Tag: Europe

World Congress on Infectious Diseases

June 22, 2020

World Congress on Infectious Diseases has been designed in an interdisciplinary manner with a multitude of tracks to choose from every segment of Infectious disease research area to provide you a unique chance to meet the peers from your similar research area and establish a scientific network with them.

xFarm’s Matteo Vanotti on not reinventing the farm data wheel

December 13, 2019

xFarm's partnership-centric approach to farm data helped it secure €3 million in equity funding from Italy’s United Ventures and Switzerland’s TiVenture.

Protifarm raises Series B to scale robot-grown beetle “tofu”

December 12, 2019

The Netherlands-based alt-protein company is one of a small number catching investor interest for farming insects for human consumption rather than for animal feed.

Happy McVeganuary: McDonald’s to offer first fully vegan meal in UK in Q1 2020

December 11, 2019

In the UK, the practice of Veganuary — being vegan for the month of January — is starting to catch the attention of the fast-food giants.

Exploiting Intellectual Property rights in the UK’s food and drink sector

December 11, 2019

This article is intended to demystify IP in the food and drink industry and shed light on the full extent of the opportunities available to companies to protect and benefit from their IP, with a particular focus on the role patent protection can play.

How IGS reduces vertical farming costs

December 11, 2019

It can be hard to explain exactly how Intelligent Growth Solution's tech works, so we caught up with Niall Skinner, lead mechanical engineer at IGS to get an in-depth explanation.

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.

Help us pioneer sustainable cotton tech: Apply to The Better Cotton Innovation Challenge

December 5, 2019

The global situation right now is stark. Cotton supports the livelihoods of over 250 million people, yet less than 20% of cotton is grown sustainably. The Better Cotton Innovation Challenge is on the lookout for global game-changing innovations to change this.

Bonjour, robots! A list of agri-robots whirring round FIRA in Toulouse next week

December 5, 2019

Next week I'll be singing au revoir Londres, bonjour Toulouse! as I fly to France for the International Forum of Agricultural Robotics, known by its French acronym of FIRA.

BASF’s Xarvio partners with Arable to improve fungicide recs in lead up to outcome-based pricing

December 4, 2019

Xarvio is now pulling data from Arable's hyperlocal weather data sensors to help farmers improve the timing and efficacy of their fungicide applications, which will feed into BASF's new business model plans for farmers.

Danone, Nestle rank highest for reducing deforestation by focusing on regen ag, communities

November 27, 2019

Although many agrifood corporates will miss a key 2020 deforestation target, some are making meaningful progress towards sustainability.

President Barack Obama or Eddie Vedder? My week at Dreamforce

November 27, 2019

Luckily I didn't have to choose. Here’s a few things I heard while living it up at the St Regis and bumping into celebs at every turn.

BREAKING: Young, male farmers are flocking to a truly global indoor ag industry, CEA census reveals

November 25, 2019

The inaugural census from Agritecture Consulting and Autogrow identified key trends in CEA including a large demographic of beginning farmers and an increasingly global industry footprint.

The pressure is on for environmental accounting in ag. Sprout Accelerator wants to help

November 20, 2019

There’s been no greater pressure for the agriculture industry to account for its environmental footprint than there is today. Sprout is looking for startups approaching this challenge to apply for its accelerator.

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.

Plant Response Biotech merges with Koch spin-out in first move of biologicals roll-up

November 18, 2019

Plant Response Biotech has merged with Koch Biological Solutions in the first of a planned series of "rollup" deals for the biological crop input category, AFN can exclusively reveal. Read on to get the scoop on how this deal came about.

Bayer CropScience COO: acquisition is exception to rule in startup interactions

November 14, 2019

We caught up with Brett Begemann in London recently to talk glyphosate, Bayer's venture activities, digital ag, gene editing and smallholder farmers.

EXCLUSIVE: The Good Food Institute launches GFI Israel

November 14, 2019

GFI Israel could enable the country to become a leader in alternative protein innovation, writes AgFunder associate Yanniv Dorone.

Portugal’s Oceano Fresco closes €2.7M Series A to feed Europe native, farmed clams

November 11, 2019

The round, led by Lisbon-based venture capital firm BlueCrow Capital, will be used to develop an off-shore farm to meet local clam demand in Portugal, Spain, France and Italy.