In the Mooood For Love: UK Startup Launches Tudder, a Tinder For Cows
Tudder is a new swipe-led matchmaking app, helping farm animals across the UK find breeding partners in the quest for moo love.
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Food Tech Startup Spotlight: Noluma’s Innovative Packaging is Reducing Risk of Milk Degradation
Noluma has developed a unique technology that measures the light protection of packaging as a function of its effects on the product contents by placing a marker ingredient in a solution inside a test package, which is then exposed to intense light.
TechAccel and Donald Danforth Center Launch RNAissance to Create Environmentally-Friendly Pesticides
TechAccel, the venture development organization, and Donald Danforth Center for Life Sciences, the leading plant science research institute, have created a new startup called RNAissance.
Maersk Invests in ImpactVision’s “Game-Changing” Hyperspectral Imaging Tech for Food System
"Several departments and colleagues within Maersk will look forward to exploring opportunities with ImpactVision," Peter Jorgensen, venture partner at Maersk told AgFunderNews.
FDA Makes Move Towards Clearing Up Food Tech Regulation with New Action Plan
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has come under fire for not providing more guidelines to food tech companies on what is and what is not allowed.
Taranis Lands $20m Series B to Expand Imagery Analytics Platform for Farmers
Israeli imagery analytics for ag platform Taranis has closed a $20 million Series B round of funding led by Viola Ventures, an Israeli venture firm making its first investment into agtech.
Bear Flag Robotics Raises $3.5m Seed Round to Automate Common Tasks on the Farm
The round takes Bear Flag’s total funding efforts to $4.5 million after it took part in the Y Combinator accelerator and raised a pre-seed round in the fall of 2017.
Embracing Digital Agriculture: Coffee’s Fourth Wave?
Shuchi Nijhawan, VP of agriculture at Eka, writes about the adoption of digital agriculture in the coffee industry, particularly in India.
DouxMatok Partners with Europe’s Largest Sugar Producer to Commercialize Sugar Reduction Tech
Israeli sugar reduction technology DouxMatok has landed a partnership with Europe’s largest sugar producer Südzucker, and a similar US announcement is on the way
The Revolution in Food and Biomass Production Will See Co2 Used to Make Proteins
Move over insects; carbon dioxide can now be used to make proteins and fatty acids, according to Michael Carus, founder of the nova-Institute.
Should You Be Using CRISPR for Your Ag Business?
Management teams in plant genetics companies have likely been asked by at least one well-intending board member: “Are we using CRISPR? I sat next to this guy on the plane and he said that CRISPR will change everything," writes Vonnie Estes.
Bayer, Netafim, Swiss Re, and IFC Team-Up to Bring New Tech to Smallholders
A new coalition of agriculture and finance industry players is working together to find new ways to get technology into the hand of smallholders farmers
Startup Using Deep Learning to Fight Food Waste Raises $2m Seed Round
After photographing strawberries, the AgShift app tells the user what the percentage of red is in the photo, which speaks to how much shelf life is left.
Micropep Raises €4m Series A for miRNA-based Crop Enhancement
Micropep Technologies, a French ag biotechnology company has raised a €4 million ($4.94 million) Series A round of funding. Micropep is developing crop enhancement products using micro-RNA or miRNA.
CRISPR Startup Inscripta Raises $55.5m Series C to Democratize Gene-Editing
Inscripta is building a business based on selling gene-editing tools, such as instruments, reagents, and software, and in order to create a market for these tools, the company is giving away CRISPR enzymes for free.
Israel’s Saturas Raises $4m Series A to Commercialize Precision Irrigation Tech
After several successful trials in citrus, apple, and almond orchards in Spain and Israel, Saturas cofounder and CEO Anat Halgoa Solomon told AgFunderNews that will the company use the new funds to bring its first products to market along with continuing development of a modified version of the company’s original sensor for use on vineyards.
TechAccel Backs Chloroplast Engineering Startup Plastomics
Plastomics is working to shorten the pipeline for developing new seeds with multiple transgenic traits, increasing the speed and lowering the cost of designing new seeds using chloroplast engineering.
Novolyze Raises €2.2m Seed Round to Prevent Foodborne Illness with Microbes
Novolyze develops and manufactures microorganisms to improve food safety validation processes for food processors and manufacturers.
The Growing Impact of Hyperspectral Imagery in AgriFood Tech
With the price of hyperspectral cameras falling fast, the new imagery on the block is poised to have a big impact on food and agriculture among other industries.
EXCLUSIVE: VanderSat Comes out of Stealth with Satellite Data for Ag Unhindered by Cloud Cover
VanderSat, which joins a growing number of remote sensing startups targeting the agriculture sector, is taking a different approach to others, namely in its use of microwave sensors.