“We’re at the precipice of a mass startup extinction,” warn the founders of now-defunct cultivated meat firm SCiFi Foods. But you can plan for a “graceful exit.”
Metablify officially launched this week out of the Danforth Technology Company, a subsidiary of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.
US retail sales of refrigerated alt meat fell 22.8% year-over-year in September, while sales of frozen products fell just 1.3% over the same period, according to new data from Circana.
Series D funding will go to a few different areas, including expanding availability of the LaserWeeder into new geographies.
Crude pongamia oil can be converted into biodiesel, renewable diesel, or sustainable aviation fuel, says Terviva founder and CEO Naveen Sikka.
Farm automation faces a trust and manufacturing barrier that investment money alone cannot overcome.
“Now we’ve got a much more structured approach and good clarity on our verticals (gene editing, ag biologicals, tech platforms, decision science), we feel comfortable making investments early,” says Dr. Tom Greene.
The JackFruit Company is growing at a double digit pace at a time when many other players in the alt meat segment are struggling, says founder and CEO Annie Ryu.
After closing a $40 million Series B, Micropep now looks to bring its crop protection products based on micropeptides to market.
Funding will help further build out the Agrospheres platform, which manufactures, encapsulates and delivers biological pesticides.
Ahead of FIRA USA, agtech experts weigh in on the state of investment in ag robotics and automation, and what to do next.
Eion calculates the carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere through its mineral weathering process by measuring trace elements in the soil such as magnesium and nickel.
The team at DIAL Ventures discuss creating companies based on current needs in agriculture, not “solutions looking for problems.”
Consumer support for regenerative agriculture goes down when they are asked to shoulder the extra cost of doing it, say Purdue researchers.
New funds will go towards commercializing Catalera products and building out the product development pipeline.
SOLASTA Bio says its biopeptide products perform “as effective or better than standard insecticides.”
Judge concludes that the FDA “acted arbitrarily and capriciously” in treating tagatose, a non-glycemic, non-cariogenic, rare sugar, differently to fellow sweetener allulose on US food labels.
“The product is fantastic,” says Phil Graves, who took the helm in February. “But it was clear when I joined that the business needed to make some strategic shifts and needed to make them quickly.”
While burping ruminants are one of the leading sources of methane emissions, surprisingly small sums—just $233m according to AgFunder data—have been pumped into startups tackling the problem over the past decade.
Asked whether he would remain in the CEO role, founder Dr. Oliver Zahn said: “TBD. In line with the commercial trajectory, we will be on the lookout for a strong commercial lead at the exec level, so I can focus on science and vision.”
