While the bulk of funding went to downstream categories in 2019, startups in the middle of the agrifood value chain are attracting more and more interest.
The Lagos-based startup seeks to bring some formality to Africa’s extensive, informal agrifood supply chain, by providing stakeholders with digital tools and mentoring.
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The Guangzhou-based startup raised a total of $29 million across two rounds last year. On-demand giant Meituan Dianping co-led the latest fundraise.
Sequoia Capital and Alpha JWC Ventures co-led the round, which brings the B2B marketplace’s total funding to $36 million in just 15 months.
Fulcrum raised the fund from a pool of high net worth investors to support early-stage upstream agriculture technologies in animal health, precision agriculture, food safety, and supply chain logistics
IntelloLabs is working to solve the logistical and potentially brand-busting challenge of quality control in the high-value crops industry using computer vision.
Europe’s agrifood tech ecosystem raised just 9% of the funding that went to foodtech and agtech startups globally in 2018. But deal activity increased 23% as agrifood tech startups in the region closed a similar number of deals as in the US.
Handheld near-infrared spectral imaging devices are giving cocoa farmers and processors a way to set fairer prices in a matter of seconds while also cutting
Startups in the category we call Midstream Technologies raised $1.35 billion in 2018, climbing from the third-best funded category to the second-best funded sector behind Ag Biotechnology.
It is possible for as many as one out of 15 containers to get rejected when they arrive at their destination, an expensive outcome when containers carrying high-value food can be worth as much as $500,000.
Kalaari joins existing investor Omnivore, the India-focused impact venture fund focused on agrifood startups.
Ninjacart aims to increase farmers’ incomes, reduce food wastage, introduce competitive prices for retailers, and ensure quality food for all consumers. But how can this benefit Syngenta?
On our mission to democratize venture capital and increase investment in the food and agriculture industry, our fund is open to accredited investors as well as institutional investors, and we already have commitments from both.
Clear Labs, a Californian startup using next-generation sequencing (NGS) to test food for dangerous pathogens like Salmonella, has raised $21 million in an extension to its
Solveiga Pakštaitė is founder and director of Mimica, a food labeling technology startup that recently won the People’s Choice Award at Rabobank’s startup pitch event FoodBytes! in
TeleSense’s proprietary sensor collects data about the condition of grains in storage to detect nonoptimal storage conditions and reduce spoilage.
Ramanan interviewed the e-commerce giant in her capacity as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper — a network of teams of young people committed to solving global problems.
Every year, grocery retailers and food media put out trend lists for the coming year, predicting what’s going to be big in food. A careful look at these lists can help us predict, not what technologies are going to get a vote of confidence from VCs and investors – but rather, which technologies are going to have the attention of consumers in the year ahead.
ImpactVision, a software startup using hyperspectral imaging to help food supply chain companies determine the quality and ripeness of food products, has raised $1.3 million in seed funding in a round led by Acre Venture Partners.
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