Later-stage deals for food waste startups increased in 2022, while larger platforms are starting to acquire smaller solution providers.
The Midstream Technologies category in India saw a 2.5X funding increase in FY22, making it one of the country’s most active agrifoodtech investment areas.
Telesense, which counts major international shipping outfit Maersk Growth among its investors, says its acquisition of Webstech gives it the largest remote-sensed dataset for grain storage in the world.
Centaur is a sensing and IoT platform providing post-harvest monitoring to the agricultural supply chain to reduce waste and improve food safety.
The post-harvest grain market is under tremendous pressure from reduced margins and IoT solutions focused on operational efficiency and grain could make a big difference to operators if they are willing to make the investment, writes Ron Hadar.
Offering both a hardware and software product, Ancera aims to help food companies test products for contaminants such as salmonella.
