With the notable exception of Monsanto’s billion-dollar acquisition of Climate Corp more than a decade ago, category-defining...
Agriculture
California Cultured—a startup growing flavanol-rich cocoa via plant cell culture—has completed its first successful production run in...
If 2025 was characterized by “chaos,” “uncertainty,” and “short-term decision making,” buckle up, say agrifoodtech investors quizzed...
AgriFood Signals: Syngenta ditches paraquat, TARGAN bags $100m for animal health, AeroFarms for sale
AgriFood Signals: Syngenta ditches paraquat, TARGAN bags $100m for animal health, AeroFarms for sale
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
Christie Lagally is the founder and CEO of Rebellyous Foods, a fast-growing startup that has developed a continuous...
“The innovation model inside large crop protection companies is broken for early-stage discovery,” says Matt Crisp, a...
The agrifoodtech community has lost one of its most dedicated builders. Rob Trice, founding partner of Better...
[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Amatera] – Amatera, a French startup using plant cell culture,...
– Bindbridge—a startup using targeted protein degradation to create more effective herbicides and other crop protection products—has...
– baCta—a French startup developing a strain engineering and bioproduction platform for industrial ingredients— has raised a...
A global infant formula recall sparked by a bacterial toxin that found its way into products made...
Speeding up R&D and lowering costs are two things the ag biotech sector greatly needs right now....
Achal Shah is VP, strategic development, at Monterey Holdings’ biotech division. He has spent over a decade advising and building...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
Latam sugar giant Magdalena is planning a 650,000-L precision fermentation facility next to its sugar mill in...
Ingredients giant Döhler has started commercial production in Europe of “SB1,” a high-protein postbiotic ingredient from biomass fermentation...
Chinese startup Inner Mongolia ZhongGu Junchuang Biotechnology Development Co., Ltd., has sealed a deal with the Xinjin...
Chinese drone maker DJI has filed an appeal* with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging a...
– Verley—one of a handful of players making a whey protein called beta-lactoglobulin (BLG) via precision fermentation—has...
The world’s most critical challenges—from food security and the energy transition to human health and climate resilience—are...