Tag: food waste

BRIEF: Commercial kitchen food waste startup Winnow raises $12m Series B

October 17, 2019

The UK startup has developed a smart kitchen tool that helps restaurants account for their food waste to see where they can improve.

Food waste is a global issue. Here’s how 2 Singapore startups are working to fight it

October 17, 2019

1.3 billion tons of food is lost or wasted, yearly, and it costs the global community $1 trillion dollars in losses. What’s the world doing to stop this?

Skål!: €17 million more for Matsmart, Sweden’s surplus food marketplace

October 10, 2019

LeadX Capital Partners, which is backed by German retailer Metro Group, led the round, joined by the likes of Ingka Group (IKEA), Northzone, D-Ax, and Norrsken.

World Bank, Tesco, Sodexo, pledge to combat food loss and waste

September 25, 2019

What do the World Bank, Tesco, and Sodexo have in common? Well, they made huge commitments to slashing food waste at Climate Week NYC. Read on for details.

NYC AgTech Week 2019

September 21, 2019

The NYC Ag Collective – a consortium of 15+ commercial urban farms, tech companies, and non-profit organizations – is pleased to announce the 4th annual

The Modern Acre podcast: leveraging tech to disrupt outdated processes with ImpactVision

September 17, 2019

ImpactVision uses machine learning and hyperspectral imaging to detect the quality and composition of food products to a degree that has not been possible before.

Bioenergy DevCo captures $106m to digest waste in a city near you

September 5, 2019

Anaerobic digestion is already used widely in Europe where the population is more attuned to environmental concerns but also as there’s limited room for landfills, forcing businesses to find other solutions for food waste.

Food waste startup Hazel Technologies raises oversubscribed $13m Series B to scale up production

August 12, 2019

Pangea Ventures, which focuses on advanced materials venture capital, alongside existing ag-focused investor S2G Ventures led the round supporting Hazel’s package technology that helps extend foods’ shelf life.

The Yield Lab LatAm reveals 2nd cohort and increasing diversification among LatAm agrifood entrepreneurs

August 8, 2019

The Yield Lab Latin America (YL) has revealed the startups joining its second cohort based out of Buenos Aires, Argentina where I was lucky enough to meet them during AgTech Week.

Agrosavfe snags €35 million to bring bio-crop protection products to market

August 8, 2019

The Belgium-based company will use the Series C financing round to get its first product, a biofungicide, to market.

Planetarians is Helping Food Companies Make your Favorite Foods Using Upcycled Ingredients

July 9, 2019

The California-based food waste startup recently won Most Innovative US Startup Pre-Series A at the 2019 Agri-FoodTech Innovation Awards.

World Economic Forum Selects ImpactVision as One of 56 Technology Pioneers in 2019

July 1, 2019

This year’s Tech Pioneers are emerging innovators from a diverse set of industries, including several agtech peers such as Full Harvest, Inari, and Alesca Life.

Chef Launches Ends+Stems to Help Consumers Plan Their Meals and Waste Less Food

June 27, 2019

“Not only is it harder as a woman, but my biggest problem is that I spent my years in the kitchen, not hobnobbing with people who decide where the money goes,” Alison Mountford says of her stalled attempts at raising venture capital funding.

10 Minutes With Alexis Ohanian on Why He’s Investing in FoodTech & Agtech

June 13, 2019

In the wake of his firm Initialized Capital’s investment in produce marketplace Silo, we caught up with the Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian to find out more his views on foodtech and agtech.

How Full Harvest is Using Technology to Connect the Dots in the B2B Food Waste Space

June 4, 2019

Full Harvest won the Most Innovative US Startup Series A and Beyond category at AgFunder’s 2019 AgriFood Tech Innovation Awards in March, so we caught up with the CEO to get an update.

Letter from London: Britain’s ‘Food Waste Tsar’ Wants Radical, Drastic Change

May 29, 2019

These notes from our London-based reporter include a food waste symposium, London Food Tech Week and a bevy of startups.

Spent Grains Upcycler ReGrained on the ‘Powerful Experience’ of Meeting Griffith Foods through TERRA

May 9, 2019

Before applications close on Sunday May 12, TERRA alum ReGrained shares insights about the benefits of working with corporates on scaling the business.

Restaurants Can Earn $7 for Every $1 They Invest in Fighting Food Waste – new report

February 13, 2019

The US restaurant industry alone is responsible for more than 11 million tons of food waste each year, or $25 billion worth of food, and Valentine’s Day is one of the industry’s biggest nights of the year.

Wheatsheaf Acquires Purfresh’s Ozone Tech Reducing Food Waste in Shipping Containers

February 7, 2019

It is possible for as many as one out of 15 containers to get rejected when they arrive at their destination, an expensive outcome when containers carrying high-value food can be worth as much as $500,000.

Food Tech Startup Spotlight: Noluma’s Innovative Packaging is Reducing Risk of Milk Degradation

January 30, 2019

Noluma has developed a unique technology that measures the light protection of packaging as a function of its effects on the product contents by placing a marker ingredient in a solution inside a test package, which is then exposed to intense light.