Loopworm is ramping up production at a facility in Bangalore capable of churning out 6,000t of silkworm and black soldier fly protein a year.
The Plantik process grows high-heat-tolerant tomatoes in a fraction of the time it would take to do through traditional breeding.
After a fun—but not very lucrative—few years working on driverless cars in India, Kumar Ranjan turned his attention to a very different industry: farming.
Agrizy provides a fully managed B2B marketplace with a variety of digital tools connecting food producers and local and international buyers.
Fashol aims to stabilize food prices for farmers and reduce supply chain waste through its agribusiness marketplace.
The first batch of carbon credits generated from methane reduction initiatives Mitti Labs is working on with Indian rice farmers should be issued in the summer of 2025.
Mitigation receives about 90% of global public and private climate financing, which frequently sidelines efforts around adaptation.
Niqo will use new funding to expand its spot-spraying tech across India and into horticulture markets around the world.
Indian startups in the Bioenergy & Biomaterials category including waste-to-value products developer altM raised $14 million in 2023.
Bucking the overall global agrifoodtech investment trend, funding returned to pre-Covid levels.
Scaling and commercializing products from a completely new crop takes time and patient capital, says Terviva cofounder and CEO Naveen Sikka.
Deeper collaborations with Global South peers can herald a paradigm shift in Africa’s agricultural landscape.
Ai Palette has developed an end-to-end platform enabling clients to identify trends, generate new product concepts and screen them at the click of a button, aided by a new conversational chatbot called FoodGPT.
The Varaha platform measures and quantifies carbon sequestration for regenerative agriculture, afforestation and biochar projects.
Bangalore-based FaunaTech is a novel smartphone-based diagnostics platform for rapid testing of milk and bovine health at the farmgate.
As smartphones have proliferated and technological advancements have enabled more transparency around agricultural products and pricing, farmers are gaining more trust in online tools as a means to do business and improve their finances.
Singapore-based Fattastic Technologies uses encapsulation to make designer fats that mimic the texture, mouthfeel and flavor of animal fat.
Novel farming systems present opportunities for India to bolster its food supply in the midst of climate change.
Despite seesawing dollar amounts over the last few years, India agrifoodtech investment is back on par with 2018 levels.
Climate change and the need for efficient and affordable technology for farmers is driving investor interest in India farmtech.
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