Connie Bowen is founding general partner at Farmhand Ventures, an early-stage impact investment firm that invests in agricultural...
Agriculture
Superbrewed Food—a startup best known for producing single-cell protein via biomass fermentation—has launched Thryvia, a low-dose “postbiotic”...
Gene editing is rapidly expanding beyond row crops into specialty crops, animals, and microbes, says Pairwise, which...
Meat alternatives maker Quorn Foods is beginning to emerge from a prolonged slump, with sales growing modestly...
dsm-firmenich is preparing to move its Protopia single-cell protein into industrial-scale production, with a 120,000-liter fermentation run...
Robots can now spray crops and zap weeds with centimeter-level precision. But ask one to pick oranges...
Robots can now spray crops and zap weeds with centimeter-level precision. But ask one to pick oranges...
[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Offbeast.] Baltimore-based Offbeast has developed a manufacturing process...
Millow—a Swedish startup producing minimally processed meat substitutes from oats and mycelium—has closed a €2 million ($2.3...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
Swiss plant-based meat firm Planted is planning to double production capacity at its facility in Memmingen, Germany,...
Is precision health tech a gamechanger that could move the needle on public health, or are its...
The long-anticipated proposed rule on closing the so-called GRAS loophole is less onerous than some had feared...
ClimateAi, a San Francisco-based startup utilizing long-range forecasting tools to help food and ag firms adapt to...
New proposals from the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) cracking down on foreign-made “military grade” drones could...
Vancouver-based Cultivated Food Labs is preparing to produce commercial-scale samples of a single-ingredient cocoa alternative from faba...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
BioScout—an Australian startup behind an AI-powered early warning system alerting farmers to fungal pathogens—has raised an A$6.75...
BioScout—an Australian startup behind an AI-powered early warning system alerting farmers to fungal pathogens—has raised an A$6.75...