Plus… Remy acquires food-waste app Kitch and Ever After Foods partners with Swiss manufacturing giant Bühler Group.
Also: India-based KiranaPro acquires grocery delivery service Joper.
Plus: Israeli startups sign three fresh foodtech partnerships.
Plus: Non-GMO project tackles ultra-processed foods with new labeling.
Plus: Mosa Meat and NewCulture request market authorizations for alt meat and cheese
Plus: Syngenta launches partnership to speed up R&D for biologicals
Plus: Ohalo teams with Florida farmers on “disease-resistant strawberries.”
The most popular guest posts of 2024 covered GLP-1, regenerative agriculture, artificial intelligence, and more.
Arguably more important than fundraising is the need to build further trust with the farmers meant to be using agtech solutions.
The past year was chock-full of off-beat stories including everything from soup vandalism to $500,000 shots of sake brewed in space.
Plus…John Kempf’s Advancing Eco Agriculture nabbed a USDA rural development award.
Plus: GE salmon company AquaBounty winds down its only remaining operating farm: “We’ve been working for over a year to raise capital… Unfortunately, these efforts have not generated enough cash to maintain our operating facilities.”
Plus: Danish startup Antag Therapeutics lands $80 million for next-gen weight loss therapy development.
Plus: How not to waste 316 million pounds of food this Thanksgiving…
Plus: Malaysian farm-to-restaurant platform Secai Marche raises Series A funding.
Plus: chatbots for cultivated meat are here.
High-tech shrimp farming company Oceanloop reels in a fresh round of capital.
Plus: Australia firm banks new funds for biopackaging innovations.
Plus: More funding deals for ag robotics and automation.
Plus: M&S deploying drone tech, robotic grocery delivery, alt leather.
