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: With AI and digital tools more prevalent than ever in ag, it's critical to take action on cybersecurity threats already here, says Jenn. Elsewhere, 10 months after the FCC’s bombshell decision to ban sales of new models of foreign made drones in the US, the US ag spray drone market is “very much in flux," experts tell...
9 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 went wrong at Kenyan ag marketplace Twiga? Poor execution, high operating costs, or a flawed business model? Elsewhere, with the rise of GLP-1s, will food companies begin to compete on a “nutrition per calorie” basis? Plus: Regen organic: Can it make crops ‘measurably more nutritious?' Ag robotics: Picker's Dr...
16 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. AI is all over agtech now, but farmers need field-level context and better interoperability to make these tools useful. Jenn spoke with Farmers Business Network about its plans to build agriculture's "first AI context engine" with Google to deliver this. Plus: Foodtech 2.0: FOOD FOUNDERS' next two startups Cultivated meat: Believer...
23 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, Jenn took a deep dive into virtual fencing, while Elaine and Louisa headed to London for World Agri-Tech and Future Food-Tech to discuss everything from GLP-1s to green ammonia, next-gen fruit harvesting 'bots and Cargill's open innovation strategy. Elsewhere, Impossible Foods made its UK retail debut... without its...
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. Read about our thesis here. This week: Plant cell culture startup Ayana Bio and India’s Zenfold Sustainable Technologies have snapped up equipment from defunct alt protein firm Meati Foods giving the pair 300,000-L of fermentation capacity for just $75k. Elsewhere, Spearhead Bio bagged funds to advance a gene engineering platform designed to address one of CRISPR’s key challenges, and Robigo Bio...
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: In ovo sexing—tech designed to end male chick culling —has gone from zero to 40% market penetration in the EU in five years. But can it gain traction in markets with less legislative pressure? Elaine investigates. Plus: Precision livestock management: NoFence's 3rd gen cattle collar Fresh produce: ProducePay's "massive...
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, Elaine caught up with David Protein founder Peter Rahal after his $250m Series B and took a deep dive into ag robotics at Reservoir Farms to learn how startups are starting to build more flexible 'bots, more quickly. Elsewhere, Jenn quizzed PepsiCo on how to support the next generation of farmers. Plus: David Protein: Medici...
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, 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...
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: 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...
2 months ago • 3 min read