One future of pest control: Grow and release swarms of sterile male insects
UK-based BigSIS has closed a pre-seed round of funding, AFN can reveal.
UK-based BigSIS has closed a pre-seed round of funding, AFN can reveal.
The top startup companies that made the 2019 FoodTech 500 list represent every sector of the FoodTech ecosystem, from farm to fork, and they are all success stories in their own right, which is why we are so proud to share them with you.
Apply to pitch at F&A Next in The Netherlands in May in front of leading corporations such as Unilever and Nutreco, investors and media and be in with a chance of becoming the ‘Next Hero in Food & AgTech 2020’ and other perks.
The firm has already made two investments from the new fund: Agrofy, the Argentinian agribusiness marketplaces that made waves a couple of weeks ago with its record-breaking Series B round, and Inari, the gene-editing for ag startup.
The Swiss company has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from California-based Agroecology Capital, an agtech venture capital firm.
Noquo has yet to settle its core ingredient(s), admitting it’s a hard problem to crack, but a list of heavyweight investors clearly thinks the team can go the distance.
RootWave owes its electrical spark of inspiration to years of earlier efforts from the CEO’s father who had been trying out ways to electrify weeds in the 1980s
The biotech business uses co-products from the whisky distillation process to produce microalgae, which are high in omega3 and other nutrients.
The new funding follows Rockstart AgriFood’s September announcement that it had raised its first €15 million and invested in 10 startups.
Alternative proteins had a big year in 2019. But are they alternative or additional to traditional protein sources, ask F&A Next partners ahead of the conference in May?
Agrofy could become the Amazon of agriculture, according to one of its investors who said its potential to scale beyond borders is unparalleled.
It’s been all about pork in the alternative meat space so far in 2020 and it’s a welcome shift from the focus on beef.
The competition welcomes agtech startups across many categories including everything from crop enhancement to animal health to supply chain innovations.
The Israeli startup is hoping the acquisition will accelerate its expansion into the US breadbasket as agtech veterans predict more consolidation in 2020.
New Age Meats just raised $2.7m in seed funding to broaden its product offerings from sausages into bacon and pork belly.
“There is far too little deal flow with women,” said one panelist. “I’m that person who has not made investment deals with women. Not because I did not want to, but I have only ever met four women who pitched for investment out of many men,” said a senior, female banking official.
Naïo co-founder Gaëtan Séverac is bullish about the imminent and radical adoption of agri-robots; his company placed signs at its recent event calling for an “agrobolution.”
This reporter visited This at their tech hub offices by Portobello Road in London last May to try its plant-based bacon alternative ahead of the launch that summer.
In this episode, I speak to two members of AgFunder’s investment team who joined the company in 2019, Yanniv Dorone and Quinten Eggink. In another holiday special – shhh, yes I know the holidays are over – they both share how they came to work in this industry and for AgFunder.
“The last decade has been great, yet not without challenges,” Pat Christie, founder of Conservis tells AFN.
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