This year’s Nutrition for Growth Summit, held in Olympic host city Tokyo, provided a platform from which to accelerate global progress on malnutrition.
The San Francisco-based company will use the Series A funds to grow its team and further develop its “proprietary” food preparation platform.
“The insights from this agreement will [inform] how we grow, separate, and treat our cranberries to optimize for target health benefits and sustainability.”
Soylent meal replacement drinks, reportedly beloved of some entrepreneurs and VCs, have proven somewhat controversial in the podcast’s ‘hot or not’ rounds.
The future of food is exciting and unknown; but one way or another, it’s going to require more consumer education, writes Soylent’s Demir Vangelov.
Chew’s Plant-Based Burger Report Card found the Beyond Burger to smell like “pet food,” while Impossible’s effort is “more reminiscent of liver.”
In a world first, the GM crop – developed in the early 1990s to provide higher levels of vitamin A – was recently approved for commercial planting in the Philippines.
The pair are expanding on their earlier collaboration, which “uncovered 10 times more bioactives than previously known” in the soybean plant.
Fund VII takes Flagship’s total assets under management to $14.1 billion.
The cattle ranches of Texas have long provided protein for the US populace. Qualitas wants to continue that tradition – but it’s raising algae instead.
Christmas sees many of us overdo the food and drink, so it’s not always the healthiest time of year. Here are a few nutritionist’s tips for keeping in corpore sano.
The Californian startup makes plant-based, organic formulas that can be used for tube feeding patients with chronic illnesses.
The Shanghai-based firm has joined the Series A round of Mojia Bio, which synthesizes essential nutrients for human and animal consumption.
Brightseed will use the fresh funding to commercialize phytonutrients it has discovered using its AI-powered Forager technology.
Of all the reports on the tragic and rising death toll resulting from Covid-19, there’s one underlying health condition that has been largely overlooked: obesity.
Soilworks’ co-founders formed the regenerative ag-focused investment group after working together at B2B SaaS investor Scaleworks.
The failings of the US food system have left 88% of the population metabolically unhealthy. Frighteningly that means they’re all at a higher risk of complications from the Covid-19 virus compared to the 12% who are deemed metabolically healthy. This startup wants to help.
The startup is using analytical chemistry, optical spectroscopy, and machine learning to create a universal data-based language for evaluating food quality.
Users can order health-conscious meals, groceries, and supplements through the Indian startup’s wellness marketplace.
This episode is perhaps a tad awkward as I interview my boss Rob Leclerc, founding partner of AgFunder, but Rob was as insightful as ever, sharing his thoughts on working in and around the agriculture sector for the past decade.
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