Chipotle hopes new $50m fund will continue its ‘technological transformation’
Cultivate Next will invest in early-stage restaurant tech that can enhance both guest and employee experiences.
Cultivate Next will invest in early-stage restaurant tech that can enhance both guest and employee experiences.
The Cargill-MacMillan family, which owns about 87% of Cargill, has seen its fortunes soar as global commodity prices hit all-time highs against a backdrop of pandemic, war, and economic uncertainty.
Members of the agrifoodtech community issue a joint “call to arms” for innovation to mitigate the fertilizer crisis – and a looming food crisis – invoked by the war in Ukraine.
Square Roots will leverage URB-E’s fleet of last-mile, small electric vehicles to deliver vertically-grown greens faster and cheaper than traditional vans.
Jackie Jones and Rachel Downing are two of the major forces behind CEA company Amplified Ag and its mission to evolve container farming.
More than half of survey respondents said grocery stores must improve their sustainability claims and avoid greenwashing.
The year-long program is designed to prime Africa’s agrifoodtech VC pipeline by supporting early-stage startups with investment and business readiness.
The Dakar-based startup is boosting linkages between smallholder farmers and small-scale vendors in Senegal’s informal retail sector.
Food retailers need technologies that can automate the supply chain to minimize disruptions and optimize inventory management.
Fresh off its $110 million funding round, Nigeria’s TradeDepot is pushing the boundaries of digitalization and financing for Africa’s small food businesses and retailers.
The Riyadh-based B2B marketplace said it’ll use the Series A funds for geographical expansion, and to launch new products and verticals.
Chicago-based impact investment fund VestedWorld has supported more than 20 African startups addressing critical social and market needs, like improving cost and value chain for food.
Full Harvest’s recent Series B fundraise will go towards accelerating data insights for sellers and buyers of surplus and imperfect food.
The Food Security Fund will be used to finance 250,000 hectares of commercial and smallholder farmland in Nigeria for climate-smart production.
The UK startup will use its insect farms to turn food waste from Morrisons supermarkets into feed for hens to produce ‘carbon-neutral’ eggs.
Symbotic said it’ll use the proceeds to “accelerate its growth plans” and “efficiently deliver on its contracted backlog.”
The Lagos-based startup is aiming to make the country’s food supply chain much more predictable for stakeholders by using data, drivers, and loans.
Trella, Capiter, and MaxAB are among dozens of startups that have raised funding of late to overhaul Egypt’s fragmented and inefficient B2B logistics space.
The Series A round led by Collaborative Fund will allow the Boston-based startup to enhance its ‘liquidation platform’ that helps CPG brands reduce food waste.
The New York-based startup will use the Series A funding to scale up its platform that provides traceability and food preservation tools in then form of spray-on microbes.