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.
APAC’s premier agrifoodtech event evokeAG brings investors, innovators and others together to address some of the biggest challenges of our time.
Australia-based Loam Bio’s microbial seed inoculum could help farmers store more carbon in the ground and more easily enter carbon markets.
Climate biotech startup Living Carbon says its “photosynthesis-enhanced trees” can grow twice as fast as other trees and capture more carbon.
India is by far the region’s most advanced farmtech ecosystem, while a Chinese agricultural drone service raised the biggest farmtech round in 2021.
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.
Inari uses gene-editing tools to enhance the natural diversity of seeds while enabling higher crop yields with fewer inputs.
Soil biotech, food waste, and sustainable beverages were among the winning concepts Latin American agrifoodtech startups pitched to an audience last month.
How can a crop’s biology be manipulated through breeding for higher profits in the fast-growing indoor agriculture market? Vonnie Estes digs in.
St. Louis-based Peptyde Bio hopes to strengthen the power of bio-fungicides with its platform that designs and discovers anti-microbial peptides.
The deal will enable CoverCress to further commercialize its namesake winter oilseed product and bring farmers another source of revenue.
Enko will use the funding to advance its pipeline of crop protection chemistries that provide an alternative to outdate chemical-based products.
With herbicide resistance on the rise, Moa Technology wants to “replenish the toolbox” available to farmers, says CEO Virginia Corless.
Administering a vaccine in animal feed is far safer for workers and requires a lot less labor than injecting each animal individually.
Fund II will invest in ag biotech and digital solutions up and down the agrifood value chain, from fintech solutions to crop science and animal health.
The US-based company provides ag biotech startups with many of the complex processes and equipment required to grow genetically engineered plants at scale.
“We have additional insecticide candidates at earlier stages in our pipeline, as well as our first fungicidal candidates,” CEO Anna Rath tells AFN.
Top Ag Biotech investment deals in 2021 covered gene editing, farm inputs, animal health solutions, and biofertilizers, among others.
When it comes to crops, biologicals are all the rage as a means to reduce agriculture’s environmental footprint – and increasingly as a solution to supply chain disruption. Decoy says livestock will be next.
Access to talent, investors, and new technologies are among the benefits CTC and CoverCress have found in St Louis ag biotech community BRDG Park.
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