Data Snapshot: California agrifoodtech investment still outpaces the rest of US by billions
New York is the most diversified investment landscape with a greater mix of upstream and downstream agrifoodtech startups.
New York is the most diversified investment landscape with a greater mix of upstream and downstream agrifoodtech startups.
Zymergen will be acquired by fellow cell manufacturing company Ginkgo Bioworks for $300m, a sharp fall from Zymergen’s once $3 billion valuation.
Marica Quarsingh calls her cell-cultured seafood startup, Sea-Stematic, the “Tesla of seafood” to communicate how seafood should be produced: sustainably and with the right market insights.
Natasha Dhayagude, co-founder and CEO of Chinova Bioworks reveals to Agfunder her journey and maneuvering the bio-foodtech space
Phytolon, an Israel-based a developer of natural food colors via precision fermentation of yeast, will use the round to hone its technology and commercialize its products, pending regulatory approval.
The Canadian startup is producing a natural shelf-life extender from mushroom stems that’d otherwise be thrown away.
Seed funding will enable the US- and India-based company to further develop its milk alternative made with mammalian cell cultured technology.
Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A round, which will enable SCiFi to continue R&D on its blend of plant-based and cultivated beef burgers.
Impossible says its patent on a beef substitute containing synthesized heme – which gives the effect of blood – is being infringed by Motif.
Hemp hulls are normally discarded. But Brightseed says they contain compounds that could help treat metabolic diseases.
Startups developing biological crop inputs secured a total of $892 million in funding last year.
The biological inputs market is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 11.9% over the next five years, compared to chemicals’ 3.7%, according to recent market research.
Cellular agriculture startups aim to solve agrifood’s biggest sustainability problems. But smallholders must be part of the solution, writes Saron Berhane.
It seems counterintuitive that shorter crops can result in enhanced yields; but they are more resistant to high winds and other extreme weather events, writes Bayer’s Richard Lawrence.
The Series B funds will be used to scale up the Irish company’s platform, which aims to unlock additional health benefits for food and beverage products.
The Australian startup inoculates crops with symbiotic microbial fungi that boost plants’ natural ability to sequester carbon in the soil they grow in.
It’ll use the Series A capital to hire talent and build an in-house facility to create larger quantities of its ingredients for food manufacturers.
It’s using soybeans to produce casein, the protein found in cows’ milk which gives cheese its characteristic “melt, stretch, and mouthfeel.”
The Ginkgo Bioworks spinout will use the proceeds from the BlackRock and Ontario Teachers’-led Series B round for R&D, commercialization, and hiring.
Quantum hardware’s depth of analysis would likely advance our understanding of the genetic code of plants – and humans – far beyond what we know today.
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