Dutch startup Vivici has been awarded €12.5 million ($14.4 million) through the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator...
Agriculture
The first novel mycelium ingredient authorized for sale in the EU should hit the market in Q3,...
Artificial intelligence is already transforming biotechnology innovation in agrifood, but it isn’t useful everywhere, experts at the...
Nine out of 10 R&D execs in large CPG companies are using AI at work in some...
Rainbow Crops, a Belgium-based startup using AI and multiplex gene editing to improve yield, drought tolerance and...
Paris-based alt meat firm SWAP Food (formerly UMIAMI) has been placed into judicial liquidation and ceased activities...
[Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Faraday Earth.] Faraday Earth—a startup using non-thermal plasma...
Canada-based startup Picketa Systems has raised a CAD$2.1 million ($1.5 million) round to expand its portable crop nutrient...
Chunk Foods—an Israeli startup making whole cuts of plant-based meat using solid state fermentation—is on track to...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
Ice crystals can destroy crops. They are also a major headache for ice cream and other frozen foods,...
Public funding alone can’t fill the financing gap for long-term nature restoration projects that mitigate the impacts...
UPSIDE Foods has submitted a $50 million stalking horse bid for the US assets of distressed cultivated...
As weather shocks and geopolitical instability threaten botanical supply chains, growing high-value plant ingredients indoors in bioreactors...
Paul Shapiro is the CEO of The Better Meat Co. and author of Clean Meat: How Growing...
A few years ago, a widely cited study said climate change would make beer taste worse and...
Swiss methane abatement startup Sixteen44 is preparing to deploy its first operational field demo unit at a...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
French insect ag firm Innovafeed has raised a €51 million ($59 million) round and unveiled plans to...
[Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Tractor Junction.] India’s Tractor Junction, a startup enabling farmers...