| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.01.2025 | Insect ag pioneer Ÿnsect ‘exploring all possible options, including a 3rd-party takeover,’ Agronutris files safeguard plan with court | The economics of large-scale insect farming have come sharply into focus this week with struggling industry pioneer Ÿnsect “exploring all possible options, including the possibility of a third-party takeover,” while fellow French startup Ag... |
| 09.04.2024 | From novelty to necessity? The evolution of insect farming | On paper, insect farming ticks all the right boxes. Black soldier fly larvae (BSFL), mealworms and crickets can transform food and agricultural waste into high-quality protein, oil and fertilizer at record speed with a fraction of the input... |
| 03.07.2023 | Ento raises growth funding to expand food waste upcycling in SG | GreentechInvestmentsNewsStartups
Gabriel Budi Sutrisno · 3 Jul 2023 · 2 min readEnto raises growth funding to expand food waste upcycling in SG
Nathaniel Phua, founder and CEO of Ento Industries / Photo credit: Ento Industries
Food waste ac... |
| 05.04.2023 | Data snapshot: VCs bet on upcycling, insects and inventory management software to cut food waste in 2022 | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new research re... |
| 01.12.2022 | The UK wastes £19bn of food each year. As food shortages loom, we need circular solutions, says insect startup | A mix of high inflation, drought conditions, and high energy costs are making the chance of food shortages and food insecurity in the UK ever more likely this winter.
And as millions of Brits are skipping meals days at a time, according to ... |
| 22.09.2022 | Farm-to-Table: 40 Food Tech Startups Transforming How We Eat | Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Romania, Serbia ~
The European food tech startups arena is thriving, reaching €9.5B in investments and tripling in size in 2021 compared to the previous year. Southeast Europe is not far behind, producing... |
| 21.09.2022 | Brief: French insect farm InnovaFeed scoops up $250m led by Qatar, plans expansion to US | French insect protein startup InnovaFeed has raised $250 million Series D round of financing. Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, led the investment. InnovaFeed will use the new funds to expand to the US, starti... |
| 20.09.2022 | InnovaFeed nabs $250M to extend its vertical insect farms to the U.S. | InnovaFeed, a vertical insect farm operator that’s rearing insects for animal and plant nutrition, has raised $250 million in a series D round of funding led by Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund.
While countles... |
| 11.04.2022 | Better Origin raises $16m | - |
| 08.04.2022 | Better Origin raises $16M to take food chain back to its sustainable roots with its AI-powered insect mini-farms inspired by nature’s waste cycle | Better Origin is an agritech startup using AI-powered insect mini-farms to fix the broken food chain.
The UK-based company has built a solution to one of the biggest problems facing the world today: how to feed a growing population in a se... |
| 08.04.2022 | Venture capital’s 2022 slowdown, in 4 charts | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Venture capitalists have been warning of a slowdown for months. The numbers are finally in—and th... |
| 07.04.2022 | UK-based agritech startup Better Origin raises €14.6 million to fix the food chain using AI-powered insect mini-farms | Inspired by nature’s waste cycle and with the vision to take the food chain back to its roots, Better Origin has today raised over €14.6 million in a Series A funding round led by Balderton Capital. Existing investors Fly Ventures and Metav... |
| 07.04.2022 | Balderton backs UK’s Better Origin in €14.6M funding to convert food waste into sustainable animal feed | Better Origin, a Cambridge-based agtech startup, announced that it has raised $16M (approximately €14.6M) in a Series A round of funding led by Balderton Capital. Existing investors Fly Ventures and Metavallon VC also participated. The late... |
| 07.04.2022 | BREAKING: Better Origin banks $16m in Balderton-led Series A for its AI insect mini-farms | Better Origin, a UK startup that builds insect farms to upcycle food waste, has raised $16 million in fresh funding.
The Series A round was led by London-based VC firm Balderton Capital. Other participating investors included Berlin’s Fly V... |
| 07.04.2022 | Greek-founded Better Origin raises $16M to fuel the future of food production | Athens, Greece ~
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UK-based insect tech startup Better Origin raised $16M in a latest funding round led by British VC Balderton and previous investors, Greek VC Metavallon and Germany-based Fly Ventures. The startup, co-founded in 20... |
| 07.04.2022 | Better Origin turns food waste to animal feed, with an insect-assist | Take a shipping container, add a helping of AI and a boat-load of black soldier flies, fold in a small mountain of food waste, sprinkle in $16 million of investment led by Balderton Capital, and call in the Michelin reviewers, because om no... |
| 07.04.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Umiami grabs $30m for alt-chicken, funding for forest tech grows | France’s Umiami took a step closer to commercializing its whole-cut vegan chicken breast this week with the close of an Astanor Ventures-led Series A round.
Elsewhere, two startups raised funds for their reforestation-focused tech, while th... |
| 08.02.2022 | The Lowdown: ADM & InnovaFeed’s insect protein partnership | French insect farming startup InnovaFeed and US agribusiness giant ADM have entered into a strategic partnership agreement which will see the two collaborate on insect protein production.
The Paris-based startup will supply its black soldie... |
| 22.12.2021 | Better Origin on using insects to produce ‘carbon-neutral’ eggs for Morrisons | In the natural order of things, insects would be a major part of any chicken’s diet and ‘carbon-neutral’ eggs wouldn’t sound like a far-fetched concept. Instead, the billions of chickens produced for human consumption live primarily off a g... |
| 12.10.2021 | From waste to food: Why innovators are relying on insects | Bulgaria, Greece, Poland ~
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The future of food is more and more influenced by nature. One innovation gaining prominence in sectors such as food production, animal farming, and food waste management is the use of insects to create pr... |
| 15.09.2021 | Introducing: the 32 companies joining Net Zero 2.0 | We are excited to announce a new cohort of 32 UK climate tech and cleantech companies selected for our second Net Zero programme.
Emerging trends this year saw an increase in companies developing carbon removal solutions, sustainable suppl... |
| 15.09.2021 | Tech Nation welcomes four East of England climate tech companies to Net Zero growth programme | Tech Nation welcomes four East of England climate tech companies to Net Zero growth programme
15-09-2021
Tech Nation, the UK’s leading growth platform for tech scaleups, today announces that four climate tech companies from the East of Engl... |
| 26.02.2021 | “Internet of Insects” and scaling up larvae for animal feed with Better Origin’s fresh $3M investment | Athens, Greece ~
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Although the consumption of insects is just now starting to get scientific and legal approvals as safe for humans, the use of various bugs and flies for the production of animal feed is becoming a popular practice ... |
| 25.02.2021 | Better Origin raises another $3m | CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL TECH CRUNCH ARTICLE |
| 24.02.2021 | Cambridge-based Better Origin lands €2.5 million to democratise insect farming with automation and machine learning | Better Origin, a Cambridge-based biotech startup on a mission to democratise insect farming through automation and machine learning technology, has announced closing a funding round of around €2.5 millon. The funding was led by Fly Ventures... |
| 23.02.2021 | Better Origin, which turns flies into food for chickens, raises $3M from… Fly Ventures | It turns out, where there are flies, there’s brass. Better Origin is a startup that converts waste food into essential nutrients using insects fed to chickens inside a standard shipping container. It’s now raised a $3 million seed round led... |
| 10.12.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Beta Hatch banks $9.3m Series A, breaks ground on US’s largest insect farm | Mealworms may be the last critter that comes to mind when you hear the word ‘ranch,’ but Beta Hatch is hoping to change that perception – and a global pandemic presents the perfect opportunity.
“Some of our customers have reported as much a... |
| 12.11.2020 | DIGIT Deal Roundup Column | October 2020 | Investment and Funding METALtech UK
A metal fabrication SME METALtech UK was announced as the 100th recipient of the Scottish Government’s Digit Development Fund in October.
The Dundee-headquartered company is the latest in a line of firms ... |
| 07.10.2020 | UK government earmarks $13m for industrial insect farm | In the same week that French insect farming startup Ÿnsect netted its massive $372 million Series C, the UK government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) has earmarked a more modest £10 million ($12.9 million) to help build the cou... |
| 05.10.2020 | Better Origin secures government funding to scale cutting-edge insect processing platform | A £10 million funding package from the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) will help to scale the insect bioconversion sector, accelerating the transition to sustainable methods of farming.
As part of the project conso... |
| 05.10.2020 | Better Origin secures government funding to scale cutting-edge insect processing platform | Better Origin secures government funding to scale cutting-edge insect processing platform
05-10-2020
A £10 million funding package from the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) will help to scale the insect bioconversio... |
| 29.07.2020 | Backyard black soldier flies: Grubbly grabs up $2.9m seed round led by Overline | “People are losing their clucking minds over backyard chickens,” reads a recent headline in The Hustle about how the coronavirus pandemic is fueling a resurgence of the US amateur poultry farmer.
Will this new chicken run spur a similar cra... |
| 22.07.2020 | Protenga nets $1.6m from UK, Singapore investors for novel approach to Black Soldier Fly farming | UK agritech venture builder Roslin Technologies and Enterprise Singapore’s SEEDS Capital, an investment vehicle linked with the city-state’s government, have pumped $1.6 million into insect farming startup Protenga.
Roslin Technologies is a... |
| 02.07.2020 | Distributed mini-farms and carbon-neutral eggs: The next phase of Black Soldier Fly farming | Last summer at a research lab on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK, I nervously rolled up my sleeve and tucked my hand deep into a tray of pulsing, writhing maggots. (Yes, keeping in touch with the future of farming is a mandate the AFN newsro... |
| 27.05.2020 | Fly, my pretties! NextProtein closes $11.2m Series A to scale up insect production in Tunisia | NextProtein, a French-Tunisian startup working on new ways to produce insect-based animal feed and fertilizer, has raised €10.2 million ($11.2 million) in Series A funding, the company disclosed to AFN this week. According to AgFunder data,... |
