
Cultivian Sandbox closes third fund on $135m with bevy of food & ag corporate LPs
Cultivian Sandbox Ventures was the first to focus entirely on technology startups operating across the food and agriculture value chain.
Cultivian Sandbox Ventures was the first to focus entirely on technology startups operating across the food and agriculture value chain.
Last month, Manuel Gonzalez announced plans to raise a new foodtech fund called Global RIFF (Revolution in Food Fund). We caught up with him to find out more about the investment model and the food tech categories he’s most excited about.
Intello Labs is an Indian agtech startup using computer vision and deep learning to measure the quality of crops.
The real power to endow people with fundamentally longer, healthier lives resides in the hands of the food industry, writes Jim Flatt.
What will you be eating in 2050? How will it get to your table? How we grow, purchase, and eat our food is changing. New technologies are playing a key role in shaping that change. In this podcast, we speak to the people driving that future, from entrepreneurs and venture capital investors, to chef, farmers and food businesses. Welcome to Future Food!
The investor syndicate includes S2G Ventures, Middleland Capital, ADM Capital’s Cibus Fund, Tysons Ventures, Bunge Ventures, Continental Grain Company, and Kellogg’s Eighteen94 Capital.
European food tech startups are on course to have raised between €750 million to €1 billion in 2018, according to different estimates. That will be around a 40% decline on 2017 funding levels.
This Thanksgiving, we at AgFunder are thankful for our portfolio companies. Over the last year, we have invested in transformational food system companies, operating across the supply chain, from farm to fork.
Gastrograph AI, a predictive analytics technology for food and beverage companies, closed a $4 million Series A round of funding last week. Gastrograph collects data about
“Unless companies can solve supply chain issues and produce more food using novel tech, I don’t think the Chinese food industry will change tremendously,” Temasek’s Anuj Maheshwari told delegates at 2050 China Food Tech Summit.
Chinova Bioworks has discovered a natural preservative for food and beverages using chitosan from mushrooms that can be customized for individual food and beverage companies.
We caught up with JUST’s director of emerging markets to get into the gritty details of how the company created a profitable product that costs just seven cents per serving.
MycoTech uses mushrooms and fungi to remove bitter tastes from food and drinks.
Agri-foodtech is a small but growing segment of the startup and venture capital universe that is increasingly capturing the attention of investors.
A cautionary tale is quietly making its way around food tech investor communities and conferences. The tale is the story of cleantech.
It would be hard for the large multinational food companies to ignore the rapid innovation taking place in their industry.
The highs and lows of the food e-commerce space continued this week with Territory raising $6.7m in Series A funding in the same week that Maple closed and sold some of its assets to the UK’s Deliveroo.
It may sound too good to be true, but according to David Rowe, founder and president at Choco Finesse, the proof is in the chocolate pudding.
Securing funding for food and drink start-ups is more difficult than doing the same job for innovators in other industries, according to Alessio D’Antino, CEO and co-founder of Crowdfooding UK.
The accelerator, which is based in New York, selected eight startups from over 500 applications to take part in its 14-week program.
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