| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.08.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: osapiens nabs $120m for ESG tech, Impossible clears EU hurdle, layoffs at Deere | In what’s been an otherwise fairly quiet week, Germany’s osapiens, which makes ESG compliance tech, scored a Series B round. Smaller fundraises this week include restaurant tech company Batbox, insect protein startup Entocycle, and Millow, ... |
| 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... |
| 30.08.2023 | Brief: Entocycle & Bühler partner to cut the ‘trial and error’ phase from large-scale BSF production | Insect tech startup Entocycle has struck a deal with one of the world’s major processing technology companies, Bühler Group, to scale black soldier fly (BSF) production.
Together, the companies will provide expertise, equipment and services... |
| 24.08.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Bayer & Shell tackle rice farming emissions, Mosaic launches biologicals business | Between August holidays and an uncertain economy, funding rounds were few and far between this week. Nonetheless, CPG product-testing startup Highlight snagged funds from major agrifood corporates and grain-trading platform Bushel announced... |
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Price parity for plant-based chicken in 2024: Continuous production changes economics of alt protein, clai... | - |
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Keep calm and carry on: Navigating the trough of disillusionment for plant-based meat
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Restaurant and retail tech investment in Asia-Pacific peaked at $1.1 bn in 2021 with drop expected for 202... | - |
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| 07.02.2023 | Six foodtech startups redefining our favourite foods for the better | All over Europe, food tech startups are using technology to improve how food is grown, produced, distributed, and consumed to reduce the environmental impact, improve animal welfare and ensure safe working conditions for growers.
And it's s... |
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BREAKING: Entocycle lands $5m Series A from Climentum, Lowercarbon Capital to roll-out precision ag tech f... | - |
| 02.02.2023 | The week in agrifoodtech: Plant-based salmon reels in $12m, new funding for ag robots, Impossible layoffs | This week, Canada’s New School Foods snagged seed funding for its whole-cut plant-based salmon. In agtech, BloomX secured funding for its pollination tech and E-Terry for its farm robot. Meanwhile, KFC struck a deal to put robots in its kit... |
| 31.01.2023 | No fly in the ointment here as Entocycle raises $5 million | London-based Entocycle has raised $5 million in a Series A round that will see the company further invest in solutions that up the productivity and efficiency of black solider fly farms. Since early 2017 the company has raised $21.5 million... |
| 31.01.2023 | Entocycle raises £4m to track flies and make protein-rich grub | Entocycle, a company using data and tracking hardware to support the insect farming industry, has closed a $5m (£4m) Series A funding round.
Rearing insects for protein is less harmful to the environment than other forms of protein, such as... |
| 31.01.2023 | Entocycle’s New Funding Will Release Hardware Module for Insect Farms to Boost Productivity | April Fowell, Tech Times 31 January 2023, 09:01 am
Entocycle has raised another Series A funding that amounted to $5 million, as reported by TechCrunch.
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ARCADIA, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 15: Honeybees gather i... |
| 31.01.2023 | The insect protein industry is flying high London-based Entocycle secures €4.6 million | - |
| 31.01.2023 | BREAKING: Entocycle lands $5m Series A from Climentum, Lowercarbon Capital to roll-out precision ag tech for insect farms | Entocycle, a UK startup that provides technologies and services for the insect farming industry, has secured $5 million in a Series A round from a pool of climate-positive institutional investors and athletes as angel investors.
Leading the... |
| 31.01.2023 | Entocycle grabs $5 million for its insect breeding technology | Even if insects don’t sound appealing to you, black soldier flies could play an essential role in the food chain in the coming years. In particular, these flies’ larvae can become an important source of proteins for livestock and fish.
That... |
| 23.01.2023 | Entocycle Raises €5M in Series A Funding | Entocycle, a London, UK-based insect farming tech company, raised €5M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Climentum Capital with participation from Lowercarbon Capital, Teampact Ventures, ACE & Company, and athletes such as Antoin... |
| 20.10.2021 | GROW & Innovate UK launch bespoke program to take British agrifood startups to Asia | Disclosure: GROW is backed by AgFunder, which is AFN’s parent company.
GROW and Innovate UK have selected eight UK-based agrifood companies to participate in the inaugural cohort of the Global Incubator Programme – Gateway to Asia, an inter... |
| 04.05.2021 | BARCLAYS PLC
Barclays : The future of food | The problem of how to feed a growing global population is far from new. But the pandemic has served to highlight challenges around food sustainability, food security and food poverty. The companies supported by Barclays' Unreasonable Impact... |
| 04.05.2021 | Barclays : The future of food | The problem of how to feed a growing global population is far from new. But the pandemic has served to highlight challenges around food sustainability, food security and food poverty. The companies supported by Barclays' Unreasonable Impact... |
| 14.01.2021 | The EU just approved mealworms for human consumption. Will Ÿnsect take the bait? | On Wednesday, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) announced its approval of mealworms for human consumption. The ruling opens the gateway for the growing startup industry around insect protein to tap into a new market.
The EFSA conduc... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 19.12.2018 | Alltech’s Pearse Lyons Accelerator Offers Route to Market for Scaling Startups – apply now! | Alltech, the global animal feed and crop nutrition company, is looking for startups to apply to the third iteration of ‘The Pearse Lyons Accelerator’ program. The deadline to apply is December 31, 2018.
The program will be hosted at one of ... |
| 21.08.2017 | Entocycle uses larvae to fuel a more sustainable food chain | No matter how many tears are shed watching “Okja,” people are still going to eat meat—and the raising of meat is hard on the planet. Even feeding livestock and fish has an ecological cost. Soybean farming can lead to soil erosion and farmed... |
| 25.05.2017 | Five Startups Win Accelerator Backing to Fight Food Insecurity, Waste, and Unsustainable Food Systems | The Good Kitchen, launched last year as Europe’s first accelerator program for social startup businesses tackling food insecurity and food poverty issues, has selected its first five enterprises from an initial intake of more than 100 appli... |
| 18.01.2017 | MassChallenge UK Awards 100,000 in Zero-Equity Prizes to 6 High Impact Startups | LONDON, JAN 18, 2017 - MassChallenge, the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet, tonight awarded 100,000 in zero-equity cash prizes to 6 of the highest-impact startups from the 2016 MassChallenge UK accelerator program.
From alle... |
| 22.11.2016 | MassChallenge UK Unveils Top 20 Startups from 2016 Cohort | The top 20 will now move onto the final judging round, where theyll have the opportunity to win shares of 100,000 in zero-equity cash awards to be revealed on January 18th, 2017 at the MassChallenge UK Awards & Fun(d)raiser.More than 50... |
| - | Entocycle | “We're Entocycle. The UK's leading insect technology company. We’ve developed the technology to dramatically increase the efficiency and scalability of insect farming around the world.” |
