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: Offbeast unveiled new tech to make hybrid whole cut meats, and long-range forecasting firm ClimateAi ceased operations, two years after ag intelligence platform Gro Intelligence called it quits. Elsewhere, we delve into FDA's long-awaited proposal to close the so-called GRAS loophole, which experts say is less onerous than...
12 days 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. This week: Indoor ag heavyweight 80 Acres Farms throws in the towel, Plantible bags $35m to scale up RuBisCO production, and Black Sheep Foods bets on ‘TVP 2.0’ as hybrid meat gathers pace. Elsewhere, InsectBiotech nets new funds to build an insect ag operation fueled by olive pomace. Plus: Early warning pathogen detection: BioScout...
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 week: Quercus Biosolutions—a crop protection startup using AI to create designer proteins to tackle resistant weeds—raised a $5m seed round and gas fermentation specialist Calysta is urgently seeking new funds after its joint venture partner said it was ending financial support. Elsewhere, we caught up with Erin VanLanduit, head...
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. This week: UK-based Moa Technology raises $30m to advance its discovery platform for novel modes of action in weed management, and gene-editing startup Phytoform works with top seed companies to improve corn genetics. Elsewhere, a proposed rule to eliminate the self-GRAS pathway for food ingredients—which had been expected in the...
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. This week: Mancozeb has been the backbone of fungicide resistance management for 60 years, but now it's becoming another crop-protection controversy. Matt Crisp and the team at Ichor Ag explain how a new class of chemistry they've developed could solve both problems at once. Plus: 'Practical autonomy': Leaps By Bayer invests in Sabanto...
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. This week: Despite steady growth over the last year, there's still a whole lotta work to do educating farmers and investors on biological inputs, according to Dr. Pam Marrone at the recent Salinas Biological Summit in California. Elsewhere, agrifood corporates have no lack of ambition around regenerative agriculture. Now they need the...
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. This week: Elaine caught up with ZBiotics founder Zack Abbott on the latest in GM probiotics and Jenn spoke to Stenon as the firm secured $20.5m to measure plant-available nitrogen directly in the field. Elsewhere, farmers, startups, and others weighed in on the good, bad, and "hollow" aspects of the newly signed executive order to...
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. This week: It’s fair to say that cultivated meat is now well past its honeymoon period after a string of high-profile failures. But is there light at the end of the tunnel, or is one of agrifoodtech’s biggest moonshots destined for the dustbin of history before it’s even out of the starting blocks? Elsewhere, Liberation Bioindustries...
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. This week: Green ammonia startup Faraday Earth reckons its system could put it within striking distance of fossil fuel-derived gray ammonia, the backbone of most nitrogen-based fertilizers. Elsewhere, mixed fortunes in the whole cut alt meat space: French startup SWAP Food called it quits but Israel's Chunk Foods is eyeing...
2 months ago • 4 min read
