Plus… Remy acquires food-waste app Kitch and Ever After Foods partners with Swiss manufacturing giant Bühler Group.
Also: India-based KiranaPro acquires grocery delivery service Joper.
Plus: Israeli startups sign three fresh foodtech partnerships.
Plus: Non-GMO project tackles ultra-processed foods with new labeling.
Plus: Mosa Meat and NewCulture request market authorizations for alt meat and cheese
Plus: Syngenta launches partnership to speed up R&D for biologicals
Lower commodity prices and high costs have created a tough environment for ag input companies such as FMC Corporation.
US states must address their ‘disproportionate’ focus on food waste recycling and focus on redistribution and repurposing solutions.
“The most regenerative brands were really receiving the least support,” says ReGen Brands cofounder Anthony Corsaro.
Plus: Ohalo teams with Florida farmers on “disease-resistant strawberries.”
Inari is currently working with seed company customers in demonstration plots to further showcase products.
For many foodtech startups 2024 has been a year of resilience and confidence, a time when they managed to win investors’ trust and secure new funding despite an ongoing credit crunch. Here are the top 15 foodtech deals of the year.
Ag biotechnologies and robotics are two segments that have shown significant resilience in 2024 and attracted large deals.
A flurry of startups offering AI-powered ag insights driven by long-range weather forecasting has emerged on the scene in recent years. But are they delivering actionable info for food & ag companies?
The past has shown that tariffs have often been more a tool for negotiation than anything else. Will 2025 be the same?
Plus…John Kempf’s Advancing Eco Agriculture nabbed a USDA rural development award.
Food manufacturers have been looking for viable egg replacements for years as prices yo-yo with every avian flu outbreak, says Onego Bio.
Plant-and-soil health startup Sound Agriculture will use the new funding to enter new markets and develop new products.
Agency, education, and myth-busting are key.
The firm did not provide any details of the settlement, but confirmed the case—which mirrors a class action filed in 2016 vs Quorn Foods—has been voluntarily dismissed.
