Letter from 2024: Mind your investors!
While we hope that investors in our space have come to terms with some of the longer timeframes needed to establish and scale companies, you can’t count on that anymore, writes AFN editor.
While we hope that investors in our space have come to terms with some of the longer timeframes needed to establish and scale companies, you can’t count on that anymore, writes AFN editor.
AgFunderNews head Louisa Burwood-Taylor on the origins of the now much-used term and how the food and ag industries evolved with it.
The FoodShot Global team looks back on half a decade of agrifoodtech investment and hints at what’s in store for the next five years.
Food tech fantasy or the future of meat? We catch up with Dr. Mark Post to discuss progress in cultivated meat,10 years after he unveiled a rather pricey burger at a press conference in London…
We’re building our presence in Latin America, starting with our inaugural investment report launch in Brazil in two weeks’ time, and we’re looking for reporters and data analysts to help.
The upcoming Salinas Biological Summit aims to show growers, investors and others the benefits of using biologicals for specialty crops.
Running a business is demanding at the best of times. Throw in today’s unprecedented challenges and business leaders are being pulled in all directions. Introducing the Future Food & Ag Leadership program.
Speakers at this year’s Indoor Ag-Con offered the indoor farming industry insights, predictions and some major reality checks about the future.
The dispute between Miyoko Schinner and the company she founded has grown uglier as Miyoko’s Creamery has filed a lawsuit accusing Schinner of “hatching a plot to steal company property, trade secrets, and confidential information” after being removed as CEO.
Mineral aims to provide foundational and actionable data and analytics for companies across food, agriculture, and technology and it solves for a key issue holding back digital agriculture advancements for years: lacking data.
All three agreed that mergers & acquisitions were more likely to deliver the next big exit over public market listing via IPOs and SPACs, and that the next big exit will be disappointingly low value.
By partnering with Lavoro, David Friedberg’s company hopes to drive more agtech adoption by leveraging the ag retailer’s influence on farmers.
Panelists on a recent webinar about Ukraine and the global agrifood industry didn’t mince their words when discussing the current dire climate situation.
War, pandemic, and climate extremes are causing “apocalyptic” food price rises that could “tip tens of millions of people… over the edge.”
Jerky might seem like a strange choice, but it aligns with Beyond Meat’s mission to increase its retail sales in 2022.
Check out AFN’s list of corporate climate commitments, net-zero pledges, and regen ag initiatives.
Vertical farming is facing a period of depression and correction as big farms struggle to pay investors back while running complex and expensive operations. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, writes Henry Gordon-Smith.
Agriculture 4.0 will give farmers the opportunity to diversify their businesses like never before, increasing both profitability and sustainability.
The ocean industry could be as big as the burgeoning space industry so long as investment and innovation are focused on sustainability, writes guest author Tony Chen.
Conservis provided an exit to its investors 12-years after its founding and the “odd” deal showcases a key way forward for digital adoption on the farm.
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