Friday Foodtech Digest: World’s first microalgae burger unveiled; Gathered Foods nets $26m
Some tech tidbits from around the week’s wider food-o-sphere to finish off your Friday.
Some tech tidbits from around the week’s wider food-o-sphere to finish off your Friday.
The plant-based burger maker is reportedly planning to go public within the next 12 months, either via a traditional IPO listing or a SPAC merger.
New Zealand’s Scentian Bio is using insect olfactory receptors to detect volatile compounds – and it believes its tech could prove invaluable for the food industry.
AppHarvest will use the Root AI Virgo robot to help its employees with harvest as well as tidying up around its high-tech greenhouses.
Singapore-based Trax was Southeast Asia’s highest-funded agrifoodtech startup in 2019, according to AgFunder data.
The proposed deal would value Grab at around $35 billion and could complete as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter.
The company said the facility in Jiaxing will “significantly increase” the speed, scale, and sustainability of distributing its products across the region.
Swiggy also secured investment from sovereign wealth funds Qatar Investment Authority and Singapore’s GIC, according to an internal memo.
The Swedish startup – which recently filed for an IPO in the US – is building its first production facility in Asia to target China’s lucrative dairy products market.
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Here are a few extra bits and bytes of agrifoodtech news from around the web this week.
The Netherlands startup is now eight years old. We catch up with CEO Maarten Bosch to find out about its next steps.
The UK-based food delivery app saw its share price nosedive by as much as 30% during its first day of trading on the London Stock Exchange yesterday.
Oishii is growing strawberries in vertical farms with the help of bees – and founder Hiroki Koga is taking his cue from none other than Elon Musk.
The app allows shoppers to form groups to collectively buy farm produce and other groceries in bulk at competitive prices.
AI that learns through ’embodied intelligence’ could boost agricultural resilience with its greater capacity to adapt to rapidly evolving climatic events.
The Japanese government has affirmed its “determination” that Sanatech Seed’s new tomato will be regulated as a GE, rather than a GMO, product.
The Netherlands startup can identify male chicken eggs before a fetus develops, allowing the egg industry to avoid the culling of 6.5 billion male chicks each year.
In spite of the Covid-19 bump for consumer-facing solutions, downstream agrifoodtech funding actually decreased in 2020 if a few China oversize deals are discounted.
We’re on Clubhouse and a new regular show we’re particularly excited about is the Future Food News Review, featuring leading journalists in foodtech and agtech discussing their top headlines of the week. Find out about last week here!