Food multinationals aren’t offering enough in terms of protein alternatives, says investor network FAIRR – but alt-protein faces other challenges too.
Plant-based meat still costs two-to-five times as much as its animal counterparts and solving this problem is far from an inevitability, writes Christie Lagally.
Applications are now open for innovators to apply to Indigo’s Terraton Challenge for the chance of winning $20k in grant funding and up to $3m in Indigo contracts, as well as participation in a virtual incubation program, and trials with Indigo’s farmer partners.
Solinftec could be the operating system for the autonomous farm and they’ve just hired a new CEO to rapidly drive the startup’s global expansion, writes AgFunder founding partner Rob Leclerc.
Jennifer is an expert marketer with a career spanning many different industries outside of agriculture, most recently at StubHub the event ticketing business, so it’s really interesting to hear about her transition into this industry.
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.
“Agricultural land is generally being managed in a manner that is degrading the land resource. In particular, the soil function and ecosystem biodiversity,” Teague tells AFN.
Indigo Agriculture has unveiled its latest initiative, and it’s the most ambitious yet; the Boston-based agtech startup wants to reverse climate change.
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The multistakeholder investment platform catalyzed $3m in equity investment soil microbiome testing startup Trace Genomics and $535k in grant funding for three research projects.
You may not realize that seafood is the fastest-growing protein category, with an annual growth rate surpassing that of all land-based animal meat combined. But the fish farming industry is in need of innovation to mitigate and reduce environmental concerns.
It has been a wild ride watching the agtech landscape explode these past five years, writes Seana Day – who’s now tracking over 1,600 startups globally in her latest market map.
Here Shmuel Rausnitz writes about his concerns relating to the FDA and foodtech entrepreneur’s tendency to oversimplify consumer demands and needs across demographics.
Dubbed “beyond sustainable,” regenerative agricultural methodologies seek to add to the soil through a self-nourishing ecological system that benefits the environment in the process.
The majority of agrifood tech investors are generalist tech investors but there is also a growing number of dedicated funds focused on foodtech and agtech. Here’s a list of the top 10 in 2018.
Despite their ingenuity and a commendable focus on sustainability and food loss, entrepreneurs are missing a huge opportunity by not prioritizing nutrition, writes Amy Beaudreault.
Agriculture is often referred to as the last bastion of digitization, but what types of technologies will succeed?
This week at Davos, ag and agtech was at the heart of a topic that touches each of us. Nearly 870 million people in the
Smoke & mirrors, not worth the extra cost: 50 US farmers speak out on carbon markets