Foods from the lab, such as cultivated meat, drove a greater amount of early-stage investment in upstream technologies and business models in the first half of 2021.
Freshmart was founded in 2016 and claims to have an 18-20% share of the online food market in Peru.
The US startup brings work-from-home to the gig economy, giving drive-thru restaurants a virtual, on-demand workforce, writes AgFunder partner Manuel Gonzalez.
The US startup is growing a plant that can help to reduce the carbon footprint of animal agriculture and become a new ingredient for alt-proteins.
GROW2Asia will help the eight Australian companies validate their market fit and co-develop an internationalization roadmap to establish their presence in Asia.
While mega-deals involving seven Chinese e-Grocery startups accounted for $3.8 billion of H1’s figure, funding to other countries is still on track to outpace 2020 levels, according to the latest data from AgFunder.
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New Carnivore has made seven deals to date, co-investing with leading VCs such as Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and DCVC.
It aims to take the manual labor out of the ag commodities inspection process using computer vision, machine learning, and IoT.
The Singapore-based startup secured the Series A funding from Exfinity Venture Partners, pi Ventures, and AgFunder, among others.
Apeel’s core technology is a plant-based ‘peel’ that can be applied to the surface of fresh produce to maintain its freshness for longer.
The Memphis, Tennessee-based startup provides a platform for restaurants which allows casual workers to log in and take customer orders remotely.
Biteback is creating edible oils from mealworms, while Cellular Agriculture has designed a new type of bioreactor to bring down cultivated meat’s costs.
The Australian startup is producing whole-food meat analogs out of shiitake, with celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal creating a signature burger using the product.
The ag biotech company, which uses the RNA tech made famous by Covid-19 vaccines, will list on the Nasdaq – eventually providing an exit for investors including AgFunder, S2G Ventures, and Continental Grain Company.
“When we invested, what I loved about Bear Flag was that they were solving the right problem,” writes AgFunder partner Rob Leclerc about his firm’s exit from the ag automation startup.
This is Deere’s second major automation acquisition in the past four years.
The AgFunder-backed program will showcase 10 game-changing startups offering sustainable solutions in alt-protein, smallholding, food waste reduction, and more.
Global Incubator Programme – Gateway to Asia will help UK agrifoodtech startups expand into the Asia-Pacific region remotely.
Japfa and GROW have unveiled the 5 winners of Japfa Feeds the Future – a startup challenge aimed at advancing protein production and food resilience in Asia.
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