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, UPSIDE Foods terminated its $50 million bid for Believer Meats' US cultivated meat facility but says it “remains interested” in the site. Elsewhere, TerraBlaster—a startup using tech first deployed on the Mars rover to determine levels of key nutrients in the soil—raised a $12.5 million seed round as it gears up for...
10 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: Single-cell protein has attracted growing interest as an efficient way to produce protein, but many startups have struggled to scale. dsm-firmenich is betting that an optimized yeast strain, low-cost feedstocks, and superior yield and productivity can close the gap. Elsewhere, gene editing is rapidly expanding beyond row...
17 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: 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...
24 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...
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: 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...
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: 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 2 months 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...
2 months ago • 3 min read