
Bytes to Bites part three – Wellness wired: Leveraging AI to digitize nutrition and health
AI is transforming everything from materials discovery and new product development to customer service. But what does it mean for nutrition and health?
AI is transforming everything from materials discovery and new product development to customer service. But what does it mean for nutrition and health?
Bringing down the cost of growth factors used in cell culture media is critical for the future of cultivated meat, says Multus Bio. But optimizing the overall formulation is equally important.
Pow.bio, a Berkeley-based startup promising to change the economics of precision fermentation by enabling a continuous process, has raised a $9.5m series A round led by Re:Food and Thia Ventures.
AI analyst Cersi combines clients’ supplier data with ‘climate, economic, currency and political risk signals’ to create actionable insights for supply chain analysts and procurement teams at Fortune 500 companies in real time.
Counterintuitively, perhaps, for a technology that’s been around for decades, the extrusion process for transforming plant proteins into meat analogs remains something of a mystery, says Noa Weiss.
In the second segment of a three-part deep dive into AI in food, Peakbridge explores how artificial intelligence could transform the food supply chain.
How will artificial intelligence impact the future of farming? From disease and pest forecasting to precision insurance, SP Ventures explores AI in agriculture.
Atinary Technologies, a Swiss-American startup deploying machine learning to accelerate the materials discovery process, has raised a $5m seed round led by AgFunder.
Artificial intelligence is transforming everything from drug discovery to customer service. But what does it mean for the food industry? Peakbridge takes a deep dive…
[Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Ai Palette.] Singapore-based startup Ai Palette is building out its capabilities to help food and beverage companies
Carbon Robotics will bring its LaserWeeder robot to new parts of North America and launch into international markets in the near future.
While investor sentiment has soured on alternative proteins, last month’s Future Food Tech summit in San Francisco attracted a record number of foodtech startups showcasing everything from foodie chatbots to upcycled prebiotic fibers.
Speakers at this year’s Indoor Ag-Con offered the indoor farming industry insights, predictions and some major reality checks about the future.
With the help of pollination tech, AI and several other tools, the company plans to make its “ultra-premium” berries more affordable in the future.
Brazil- and US-based Solinftec will expand availability of its precision ag farm management platform to additional growers in North and South America.
They’re building a robotic system that can monitor crop health and feed data-informed insights back to farmers.
The Israeli company will further develop its smart irrigation tech API for smallholder farmers facing the impacts of climate change.
Funding for food waste solutions up and down the supply chain reflects the growing importance of the category for businesses, consumers, and investors alike.
The US company’s e-commerce portal provides a more efficient way to source proteins for novel food ingredients, drug discovery, and more.
It aims to take the manual labor out of the ag commodities inspection process using computer vision, machine learning, and IoT.
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