CRISPR-Cas9 technology—often billed as “programmable DNA scissors”—first hit the headlines in 2012. Since then, it has been...
Agriculture
New York-based Ecovative has raised $11 million in a funding round that includes $1.68 million in grant and loan...
Vertical farming has long been scolded for acting too much like a Silicon Valley SaaS industry and...
This week, fundraises included one for Grow Indigo—Indigo Ag’s smallholder farmer initiative— as well as those for...
[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company is AgFunder.] “Self-sufficiency” and “resiliency” are top of mind for Europe’s food and...
“It’s like Burning Man meets tech.” That’s how AgFunder founding partner Rob Leclerc, PhD, described the first...
Scaling bioprocesses is “notoriously slow and prohibitively expensive,” says Differential Bio CEO Christian Spier. “We’re here to...
Multiple startups are now making dairy proteins without cows, says Verley (previously Bon Vivant) cofounder Stéphane Mac...
[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Hoxton Farms.] Pork fat grown in a bioreactor...
[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Klim.] As agrifood corporates scramble to bring down...
Agrifood corporates McCain Foods, McDonald’s, and Waitrose & Partners will participate in a new regenerative farming pilot...
Rural families are leaving the bush because they can’t get childcare for their kids. Kirsty Starling pleads...
[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Lumi AI.] Lumi AI—a startup enabling users without...
[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Eion.] Eion—a startup with a patented approach to measuring CO2...
Israeli cultivated meat startup Aleph Farms has raised $29 million and expects to raise a further $10–15...
Israeli cultivated meat startup Aleph Farms has raised $29 million and expects to raise a further $10–15...
Pivoting from a career as a dancer to a dairy farmer, isn’t the most linear path. But...
Vertical farming company Oishii, best known for its premium strawberries and tomatoes, has acquired the “key IP...
Growers have leased or bought AgZen’s “feedback optimized” smart spraying systems for almost a million acres of...
FarmWise CEO Tjarko Leifer is optimistic as ever about robotics and automation technology in agriculture, despite this...