Accelerating regenerative agriculture: meeting corporate commitments by 2030
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.
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.
UPSIDE Foods aims to break ground on a commercial-scale cultivated meat facility in Glenview, Illinois, later this year that will become operational in 2025.
Two or three years ago, investors were throwing bucketloads of cash at foodtech companies, particularly those in alt proteins. Not any more. So what’s changed?
Alt meat startup Meati Foods has embarked on its second round of layoffs in three months but says its confidence in its long-term prospects remains ‘unwavering.’
Like everything else, food is political. But becoming embroiled in the culture war isn’t good for alt meat, says the CEO of Impossible Foods.
Eat Just’s GOOD Meat cultivated meat division has been sued by a second engineering firm (CRB) over alleged non-payment of bills.
Like many startups, TurtleTree has made a strategic pivot, shifting from cell-cultured milk to producing high-value dairy bioactives via precision fermentation.