Dutch insect ag pioneer Protix is shifting its focus from Europe and North America to Asia, where...
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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...
With the notable exception of Monsanto’s billion-dollar acquisition of Climate Corp more than a decade ago, category-defining...
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...
Christie Lagally is the founder and CEO of Rebellyous Foods, a fast-growing startup that has developed a continuous...
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...
“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,...
– baCta—a French startup developing a strain engineering and bioproduction platform for industrial ingredients— has raised a...
– Bindbridge—a startup using targeted protein degradation to create more effective herbicides and other crop protection products—has...
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...
