Brief: Zomato sees share price leap 70% on Indian market debut
July 23, 2021
Zomato, which competes for the mantle of India’s top food delivery app with rival Swiggy, is reportedly valued at $12.2 billion post-IPO.
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Shiok Meats adds Asian food industry giants to cap table in latest funding round
July 21, 2021
Shiok Meats is planning to open a production facility in its native Singapore by 2023 to cultivate cell-based shrimp, lobster, crab, and crayfish at commercial scale.
RootCamp is looking for agritech startups to join its latest batch & disrupt the food value chain
July 15, 2021
Are you an agritech startup that wants to scale its business to its full potential and have a positive impact in the agrifood industry?
Next Gen Foods’ tech-inspired, asset-light model just closed plant protein’s biggest-ever seed round
July 14, 2021
The Singapore-based startup has scored $30 million in seed funding from the likes of Temasek, GGV Capital, and England soccer star Dele Alli.
Introducing GROW2Asia: A fast-track for Australian agrifood innovators to scale into Asia remotely
July 13, 2021
It’s a unique accelerator program offered by GROW in partnership with Food Futures Company and Austrade, Australia’s trade and investment agency.
Dishing the dirt on ag carbon credits
July 13, 2021
Carbon credits schemes involving agriculture are growing in number – but not all are necessarily equal in their impact, Dan Blaustein-Rejto writes.
Indian fish farmer network Aquaconnect raises $4m from AgFunder, others
July 12, 2021
The Chennai-based startup will use the pre-Series A funds to strengthen its fintech offering, while also boosting the volume of seafood exports it handles.
Ag commodities platform Tridge scores $60m Series C funding
July 12, 2021
The South Korean startup will set up packing and warehousing facilities in 50 “strategic” countries while hiring to expand its engagement, fulfillment, and platform development teams.
We already have the blueprint to prevent the next pandemic – and it’s on our farms
July 6, 2021
On World Zoonoses Day, a call for farms in emerging markets to get access to the same tech and knowhow as their counterparts elsewhere.
After overtaking Alibaba, ag marketplace Pinduoduo is focusing on foodtech to hit profitability
July 5, 2021
Having overtaken e-commerce behemoth Alibaba on the active buyers front, Pinduoduo’s looking upstream at alt-protein and logistics tech, its sustainability head tells AFN.
Brief: UAE cloud kitchen startup Kitopi raises $415m, joins billion-dollar club
July 5, 2021
The Series C round marks the first UAE investment out of SoftBank’s Vision Fund II.
This year’s biggest agrifoodtech IPO will probably involve a company you’ve definitely heard of
July 2, 2021
It could file its prospectus – seeking to raise a reported $10 billion at a $60 billion valuation – as soon as next week.
Midweek Digest: Stryve SPACs, Future Meat’s first factory opens
June 30, 2021
Snack maker Stryve is set for a SPAC merger, while Israel’s Future Meat has unveiled what it says is the “world’s first industrial cultured meat facility.”
The top 5 misconceptions about satellite imagery for agriculture
June 29, 2021
From Landsat through to modern-day providers like Planet, satellite imagery has had a role to play in agriculture. But many misconceptions persist.
Dingdong downsizes after Missfresh misfires
June 29, 2021
Dingdong Maicai has slashed its IPO pricing by 74% following its Chinese e-grocery rival’s rough debut last Friday.
Future Food 🎙️: Diving deep with Shiok Meats’ Sandhya Sriram on the future of cell-cultured seafood
June 25, 2021
CEO Sriram on why she made the leap from full-time scientist to founder – and how she reconciles vegetarianism with being a cultured meat eater.
Brief: Chinese e-grocers seek to raise a combined $700m in US market debuts
June 24, 2021
Competitors Missfresh and Dingdong filed for New York IPOs earlier this month.
Meet the plant-based pioneers in GROW’s latest Impact cohort: ANINA, Green Rebel & Rainfed
June 24, 2021
In this roundtable article, AFN hears from team members at three GROW startups which are playing their part in the plant-based protein revolution.
Innovative program offers better approach for ag startups seeking US market entry
June 23, 2021
The next (virtual) cohort of the Cultivo program, run by America’s Cultivation Corridor, will begin later this year – and it’s accepting applications until August 2.
Midweek Digest: SupPlant & Superplum raise funds, Burger King goes veggie in Singapore
June 23, 2021
Morsels of the past week’s other agrifoodtech news from around the web, for your delectation.
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