The Week in AgriFoodTech: Mosa Meat cooks up $43m raise, Spiber bags $65m for sustainable fashion
Plus: more pesticide alternatives enter the agtech arena.
Plus: more pesticide alternatives enter the agtech arena.
Proprietary tech and proprietary strains of seaweed provide a model that’s scalable anywhere in the world, says Seadling founder Simon Davis.
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.
Plus: more funding for ag robotics and bad news for Kroger’s e-commerce business.
Plus, meet the Internet of the Forest.
Plus: Impossible Foods unveils a “meatier” new look to attract more carnivorous customers.
Shiok Meats, which had raised more than $30m since 2018, couldn’t see a clear path forward under its own steam.
Plus: Plant-based “NotDogs” from Oscar Mayer and NotCo, John Deere’s “right to repair” case drags on, new meat labeling beef in Iowa.
Meanwhile, France bans the meat from plant-based meat labeling, the US aims for more wind-powered farms.
Plus: Syngenta develops new bioinsecticide, layoffs at Meati, and Miruku raises $5m for molecular farming.
The Varaha platform measures and quantifies carbon sequestration for regenerative agriculture, afforestation and biochar projects.
Plus… 150 job cuts at Plenty, a new green agri fund from Temasek and Norinchukin Bank, cultivated scotch eggs at Fortnum & Mason.
AgFunder partner Michael Dean on discovering the huge opportunity for new technology development and deployment across the food system.
Plus, corporate restructuring at FreshDirect and R.I.P. for RIP Foods.
Who will fund cultivated meat facilities if VC funds are no longer willing to stump up cash for capex projects?
Plus… Steakholder Foods unveils a 3D-printed eel, and carbon removal startup Standard Biocarbon secures $5m for a new biochar production facility.
Meanwhile in France, lawmakers are proposing a ban on cultivated meat, calling that alternative protein “junk food”
Plus: ProfilePrint raises Series B funding & Vow gets a regulatory nod for cultivated quail.
Food delivery is not the only restaurant tech category out there, but it’s been the most prominent over the last decade.
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