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.
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.
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.
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.
Although many agrifood corporates will miss a key 2020 deforestation target, some are making meaningful progress towards sustainability.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
We caught up with Brett Begemann in London recently to talk glyphosate, Bayer’s venture activities, digital ag, gene editing and smallholder farmers.
GFI Israel could enable the country to become a leader in alternative protein innovation, writes AgFunder associate Yanniv Dorone.
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.
15 fateful agri-food tech startups set the room aflame and astir with quick-fire pitches to FoodBytes! by Rabobank in London.
The InsuResilience Investment Fund led Israel-based Agritask’s Series A funding round for its application in expanding farm and crop insurance to smallholder farmers.
A European family office led the round, which requested anonymity, with investment advisors Fonte Capital and EthicalFin both helping to bring in the latest tranche.
Hume met with AFN to discuss how Shiru is leveraging technologies used in therapeutics to make alternative proteins for the food sector.
The UK startup just raised a £3.7 million ($4.77m) venture round for its climate modeling service aimed at decision-makers in business and government.
Sistema_VC recently hosted a conference on agtech and here Dmitry Filatov shares the key industry trends that emerged on the day including tailored food, AI-assistants for farmers, data-driven supply decisions, and more.
Find out which regions and sectors VCs are most eager to explore in 2020 and tips on how startups can improve their chances of making a deal in this new investor sentiment survey conducted by Idea2Scale and AgFunder.
Smoke & mirrors, not worth the extra cost: 50 US farmers speak out on carbon markets