WISErg Brings Funding Total to $57m for Food Waste Tech with Series C
Food waste-to-fertilizer technology startup WISErg has raised a $19.2 million Series C round, bringing the company’s total fundraising to $56.6 million.
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30 Food Technologies to Support Your Sustainable New Year’s Resolutions
If your resolutions skew toward agriculture and food rather than the treadmill, there is a whole host of startups with technology that can help.
Women in Agtech: Amanda Weeks Says Female Founders Have to Jump Through More Hoops to Get Investors Excited
We talked to Amanda Weeks of Industrial/Organic about raising her recent round and her future funding plans, how she changes her behavior in front of investors, and her experience as a female founder in the waste industry.
Report Reveals 22 Most ‘Investible’ Post-Harvest Food Waste Technologies
A recent report evaluating new innovations in the food system based on potential impact on post-harvest food waste and commercial feasibility reveals what the authors call “high-priority investible innovations.”
Ag Industry Brief: California Cuts Food Waste, Europe to Vote on Glyphosate Ban, Rabo Launches $1bn Fund, more
On Tuesday, October 24, the European Parliament will vote on whether to ban Monsanto’s controversial pesticide glyphosate in the next three years, plus more industry news in our weekly brief.
Using Data to Unlock Opportunity from Food Waste
Spoiler Alert's Ricky Ashenfelter offers AgFunderNews readers an exclusive preview of the Strategic Guide for Using Data to Drive Food Loss and Waste Reductions.
EXCLUSIVE: Israeli No-Waste Plant-based Yogurt Yofix Raises $2m Series A
The company uses a blend of oats, lentils, sunflower seeds, coconut, sesame seeds and has created three flavors of yogurt with no added sugars, while eliminating the waste common in plant-based dairy alternatives such as soy milk.
NYC Hosts First Food Waste Fair for Exploding Food Waste Innovation, Revealing Challenges
Food waste issues are coming into the mainstream as investors and municipalities realize that there is money to be saved and made in keeping food out of the landfill.
New Jersey Investor Pledges to End Supermarket Waste in Five Years
California Safe Soil (CSS) technology is headed to the East Coast in a big way with the goal of ending supermarket fresh food waste in the United States in five years.
The 4 Shocking Consequences of Food Waste
Ever get to the end of the week faced with a fridge full of rotting produce and gone off meat because plans to cook up a storm got sidetracked? You're not alone.
Five Startups Win Accelerator Backing to Fight Food Insecurity, Waste, and Unsustainable Food Systems
The Good Kitchen, launched last year as Europe's first accelerator program for social startup businesses tackling food issues, will award low-interest loans to the startups to get their businesses off the ground.
Earth Day Reflections: Number of Food Waste Startups Rises, Soil Health Needs More Attention
Earth Day provides a prime opportunity to reflect on the state of environmental sustainability in the food and agriculture industry.
Wasteless Raises $400k Seed for ‘Internet of Groceries’ Technology
Wasteless is an Israeli startup creating a real-time tracking solution to help fight food waste at the grocery store.
Agtech Funding Sheet: SEC Filing Reveals Freight Farms Has Raised $5.7m Towards Larger Series B
AgShift, an ag data startup helping farms automate their compliance reporting, also closed a pre-seed round. Online office catering service Platterz and pivoted Indian agri-marketing platform Ninjacart also raised funding.
Full Harvest Raises $2m Seed Round for Food Waste Reduction Platform
Full Harvest is on a mission to repurpose the 20 billion pounds of produce that are wasted at the farm level each year.
10 Agritech Startups from Ireland Making St Paddy Proud
St. Patrick’s Day is synonymous with eating corned beef cabbage and drinking green beer, but it also gives us an opportunity to take a look at some of the latest agritech innovations coming out of the Emerald Isle.
Ag Industry Brief: Food Waste Org ReFED Hires Walmart Exec, Tom Brady Partners with Purple Carrot, more
ReFED Names Chris Cochran As First Executive Director
ReFED, a collaborative, cross-sector effort of 40 businesses, non-profits, foundations, investors and policymakers committed to reducing food waste in the United States, has named Chris Cochran, Walmart’s senior manager of Corporate Sustainability, as its first executive director, effective in April.
Agtech Funding (& Exit) Sheet: $84m Raised in 2 Weeks (+$400m Instacart Series D), Origin Acquires AgSpace
A bumper two weeks of funding saw 14 startups raise $184m across on-farm biotech, biotech, satellite imagery, India, 3D printing, including Instacart's $400m Series D. There was also an ag data acquisition in the UK.
Hazel Technologies Raises $800k for Food Waste Reduction and Shelf Life Enhancement Products
Hazel Technologies is developing technology to increase the shelf life of fruit with packaging inserts.
Agtech Funding Sheet: Front Range Bio Raises $1.5m, Yume Raises $2m for Food Waste Mitigation, SunBasket Series C
A biotech company working on improving the consistency and efficiency of cannabis cloning raised seed funding from an impressive array of investors while an Aussie wholesale surplus food marketplace got the attention of impact investors.