India has a massive farm economy but the supply chain suffers from major inefficiencies that prevent farmers from optimizing farm profits.
The global situation right now is stark. Cotton supports the livelihoods of over 250 million people, yet less than 20% of cotton is grown sustainably. The Better Cotton Innovation Challenge is on the lookout for global game-changing innovations to change this.
There’s been no greater pressure for the agriculture industry to account for its environmental footprint than there is today. Sprout is looking for startups approaching this challenge to apply for its accelerator.
Recent academic work has found that oyster farming can remove nitrogen, phosphate and sediment from the water column making it more than just a profitable business with growing global demand, writes Chip Terry.
The UK startup just raised a £3.7 million ($4.77m) venture round for its climate modeling service aimed at decision-makers in business and government.
People often ask us if agtech will have a Facebook or Google and we’ve told them to look to marketplaces in emerging markets. It’s also important to us at AgFunder that startups have a clear mission and there’s no more noble mission than uplifting the fortunes of the world’s largest workforce.
The Investing For Impact discussion, brought to you by Larta Institute and its GAIN series, is designed to explore and demonstrate. We will explore how
The Kenyan B2B food distribution company’s combined Series B equity and debt round represents the largest early stage investment in African agrifood tech in 2019 to date.
The Regenerative Food Systems Investment (RFSI) Forum brings together investors and critical stakeholders to increase capital investment in this space. Our goal is to facilitate
The Vancouver-based venture capital firm has raised a further C$145 million to invest in environmental tech and sustainable consumer products, including organic food and alternative protein.
“Bellwether Coffee has a dream team of sustainability and coffee experts and is addressing a large market ripe for improvement,” Nancy Pfund, managing partner at DBL Partners, tells AFN.
Dutch banking giant Rabobank is teaming up with impact investment firm Caspian to lend $2 million to India’s agtech startups, which are hot with venture capital firms, but not so much with banks.
Armed with $57 million, Future Positive Capital intends to place more bets on wonky tech ideas that have the potential to drive systems change while reaping profits in long-established markets, like food and agriculture.
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.
Omnivore, the Indian agrifood tech venture capital firm, has closed its second fund on $97 million, exceeding a target of $75 million.
It has taken the team of scientists at Ceradis more than a decade to develop a line of earth-friendly agriculture products. Now, with several on the market, the Dutch company has raised €9 million ($10 million) to commercialize a new biofungicide that prevents crop disease.
You may have seen The Production Board crop up on a few agrifood tech investments, but there’s little publicly-available information about the investment holding company founded by David Friedberg. Until now.
Now accepting applications from students for its fifth cohort, we asked fellowship director Blair Kirchner to write about the inception of the fellowship and its core mission as a program.
Editor’s Note: Lisa Curtis is CEO of Kuli Kuli Foods, the leading Moringa brand in the US. Here she writes about her background in the Peace Corps, how it led to the creation of Kuli Kuli, and how the company is now hoping its effort will promote peace in Niger.
Indian AgriFood Startups Are Innovating to Give Consumers What They Want, and Fix a Broken Industry. Find out more in this first-ever India AgriFood Startup report.
