“Cautious optimism” is warranted as deal values have increased for two consecutive quarters,” say PitchBook analysts.
“Those innovators that are directly linked to the farmer and to the customer are the ones that are going to win.”
Phytoform utilizes gene editing to accelerate changes that might naturally occur through traditional breeding methods.
Metablify officially launched this week out of the Danforth Technology Company, a subsidiary of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.
The Plantik process grows high-heat-tolerant tomatoes in a fraction of the time it would take to do through traditional breeding.
Concerns around the price of inputs and extreme weather events could increase adoption of sustainability practices among farmers globally.
Jacqueline Heard discusses a new discovery capability for the Enko platform and what should happen next to progress crop protection.
After closing a $40 million Series B, Micropep now looks to bring its crop protection products based on micropeptides to market.
Ginkgo Bioworks and Vitales will accelerate development and launch of two new biocontrol products that target soybean diseases in Brazil.
Bayer and others aim to build a shared understanding about what it really takes to bring ag technologies to market.
New funds will go towards commercializing Catalera products and building out the product development pipeline.
SOLASTA Bio says its biopeptide products perform “as effective or better than standard insecticides.”
Expect fewer agtech-specific funds, more corporate involvement and lots of generative AI.
Legume Technology secured a $2.83 million grant from the Gates Foundation for its microbial biofertilizer that increases crop yield.
Agriculture-related gene editing startups have raised over $2.7 billion since 2012.
Just under half (45%) of US row-crop producers say they currently purchase or use ag biological products, up from 37% in 2022.
Korea’s agricultural sector is experiencing significant transformation driven by advancements in microbiome technology and natural products.
Water was the theme of the latest Foodshot Global challenge, and more specifically, how tech can help protect water as a resource for food and agriculture.
An alliance of large North American farmers led the round, which will fuel the rollout of InnerPlant’s insight platform for soybeans.
“We need to be very careful about what we invest in unless we want to carry it,” says AgFunder about just released H1 2024 data.
