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

December 17, 2018 Louisa Burwood-Taylor Leave a 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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Future Food: Will We Have Kitchens in 2050? Climate Corp Founder Friedberg Shares His Vision of Future Food System

March 12, 2019 2:54 pm | By Louisa Burwood-Taylor

What will you be eating in 2050? How will it get to your table? How we grow, purchase, and eat our food is changing. New technologies are playing a key role in shaping that change. In this podcast, we speak to the people driving that future, from entrepreneurs and venture capital investors, to chef, farmers and food businesses. Welcome to Future Food! Read more →

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Evolving to Serve a Dynamic Agri-Food Market – What’s Next for Benson Hill?

March 7, 2019 1:46 pm | By Sponsored Post

Matt Crisp is cofounder and CEO of Benson Hill Biosystems, a crop genomics platform using computational biology and gene editing. Here he writes about the startup's evolution and transition to now serving a broad range of clients across the food system. Read more →

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AgriFood Tech in 2018: $17bn in Funding as Biotech, Robotics, Mega Asian Deals & Record Exit Create Breakout Year

March 7, 2019 6:18 pm | By Louisa Burwood-Taylor

AgriFood Tech startups — those innovating all along the food and ag supply chain — raised $16.9 billion in 2018, a 43% increase year-over-year growth, according to AgFunder’s latest investing report.

“Basic Farm Tech Tools Won’t Provide VCs the Exit Returns They Need, So Why Are VCs Still Investing in Them?”

March 13, 2019 4:15 pm | By Louisa Burwood-Taylor

Nolan Paul, Partner at Yamaha Motor Ventures and ex-head of R&D Strategy and Emerging Technology at leading produce grower Driscoll's is offering his thoughts on how the agritech sector is developing ahead of his speaking slot at World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco next month. Read more →

Frankly Speaking

Reclaiming the Promise of Food for Health

March 14, 2019 10:08 am | By Jim Flatt

The real power to endow people with fundamentally longer, healthier lives resides in the hands of the food industry, writes Jim Flatt. Read more →

Technology Corner

Digital Agtech Spotlight: Intterra is Integrating Farmers, Suppliers, Advisors, Traders, Bankers on 5m Acres

March 8, 2019 3:00 am | By Louisa Burwood-Taylor

Earlier this month, a Russian agtech startup called Intterra entered into a partnership with global agribusiness Syngenta to use its digital platform in Russia, connecting more than 100 farmers across 2 million hectares (nearly 5 million acres) of cropland in 2019. Read more →

Research & Data

Nearly One-Third of US Farmland is Managed or Co-Managed by Women Farmers

March 7, 2019 2:03 pm | By Lauren Manning

Networking groups may be a key way to help women landowners and farmers overcome persistent gender barriers particularly when it comes to adopting conservation practices, according to the new research ahead of International Women's Day. Read more →

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

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