If the bioeconomy is to scale, it needs a cheaper, more consistent source of fermentable sugars, says...
Agriculture
Water has always been one of agriculture’s most unpredictable inputs, and in 2026 it has also become...
The administrator for Australian insect waste management firm Goterra says it is “continuing to trade the business...
It’s fair to say that cultivated meat is now well past its honeymoon period after a string...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
Healthy conservation land does a vast deal more than store carbon, says Holdfast Collective executive director Greg...
Finnish startup Solar Foods has just secured €77.8 million ($89.2 million) in grants and loans from Business Finland...
“The key in our space is not to focus on creating new categories but focus on the...
Governments and businesses have more tools than ever for spotting vulnerabilities in the food system before they...
Dutch startup Vivici has been awarded €12.5 million ($14.4 million) through the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator...
The first novel mycelium ingredient authorized for sale in the EU should hit the market in Q3,...
Artificial intelligence is already transforming biotechnology innovation in agrifood, but it isn’t useful everywhere, experts at the...
Nine out of 10 R&D execs in large CPG companies are using AI at work in some...
Rainbow Crops, a Belgium-based startup using AI and multiplex gene editing to improve yield, drought tolerance and...
Paris-based alt meat firm SWAP Food (formerly UMIAMI) has been placed into judicial liquidation and ceased activities...
[Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Faraday Earth.] Faraday Earth—a startup using non-thermal plasma...
Canada-based startup Picketa Systems has raised a CAD$2.1 million ($1.5 million) round to expand its portable crop nutrient...
Chunk Foods—an Israeli startup making whole cuts of plant-based meat using solid state fermentation—is on track to...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
Ice crystals can destroy crops. They are also a major headache for ice cream and other frozen foods,...
