Plantible Foods—a startup extracting RuBisCO, a highly-functional protein from fast-growing aquatic plant lemna (duckweed)—has raised $35 million in...
Agriculture
Beyond Meat’s positive sales in international retail were offset by continued declines across the rest of the...
[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Black Sheep Foods] Black Sheep Foods—a startup formed...
Economics often outweigh environmental concerns for consumers when it comes to regenerative agriculture, and food companies must...
San Francisco-based Hyfé is entering negotiations for its first commercial deployment, marking the latest stage in an...
Israeli cultivated meat startup Aleph Farms has secured the green light from regulators to market its thin...
Spanish startup InsectBiotech has raised €7.2 million ($8.3 million) to build a new facility in Andalusia using...
US-based indoor farming startup 80 Acres Farms will cease operations, AgFunderNews has learned. Cofounder and CEO Mike Zelkind...
France- and US-based ag biotech company Micropep is closer to commercializing its peptide-based biofungicide Promisin after making...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
Plants already have the tools to respond to a range of biotic and abiotic threats. The problem,...
“Innovation has to start with listening,” says Dr. William Aderholdt, executive director of US-based agtech innovation hub...
Natural astaxanthin—a potent antioxidant that sells for thousands of dollars per kilo—has historically been produced by photosynthetic...
Athian has sold the first inset credits generated by a Brazilian beef project following a pilot with...
Quercus Biosolutions, an ag biotech startup using AI to create a new category of crop protection products...
Big Food is treading the same road Big Tobacco took in the past when it comes to...
Gas fermentation specialist Calysta—which operates a demo-scale plant making single-cell protein for aquaculture and petfood markets from...
After two years focusing on managing its existing portfolio, Cargill Ventures is gearing up for renewed activity....
Gabe Youtsey is the chief innovation officer at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources. The...
Corporate commitments to regenerative agriculture are becoming more common, but evidence of measurable outcomes is not keeping...
