
Why Impact Investor Bridges Ventures Invested in Vegetarian Express
This is Bridges Ventures’ second-ever food-related investment and the first targeting an environmental impact outcome.
This is Bridges Ventures’ second-ever food-related investment and the first targeting an environmental impact outcome.
Last week, Indoor Ag-Con returned to New York, where presentations and panel discussions focused on looking to the future of the growing industry, writes Pieter De Smedt from Urban Crops.
Tyson’s investment comes just a couple of weeks after an investor coalition worth over $1.2 trillion put pressure on some leading food companies to incorporate more plant-based meat alternatives into their supply chains and consumer products.
Agriculture technology has emerged as a new destination for investors, but it still lacks definition. Here are five ways to think about it.
A 40-strong investor coalition including Swedish state pension funds is putting pressure on the world’s largest food companies to diversify their protein offerings into more plant-based alternatives.
Better yields, the opportunity to harvest more times a year and higher retail prices are making indoor farming more productive than conventional outdoor operations, according to a new report from data software company Agrilyst.
Ahead of International BioFest2016 in October, AusBiotech gives us a snapshot of how some of its members and partners are innovating in the biofuel space.
A disturbing video of Tyson employees kicking, punching, throwing, and killing chickens at a “cage-free” facility has been released by an animal rights group. Also this week, the road to federal cannabis legalization was blocked by the DEA.
Public and philanthropic investors provide the bulk of funding for initiative trying to reverse or prevent land degradation globally, but there’s a role for private investors too, argues Renee Cheung, founder of Bonterra Partners.
AgFunderNews caught up with the CEO of Indigo Agriculture, to find out more about the company’s blockbuster round of funding and future plans.
Cultivation Capital Leads $1.2m Round in Data Analytics Startup S4, New Wave Foods Closes Seed Round for Seafood Alternative, and Innit Raises $18m for Connected Food Platform in this week’s Fundings-in-Brief.
Indigo has raised $100 million in Series C funding as it launches its first commercial product, a microbial seed coating promoting water efficiency in cotton.
New Wave Foods CEO is confident about the potential for her shrimp alternative to sustainably disrupt the conventional shrimp market at affordable prices.
Dairy-free milk maker Ripple Foods raised its Series B funding round from a who’s who in venture capital, while a microbiome testing company Trace Genomics raised $4m.
Ahead of New Harvest’s conference on the emerging science next week, Erin Kim sheds light on some of the key production methods behind cellular agriculture.
Monsanto and TargetGene Biotechnologies, a genome-editing company using RNA-guided gene-editing techniques, have entered into a license agreement granting Monsanto an exclusive license to TargetGene’s proprietary “T∙GEE” (Genome Editing Engine) platform.
Cellular agriculture is the process of cultivating meat, eggs, and leather in cell culture rather than raising and slaughtering livestock.
We caught up with Ryan Rakeshaw, venture principal at MGV, to hear more about the Resson investment.
Despite recent average rainfall, California continues to cope with water scarcity. The state may be eyeing water tech to help get its farmers back afloat.
The startup combines natural ingredients and patented biochemistry with traditional cheese- and dairy-making techniques to create dairy alternatives.