Dr. Amit Roy is chair of the Sasakawa Africa Association, and the former president and chief executive...
Agriculture
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...
Despite constant news of multi-billion dollar funding rounds by a handful of AI companies, the rest of...
From new modes of action in crop protection to fleets of physical AI agents, founders at World...
By now, we’ve rehashed agrifoodtech’s post-2021 correction so many times we’ve run out of ways to describe...
Multiple simultaneous pressures on the food system are straining traditional R&D models in agriculture as they try...
Dutch insect ag pioneer Protix is shifting its focus from Europe and North America to Asia, where...
Danish gas fermentation firm Unibio is building what it claims will be the “world’s largest single-cell protein...
Sponsors of the upcoming Food Tech Congress in Barcelona are demanding their money back as it becomes...
AgZen—the startup behind a “feedback optimized” smart spraying system enabling farmers to make 30-50% cuts in chemical inputs...
UK-based plant biotech company Tropic has raised a $105 million Series C round to support the rollout...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
A visual inspection of crops may suggest all is well. A tissue sample analyzed with spectroscopy may...