Fungi-fueled foodtech co MycoTechnology has launched a Fermentation as a Service (FaaS) platform to help startups secure fermentation capacity in a tight market and enable the Colorado-based firm to generate additional revenue by sweating its assets.
AI is transforming everything from materials discovery and new product development to customer service. But what does it mean for nutrition and health?
While the world’s coffee giants know that by 2050, 50% less arable land may be suited to growing Arabica, most coffee drinkers are blissfully unaware that their cup of Morning Joe is under threat. So how is Atomo getting consumers excited about ‘beanless’ alternatives?
San Diego-based cellular aquaculture startup BlueNalu has raised $33.5m in a series B round from “new and existing investors.”
The Kawa Project upcycles coffee grounds to replace alkalized cocoa, while fellow 2023 GROW cohort member NTP Technologies enables on-farm, salt-free organic nitrogen fertilizer production.
Spoiler alert: Hangover ‘cures’ don’t work, says Dr. Zack Abbott. If you overindulged last night, Gatorade won’t stop you feeling like death this morning. But a shot of ZBiotics just might…
We all hope that big agrifood cos will meet their regenerative ag and C02 reduction goals by 2030. But ‘hope is not a strategy,’ says Chonex.
This week, agrifoodtech investors placed bets on autonomous harvesting tech, plant-based whole cuts, an AI supply chain analyst, and a platform connecting spray drone supplies with demand.
While the unit economics of cultivated chicken nuggets will likely be challenging for some time, making a high-value product such as Bluefin tuna in a bioreactor makes more sense, claims San Diego-based startup BlueNalu.
Aanika Biosciences makes invisible, edible tags from inactivated bacterial spores that can be digitally encoded with ‘DNA watermarks’ that can be read like barcodes with PCR tests.
Pow.bio, a Berkeley-based startup promising to change the economics of precision fermentation by enabling a continuous process, has raised a $9.5m series A round led by Re:Food and Thia Ventures.
AI analyst Cersi combines clients’ supplier data with ‘climate, economic, currency and political risk signals’ to create actionable insights for supply chain analysts and procurement teams at Fortune 500 companies in real time.
While spray drone uptake in agriculture has been hampered by high costs and low capacity, speed and payloads are increasing continuously, says Rantizo.
In the second segment of a three-part deep dive into AI in food, Peakbridge explores how artificial intelligence could transform the food supply chain.
What is Eat Just? A foodtech pioneer attempting to disrupt not one, but two huge addressable markets, or a “house of cards built on one individual’s ability to separate people from their money?”
The ITC says there is “a reasonable indication” that Chinese companies are dumping subsidized pea protein in the US ‘at less than fair value.’
Atinary Technologies, a Swiss-American startup deploying machine learning to accelerate the materials discovery process, has raised a $5m seed round led by AgFunder.
There’s a lot of talk, but rather less action on regenerative agriculture from some agrifood companies, says a new report from the FAIRR investor network.
Humble Growth—a New York based growth equity investment firm launched by three CPG veterans—has closed a $312m fund to invest in ‘disruptive’ consumer brands.
Given the “fragility of its financial situation and the weak consumption patterns in the meat alternatives category,” Beyond Meat faces an “existential threat,” say analysts at TD Cowen.
