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Mitti Labs raises $3m seed round to tackle methane emissions in rice farming
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.
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.
DeHaat will exclusively sell formulations from Global BioAg Innovation (GBI) and Australia’s Aussan Laboratorie to smallholders in India.
Omnivore has announced the first close of its third fund, with $150m to pump into India startups aiming to make farming more profitable, resilient, and sustainable.
Agribusiness Marketplaces and Fintech was the most-funded upstream category for India agrifoodtech in 2022.
2022 was a lousy year for agrifoodtech investing, and India was not immune to the headwinds impacting global markets, with funding to Indian startups in the field dipping 33% year-over-year to $2.4 billion, according to AgFunder’s new India AgriFoodTech Investment Report 2023.
[Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Ai Palette.] Singapore-based startup Ai Palette is building out its capabilities to help food and beverage companies
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