Apps helping us find the perfect love match are ubiquitous. But there are precious few online tools to help biotech companies find the perfect contract research organization (CRO), says Cromatic.
Economies of scale will drive down the cost of precision fermentation. But advances in titer, productivity, and yield are equally important, says Synonym.
Triplebar’s system enables it to screen millions of mutations and optimize a yeast strain, for example, over many generations at record speed, effectively “running evolution at hyper-speed.”
Aanika Biosciences makes invisible, edible tags from inactivated bacterial spores that can be digitally encoded with ‘DNA watermarks’ that can be read like barcodes with PCR tests.
The novel farming systems category has raised $826 million so far in 2023, according to preliminary data from AgFunder.
The oversubscribed seed round will go towards scaling Jellatech’s proprietary cell-ag process and working towards commercialization.
French biotech startup Neoplants has come up with a novel approach to tackle a class of indoor air pollutants called volatile organic compounds.
GRIDX cofounder and CEO Matías Peire on how his company helps scientists build startups that are leading the way for Latin America biotech.
Copper has been used as a fungicide since the 1800s with no pathogen resistance. VM Agritech builds on this ancient solution with a broad-spectrum, copper-and-zinc-based fungicide.
Innovators creating bio-based alternatives to synthetic, fossil fuel and animal-based products and materials are capturing investor attention.
Cocoon Bioscience will grow its high-value proteins business, which includes developing recombinant growth factors for cultivated meat.
Israeli startup Plantae Bioscience uses CRISPR gene editing techniques to slash levels of bitter-tasting saponins in yellow peas, addressing a major pain point in the plant protein industry.
‘Are GMOs the path to food security?’ A session turned debate on the adoption of GMOs in Kenya following the government’s decision to lift its ban sought to address this question.
Elo Life Systems has closed a $24.5m Series A to accelerate the development of a natural high-intensity sweetener, and Cavendish bananas engineered to resist the devastating Fusarium wilt fungal disease threatening global banana production.
Arkeon claims that ingredients are a bottleneck in the alternative proteins and is out to produce ingredients combined with vital amino acids.
Entocycle, a UK startup that provides technologies and services for the insect farming industry, has secured $5 million in a Series A round from a
The top 10 climate tech deals in agrifood in 2022 were almost exclusively upstream startups in vertical farming, alternative proteins and ag biotech.
Good Meat says the approval of its new serum-free media is the first of its kind and will enable them to increase the production of its cultivated chicken while lowering its manufacturing costs.
Zane Adams, Co-CEO of FedUp Foods talked to AFN about extractive food production systems and why producers need to embrace regenrative supply chains
Food delivery, cultivated meat, and bio-energy startups across Asia, North America and Oceana landed agrifoodtech’s top five deals of 2022.
Smoke & mirrors, not worth the extra cost: 50 US farmers speak out on carbon markets