Syngenta Ventures’ Michael Lee tells AFN how the firm is viewing the biologics space and why WeedOut’s species-specific approach is so important.
Biomanufacturing is the term used to describe the process of using biological systems as opposed to chemistry to produce commercial biomaterials. Crudely this means using certain microbes — naturally-occurring species or genetically designed — to produce certain materials.
We caught up with Cattle Eye co-founder Terry Canning ahead of the Animal Agtech Innovation Summit where it will be featured in a startup spotlight.
Scale-up businesses contend with a unique set of challenges to startups, which an emerging group of programs and resources like ScaleUp Food are trying to address.
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.
We joined DCVC Bio, Novo Holdings, 8VC and others to invest in sustainable leather startup MycoWork’s $17m Series A. Here’s why.
The animal nutrition and aquafeed company has added alternative protein to its list of categories this year alongside sustainable farming, welfare, and digital tools.
BDS Analytics has forecast that the worldwide legal cannabis industry generated revenues in the region of £11.5 billion in 2019 and is expected to grow to around £35 billion by 2024. Alongside this phenomenal rate of growth, the UK agriculture sector is embarking upon a period of unprecedented change.
Mission-driven investment firms are writing early stage checks to companies that aim to replicate, improve, and restore natural growing environments.
there are a few ways to interpret this $19.8 billion figure. Though it signals a 4.8% drop in funding and 15% decline in deal activity year-over-year, it also represents a staggering 250% growth in five years, and proves that the huge scale of investments in 2018 was no freak outlier.
Israel-based Fabric (formerly CommenSense) is currently working to expand its US footprint with its robot-backed software platform to provide micro-fulfillment almost anywhere
The established specialty mineral and chemical provider will combine Growers Insight’s platform with its agronomic services.
Equinom uses computational breeding, not genetic engineering, to breed crops with enhanced properties, such as a higher protein pea.
Although it’s interested in biologics, it claims farmers still need the high rate of efficacy that chemical agriculture has to offer.
Climate scientist, inventor and founder of two sustainable businesses, Adam Lowry is currently CEO of Ripple Foods, a dairy-free milk products company. His first company was Method, the sustainable cleaning products brand that’s now a household name.
The VC firm 7percent Ventures is confirmed as lead investor, having plowed in £200,000. By the time of close, a total of 1,759 investors had backed the round.
The acquisition will add 1,800 weather stations to the company’s existing European network to support hyper-local weather data for farmers.
The design process is about not patronising farmers with solutions they do not need, but realizing farmers as concerned about boosting their bottom line in a tight margins business. “Every farmer is a CEO, Agrando’s founder tells AFN.
With the team at Yofix confirming the closure of a Series A funding round at $2.5 million, it is now clear that a few dairy behemoths have acquired a bit of a taste for plant-based yogurts.
Michelle Egger and Leila Strickland are the founders of BIOMILQ, a biotech company seeking to optimize a woman’s breastmilk by culturing it in a bioreactor, rather than the natural way.
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