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A ‘glimpse into the future’ of insect ag? Agroloop partners with FreezeM to open BSFL farm with fully outsourced breeding

Agtech

Alternative protein

Dr. Yuval Gilad, cofounder and CEO, FreezeM

Innovafeed secures $11.8m USDA grant for insect-based fertilizer, fine tunes process at Decatur pilot plant

Agtech

Alternative protein

BSFL frass contains nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Image credit: InnovaFeed

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‘Pharma is eating Big Food’s lunch…’ Lembas fights back with GLP-1 boosting peptide

Artificial intelligence

Deeptech

The team at Lembas. Image credit: Lembas

Suspended animation: Insect ag startup Nasekomo enhances neonate delivery service with advanced suspension tech

ByBug: Black soldier flies can deliver cheaper, more scalable recombinant protein production

Scoutlabs unpacks the process of digitizing pest management and ‘the changing buyer’ in agtech

From novelty to necessity? The evolution of insect farming

Agtech

Alternative protein

Insect farming with the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens

Meet the founder: Protix’s Kees Aarts on insect ag… ‘You can’t come in with a Silicon Valley playbook and outcompete a legacy industry in 3 years’

Agtech

EMEA

Kees Aarts, cofounder and CEO, Protix

Exclusive: BSF ‘breeding as a service’ startup FreezeM nets $14.2m series A. ‘We want to be the seed company for the insect ag industry’

Agtech

Alternative protein

The FreezeM team

Armed with $8.7m in fresh capital, Nasekomo builds insect ag franchise model

Processing innovations could unlock human food market for edible insects, claims Hoppy Planet Foods

Entobel opens largest insect protein production facility in Asia, targets aquaculture

🎥Insectta: ‘We envision a future where insects power healthcare and electronics’

Accelerating regenerative agriculture: meeting corporate commitments by 2030

Meet the founder: Insectta’s Chua Kai-Ning taps black soldier flies for high-value functional ingredients

Aspire Food Group ramps up world’s largest cricket production facility, scouts for 2nd site

Meet the founder: Insect bar pioneer Pat Crowley, investor short-term thinking ‘is one of the most frustrating things in this business’

Brief: Future Fields raises $11.2m to scale up fruit flies for recombinant protein production

Meet the Founder: FlyFeed boss Arseniy Olkhovskiy believes humans will eat a lot more bugs in future

Agtech

Alternative protein

Black soldier fly farmer Inseco raises $5.3m in South Africa’s ‘largest-ever seed round’

Alternative protein

EMEA

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Why ex-Deere VP Jorge Heraud joined TerraBlaster: ‘This is the number one opportunity in agtech right now’

Agtech

Precision agriculture

Better Origin banks $16m in Balderton-led Series A for its AI insect mini-farms

ADM & InnovaFeed’s insect protein partnership examined

Data Snapshot: Insect ranches, vertical ag among 2020’s top-funded ‘Novel Farming’ startups

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REPORTING ON THE EVOLUTION OF FOOD & AGRICULTURE

REPORTING ON THE EVOLUTION OF FOOD & AGRICULTURE

REPORTING ON THE EVOLUTION OF FOOD & AGRICULTURE

REPORTING ON THE EVOLUTION OF FOOD & AGRICULTURE