Tag: competition

Grow-NY wants to award $3m to agrifoodtech startups focused on the future of food and farming

June 16, 2022

Startups can apply until July 1 for the chance of winning the $1M top prize that Grow-NY will award in November.

Japfa Feeds the Future launches to tackle the most pressing issues in Asia’s livestock industry

February 1, 2021

Japfa Feeds the Future is an innovation challenge run by agrifood giant Japfa and AgFunder-backed GROW, and is open to startups worldwide.

TerMir wins Alexandria’s inaugural AgTech Innovation Prize

July 2, 2020

The national competition sought innovators working across an array of areas to transform the food value chain, including crop enhancement and protection, digital and data solutions, animal health, breeding and genetics, next-generation farming, and food and supply chain solutions.

EXCLUSIVE: How Google got a taste for banana ketchup

March 12, 2020

Thought For Food (TFF) and Food Lab Accelerator at Google (FLAG) have unveiled a Brazilian banana peel-inspired winner of this year’s TFF x FLAG Circular Economy of Food Prize.

Are you a greenhouse tech startup? Priva is offering investment and mentorship. Apply now!

March 3, 2020

The Dutch company recently launched an innovation lab to let promising startups make good use of its unparalleled database in a bid to tackle greenhouse cultivation’s biggest challenges.

9 questions with FoodBytes! Chicago pitch company Agremo

October 16, 2019

Serbian startup Agremo pitched its farm data management software last month to a panel of judges and audience.

Roboscientific triumphs at Tesco Agri-T Jam

October 14, 2019

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the Tesco’s Finest of them all?

Ten agri-tech start-ups have been flinging 7-minute pitches at UK supermarket giant Tesco and its supply chain partners for most of Monday.

3 startups focused on sustainability and nutrition win big at inaugural FoodBytes! Chicago

September 20, 2019

Tia Lupita Foods, LocalCoho and Capro-X won at FoodBytes! Chicago yesterday.

How a family business became a global pioneer and tech giant in dairy farming

September 4, 2019

Every family is unique – but some families are more unique than others. This is certainly true for the Van der Lely family who started their dairy technology business as a ‘studio for invention’ in 1948. Lely has recently launched a startup challenge called Feed the Future.

India’s CropIn and Dutch 20tree.ai Win Rainforest Alliance’s AgTech Developer Challenge

July 16, 2019

To mobilize the innovative power of the remote sensing sector for cocoa, the Rainforest Alliance recently announced the Ag-tech developer challenge – a call to remote-sensing, high-tech and earth-observation companies.

Make Manure Great Again: New Tech Challenge Aims to Put Animal Waste to Work

April 17, 2019

With involvement from World Wildlife Fund and The Yield Lab Institute, The Manure Challenge is exploring how technology can help us find an expedited pathway to making better use of manure.

60 AgriFood Tech Startups Nominated for 2019 AgFunder Innovation Awards – Vote Now!

February 13, 2019

Voting will close at 5 pm PT on February 28. The winners will be exclusively announced at the ReThink Agri-Food Innovation Week in San Francisco on March 20 at a special networking evening bridging the World Agri-Tech and the Future Food-Tech Summits.

Why the Thought For Food Challenge Embraces Controversy

April 27, 2018

The 2018 competition (The TFF Challenge) will close applications on May 4 after which 10 finalist teams will be selected from thousands of entries from around the world to compete for the chance to win up to $25,000 in cash grants and a trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the TFF Summit.

Insects and Blockchain Win Big at the First Mekong AgriTech Challenge

April 5, 2018

The Mekong AgriTech Challenge (MATCh), the Mekong region’s first AgTech pitch competition and market access boot camp, launched for the first time last week.

Sugarlogix is Manufacturing the Best Components of Human Breast Milk from Sugar

October 9, 2017

Sugarlogix is looking to improve infant formula with a flavorless sugar that enhances the immune system, promotes gut health, and reduces inflammation.

20 Startups Make the Cut for FoodBytes! Austin

August 28, 2017

The pitch competition will feature solutions to food challenges including livestock management, food bi-product up-cycling, and novel plant-based proteins.

Ag Industry Brief: Agtech Startups Win Big at AI Competition, Adapt-N Reachs 1m Nitrogen Recommendations, more

July 17, 2017

Hortau was a finalist in the Best AI Product in Agriculture category along with ag robotics company Abundant Robotics. Ag data startup Prospera won best AI product in agriculture, as well.

Ag Industry Brief: Future Food Asia Announces Finalists, Nonprofit Files IRS Complaint Against Whole Foods, Humane Society, GAP, more

May 12, 2017

Asia’s first agritech and foodtech startup up competition will take place in Singapore later this month.

Ag Industry Brief: Rabobank’s Terra Accelerator Opens, Two New Agtech Competitions Launch, Scotts Acquires Majority of AeroGrow, more

December 5, 2016

Startup resources continue to grow with a new accelerator and two competitions launching last week.

Monsanto’s Gene-editing Partnership, FarmersEdge Sues Farmobile, World Economic Forum Recognizes 2 Agtech Startups, more

July 4, 2016

Monsanto and TargetGene Biotechnologies, a genome-editing company using RNA-guided gene-editing techniques, have entered into a license agreement granting Monsanto an exclusive license to TargetGene’s proprietary “T∙GEE” (Genome Editing Engine) platform.