We caught up with Brett Begemann in London recently to talk glyphosate, Bayer’s venture activities, digital ag, gene editing and smallholder farmers.
A European family office led the round, which requested anonymity, with investment advisors Fonte Capital and EthicalFin both helping to bring in the latest tranche.
The UK startup just raised a £3.7 million ($4.77m) venture round for its climate modeling service aimed at decision-makers in business and government.
The UK startup has developed a smart kitchen tool that helps restaurants account for their food waste to see where they can improve.
Trigo’s technology uses computer vision and AI to see what shoppers put in their carts, charging their accounts when they walk out the door. Tesco invested just after its Series A round.
UK startup Hummingbird Technologies tells us it plans to expand into North America with its fresh injection of funds from BASF VC and TELUS Ventures.
Prodded by rising public concerns about climate change, the UK government wants its agricultural sector to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. This is a bold target and there isn’t enough heft in the right places, British investors have warned AFN.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the Tesco’s Finest of them all?
Ten agri-tech start-ups have been flinging 7-minute pitches at UK supermarket giant Tesco and its supply chain partners for most of Monday.
Britain’s leading vaccinology center, the Pirbright Institute, is on the global front lines of preventing the spread of all manner of livestock diseases including FMDV and African swine flu.
Beware, food tech dilettantes: Do not go charging headlong into London’s Future Food Tech event this October without a good game plan.
ImpactVision uses machine learning and hyperspectral imaging to detect the quality and composition of food products to a degree that has not been possible before.
Cannaray plans to hit the European market with medical marijuana and CBD products in the next few months with various “novel formulations” such as CBD-infused pet food.
KisanHub specializes in squeezing out actionable insights from raw, complex and unwieldy food supply chain data sets
Food multinationals aren’t offering enough in terms of protein alternatives, says investor network FAIRR – but alt-protein faces other challenges too.
Gousto is a bet on people still finding enough joy and value in cooking their own meals at home — even those in big cities starved for time or charged a king’s ransom for every inch of rental space, writes Richard Martyn-Hemphill.
A household name in the UK, the Grosvenor family can trace its ancestry back to William the Conqueror’s cousin and today Hugh Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster, is godfather to Prince George. No big deal then. But what’s the link to foodtech?
We’re excited to announce that Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS), a Scottish vertical farming tech provider, has raised £5.4 million in Series A funding. The round
A $100m Series B round for Germany’s Infarm soon eclipsed Ocado’s deal with JCB and 80 Acres. But has the UK eGrocer got a good deal?
Hank’s appearance on the British crop scene appears to be perfectly timed, with many UK farmers currently preparing for life without a steady flow of European Union (EU) fruit pickers and other seasonal workers.
As part of its 150th birthday celebrations this year, the British supermarket giant J Sainsbury has released its Future of Food Report, which chews over what our food systems will be like in 2025, then in 2050 — and finally, with an act of somewhat extraordinary ruminating — in 2169.
I’m drowning in new food! Can someone please restructure me out of this mess?