Kentucky’s AppHarvest will join the NASDAQ through a merger with special-purpose vehicle Novus Capital, while its new 60-acre facility prepares for launch.
Despite ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ drives, single use of petroleum-based plastic has grown 5x since 1980 – with a mere 5% recycled. Plastic pollution remains a problem in need of a solution.
Oakland-based TerViva and Farmer Mac want to help farmers with the cost of cultivating pongamia, which takes several years to become productive.
Iowan companies are bringing new ideas to market faster than ever before thanks to collaborations with startups, farmers, and universities.
The US-based project’s co-founders are creating a networking space for indoor growers, while also aggregating data to establish much needed benchmarks.
The Bakersfield-based startup aims to improve the most time-consuming, labor-intensive, and riskiest part of the grape harvest: moving fruit to the end of the rows.
The San Francisco-based startup aims to streamline the food supply chain and reduce food waste by improving digital linkages between producers, distributors, and retailers.
The Los Angeles-based startup has created a farm data API with the goal of helping agrifoodtech developers reduce data siloing and boost innovation.
FBN members can now receive a farm-level sustainability score for their grain products and capture premiums for using regenreative ag practices.
Atomo! co-founder Jarret Stopforth happens to have a DIY food science lab in his garage. While some people build cars on their weekends, Jarret builds food.
Regenerative ag may be a hot topic, but it won’t scale without consumer demand, says Wholesome Meats and Soilworks co-founder Lew Moorman.
BlackRock recently relaunched its BGF World Agriculture vehicle as the more broadly themed, sustainability-focused BGF Nutrition Fund.
Brightseed will use the fresh funding to commercialize phytonutrients it has discovered using its AI-powered Forager technology.
Colorado-based Bond Pet Foods just secured bridge financing to take its total funding to date to $2 million.
Prime Impact Fund is entering the world of agtech with the goal of wringing out emissions that are unlikely to be addressed by today’s class of startups.
Indigo says incoming CEO Ron Hovsepian, a partner at its investor Flagship Pioneering, is a “seasoned operational leader rightly suited to lead […] at this critical stage of maturation.”
As the restaurant industry turns to tech amid Covid-19, startups are landing investment – and have a unique opportunity to accelerate tech adoption.
FTW Ventures has just unveiled a new $4 million fund, with food and ag biosciences and automation among the areas it’s targeting for investment.
Israel’s SupPlant and US-based ClimaCell have joined forces to make precision ag insights more accessible to low-income farmers in emerging markets.
A new bill would task the USDA with creating a certification for ag carbon credit markets – but is government involvement a good thing?
