AgFunderNews reports on the evolution of the global food and agriculture system. By going beyond the headlines, we analyze the people, companies and technologies aiming to improve human and planetary health. Publishing daily, our team of award-winning journalists delivers deeper insight on the growing foodtech, agtech and climate tech industries. A multimedia publication, AgFunderNews is a division of AgFunder, one of the world’s most active agrifoodtech venture capital firms.
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Bytes to Bites part one: Digitizing consumption insights. Leveraging AI in food product development
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Crop biologicals firm Biobest eyes South America expansion with $570m acquisition of Brazil’s Biotrop
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Beyond Meat facing ‘existential threat’ says TD Cowen: ‘The core problem is the product’
By Elaine Watson
Eat Just/GOOD Meat sued by 2nd engineering firm (CRB) for failing to pay its bills on time
By Elaine Watson
Meati Foods lays off more staff: ‘We must be nimble and focus on near-term profitability’
By Elaine Watson
UPSIDE Foods to pump $140m into commercial-scale cultivated meat plant near Chicago
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Container farming startup Freight Farms to go public for $147m via SPAC
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‘Pee in drinkable water is nonsense’: Toopi Organics lands $17m to turn urine into crop biostimulants
By Jennifer Marston
The Week in AgriFoodTech: J.M. Smucker buys Hostess for $5bn, NotCo’s NotSnacks, Krucial monitors salmon from space
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Data snapshot: 5 years of agrifoodtech investment in Latin America
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AgFunderNews reports on the evolution of the global food and agriculture system. By going beyond the headlines, we analyze the people, companies and technologies aiming to improve human and planetary health. Publishing daily, our team of award-winning journalists delivers deeper insight on the growing foodtech, agtech and climate tech industries. A multimedia publication, AgFunderNews is a division of AgFunder, one of the world’s most active agrifoodtech venture capital firms.
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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 Monarch Tractor, and are there wider lessons for the agtech industry? Cofounder and CEO Praveen Penmetsa tells us what he would do differently if he could turn back the clock. Elsewhere, Polybee—which operates fleets of physical AI agents for yield forecasting and pollination—offers "immediate, bankable...
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