Tag: traceability

World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit

October 20, 2020

The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit takes place each year in London, San Francisco and São Paulo . With more than 41 countries represented in London

Dairy supply chain software maker Dairy.com purchases Orbis to up traceability offering

June 23, 2020

The dairy SaaS giant has positioned itself as the digital backbone of the dairy manufacturing supply chain since it launched in 2000.

Startup Spotlight: Farmer’s Hive tackles farm management and food traceability all in one

May 11, 2020

There are many farm management software platforms trying to help farmers address long-standing problems like labor shortages and team communication even before the global Covid-19 pandemic added extra pressure. Farmer’s Hive is a new kid on the block.

Strella Biotech scores $3.3m seed round co-led by Yamaha to track ripeness with IoT

May 6, 2020

The early-stage startup wants to help packers, and eventually retailers, better manage their inventories so that consumers never have to suffer overripe fruit again.

EXCLUSIVE: Provision Analytics raises $3.2m to expand food safety data platform

April 14, 2020

For the Canadian startup, traceability and food safety are about finding correlations across the food system – and not just telling a product’s story.

DiMuto scores funding to take its traceability tech global

March 30, 2020

The Singaporean startup’s blockchain platform offers enhanced supply chain visibility to the fruit industry – and it has Latin America in its sights.

Twelve years on from China’s melamine milk scandal, digitalization is driving food safety

March 25, 2020

Here’s how tech firms are working to prevent repeats of deadly food safety incidents like 2008’s adulterated infant formula scandal in China and 2018’s E. coli outbreak in the US.

GrainChain scores $5m more from Overstock.com’s blockchain-focused Medici Ventures

March 6, 2020

“GrainChain has quietly become one of the most successful blockchain-meets-agriculture platforms on the market by allowing more and more farmers to receive fair value and prompt payment for their crops, while also selling to a larger pool of buyers,” said Overstock CEO and Medici Ventures president Jonathan Johnson

AFN introduces… Intello Labs, the computer visionaries of food quality control

February 27, 2020

IntelloLabs is working to solve the logistical and potentially brand-busting challenge of quality control in the high-value crops industry using computer vision.

Opinion: 50 Shades of Food Transparency

February 24, 2020

Technology is helping food companies connect consumers to their food but it’s also creating new opportunities to mislead them. Where do we draw the line between truth and questionable marketing?

India’s answer to vertical farming raises $5.5m Series A

February 13, 2020

“Vertical farming is not especially relevant in India,” says Omnivore’s Mark Kahn, but its equivalent is a company that galvanizes and coordinates the tens of thousands of already existing greenhouses dotted on the outskirts of India’s major cities, like Clover.

SynBio startup Carverr raises $1.9m for microbe-based traceability tech

November 21, 2019

The Brooklyn-based startup will use the funding to test its microbial traceability prototype in a number of pilot projects starting next year.

China International Food Safety & Quality (CIFSQ) Conference

October 30, 2019

Good health starts with safe food and the latest innovations for preventing contamination are explored at the annual CIFSQ Conference. Each year up to 1,000

AFN introduces… SinGENE and Back of the Yards algae sciences

October 21, 2019

We speak to two up and coming startups in the GROW accelerator’s latest cohort, as they tackle contemporary problems with age-old solutions.

GrainChain uses Blockchain to link up Honduras’ disjointed coffee industry

September 25, 2019

GrainChain is linking up Honduras’ disjointed coffee supply chain with blockchain. We speak to its CEO on how it helps coffee’s journey from plant to mug.

Dairy behemoth taps Norwegian foodtech to keep baby formula safe in China

September 5, 2019

One of the world’s largest dairy companies, FrieslandCampina, has tapped Norwegian company Kezzler to provide global traceability services for its top baby formula brand, FRISO.

Tariq Farid is taking edibles back with launch of new CBD business focused on traceability

August 6, 2019

Tariq Farid has been in the edible space for 20 years, but it’s not what you think.

Startup Europe Smart Agrifood Summit

June 20, 2019

Startup Europe Smart Agrifood Summit, an industry leading exhibition in creating innovative ecosystems in the European and Global Agrifood sector. The cities digital transformation is

How a Track & Trace Tech Startup is Fighting Crop Input Fraud in Ghana

April 23, 2019

QualiTrace, a young Ghanaian startup providing a track & trace solution for agrochemical manufacturers and farmers, is trying to fight this battle that stems from the lack of proper government regulation on imports of agrochemicals.

Thiel-Backed Breakout Ventures Invests in Phylagen $14m Series A with Cultivian, AgFunder For Microbe-Based Traceability

February 14, 2019

Microbiome data analytics company Phylagen has raised a $14 million Series A round led by Peter Thiel-backed Breakout Ventures, agrifood tech venture pioneer Cultivian Sandbox, supply