From cocoa butter to palm oil, global supply chains for fats and oils are under mounting strain,...
Agriculture
[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company is AgFunder.] The term “ag robotics” frequently conjures images of automatic weeders and...
The Lod District Court in Israel has approved an application from cultivated meat startup Future Meat Technologies...
Meati’s property in Thornton, Colorado, has been seized by the Adams County sheriff over non-payment of almost...
Bactolife, a Danish startup on a mission to unlock a novel category of gut health ingredients with binding...
Biographica, a startup deploying AI and machine learning to accelerate and improve the crop trait development process...
Nutritionists have welcomed the emphasis on reducing consumption of highly processed foods in the new Dietary Guidelines...
Backing African agrifood startups based on their impact alone is not sustainable, according to Sherief Kesseba, managing...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
In what at times sounded like a group therapy session, foodtech leaders assembled at the Tufts Future...
Rob Leclerc, PhD, is founding partner at AgFunder, the venture capital firm and parent company of AgFunderNews. I’m...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech....
Pivot Bio—which pioneered the use of microbial nitrogen to help farmers reduce their reliance on synthetic fertilizer...
Pivot Bio—which pioneered the use of microbial nitrogen to help farmers reduce their reliance on synthetic fertilizer...
Thousands of grocery items in the US now bear the “Regenerative Organic Certified” label. But as momentum...
The global biostimulant market has hit $4.47 billion as it shifts from “opportunistic” growth to “more science-based...
New Zealand-based Ruminant BioTech, a startup behind what it claims is the most efficient livestock methane reduction solution...
New field trial data on Romaine lettuce shows that organic fertilizer made from microbes that eat waste...
New field trial data on Romaine lettuce shows that organic fertilizer made from microbes that eat waste...
Europe may be on a mission to become a global biomanufacturing powerhouse, but right now, the environment...