The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pula raises $20m for ag insurance, SOSV’s new planetary health fund, Impossible’s new ranch
Plus: Swiss cleantech startup Bcomp raises new funds and Shake Shack expands its carbon neutral shake offerings.
Plus: Swiss cleantech startup Bcomp raises new funds and Shake Shack expands its carbon neutral shake offerings.
Via an irrigation-as-a-service platform, Stable Foods tackles the prevalent challenge of food insecurity and poverty in East Africa.
Gates Ag One will focus on crop innovations that benefit yields and livelihoods of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Also: farm labor management platform Seso raises $26 million, L’Oreal backs sustainable pigment producer.
Deeper collaborations with Global South peers can herald a paradigm shift in Africa’s agricultural landscape.
ThriveAgric has a target to provide $500 million in credit to 10 million smallholder farmers by 2027 and $1 billion to 20 million by 2050.
The Varaha platform measures and quantifies carbon sequestration for regenerative agriculture, afforestation and biochar projects.
Plus: UPSIDE Foods hits pause on its large-scale cultivated meat production facility and plant-based fur makes its debut.
“The CEO got all [of the] company [together] in a less than five-minute call and the affected ones were disconnected less than an hour and a half afterwards.”
Shamba Pride digitizes many tasks for agro-dealers in an effort to improve quality and traceability as well as access to information.
African Agriculture aims to transform the Sahel’s beef and dairy industries through the production of animal feed.
Swiggy makes more cuts to its workforce, France contemplates a ban on cultivated meat.
Plus: much ado (and fundraising) about ag robotics and many updates from Israel’s startup scene.
AgFunder partner Michael Dean on discovering the huge opportunity for new technology development and deployment across the food system.
A new One Acre Fund program will act as a “resilience shield” for the 97% of smallholder farmers in Africa lacking insurance.
Plus: ProfilePrint raises Series B funding & Vow gets a regulatory nod for cultivated quail.
AAII participants said collaboration can positively impact everything from policy to infrastructure gaps to supply chain issues.
As COP28 kicks off, other agrifoodtech news includes fundraises for aquatech startups and new stats about agriculture emissions.
Empowering African agrifoodtech startups in terms of funding and business strategy remains at the core of the new program.
The Middle East, Africa and South Asia have many ties between them that create a huge market opportunity for agrifoodtech.
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