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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 Octopus-style arms tackle fruit harvesting ​
• Personalized medicine for plants: ​Resurrect Bio reawakens plants’ natural defenses​
• Green ammonia: ​Atmonia’s novel single-step electrochemical process​
• Foodtech investing: What’s next after alt protein?​
• ​AI agents: Myca puts them to work on agribusiness field operations​​
• EU agrifoodtech: Tackling bureaucracy and regulatory blues​
• Spirulina protein: Edonia raises fresh funds​

And finally… how are startups making whey proteins via fermentation approaching the market? Verley cofounder Stéphane Mac Millan weighs in.

Have a great week! Louisa, Jenn, and Elaine

​Twiga’s demise underscores the need for new financing models in African agrifoodtech​

“Technology can lower transaction and information costs; it cannot eliminate the physical economics of a tomato ot banana moving through a fragmented market.” Jennifer Marston

​Could GLP-1 drugs finally put a price on crop nutrient density?​

With the rise of GLP-1 drugs, food companies may begin to compete on a 'nutrition per calorie' basis, predicts Deep Science Ventures. Elaine Watson

​Regen-organic food can be ‘measurably more nutritious,’ says new research​

The research could act as a tool for food companies when building the next consumer purchasing journey. Jennifer Marston

​🎥 Can Picker AgRobotics’ Dr Octopus-style arms finally crack autonomous fruit harvesting?​

"There's no gripper," says Yossi Rosenblum. "We just approach the fruit, cut the stem, and let the fruit roll through the [hollow] arm." Elaine Watson

🎥 Resurrect Bio reawakens plants’ natural defenses: ‘It’s very targeted, almost like personalized medicine’​

Resurrect Bio has a novel approach to help crops fight back. Elaine Watson

🎥 Atmonia scales green ammonia with single-step electrochemical process​

Atmonia has developed catalysts for a single-step electrochemical process that eliminates the need to first produce and store hydrogen. Elaine Watson

🎥 Where are foodtech investors looking next after the boom and bust?​

Foodtech has been through boom, bust and reset — and investors are now looking well beyond alt protein. So what's next? Elaine Watson

​Myca raises $1.3m pre-seed to put AI agents in charge of agribusiness field operations​

New capital will help Myca widen its geographical footprint across Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and India. Jennifer Marston

🎥 Verley progresses towards 200,000-L tanks as precision fermentation enters its prove-it phase​

Rather than compete with commodity whey, Verley is targeting high-value applications where purified BLG can deliver distinct functionality. Elaine Watson

​EU looks to speed agricultural research to market despite budget pressures​

Policy chiefs, farmers and researchers debate what’s needed to propel innovations into markets and onto farms faster and at scale. Rich Bellis

​AgriFood Signals: Edonia raises funds to scale spirulina protein, AI agents for restaurants, PepsiCo does VR​

Plus: Brijesh Krishnaswamy joins Beyond Meat as COO. Jennifer Marston

​FBN and Google team up to give farm AI the context it’s been missing​

FBN will make the first features of its "AI context engine" available to early test users now, with a broader rollout expected this fall. Jennifer Marston

​Exclusive: Believer Meats creditors weigh bid for US plant ​

Gray Construction and Ameris Bank are mulling a combined credit and cash bid for Believer's production facility in North Carolina. Elaine Watson

🎥 Meatly bets on 20,000-liter scale to prove cultivated meat economics​

The last few years have been pretty brutal for cultivated meat, but can a leaner, meaner, pet food-focused approach prevail? Elaine Watson

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