Tag: Europe

THRIVE Europe Challenge

October 7, 2021

Silicon Valley-based SVG Ventures | THRIVE has launched the THRIVE Europe Challenge to recognize and promote key early- and late-stage startups in the agrifood sector.

Animal health companies can do more to fight antibiotic resistance, says FAIRR

July 21, 2021

A new report from the investor group examines how 10 major animal health companies are tackling – or failing to tackle – antibiotic resistance in animal agriculture.

Choco raises $100m Series B funding to streamline restaurants’ ingredient purchasing

July 20, 2021

It’s taking aim at food waste by helping restaurant suppliers move expiring items more quickly.

UK’s Collectiv Food banks $17m to transform urban food supply chains

July 19, 2021

The London-based startup allows foodservice clients to buy meat, seafood, and plant-based protein collectively and have it delivered sustainably and transparently.

EXCLUSIVE: Men urged to use ‘untapped power’ to reduce gender bias against women in agrifoodtech

July 15, 2021

Female agrifoodtech entrepreneurs experience persistent negative gender bias, according to a new report published by KK&P and EIT Food.

RootCamp is looking for agritech startups to join its latest batch & disrupt the food value chain

July 15, 2021

Are you an agritech startup that wants to scale its business to its full potential and have a positive impact in the agrifood industry?

EXCLUSIVE: France’s Gaïago raises $15m to scale up natural soil solutions

July 14, 2021

The Breton startup claims its products can stimulate beneficial fungi growth, improve soil structure, fix nitrogen, and improve root nutrition.

Dishing the dirt on ag carbon credits

July 13, 2021

Carbon credits schemes involving agriculture are growing in number – but not all are necessarily equal in their impact, Dan Blaustein-Rejto writes.

Brief: Nestlé to enter cell-cultured meat market in partnership with Israeli startup

July 13, 2021

Nestlé is said to be planning a range of products which blend cultivated meat with plant-based protein.

EXCLUSIVE: France’s Farmitoo scores $12 million as European farmers turn to online shopping

July 12, 2021

The Paris-based platform allows European farmers to browse and buy 150,000 products from 350 ag equipment manufacturers.

Micropep’s small peptide ag inputs get $10m from FMC, others

July 8, 2021

The Toulouse-based startup has developed technology that can enhance favorable genetic traits in crops without the need to tinker with their DNA.

Agro.Club raises $5m Series A funding to expand overseas, grow fintech offering

July 7, 2021

Agro.Club views itself as more than a marketplace, offering “commercial effectiveness” services and more to its corporate and farmer members.

We already have the blueprint to prevent the next pandemic – and it’s on our farms

July 6, 2021

On World Zoonoses Day, a call for farms in emerging markets to get access to the same tech and knowhow as their counterparts elsewhere.

EXCLUSIVE: Agrando raises $14m in Europe’s biggest farmer marketplace Series A to date

July 6, 2021

The Munich-based platform said it will use the funding for international expansion, scaling its operations, and investment in R&D.

Brief: UAE cloud kitchen startup Kitopi raises $415m, joins billion-dollar club

July 5, 2021

The Series C round marks the first UAE investment out of SoftBank’s Vision Fund II.

This year’s biggest agrifoodtech IPO will probably involve a company you’ve definitely heard of

July 2, 2021

It could file its prospectus – seeking to raise a reported $10 billion at a $60 billion valuation – as soon as next week.

APPLICATIONS DUE: THRIVE Europe Challenge

July 2, 2021

Silicon Valley-based SVG Ventures | THRIVE has launched the THRIVE Europe Challenge to recognize and promote key early- and late-stage startups in the agrifood sector.

Brief: Czech e-grocer Rohlik raises $119m to join unicorn club three months after $238m round

July 1, 2021

It closed its Series B round just three months ago – but says it needed more money for its aggressive expansion plans.

Midweek Digest: Stryve SPACs, Future Meat’s first factory opens

June 30, 2021

Snack maker Stryve is set for a SPAC merger, while Israel’s Future Meat has unveiled what it says is the “world’s first industrial cultured meat facility.”