Express interest in investing in Fund V. AgFunder is a top 100 VC, according to TIME and Statista. Is your business ready for AI analytics? Find out more here. This week… a convergence of capital, regulatory innovation, and food security concerns is creating a unique opportunity for agrifoodtech in the Middle East and North Africa, say Jenn Marston and Louisa Burwood-Taylor. Elsewhere, with the US ag spray drone landscape set for a shakeup as DJI is pushed out, Elaine Watson catches up with...
12 days ago • 3 min read
Express interest in investing in Fund V. AgFunder is a top 100 VC, according to TIME and Statista. Is your business ready for AI analytics? Find out more here. This week… What happens when a market built on foreign tech is told it must go domestic, almost overnight? Elaine Watson explores what’s next for the US ag drone sector. Elsewhere, as world leaders assemble in Davos at a time many are backsliding on ESG, Jenn Marston asks: What is planetary health, and why does it matter for the global...
19 days ago • 3 min read
Express interest in investing in Fund V. AgFunder is a top 100 VC, according to TIME and Statista. Is your business ready for AI analytics? Find out more here. This big news this week… A flurry of carbon removal megadeals from Microsoft, which teamed up with Indigo for soil carbon removal, Varaha for biochar, and Rubicon Carbon for forestry. Elsewhere… a cash injection for biopesticide startup SenseUP, which is tackling the twin challenges of cost and stability in RNAi-based crop protection....
26 days ago • 3 min read
Express interest in investing in Fund V. AgFunder is a top 100 VC, according to TIME and Statista. Is your business ready for AI analytics? Find out more here. The big news this week: New US Dietary Guidelines recommend a near-doubling of the current protein RDA and debut a redesigned food pyramid emphasizing animal-based sources. It's prompted a flurry of debate over how this squares with advice to limit saturated fat. "Highly processed" foods, meanwhile, are off the menu. What this means in...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Express interest in investing in Fund V. AgFunder is a top 100 VC, according to TIME and Statista. Is your business ready for AI analytics? Find out more here. 2025 was meant to be the year agrifoodtech found its footing again. Instead, it turned into something messier: a year of recalibration, retrenchment, and some very public reality checks. Funding fell further than many expected, some high-profile companies stumbled or collapsed, and long-standing assumptions about consumer demand,...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Express interest in investing in Fund V. AgFunder is a top 100 VC, according to TIME and Statista. Is your business ready for AI analytics? Find out more here. The big news this week: More grim news in the cultivated meat space as Meatable folds, but a glimmer of hope as fellow Dutch startup Mosa Meat raises fresh capital. Plant-based blues: Konscious Foods ceases operations Lights, camera, action: The AgFunderNews team rounds up the good, bad and ugly events in agrifoodtech in 2025, and...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Express interest in investing in Fund V. AgFunder is a top 100 VC, according to TIME and Statista. Is your business ready for AI analytics? Find out more here. The big news this week: "Animal-free dairy” pioneer Perfect Day says initial operations will begin at its new facility in India in the second half of 2026, while Meati turns off the lights at its production site in Thornton, Colorado. Regen ag: Reactions to USDA’s $700m program ranged from unbridled excitement to skepticism....
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Express interest in investing in Fund V. AgFunder is a top 100 VC, according to TIME and Statista. Is your business ready for AI analytics? Find out more here. The big news this week: Crunch time for cultivated meat as Believer Meats—the only player with a large-scale facility—calls it quits. It's premature to write the sector off before it's even out of the starting blocks, insists industry pioneer Dr. Mark Post, but firms must now recalibrate and "prioritize fundamentals over speed." US ag...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Express interest in investing in Fund V. AgFunder is a top 100 VC, according to TIME and Statista. Is your business ready for AI analytics? Find out more here Remarkable retraction: A "landmark" paper on glyphosate safety has been pulled—25 years after publication. It's riveting timing for Bayer’s Roundup Supreme Court appeal. Yet the trigger was a random reckoning for the scientific relic, reports Jenn Marston. 🤔 Too much "regenerative organic" certification could distract us from building a...
2 months ago • 2 min read
