2022’s 10 most active food and agriculture technology venture capital firms were dominated by American firms with other leaders spread across Europe.
The top 10 climate tech deals in agrifood in 2022 were almost exclusively upstream startups in vertical farming, alternative proteins and ag biotech.
It’s been a tough few months for the alternative protein startup category, particularly companies developing plant-based meat, dairy, and seafood alternatives
We catch up with Benedikt Bösel, managing director of a 3000-hectare farm near Berlin, Germanyv that’s adopting and developing regen ag systems
Food delivery, cultivated meat, and bio-energy startups across Asia, North America and Oceana landed agrifoodtech’s top five deals of 2022.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! It’s time for the research team at AFN’s parent company AgFunder to start compiling its global foodtech and agtech investment report, which will be released in early March.
No farmers. No food. No future. That is the saying that reminds us to value not just where our food comes from, but the farmers that grow it for us, writes Henry Gordon-Smith as an introduction to deep research his team has done into labor shortage in the Middle East.
Forsea, an Israeli cultured seafood startup is using organoid technolog, mostly used in phrama and developmental biology, to produce cultured seafood.
Indian farmtech startups raised $1.5bn in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2022, which was around 30% of total funding but 60% of deal count.
A mix of high inflation, drought conditions, and high energy costs are making the chance of food shortages and food insecurity in the UK ever more likely this winter. We need circular solutions, argues one startup.
Investment in farm technologies was particularly buoyant, increasing 185% year-on-year and accounting for 60% of the total number of deals closed.
Late-stage deals in the Asia-Pacific region grew by more than 30% in 2021; in H1 2022, the median size of deals dropped for the first time in three years.
Attendees to the AgriTech 4.0: Crops, Seeds & Soil conference discussed the need for sharing research and access to financing between academia and industry.
Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. While there are calls for developing nations to seek compensation from the world’s biggest emitters at COP27, developing nations must also look to technology to mitigate the impacts of climate change – or adapt.
Seren Kell from the Good Food Institute Europe speaks to AFN following a £20 million pledge from two UK bodies to support the sector.
Ghost kitchens operator from Uber founder Travis Kalanick, CloudKitchens, raised a whopping $850m in 2021, including backing from Microsoft.
UM6P, the venture arm of the Moroccan university with the same name, says the deals are “investment-partnerships” as the two startups stand to benefit from scientific support and testing of their technologies at the university.
Croatan Institute has released a new report that identifies financing opportunities and pathways to building resilient value chains for regenerative farms.
Circular economy startups addressing food waste, plastic alternatives and upcycling in Europe’s agrifood sector raised just 2.6% of VC funding last year.
A new report by Graze indicates that agrifintech claimed almost 1% of the $600 billion in total worldwide VC investment last year.
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