Tag: biotech

Future Food-Tech San Francisco

March 11, 2021

Future Food-Tech is a world-leading event series focusing on the most disruptive technologies transforming our food system. The flagship event, held in the innovation capital

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 29, 2020

Discover How Synthetic Biology is Disrupting Consumer Products, Food, Agriculture, Medicine, Chemicals, Materials, and More… 3-Days of interactivity packed with exceptional content and delivered entirely

The Root of It: Rejuvenating the Ag Ecosystem (A Three-Part Series)

September 17, 2020

With the recent collapse of supply chains, looming sustainability challenges and a commodity market that has punished farmers year over year, it’s time to envision

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s Mushlabs raises $10m for sustainable mycelium production

August 18, 2020

Singapore’s VisVires New Protein and Switzerland’s Redalpine co-led the Series A funding, which will assist Mushlabs with scaling up its mycelium growing operations.

How do farmers feel about cover crops? We asked a cover crop coach

August 10, 2020

Pennsylvania farmer Steve Groff has spent his career working to maximize the benefits of cover crops. Now he teaches other farmers to do the same.

Should regen ag include gene editing? AFN readers respond

July 24, 2020

AFN readers had quite a bit to say about whether regenerative agriculture should embrace gene editing and biotech at large.

AquaBounty’s GE salmon is coming to menus in the US Midwest – for real this time

July 20, 2020

AquaBounty has been swimming upstream against a wave of opposition since receiving FDA approval for its GE salmon in 2015. But it has finally caught a rising tide.

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.