The Netherlands startup can identify male chicken eggs before a fetus develops, allowing the egg industry to avoid the culling of 6.5 billion male chicks each year.
In spite of the Covid-19 bump for consumer-facing solutions, downstream agrifoodtech funding actually decreased in 2020 if a few China oversize deals are discounted.
The Netherlands-based startup is culturing meat in the lab using a technique that can change pluripotent stem cells from a newborn animal into any desired cell type.
We’re on Clubhouse and a new regular show we’re particularly excited about is the Future Food News Review, featuring leading journalists in foodtech and agtech discussing their top headlines of the week. Find out about last week here!
Many see AI’s ultimate goal as replication of the inner workings of the human brain. But is there another way to look at what AI can do for us?
The US biotech startup is using gene editing to increase the nutritional content of seeds such as soybean, with an eye on the booming plant-based protein market.
The Paris-based startup offers AI-powered hardware that can be mounted onto the roof of a tractor, sprayer, or spreader to automate operations.
The Microsoft co-founder commented on the acquisitions for the first time since he and wife Melinda were revealed as the top private farmland owners in the US earlier this year.
As AgFunder’s 2021 AgriFoodTech Investment Report shows, exits in 2020 were centered on subsectors that grew in relevance in light of Covid-19 – such as digital platforms for food delivery.
The Mixing Bowl released its first Indoor AgTech Landscape in September 2019. This is their first update, zeroing in on this evolving ecosystem’s role in addressing challenges facing the entire agrifood value chain.
AI can help solve one of the greatest practical challenges facing agriculture: the problem of food security, writes Joseph Byrum.
Zurich’s Mirai is initially working on non-GMO cultured beef and is “laser-focussed on developing a healthy nutritional profile” for the product, says its CEO.
The Hangzhou-based company behind the world’s biggest mobile payments app will also consider investing in carbon offsets in areas such as forest management.
Cargill is consolidating is corporate venture investing and partnership activity under a centralized unit, Cargill’s new head of corporate ventures Erin VanLanduit tells AFN.
Denmark’s Nordetect wants to help CEA startups get a better glimpse of their nutrient use without waiting weeks for a lab test result.
The US Congress has issued a report on dangerous levels of heavy metals in baby food. But these substances can’t simply be regulated away, a molecular biologist writes.
The Pasadena-based SPAC will aim to acquire technologies and privately held businesses in the agritech and climate change mitigation sectors.
Indoor agriculture is highly competitive and highly funded. Who’s leading the race? We spoke to Henry Gordon-Smith of urban ag consultancy Agritecture to find out.
Infarm CEO Erez Galonska declined to comment on rumors that the startup has retained perennial IPO underwriter Goldman Sachs to help it raise more funds.
We launched our new Clubhouse partnership with Food+Tech Connect in the best way possible: celebrating women innovators in food on International Women’s Day.
Biological innovation is key to the economic & environmental sustainability of CEA