Applications are now open for innovators to apply to Indigo’s Terraton Challenge for the chance of winning $20k in grant funding and up to $3m in Indigo contracts, as well as participation in a virtual incubation program, and trials with Indigo’s farmer partners.
This year’s Tech Pioneers are emerging innovators from a diverse set of industries, including several agtech peers such as Full Harvest, Inari, and Alesca Life.
Manure is considered an inconvenient byproduct by many, but Crena Resources sees it is pure gold in the battle to achieve more sustainability in agriculture.
The multistakeholder investment platform catalyzed $3m in equity investment soil microbiome testing startup Trace Genomics and $535k in grant funding for three research projects.
At the heart of the ASEAN region, Singapore is in a unique position when it comes to creating an ecosystem for startup innovation and success.
Søren and Anders Knudsen have developed FarmBackup, an online marketplace where farmers and contractors can advertise and arrange for equipment-based services.
FoodBytes! Chicago is seeking startups focused on animal health, sustainable production, robotic process automation, precision agriculture, food safety, food waste, food as medicine, sugar reduction, novel healthy ingredients.
Here are five takeaways about how “alternative” food ideas, technologies and actors are shifting the mainstream as we know it, from the F&A Next conference in The Netherlands last week.
A lot has changed in agribusiness since Erik Fyrwald took the helm of Syngenta in 2016.
TERRA, a non-equity-based accelerator program, is unique in its approach to acceleration by focusing on startups that are ready to scale their businesses, as opposed to those at the proof of concept stage refining their pitches for seed funding.
Editor’s Note: Maciej Bulanda is the partnerships & communications manager at SmartHectar Innovations, a German innovation hub focused on agrifood and water. Together with entrepreneurship
Innova Memphis, a Tennessee-based venture firm, has announced the winner of its first $100,000 Row Crop Challenge powered by AgLaunch as part of the Farm
Alltech does not take any equity from the startups and instead focuses on helping them with their business development and route to market, a big challenge for agtech startups. Deadline to apply is December 31, 2018.
Indian AgriFood Startups Are Innovating to Give Consumers What They Want, and Fix a Broken Industry. Find out more in this first-ever India AgriFood Startup report.
The selected startups include packaging tech, marketplaces connecting farmers directly with retailers, innovative storage solutions and advanced analytics to optimize food supply chains.
SomaDetect, an agriculture technology startup that measures milk quality from every cow at milking, won the FoodBytes! New York Judges’ Choice Award. SomaDetect uses sensors
Clearly, our food system needs to change, radically and quickly, and we have to start at its foundation: the soil, writes Victor Friedberg.
Various organizations in the country are collaborating to make a concerted effort to promote Argentina’s strengths in agtech and convened at last month’s AgTech Week.
A non-profit consortium of venture funds, banks, corporations, universities, and foundations has launched a platform to invest in startups and projects addressing some of the food system’s major challenges.
Requiring new hires to have agriculture experience can be severely limiting, and potentially detrimental to the growth of the company, argues Maximillian Cunha.
Smoke & mirrors, not worth the extra cost: 50 US farmers speak out on carbon markets