Can tiny biological production factories ever give petrochemicals or animals a run for their money? And do...
Agriculture
As resistance to legacy chemical herbicides spreads and biologicals struggle to scale, a new class of crop...
Several firms now use microbes to produce high value human milk oligosaccharides for infant formula. But could...
Were the conflict in the Persian Gulf to end tomorrow, global food prices could rise 12-18% above...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
Virtual fencing company Halter grabbed the agtech industry’s attention this week with a $220 million Series E...
South Korea this month became the latest country to unveil new plans around integrating AI into agriculture,...
[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Lumi AI.] In companies that rely on ERP...
Franco-German fermentation startup SMEY has launched Lipid Atlas—a searchable platform built on its proprietary database of 1,000+...
The insect ag industry is littered with the corpses of startups who found out the hard way...
Johan Jörgensen is the founder of Sweden Foodtech, a leading think tank on the future of food. The views expressed...
Dr. Amit Roy is chair of the Sasakawa Africa Association, and the former president and chief executive...
At Future Food-Tech in San Francisco last week, we spoke to key stakeholders on everything from crossing biomanufacturing’s...
Food industry veterans, including former CSOs at Mars and General Mills, are pooling capital through a new...
“I expect that in 2026 there will be the largest number of agtech and foodtech bankruptcies, restructurings,...
The message from investors at World Agri-Tech and Future Food-Tech in San Francisco last week was clear:...
Agtech circles have long recognized the need to standardize agricultural data, but to date, no one has...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
For much of agtech’s investment history, private equity (PE) has been a minor character. Venture capital built...
[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Klim.] Up to now, discussions around soil degradation...