Future Food-Tech San Francisco
March 11, 2021
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Future Food-Tech London
October 22, 2020
The Future Food-Tech Summit returns to London and brings together over 500 leaders, senior executives, pioneering innovators and VCs from around the globe. The
SynBioBeta 2020: The Global Synthetic Biology Conference
September 1, 2020
SynBioBeta is where tech meets bio and bio meets tech. Join us September 1-3, 2020 to see how synthetic biology is disrupting consumer products, food,
Temasek leads $46m Series B for Ascus Bio’s microbe-based animal feed additives
June 8, 2020
Although microbe-based feed additives are nothing new in animal feed, the space has fallen behind on innovating new solutions.
Tropic Biosciences banks $28.5m in Temasek-led Series B for gene-editing, RNAi approach
June 3, 2020
Tropic plans to use the funding to commercialize its tech and to add rice to the roster of tropical crop cultivars it has in development.
Startup Spotlight: With a decade of R&D under its belt, MustGrow wants to make biopesticides easy for growers to adopt
June 1, 2020
The publicly-traded company is responding to the increasing number of countries banning chemical inputs by innovating bio-based solutions.
Oprah, Katy Perry, AgFunder join Singapore’s GIC to take Apeel Sciences to unicorn status with $250m funding round
May 26, 2020
Editor’s Note: Disclosure – Apeel Sciences is an AgFunder portfolio company. Food waste technology startup Apeel Sciences has raised $250 million in funding taking its
The top 20 Ag Biotech deals of 2019
May 13, 2020
Despite a slow down in investment in 2019, Ag Biotech was still one of the top categories for seed funding, and the most active upstream category.
THRIVE Ag& Food Tech Innovation Summit 2020
March 25, 2020
The THRIVE Innovation Summit is held annually in Silicon Valley and each year attracts 250+ agribusiness leaders, investors, AgTech and FoodTech startups, and California and
Indonesian microbiome profiling startup Nusantics scores seed funding
March 23, 2020
Nusantics is aiming for a “bio-based future [of] value-added lifestyle products such as skincare, personal care, food, and beverage”.
International Conference On Plant Tissue Culture & Plant Biotechnology ( Plant Biotech 2020)
March 2, 2020
Plant Biotech 2020 : March 2-3, Valencia, Spain Gavin Conferences invites participants from all over the world to attend “International Conference on Plant Tissue Culture
Africa Agri Tech 2020
February 18, 2020
Africa Agri Tech offers three days of unparalleled discovery, exploration and networking. The event offers a multi-tiered expo and conference programme that will investigate the
Uh, can you spell that again? Belgium’s AgroSavfe rebrands as Biotalys
December 10, 2019
Belgium’s startups are not always so easy to spell. For Ghent-based AgroSavfe, dire misspells have been an unfortunate but perhaps an avoidable feature since its founding and naming back in 2013.
SynBio startup Carverr raises $1.9m for microbe-based traceability tech
November 21, 2019
The Brooklyn-based startup will use the funding to test its microbial traceability prototype in a number of pilot projects starting next year.
Food & agtech investors are most excited about the future in Asia
November 19, 2019
With Idea2Scale, we conducted a survey of 50 global venture capital firms that invest in foodtech and agtech and asked them about the categories and geographies they were most excited about as well as the key challenges to investing in the sector.
Meet the Farmer: Lynn Rohrscheib is staying true to her farming roots
November 19, 2019
Editor’s Note: AFN’s Lauren Stine collaborated with Successful Farming’s Laurie Bedord to interview Lynn Rohrscheib about her farm and use of technology.
Plant Response Biotech merges with Koch spin-out in first move of biologicals roll-up
November 18, 2019
Plant Response Biotech has merged with Koch Biological Solutions in the first of a planned series of “rollup” deals for the biological crop input category, AFN can exclusively reveal. Read on to get the scoop on how this deal came about.
Survey: Which Food & AgTech categories, geographies are investors most excited about?
November 5, 2019
Find out which regions and sectors VCs are most eager to explore in 2020 and tips on how startups can improve their chances of making a deal in this new investor sentiment survey conducted by Idea2Scale and AgFunder.
EXCLUSIVE: Provivi raises $85m Series C to combat field pests with pheromones
October 15, 2019
Provivi produces pesticide alternatives for farmers based on insect pheromones, the natural secretions animals use to find one another for mating.
Future Food: Klaus Kunz on how Bayer is cleaning up its act
September 24, 2019
In this episode of Future Food, AFN editor Louisa Burwood-Taylor speaks to Klaus Kunz, head of Sustainability and Business Stewardship at German agro-pharma giant Bayer.
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