The early-stage startup wants to help packers, and eventually retailers, better manage their inventories so that consumers never have to suffer overripe fruit again.
Thought For Food (TFF) and Food Lab Accelerator at Google (FLAG) have unveiled a Brazilian banana peel-inspired winner of this year’s TFF x FLAG Circular Economy of Food Prize.
IntelloLabs is working to solve the logistical and potentially brand-busting challenge of quality control in the high-value crops industry using computer vision.
The Swiss company has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from California-based Agroecology Capital, an agtech venture capital firm.
Sufresca, an Israeli startup designing edible fruit and vegetable coating solutions to reduce food waste and curb plastic packaging, has just raised $500,000 seed funding from the agri-foodtech VC Rimonim, the company disclosed to AFN.
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The San Francisco-based food waste startup is tackling the global issue from different angles through what it describes as its early-investment platform.
The UK startup has developed a smart kitchen tool that helps restaurants account for their food waste to see where they can improve.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
The Belgium-based company will use the Series C financing round to get its first product, a biofungicide, to market.
The California-based food waste startup recently won Most Innovative US Startup Pre-Series A at the 2019 Agri-FoodTech Innovation Awards.
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.
“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.
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