Agtech Recruitment: Do You Need Ag Experience to Work in Agtech?
Requiring new hires to have agriculture experience can be severely limiting, and potentially detrimental to the growth of the company, argues Maximillian Cunha.
Tag Archives: Startups
Future Food Asia Award Founder Discusses Sources of Asian AgriFood Tech Innovation Ahead of 2018 Competition
The Future Food Asia Award (FFAA), Asia’s first agrifood tech startup up competition, will be presented in Singapore for the second year on May 23.
BREAKING: 2018 AgFunder Innovation Awards Winners Announced
The winners of the 2018 Agfunder Innovation Awards were announced on Tuesday, March 20 at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco, CA.
DEADLINE APPROACHING: Cast Your Vote in the AgFunder Innovation Awards
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It’s that time of year again to recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward with the AgFunder Innovation Awards. These are peer-selected awards based on votes placed by you, our 45,000-strong network.
Tales of a Failed Agtech Startup: “Everyone thinks they’re an early adopter; few actually are”
Founder Janette Barnard tells us the story of The Poultry Exchange, a chicken meat marketplace startup. After struggling to get an intractable industry to change its ways, The Poultry Exchange ceased operations in July.
A Tour of the Food E-Commerce Graveyard: Are Investors Losing Their Appetite?
The number of high-raising food delivery startups that have shuttered in the last two years suggests that even with millions of potential customers within a few miles, online restaurants are a hard nut to crack.
6 Sources of Startup Funding for Veterans in Farming and Tech
In honor of Veterans Day, we compiled a list of funds, grants, loans, and programs available to US military veteran entrepreneurs in farming and tech.
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How Are Food Companies Interacting with Startup Innovation? Are We Headed for Margarine 2.0? [podcast]
In today's episode, I speak to Nick Fereday, senior analyst of consumer foods at Rabobank, the Dutch food and agribusiness bank.
Larta Institute Wins Commercialization Contract with Department of Energy in Mission to ‘Feed, Fuel & Heal World’
While energy is a new sector of focus for Larta, which has typically focused on life sciences, health, and agriculture, there is a lot of crossover and potential for synergies with these sectors, according to Rohit Shukla, CEO of Larta.
Hain Celestial is Rewriting the “Rules” of Corporate Venture Capital
We talk to CEO of Hain Celestial's new venture capital arm Cultivate Ventures about how and why one of the largest natural and organic food products companies globally launched the initiative.
FarmerTrials.com is Offering Startups a New Way to Conduct Field Trials
There’s one thing that every new agtech startup needs when they want to sell their solution to farmers: proof that it works. And to get that, you need field trials.
Exclusive: 20 Startups Make the Cut for FoodBytes! Austin
The pitch competition will feature solutions to food challenges including livestock management, food bi-product up-cycling, and novel plant-based proteins.
Beyond the Megafarms: 4 Alternative Models For Indoor Agriculture
There is more variety in indoor farming businesses than the megafarms that make the news.
UK’s Cornwall Establishes £10m Agritech Funding Opportunity for Southwest Region
As England’s only officially designated ‘Less Developed Region’, the area has received grant support from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and a range of local and national development partners.
10 Online Platforms Helping Future Indoor Farmers
Indoor farming is a business and business is hard. Here are five online platforms to help indoor farmers.
Intrapreneurship: the Need for Acceleration is Not the Exclusive Domain of Startups
Intrapreneurial projects are a way for large companies gain in agility, to the benefit of the whole food and agriculture innovation ecosystem, writes Christophe Breuillet.
The Food Chain Is Craving Innovation
Hasti Afsarifard is corporate innovation manager at Plug and Play Tech Center, the accelerator organization that invested in DropBox and PayPal.
EU PiG Innovation Group Launches to Stop Member Countries Repeating New Tech Research, Award EU PiG Grand Prix
European Union pig industry researchers and development specialists are set to examine more than 300 innovation ideas over the next three months as part of a 13-country project
Cannabis Startups Raise $66.3m in 2016 as Canopy Leads 2017 with $300k Accelerator
There was a more diverse set of technology startups serving the cannabis market in 2016, although investment levels were similar to 2015.
Why Alltech is Putting Startup Growth Before Equity in Agritech Accelerator
Alltech and its accelerator partner Dogpatch Labs discovered that many startups were not looking for equity investment, according to Alltech CIO Aidan Connolly.