Chinese drone maker DJI says the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) recent move to block new foreign-made drones...
Agriculture
“Everybody selling and marketing to farmers suffers from the same problem,” says CamoAg founder Corbett Kull. In...
Last quarter, I argued that Europe’s rise to match the US in agrifoodtech funding and to lead...
Appetronix, a Toronto-based startup developing fully automated robot kitchens in high-traffic locations from airports to universities, has...
Better soil, higher-quality crops, and healthier people are all frequently listed as benefits of regenerative agriculture, but...
Fermeate—a California-based startup using light to turbocharge cell productivity in biomanufacturing—has closed a $2 million seed round...
Invasive Species Corporation (ISC) is developing a new class of bioherbicides harnessing metabolite mixtures with broad-spectrum activity...
Two major challenges in agrifoodtech dominate discussions right now: the flatlining of venture capital in the space...
AgriFood Signals: USDA and Palantir deal, fresh funding for Afresh, Amazon’s $30m carbon credit deal
AgriFood Signals: USDA and Palantir deal, fresh funding for Afresh, Amazon’s $30m carbon credit deal
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
Lithuanian startup Pentasweet has started building a facility in Vilnius that will produce commercial quantities of brazzein,...
As anyone that has attempted to incorporate a large amount of pea protein into a beverage will...
More and more, agrifood corporates are investing in regenerative agriculture not simply for environmental reasons but to...
Reports this month that Microsoft would pause its carbon removal activities set off a fresh set of...
Funding for fermentation startups in alt protein—spanning everything from mycoprotein to recombinant casein—fell from $651 million in...
US retail sales of plant-based meat and dairy continued their precipitous decline in 2025, while foodservice presented...
[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Solinftec] Solinftec now has over 300 solar-powered robots to...
Editor’s note: Tim Bucher is the CEO and co-founder of Agtonomy, a physical AI company that partners...
Swiss startup Planetary has raised a CHF 16 million ($20 million) Series A equity financing round, supplemented...
Robotic weeders are evolving quickly. Some zap weeds with lasers, hot oil or electricity, others target them...
David Protein—which launched in 2024 and predicts revenues “north of $300 million” in 2026—has increased manufacturing capacity...
