Peptyde Bio hopes to strengthen the power of bio-fungicides with its platform that designs and discovers anti-microbial peptides.
Brief: Exit for CoverCress as Bayer buys majority stake in gene-edited cover crop startup
August 2, 2022
The deal will enable CoverCress to further commercialize its namesake winter oilseed product and bring farmers another source of revenue.
BREAKING: Nufarm leads $70m Series C for crop protection startup Enko
July 27, 2022
Enko will use the funding to advance its pipeline of crop protection chemistries that provide an alternative to outdate chemical-based products.
EXCLUSIVE: Moa nets $44m Series B funding to launch the next generation of herbicides
May 26, 2022
With herbicide resistance on the rise, Moa Technology wants to “replenish the toolbox” available to farmers, says CEO Virginia Corless.
BREAKING: Mazen raises $11m Series A from AgFunder, Fall Line, others to make animal ag safer, cheaper
May 25, 2022
Administering a vaccine in animal feed is far safer for workers and requires a lot less labor than injecting each animal individually.
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