Tag: supply chain

Brief: Sofina Ventures & Temasek lead $60m round for ag marketplace DeHaat

December 1, 2022

DeHaat says the Series E round will help the company reach break-even profitability within the next 12 months.

NEW REPORT: Indian agrifoodtech startups net record-breaking $4.6bn in fiscal 2022 year

November 30, 2022

Investment in farm technologies was particularly buoyant, increasing 185% year-on-year and accounting for 60% of the total number of deals closed.

Brief: Vertical farm network InFarm to lay off ‘more than half’ of workforce, downsize operations

November 29, 2022

Berlin, Germany-based Infarm cites skyrocketing energy prices and the wider downturn as reasons for these latest cuts for indoor farming.

FAIRR Q&A: Agrifood corporates must ‘play much stronger role’ in advancing alt-protein and tackling supply chain emissions

November 29, 2022

Roughly 94% of agrifood corporates’ total emissions lie in their supply chain; 33% of those are linked to animal agriculture.

Checking on Danone’s climate promises: 14,000 tons of carbon captured but ‘more work is needed’

November 24, 2022

Danone North America now sources 2.4 billion pounds of its dairy milk from its regenerative ag program, representing 75% of its milk sourcing.

Ramani nets $32m in Series A led by New York VC to digitize Africa’s CPG supply chains

November 23, 2022

The segmented and unstructured nature of Africa’s food and FMCG supply chains calls for interventions, which investors seem to be leaning into.

Data snapshot: Agribusiness Marketplaces poised to ‘positively impact’ Asia-Pacific’s smallholder farmers

November 23, 2022

The category’s strong fundraising performance underscores its potential to positively impact Asia-Pacific, especially when it comes to smallholder farmers.

Data snapshot: With less eGrocery, late-stage agrifoodtech deals lose dominance in Asia-Pacific

November 16, 2022

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.

Infarm’s indoor wheat suggests we re-examine the realities of vertically-farmed commodities

November 15, 2022

War and supply chain issues make indoor wheat an attractive concept. Can the vertical farming industry manage to grow that crop at scale?

Good Food Innovation Fund’s first cohort gets $1m to make better food accessible to Africans

November 2, 2022

The chosen six startups aim to bring regenerative, nutritious, and sustainably and equitably produced food to Sub-Saharan Africa.

Brief: TouchBistro raises $110m for its one-stop-shop restaurant management platform

November 1, 2022

The new funding will enable TouchBistro to expand its restaurant management platform into more restaurants, North America and beyond.

Meet the Founder: High Time Foods on how to make a plant-based meat product stand out from the masses

October 28, 2022

Co-founder Aakash Shah discusses what his company is doing to give its shelf-stable plant-based meat product a truly global appeal.

It’s time for a Marshall Plan for food

October 25, 2022

Redrawing the rules of the food system could support close to 50 billion people globally and upend the geopolitical side effects of the Green Revolution.

NEW REPORT: Asia-Pacific agrifoodtech startup funding defies global decline in 2022

October 25, 2022

Investors poured a record-breaking $15.2 billion into Asia-Pacific agrifoodtech startups in 2021; in 2022, the region continues to break records.

Meet the founder: Ahmed Umar on how his fintech platform addresses food security for Nigerians

October 21, 2022

FoodInsure’s Ahmed Umar wants to offer a path to food savings insurance while connecting Nigerians with smallholder farmers and cheaper food prices.

“This is not social media, this is not the internet, this is not gaming.” But agtech investors aren’t going anywhere

October 20, 2022

At this year’s AgTech NEXT event in St. Louis, Missouri, panelists discussed the different ways to deal with “a food system in crisis.”

Data snapshot: Climate-related agrifoodtech in majority of upstream African investment, but more funding needed

October 19, 2022

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.

Iowans fight food insecurity with innovative approaches from lab to field to table

October 14, 2022

As the World Food Prize celebrates the work of 2022 laureate Dr. Rosenzweig and leaders from around the globe convene to discuss the challenges and opportunities of feeding a fragile world, the innovators, farmers and leaders in America’s Cultivation Corridor remain committed to fighting hunger and food insecurity at every link in the food chain.