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| 02.05.2024 | 10 startups achieving market success, and shaping our future food system (Sponsored) | - |
| 22.09.2021 | Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Aleph Farms & Mosa Meat | US actor Leonardo DiCaprio has invested in Israel’s Aleph Farms and the Netherlands’ Mosa Meat, the cell-cultured meat startups announced in a joint statement.
“One of the most impactful ways to combat the climate crisis is to transform our... |
| 20.08.2021 | Apeel bites into another $250M funding round, at a $2B valuation, to accelerate fresh food supply chains | Apeel Sciences, a food system innovation company, is out to prevent food produced globally from ending up in the landfill, especially as pressures from the global pandemic affect the food supply chain.
The company just... |
| 19.08.2021 | Apeel bites into another $250M funding round, at a $2B valuation, to accelerate fresh food supply chains | Apeel Sciences, a food system innovation company, is out to prevent food produced globally from ending up in the landfill, especially as pressures from the global pandemic affect the food supply chain. |
| 18.08.2021 | Apeel bites into another $250M funding round, at a $2B valuation, to accelerate fresh food supply chains | Apeel Sciences, a food system innovation company, is out to prevent food produced globally from ending up in the landfill, especially as pressures from the global pandemic affect the food supply chain.
The company just added $250 million in... |
| 18.08.2021 | Apeel raises $250m Series E to expand supply networks, fund tech acquisitions | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Apeel via the latter’s acquisition of ImpactVision.
Food waste reduction company Apeel has just closed a $250 million Series E round, bringing its total funding to $635 million a... |
| 28.05.2021 | Climate-conscious sovereign wealth funds opt for energy, transport investments over agrifood: study | Sovereign wealth funds invested close to $2.3 billion in businesses, technologies, and other projects aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change in 2020, more than doubling the previous year’s funding, new research says.
But state-li... |
| 27.10.2020 | Apeel raises $30m, 'invisible' skin helps growers in emerging markets gain access to US, Europe | The round – which brings Apeel’s cumulative funding to $390m - follows a $250m round unveiled in May giving it a valuation of north of a billion dollars.
It will be used to help farmers in emerging markets reduce food waste and gain acces... |
| 27.07.2020 | Bollywood stars show that agrifoodtech investing isn’t just for US celebs | Indian actors Genelia D’Souza and Riteish Deshmukh have launched a plant-based protein brand in their home country, marking just the latest celebrity foray into agrifoodtech in recent months.
The startup co-founded by the Bollywood duo — wh... |
| 16.07.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Sericulture startup Mori raises $12m Series A to preserve food with silk | So, common sense was wrong. It turns out you can eat silk! But before you drag out that Kimono of yours and swiftly devour it in celebration, hold on a second — you need a crucial bit of cutting-edge protein extraction technology first.
Ent... |
| 15.07.2020 | Oprah, Jay-Z becoming keen foodtech funders after joining Blackstone for $200m Oatly round | Swedish alt-milk maker Oatly has raised $200 million in a funding round led by Blackstone Growth, the new growth equity vehicle of US investment giant Blackstone Group.
Dutch bank Rabobank‘s Rabo Corporate Investments and New York-based Ork... |
| 28.06.2020 | Стартапы недели: разведка по снимкам со спутника, экосистема с сервисами из Индонезии и телемедицина | А также обзор проектов из прошлого выпуска.
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| 31.05.2020 | Apeel Sciences: $250 Million Funding And Over $1 Billion Valuation | Apeel Sciences, a company that has developed an edible coating product, announced it raised $250 million funding at a reported valuation of over $1 billion
Apeel Sciences, a company that has developed an edible coating product that can make... |
| 30.05.2020 | Apeel Sciences Secures US$250m From Investors Including Katy Perry & Oprah Winfrey for its Mission to Cut Food Waste | Apeel Sciences has announced on its website that is has secured a US$250m investment led by led by Singapore‘s sovereign wealth fund, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), to continue in its mission in reducing food waste th... |
| 26.05.2020 | Apeel Sciences raises $250m to tackle food waste, with help from Oprah, Katy Perry: ‘What we’re selling is time’ | The round - supported by Viking Global Investors, Upfront Ventures, Tao Capital Partners, Rock Creek Group and Santa Barbara locals Oprah Winfrey and Katy Perry – will help Apeel expand its 300+ team, build its international footprint, and ... |
| 26.05.2020 |
Apeel Sciences Snags Massive $250M Funding
| Goleta-based Apeel Sciences, a startup developing technology which coats fresh fruit and vegetables with what it calls an "extra peel" to help preserve fruit for longer, has raised a huge, $250M funding round, the company said on ... |
| 26.05.2020 | Food waste startup backed by Oprah Winfrey snags $250 million | This morning brings one of the biggest deals yet this year: an infusion of $250 million in new financing for food waste crusader Apeel Sciences. What’s more, the funding pushes the Santa Barbara, California-based company’s v... |
| 26.05.2020 | Apeel Sciences Raises $250M in Financing | Apeel Sciences, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based food waste prevention company, raised $250M in financing.
The round, which brought Apeel Sciences’ valuation to over $1 billion, was led by GIC with participation from Viking Global Investors, U... |
| 26.05.2020 | Preventing food waste nets Apeel $250 million from Singapore’s government, Oprah and Katy Perry | Food waste and the pressures on the global food supply chain wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic have captured headlines around the world, and one small startup based in the coastal California city of Santa Barbara has just announced $250 mill... |
| 26.05.2020 | Oprah, Katy Perry join GIC to take Apeel Sciences to unicorn status with $250m | Food waste technology startup Apeel Sciences has raised $250 million in funding taking its valuation to over a billion dollars. Singapore state fund GIC led the round, which took the Californian startup to unicorn status. Existing investors... |
| 26.03.2020 | Need Some Good News? How About A Potential Solution To World Hunger? | Founded in 2012, after winning $10,000 at UC Santa Barbara’s New Venture Competition, Apeel Sciences has subsequently raised $110 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Andreessen Horowitz, Upfront Ventures and Viking Global Inve... |
| 22.11.2019 | Time – Best Inventions 2019 – Apeel – Keeping Food Fresh | Few things are more frustrating than when an unripe avocado turns to mush before you can blink an eye. Some 40% of produce currently goes to waste, often because it goes bad before we can eat it. To cut that waste, Apeel Sciences de... |
| 22.10.2019 | The present and future of food tech investment opportunity | Ingrid Fung Contributor
Ingrid Fung is an associate at Finistere Ventures.
There is no bigger industry on our planet than food and agriculture, with a consistent, loyal customer base of 7 billion. In fact, the World Bank estimates that food... |
| 09.10.2019 | Andreessen Horowitz hires Julie Yoo as general partner | Julie Yoo has joined Andreessen Horowitz as its newest general partner. She will make investments out of the venture capital firm’s bio fund, which closed on $450 million in 2017.
Yoo spent the last eight years as a co-founder and chief pro... |
| 25.07.2019 | Does the WRI’s new Sustainable Food Future report need an update already? | In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s synd... |
| 02.07.2019 | The overused label of the disruptor | The overused label of the disruptor
02-07-2019
The term disruptor is overused, partly thanks to Donald Trump.
A blog by KISS
The term was coined to describe the Ryanairs and Teslas of this world, and today some genuine disruptors continue t... |
| 04.02.2019 | Apeel partners with Nature’s Pride to bring spoilage-resistant fruits and veggies to Europe | Apeel Sciences, the developer of a new technology that makes fruits and vegetables more resistant to spoilage, and Nature’s Pride, one of the largest vendors of avocados and mangos in Europe, are partnering to bring longer-lived avocados to... |
| 12.12.2018 | How ImpactVision is using AI to detect unripe or contaminated food | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Computer vision is infiltrating just about every industry — to bring analytics to retailers’ shelves, identify early signs of Alzheimer... |
| 12.12.2018 | How ImpactVision is using AI to detect unripe or contaminated food | Computer vision is infiltrating just about every industry — to bring analytics to retailers’ shelves, identify early signs of Alzheimer’s, and even help security cameras identify weapons.
Then there is ImpactVision, which is leveraging mach... |
| 17.09.2018 | The 2018 VERGE Vanguard Awards — Nancy Pfund — Godmother of impact investing | It seems ironic to contemplate today, but when she started her professional career with the Sierra Club, legendary venture capitalist Nancy Pfund — one of the earliest investors in Tesla and SolarCity — was skeptical of ... |
| 06.09.2018 | Apeel Sciences Raise $70 Million for Plant-based Invisible Skin | Apeel Sciences, a technology firm based in Santa Barbara, recently announced that they have secured $70 million of financing led by Viking Global Investors, Andreessen Horowitz, Upfront Ventures, and S2G Ventures, plus participation from ot... |
| 18.08.2018 | Factory reset: Tech startups raise big bucks to help companies cut waste | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Society has become somewhat accustomed to disposable goods, be it cheap garments, budget phones, or plastic packaging.
But with Earth f... |
| 18.08.2018 | Factory reset: Tech startups raise big bucks to help companies cut waste | Society has become somewhat accustomed to disposable goods, be it cheap garments, budget phones, or plastic packaging.
But with Earth facing untold apocalyptic catastrophes in the decades to come, there has been a growing push to do somethi... |
| 10.08.2018 | Apeel Sciences is combating food waste with plant-derived second peels | In a world bursting with abundances like self-driving cars and robotic personal assistants, you would think that basic needs like sustainable food sourcing and distribution would be a problem of the past. But that couldn’t be further from t... |
| 08.08.2018 | African AgriFood Tech Startups are not Waiting on Western Tech | When Albert Kure pitched his company on stage at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, he knew he needed to address what many investors would see as his competition.
Kure is president of Nigerian startup Coating+. The company makes an e... |
| 06.08.2018 | Blockchain Tomatoes & Edible Peels: Startups Innovate to Fight Spoilage | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As much as 40 percent of food in this country is never eaten, yet 41 million people don’t have enough to eat, including 13 million children, according to the Natural Resources... |
| 01.08.2018 | Food-Based Coatings Maker Apeel Sciences Secures $70M in Financing | Apeel Sciences, a Santa Barbara, California-based developer of food-based coatings, secured $70m in financing.
The round was led by Viking Global Investors with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Upfront Ventures and S2G Ventures. In c... |
| 01.08.2018 |
Apeel Sciences Finds $70M
| Goleta-based Apeel Sciences, a startup which is developing technology to increase the shelf life of fresh produce--using substances derived from other plants--has raised a big, $70M funding round, the company announced late Wednesday. The c... |
| 30.07.2018 | Apeel Sciences raises $70m to expand applications for its plant-based invisible skin | Walter Robb, former co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, will also join its board of directors and advise the company, which was founded in 2012 by James Rogers, a materials scientist on a mission to create an “idealized little microclimate inside... |
| 20.06.2018 | This High-Tech Coating Will Stop Your Avocados from Ripening Too Quickly | We’ve all walked the frustrating avocado ripeness tightrope. You buy a few greenish avocados from the grocery store on Monday, knowing they’ll be ripe around Thursday morning. You wake up at 10 AM on Thursday and voila! Perfectly ripe. Then... |
| 19.06.2018 | Apeel avocados with ‘invisible’ plant-based skin debut at Costco | The brainchild of James Rogers, a materials scientist who had his Eureka moment while studying for a PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Apeel Sciences creates an “idealized little microclimate inside of each individual pi... |
| 19.06.2018 | This start-up can make avocados last twice as long before going bad | The new avocados rolling out to Midwest Costco stores this week don’t look like the future of fresh produce. But they’re testing technology that could more than double the shelf life of vegetables and fruits. |
| 20.03.2018 | AgFunder Innovation Awards 2018 — Supply Chain Winner: Apeel Sciences | Most Innovative US Startup Series A and Beyond
Winner: Apeel Sciences |
| 20.03.2018 | 2018 AgFunder Innovation Awards Winners Announced | The winners of the 2018 Agfunder Innovation Awards were announced on Tuesday, March 20 at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco, CA.
Last year, we awarded 23 startups across five categories. Since then those winners have ra... |
| 12.02.2018 | Apeel Sciences seeks to slash fresh produce waste with plant-based edible skin: 'We've created this idealized little micro-climate inside of each piece of produce' | “Most people don’t think about this, but produce is a living, breathing thing, even after it’s picked,” says the Apeel Sciences founder and CEO, who is on a mission to slash food waste with Edipeel: an invisible plant-based edible peel p... |
| 07.02.2018 | DEADLINE APPROACHING: Cast Your Vote in the AgFunder Innovation Awards | ***VOTING CLOSED***
It’s that time of year again to recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward with the AgFunder Innovation Awards. These are peer-selected awards based on votes placed by you, our 45... |
| 15.01.2018 | EXCLUSIVE: Biotech Dominates THRIVE Top 50 in AgTech List | Biotech and predictive analytics startups dominate the Salinas, CA-based THRIVE AgTech’s Top 50 list of agtech companies shaping the future of agriculture for 2018.
The largest technology category on last year’s list, “big data analytics,” ... |
| 04.01.2018 | 30 Food Technologies to Support Your Sustainable New Year’s Resolutions | When it comes to technology in the first week of January, you might be thinking wearable fitness trackers and meal replacements. But there is a whole host of startups with technology that can also help with resolutions skewed toward agricul... |
| 14.12.2017 | Andreessen Horowitz has a new, $450 million bio fund | Almost exactly two years ago, the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz took the wraps off a $200 million “biofund” that aimed to invest at the intersection of biology and engineering and was being led by its (then) new general partner, Vijay Pa... |
| 28.08.2017 | Beyond the Beach: An Inside Look at the Santa Barbara Tech Ecosystem | Among the beaches and mountains of Santa Barbara, there is an emerging tech scene that is attracting founders to the city from Los Angeles and San Francisco. Kyle Ashby, cofounder of The Sandbox Santa Barbara and StartupSB has helped launch... |
| 21.06.2017 | Andreessen Horowitz gets a new general partner in Jorge Conde | Andreessen Horowitz is making an even bigger push into healthcare IT, bringing aboard serial entrepreneur Jorge Conde as a general partner.
Conde, who officially starts in September, has spent the last 15 years working largely in genomics, ... |
| 14.12.2016 | Food Waste Tech Gets High Profile Attention as Andreessen and DBL Invest in Apeel Sciences | Food waste tech startups are finally getting the attention of the high profile investors they deserve.
This week, Apeel Sciences, a biotech startup targeting food waste, raised $33 million in Series B funding in a round led by big name, gen... |
| 17.11.2016 | The Billion Dollar Food Waste Market Investors Are Missing | A collaboration between AgFunder and ReFed, this article aims to highlight some of the technologies working towards reducing food waste globally that are not always associated with the problem.
ReFed is a multi-stakeholder coalition of over... |
