The Week in AgriFoodTech: Kraft Heinz nets $171m for clean energy, ALOHA raises $68m, Poseidon raises $20m
Plus: more funding for ag robotics and bad news for Kroger’s e-commerce business.
Plus: more funding for ag robotics and bad news for Kroger’s e-commerce business.
Plus, meet the Internet of the Forest.
Plus: Impossible Foods unveils a “meatier” new look to attract more carnivorous customers.
Plus: Plant-based “NotDogs” from Oscar Mayer and NotCo, John Deere’s “right to repair” case drags on, new meat labeling beef in Iowa.
Bayer CEO Bill Anderson called the ongoing litigation “a huge burden” on company financials during a recent investor call.
Meanwhile, France bans the meat from plant-based meat labeling, the US aims for more wind-powered farms.
Plus: Syngenta develops new bioinsecticide, layoffs at Meati, and Miruku raises $5m for molecular farming.
Plus: UPSIDE Foods hits pause on its large-scale cultivated meat production facility and plant-based fur makes its debut.
Plus… 150 job cuts at Plenty, a new green agri fund from Temasek and Norinchukin Bank, cultivated scotch eggs at Fortnum & Mason.
Farm robotics gets another fundraising boost and Tyson cooks up high-tech bacon.
Swiggy makes more cuts to its workforce, France contemplates a ban on cultivated meat.
Plus: much ado (and fundraising) about ag robotics and many updates from Israel’s startup scene.
Plus, corporate restructuring at FreshDirect and R.I.P. for RIP Foods.
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Meanwhile in France, lawmakers are proposing a ban on cultivated meat, calling that alternative protein “junk food”
Plus: ProfilePrint raises Series B funding & Vow gets a regulatory nod for cultivated quail.
Milano Vice scoops up $9 million for pizza delivery and Clever Carnivore raises $7 million for cultivated pork.
As COP28 kicks off, other agrifoodtech news includes fundraises for aquatech startups and new stats about agriculture emissions.
Plus, sugar refiner Nordzucker will invest more than $100 million into plant-based proteins.
Plus: Grow-NY winners announced and Le Fourgon raises new capital to reuse old containers.