There was no lack of new innovations and ideas at the conference in Brooklyn, New York today, but there were clear challenges in scaling sustainable, local food products and technologies.
FreshSurety, which is using IoT to report real-time freshness, location, and temperature of food, and Plasma Nutrition are two startups receiving $50k each.
A new venture capital firm focused on investing in plant and culture-based meat, egg and dairy alternatives has closed a $25 million fund.
Precision irrigation company HydroBio won a patent for its technology while a startup company using fresh vegetables to naturally sweeten food in this week’s Industry-in-Brief.
Ahead of speaking at the World Agri-Tech Investment Summit in San Francisco next week, Vishal Vasishth, co-founder of Obvious Ventures, talks about the firm’s approach to agtech investing.
Heat Genie’s $2.36m funding round through SeedInvest headlines this week’s fundings-in-brief.
Co-founder and CEO of the cultured meat startup Memphis Meats talks to AgFunderNews about the company’s history and challenges ahead.
This is Avrio Capital’s third agtech fund and will revisit some subsectors of agtech which co-founder Aki Georgacacos believes have been overheated in recent months.
This week, Back to the Roots (BTTR), the maker of grow-your-own herb kits and now cereal, raised $5 million in seed capital to support the expansion of its growing product line.
Hellmans’ new eggless mayo, genetically modified pigs, a U-turn from the FDA and USDA grants are some of this week’s industry news-in-brief.
Cultured meat manufacturer Memphis Meat, UK farm-2-consumer company FarmDrop and Syngenta’s acquisition by ChemChina are some of this week’s Fundings-in-Brief.
The food technology-focused accelerator’s new managing director, Andrew Ive, talks to AgFunderNews about getting to know the sector since joining in November.
Food waste is becoming a serious problem globally. Winnow is just one of a growing number of startups hoping to mitigate its effects.
The first FoodBytes! Summit for 2016 is set to take place in Brooklyn, New York, on March 3, 2016, and applications are now open.
Startups focused on food technology, ag biotech, GPS navigation and food e-commerce make up this week’s Fundings-in-Brief.
The Californian startup is aiming to manufacture alternative dairy products with better nutritional and taste values than others on the market, according to co-founder Dr Neil Renninger.
This week’s news-in-brief covers the launch of a new crop-spraying drone, a $20m commitment by New Zealand to combat agricultural emissions, and agribusiness PE fund Arlon leads sugar business M&A.
What happens when one of America’s favorite retailers, one of the world’s most renowned research institutions, and a global design firm team up to explore the future of food?
The firm, which has 8 portfolio companies already under its belt, launched the fund at the New York Times Food for Tomorrow Conference this morning (Wednesday).
The plant-based alternative meat producer has so far raised $17m towards its Series E from one VC as funding for the sector grows.
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