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October 13, 2023
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Bytes to Bites part three – Wellness wired: Leveraging AI to digitize nutrition and health
October 12, 2023
AI is transforming everything from materials discovery and new product development to customer service. But what does it mean for nutrition and health?
Machine learning: Meet the startup harnessing AI to optimize cell culture media formulation
October 10, 2023
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.
Farm robotics startups face a talent shortage. Academia and tech are working together to change that
October 5, 2023
The annual Farm Robotics Challenge sets university students to work on solving real-world agricultural issues with robotics-based solutions.
Pow.bio raises $9.5m to expand continuous fermentation platform; says smarter, not bigger, bioreactors will ‘unlock economic viability’
October 4, 2023
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.
Cersi, what are the biggest risks to my supply chain today? Helios launches AI supply chain analyst, raises $1.85m pre-seed round
October 3, 2023
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.
Meet the founder: GreenProtein AI’s Noa Weiss shines a light into the ‘black box’ of extrusion
September 29, 2023
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.
Bytes to Bites part two – From farm to fork: Leveraging AI in the food supply chain
September 28, 2023
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.
AI harvest: Transforming agriculture through technological evolution
September 26, 2023
How will artificial intelligence impact the future of farming? From disease and pest forecasting to precision insurance, SP Ventures explores AI in agriculture.
AgFunder leads $5m seed round for ML-powered Atinary Technologies to turbocharge R&D process
September 26, 2023
Atinary Technologies, a Swiss-American startup deploying machine learning to accelerate the materials discovery process, has raised a $5m seed round led by AgFunder.
Bytes to Bites part one: Digitizing consumption insights. Leveraging AI in food product development
September 12, 2023
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…
Brightseed forms coalition to raise awareness of bioactives’ role in human health, disease prevention
July 20, 2023
A mix of researchers and scientists will work together to promote the role of bioactives in health and dietary guidelines.
Brief: Pano AI raises $17m growth round to expand its wildfire detection technology
July 11, 2023
Pano AI says the Series A extension highlights the urgent need for more innovations around climate mitigation and adaptation.
Exclusive: Innova Memphis raises $40m to bring the rural US ‘innovations farmers actually want’
June 28, 2023
The Innova Memphis Fund VI will invest in early-stage startups addressing the automation and digitization of agriculture in rural areas.
Here’s where AI could make the biggest impact in the agrifoodtech sector
May 30, 2023
AI’s biggest potential impact likes in making complex analytics accessible and affordable to agrifood and agribusiness processes.
Former Impossible Foods CFO David Lee launches new startup, Inevitable Tech, to be ‘the AI for agtech’
May 15, 2023
The company’s first product will be a “clean propagation system” to ensure healthier, higher-quality plants.
The Small Robot Company nearly ‘through the danger zone’ after losing lead investor and launching crowdfunding campaign
May 10, 2023
SRC (Small Robot Company) is building survival runway via crowdfunding but says its difficulties are common amongst UK ag robotics startups.
70% of specialty crop growers now investing in farm robots, says new Western Growers report
May 8, 2023
Robots that automate the task of weeding are far and away the most popular right now amongst specialty crop growers, says Western Growers.
Why Farmers Business Network launched Norm, an AI advisor for farmers built on ChatGPT
May 4, 2023
Generative AI platform Norm could become “a principal way to interact with a lot of parts of the FBN experience,” says the company.
Tevel named winner at World Ag Expo for advancing autonomous harvesting using flying robots
April 18, 2023
Tevel is partnering with ag machinery manufacturers and integrating its robots and ground computing software system with harvesting machinery.
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