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EXCLUSIVE: Indian AgriFood Startups Raise $1.7bn in Venture Capital 2013 – 2017

December 17, 2018 Louisa Burwood-Taylor 1 Comment

Indian AgriFood Startups Are Innovating to Give Consumers What They Want, and Fix a Broken Industry. Find out more in this first-ever India AgriFood Startup report.

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Food Tech Innovators Need to Focus More on Global Nutrition

May 13, 2019 5:30 am | By Amy Beaudreault

Despite their ingenuity and a commendable focus on sustainability and food loss, entrepreneurs are missing a huge opportunity by not prioritizing nutrition, writes Amy Beaudreault. Read more →

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We’re only in the second innings of plant-based meats

May 9, 2019 6:27 pm | By Rob Leclerc

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Applications Open for Rockstart AgriFood’s Inaugural Accelerator Program

May 20, 2019 2:08 pm | By Sponsored Post

Every accelerator participant will receive a convertible note of €100k for participating in the program, and Rockstart can invest up-to €2 million in those it supports into later stage alongside investor partners. Read more →

Research & Data

Top 20 Retail & Restaurant Tech Startups in 2018

April 10, 2019 9:07 pm | By Lauren Manning

Retail and restaurant tech is a category of agrifood tech startups encompassing technologies and services aimed at making retail food businesses more profitable as well as improving shopper experience at the supermarket, in restaurants and other brick & mortar stores.

Animal AgTech, The Sector’s Awkward Uncle, Proudly Struts Its Stuff In San Fran

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Animal agtech is no innovation backwater as the inaugural ReThink summit focused on the sector proved last week in San Francisco. Read more →

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Future Food: A Moonshot Idea of Avocados? Nadia El Hadery from UK’s YFood Shares Her Food Tech Journey

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“What is foodtech? Isn’t that delivery? Delivery is so done!”

That’s what Nadia El Hadery remembers people saying back in 2015 when she held the first-ever London Food Tech Week.

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March 20, 2019 1:41 pm | By Lauren Manning

The duo is hoping to smash one of the biggest barriers to biologics adoption by providing farmers with a way to cultivate living microbial inputs on the farm that cannot survive in the current supply chain without cold storage. Read more →

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EXCLUSIVE: Indian AgriFood Startups Raise $1.7bn in Venture Capital 2013 – 2017

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