Rabobank’s FoodBytes! Selects 10 Startups to Pitch in SF
May 31, 2016
A few themes standout among the finalists this year including technologies serving the seafood and aquaculture segment of the food and agtech market.
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Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat, and Hampton Creek Go to Market with Alternative Protein Products
May 26, 2016
Representatives from the three startups spoke at the Future Food-Tech conference in the same week that Beyond Meat released its new burger into Whole Foods and Hampton Creek revealed it’s raising $200m in new funding.
Fundings-in-Brief: Antimicrobial Startup Raises $1.3m, Food E-Commerce Raises $131m, Farmers Edge Raises $3m, more
May 26, 2016
This week, PURE Bioscience raises $1.27 million, while Farmers Edge gets another $3.2m, hyperspectral drone imagery company Gamaya raises $3m, and five food e-commerce startups from the Europe, Asia and the US raise $131m collectively. Impossible Foods is also on the road for $200m.
Digital Foodie Raises Funding for Food Delivery SaaS Platform
May 24, 2016
The Finnish software company helping grocery retailers launch online food delivery services has raised funding from EnterWorks and Black Dragon Capital.
Industry-in-Brief: Glyphosate Debate Deepens, USDA Offers More Research Grants, Cultivate Ventures Launches, more
May 9, 2016
Vermont’s impending GMO labeling is also covered in this week’s industry-in-brief as well as a cartoonist who got fired from Farm News for offending a seed company.
Target Tests Food Transparency Innovations from its CoLab with MIT and IDEO in Store
April 29, 2016
Food + Future coLab is now testing two new technologies aimed at finding out what information consumers want about their food while they shop.
Fundings-in-Brief: Fiddlehead Raises $1.8m Seed Capital, Jungoo Closes $10m Series B, more
April 21, 2016
Capital raisings for predictive food industry forecasting company Fiddlehead, drone tech company PrecisionHawk, and food hyperlocal marketplace contribute to this week’s funding-in-brief.
How Technologies Developed for Other Sectors are Revolutionizing Food Production
April 12, 2016
Kevin Zussman is an agtech investor with Cultivian Sandbox, a venture capital firm that invests in food & agriculture technology startups. Here writes about pivoting into food and agriculture from other industries.
Industry-in-Brief: Farmobile Launches Data Store, Sam Kass Joins Innit and Acre Venture Partners, more
April 8, 2016
The Data Store offers farmers a way to sell their agronomic and machine data to third parties and split the proceeds with Farmobile. Plus former White House staff Sam Kass makes move into food tech.
4 Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs from the Food + Enterprise Summit
April 8, 2016
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.
Food-X Picks 10 Food Tech Startups for Fourth Cohort and $500k of Investment
April 8, 2016
FreshSurety, which is using IoT to report real-time freshness, location, and temperature of food, and Plasma Nutrition are two startups receiving $50k each.
New Crop Capital Closes $25m Fund, Invests in Beyond Meat
March 17, 2016
A new venture capital firm focused on investing in plant and culture-based meat, egg and dairy alternatives has closed a $25 million fund.
Industry-in-Brief: Vilsack Supports GMO Labeling, True Made Foods Wins FoodBytes, Cargill Reduces Animal Antiobiotic Use, more
March 11, 2016
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.
How to Invest in Agtech with #WorldPositive Venture Capital
March 9, 2016
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.
Fundings-in-Brief: Self-Heating Packaging Startup Raises $2.4m, Cannabis.net Closes Angel Round, more
March 4, 2016
Heat Genie’s $2.36m funding round through SeedInvest headlines this week’s fundings-in-brief.
Memphis Meats Closes Seed Round Oversubscribed on $2.75m, Expects Huge Demand for Cultured Meat
February 11, 2016
Co-founder and CEO of the cultured meat startup Memphis Meats talks to AgFunderNews about the company’s history and challenges ahead.
Avrio Capital Closes Third Largest Agtech Fund on $110m
February 9, 2016
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.
Back to the Roots “Undoing Food” One Grocery Product at a Time
February 5, 2016
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.
Industry-in-Brief: Hellmann’s Introduces Eggless Mayo to Compete with Food Tech Startups, GM Developments, more
February 5, 2016
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.
Fundings-in-Brief: Memphis Meats to Raise $2m Seed Round, FarmDrop Raises $4.3m, more
February 4, 2016
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.
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