Global investment in AgFunder’s ‘Innovative Food’ category (which is dominated by alt proteins) fell by 39% in 2022. However, funding increased by 26% in the Asia-Pacific region. So what should we make of this dynamic?
If you’re mid-way through a pitch and investors still have no idea what your startup actually does, you’ve got a problem, say investors we quizzed this week…
While many coffee drinkers love the instant boost they get from caffeine, they don’t like the jitters that often come with it, says Rarebird founder Dr. Jeffrey Dietrich.
French startup Amatera is developing a coffee variety with the resilience and yields of Robusta and the taste of Arabica.
GROW Impact Accelerator startups CarbonFarm, FaunaTech and Exosomm are on mission to improve the health of animals, humans and the planet
Everyone agrees that the cost of cell culture media has got to come down dramatically if cultivated meat is going to gain market traction. But what’s the most efficient way to do it?
Enhanced rock weathering startup Eion is scaling up aggressively in 2024 as more players commit to buying carbon credits generated by its carbon removal process.
When you’re on a tight budget, your execution must be “flawless,” says Juicy Marbles CEO Tilen Travnik. “If something is not as tight as it should be, it keeps me up at night because it immediately translates into cash flow.”
While the world’s coffee giants know that by 2050, 50% less arable land may be suited to growing Arabica, most coffee drinkers are blissfully unaware that their cup of Morning Joe is under threat. So how is Atomo getting consumers excited about ‘beanless’ alternatives?
Atinary Technologies, a Swiss-American startup deploying machine learning to accelerate the materials discovery process, has raised a $5m seed round led by AgFunder.
African agrifoodtech investment declined 77% year on year in the first half of 2023 as global macroeconomic trends curtailed growth.
Fermelanta—a Japanese startup engineering bacteria to produce alkaloids from morphine to berberine—wowed judges at last month’s Japan agrifoodtech meetup organized by AgFunder, JETRO Startup and SDG Impact Japan.
2022 was a lousy year for agrifoodtech investing, and India was not immune to the headwinds impacting global markets, with funding to Indian startups in the field dipping 33% year-over-year to $2.4 billion, according to AgFunder’s new India AgriFoodTech Investment Report 2023.
Investors poured money almost equally into the Recycling and Prevention categories of food waste mitigation in 2022 in North America.
Innovators creating bio-based alternatives to synthetic, fossil fuel and animal-based products and materials are capturing investor attention.
eGrocery is still the biggest subsegment in agrifoodtech investing, attracting a cool $5.1 billion in funding in 2022. But that pales in comparison to the jaw-dropping $19 billion raised by food ecommerce startups in 2021, according to AgFunder’s new global investment report.
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Fable’s meaty mushroom products are minimally processed and clean label with all natural ingredients, a boon amid growing controversy about the alternative meat industry.
2022’s 10 most active food and agriculture technology venture capital firms were dominated by American firms with other leaders spread across Europe.
Operating both a B2B and B2C marketplace, Mayani has nearly 140,000 fish farmers on its platform.
Smoke & mirrors, not worth the extra cost: 50 US farmers speak out on carbon markets