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| Jun 4, 2026 | What investors should know before backing AI tools for food waste management: report | AI tools for measuring and managing food waste are gaining traction, but adoption remains fragmented, with companies relying on a patchwork of solutions. Some technologies have been in use for years in places like commercial kitchens, some ... |
| May 8, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Aquaculture co Laxey raises $146m, Hoofprint Biome lands $15m | This week, Icelandic land-based salmon farmer Laxey secured capital for the next phase of its sustainable salmon operation, while Hoofprint Biome raised money to address methane emissions with microbiome engineering.
In acquisitions, Syngen... |
| Mar 13, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Scimplify raises $40m, Grão Direto nets $15m, Elevarm bags $4.3m | This week Scimplify, an Indian startup connecting agriculture and pharma with speciality chemicals, raised new funds, as did grain-trading platform Grão Direto and “photosynthesis boosting” pioneer GigaCrop.
Elsewhere, GlobalData acquired A... |
| Feb 13, 2025 | Progress report: Where are vertical farming’s biggest leafy green growers now? | In many ways, onetime unicorn Plenty’s highly publicized 90% valuation slash in January felt like the end of a long, drawn-out death sentence for large-scale vertical farms growing leafy greens.
But was it actually?
Events from the last cou... |
| Dec 12, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Nexus W2V raises $140m, Haber nets $44m, Planet A Foods bags $30m | As US legislation evolves across the waste-management industry, Nexus W2V, a leading developer of waste-to-value infrastructure projects, announced the closing of an anchor $75 million structured equity commitment from Orion Infrastructure ... |
| Oct 16, 2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Cultivated Chicken Tasting, Oat Milk Liqueur & Alt-Protein Awards | 6 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Vital Meat’s cultivated chicken tasting in Singapore, Oatly’s... |
| Oct 10, 2024 | Grabango, an Amazon cashierless rival that offers checkout-free tech, shuts down after failing to secure funding | Grabango, the Silicon Valley startup that aimed to challenge Amazon in the cashierless checkout race, has closed its doors after failing to secure the necessary funding. The company joins a growing list of failed startups that have struggle... |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Quorn’s Mycoprotein is Going to Be Blended with Animal Pork. Here’s Why This is a Good Thing. | First of all, to be clear, hybrid products are no new thing and have existed for years, both successfully and unsuccessfully. As a publication specialised solely in the vegan business niche, we have widely avoided the topic of products cons... |
| May 3, 2024 | Maia Farms Revolutionizes Protein Production with Mycelium Innovation | Maia Farms, a visionary company, secures $2.3 million in pre-seed financing to expand mycelium protein production, leading the charge towards a sustainable and nourishing future. With investors like Joyful Ventures and grant funding from to... |
| May 2, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Oishii bags another $15m, BTG launches Betagro Ventures, HeavyFinance eyes Ukraine | This week, Thailand-based food company Betagro (“BTG”) launched its own venture arm to invest in early-stage agtech and foodtech startups. Oishii, which grows high-end berries via vertical farming, nabbed $15 million to build out a new sola... |
| May 2, 2024 | Maia Farms Secures $2.3M to Advance Climate Positive Food with Highly Nutritious Mycoprotein | Vancouver-based Maia Farms, a B2B producer of the mycoprotein and winner of the Deep Space Food Challenge Grand Prize with its ingredient CanPro, announces it has secured $2.3 million in a pre-seed funding round.
CanPro, a textured protein ... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Aqua Capital closes $450m fund, Onego Bio ‘poaches’ $40m, BurnBot raises $20m | Agrifood private equity firm Aqua Capital this week announced the close of its $450 million Fund III, which will invest in sustainable agrifood solutions. Other noteworthy raises this week (and there are a bunch) include egg protein startup... |
| Mar 28, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Kraft Heinz nets $171m for clean energy, ALOHA raises $68m, Poseidon raises $20m | This week saw funding rounds a’plenty in foodtech, with capital flowing to protein-bar-maker ALOHA, India e-commerce startup SuperK and alt-protein’s Innocent Meat, among others.
In the CPG realm, Kraft Heinz and Unilever secured sizable su... |
| Mar 21, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: India’s Jumbotail nets $18m, new investment plans for Corteva, Mondelēz & others | It’s a jam-packed week for agrifoodtech with World Agri-Tech wrapping yesterday and Future Food-Tech kicking off today over in San Francisco. Elsewhere in the world, Indian B2B ecommerce startup Jumbotail raised new funds despite a tough ma... |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Hungryroot puts off 2024 exit to grow revenue | Hungryroot, a hybrid meal-kit and food delivery service, is punting a near-term exit as it builds on the $333 million revenue it booked last year, CEO Ben McKean tells Axios.
Why it matters: The company, which bills itself as an AI-powered ... |
| Feb 7, 2024 | Time for kitchen staff to upshift: robots are coming | Chef Robotics seeks to resolve labor shortage in US food prep market
We’ve all heard of robots coming to the fast-food chains. McDonald’s has been running its roboticized spot in Texas and Chick-fil-A has been testing robot servers. But a l... |
| Jan 10, 2024 | Exclusive: Restaurant tech startup GoTab raising up to $50 million | GoTab is raising up to $50 million in a Series B financing this summer, CEO Tim McLaughlin tells Axios exclusively.
Driving the news: The startup will see its valuation double in this round, which is notable in a difficult fundraising envir... |
| Dec 24, 2023 | Robots are taking over fast-food kitchens. See how chains are using automation to make chips, salads, burgers, and fries. | Retail Robots are taking over fast-food kitchens. See how chains are using automation to make chips, salads, burgers, and fries.
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| Dec 13, 2023 | Data snapshot: 10 years of restaurant tech funding shows the rise and fall of food delivery | Data snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| Dec 12, 2023 | Travis Kalanick's $15 billion CloudKitchens has put some facilities in 'hibernation' mode while robots come to others | Premium Tech Travis Kalanick's $15 billion CloudKitchens has put some facilities in 'hibernation' mode while robots come to others
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| Nov 30, 2023 | Timeline: After a decade of tough lessons, indoor ag nears ‘the plateau of enlightenment’ | “We felt like we were doing a lot of things right. Only in retrospect [are there] a lot of lessons that we learned that I’d like to share and hope some of you can learn from the stuff that we experienced.”
Former VP Chris Cerveny was referr... |
| Oct 12, 2023 | Liberation Labs Gears Up for $75M Series A to Fund To Scale Facility As Industry Doubles Down on Production | 6 Mins Read US precision fermentation protein manufacturer Liberation Labs is lining up a Series A funding round that could ink the brand as much as $75M, reports Axios. The financing will be used to build its upcoming $115M facility in Ric... |
| Sep 26, 2023 | Exclusive: Formo Spills the Yolk on Soon-to-Launch ‘Lab-Brewed’ Egg Alternative & Why Consumers are Curious About Precision Fermentation | 9 Mins Read German precision fermentation startup Formo will unveil its ‘lab-brewed’ alternative to eggs in foodservice in their home market later this year. Formo CEO Raffael Wohlgensinger and researcher Oscar Zollman Thomas speak to Green... |
| Sep 25, 2023 | EY Report Suggests Strong Growth For Plant-Based But Industry Faces Key Challenges | 7 Mins Read A new report commissioned by plant-based body Protein Industries Canada (PIC) has found that the global vegan market shows great potential over the next decade. But while Canada’s own alt-meat consumption has increased, major in... |
| Aug 10, 2023 | Delivery Robot Startup Serve Robotics Going Public via Reverse Merger | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 10 August 2023, 02:08 pm
The autonomous sidewalk delivery robot firm, Serve Robotics, based in San Francisco, has taken a big step toward going public by concluding a reverse merger with Patricia Acquisition Corp.
The... |
| Aug 1, 2023 | Startups shutting down in 2023: Tech startups that closed up shops in Q2 as venture market cools | It is undeniable that 2023 has been a challenging year for tech startups across the globe. The initial optimism that started at the beginning of this year quickly gave way to a daunting combination of banking defaults and Federal Reserve in... |
| Jul 25, 2023 | Brevel sprouts $18.5M to develop microalgae-based alternative proteins | Microalgae is everywhere, it seems. It’s being used as a way to replace fossil fuels and is used in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals and as a food source. It’s a substantial market, too, expected to be valued at $25.4 billion by 2033.
Brevel, ... |
| Jun 29, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Everytable lands $25m, eFishery reels in $20m, Joyful Ventures’ alt-protein fund | This week, prepared meals service Everytable raised new funding along with cultivated fish startup Bluu Seafood and aquatech company eFishery. Outside of funding, Nextbite is facing a lawsuit over its May layoffs and Joyful Ventures launche... |
| Jun 19, 2023 | As Others Burned Millions To Build Robot Restaurants, This Operator Automated His For Just $200k | Turbo Chef pizza ovens at Mamma Ramona's restaurant Mamma Ramona's |
| Jun 15, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: HUNGRY bags $10m, USDA greenlights cultivated chicken labels, making leather from beer | Funding rounds continue to be slow and on the low side. Catering tech startup HUNGRY raised new capital, as did alt-meat startup Higher Steaks, which rebranded as Uncommon. In agtech, agribusiness platform Unnati Agri and alt-leather startu... |
| Jun 1, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Neat Burger raises $18m, Debut bags $34m to expand cell-free biomanufacturing platform | This week, Neat Burger raised $18m to take its plant-based restaurant chain into new markets, synthetic biology startup Debut raised $34 million to expand its cell-free biomanufacturing platform, and biofertilizer startup Anuvia Plant Nutri... |
| May 21, 2023 | Стартап разработал новый инсулин для ускорения роста культивируемого мяса | Израильский стартап сокращает время, необходимое для производства большого количества культивируемого мяса, производя новые виды инсулина, чтобы стимулировать процесс роста.
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| May 11, 2023 | Финский стартап использует радиоволны для контроля за молоком | Как объясняют в компании, технология позволяет обнаруживать любой тип жидкости в трубах в режиме реального времени, что дает компаниям возможность оптимизировать производство и сократить потери продукции. Также она способна отслеживать жидк... |
| May 5, 2023 | Could ‘Printing’ Beverages At Home Reduce Environmental Waste? These Two Companies Think So | The One Tap beer printer from Bar.onBar.on |
| May 2, 2023 | Starbucks Is Trialing Palm Payment In Coffee Shops. Are Consumers Ready? | The Amazon One palm payment system at Starbucks in Edmonds, WashingtonMichael Wolf |
| Apr 6, 2023 | Как ИИ повлиял на индустрию питания до появления ChatGPT | Рецепты блюд
Около десяти лет назад команда по разработке суперкомпьютера IBM Watson, оснащенного искусственным интеллектом, решила найти новый способ продемонстрировать его возможности. Вскоре у устройства появилась собственная кулинарная ... |
| Mar 30, 2023 | Trustwell Expands Professional Service Offerings to Include FSMA 204 Consulting | Backed by its tech-enabled traceability software solution, Trustwell now offers expanded FSMA 204 consulting services to the food industry. "We are excited to apply the lessons we’ve learned from implementing traceability with leaders ... |
| Mar 22, 2023 | Trustwell Releases 2023 State of Food Traceability: Insights from Industry Thought Leaders on Adoption, Progress, and Future Vision | Trustwell 2023 State of Traceability Report
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Trustwell has published its latest research into traceability efforts across the global food supply chain with the release of the Trustwell 2023 State of Traceab... |
| Mar 6, 2023 | March moves: Robot pizza CEO steps down, Meati beefs up C-suite, new execs for DoorDash, Flashfood | To keep everyone up to speed on the latest people moves in the world of food and ag, AFN publishes a monthly column of the industry’s biggest people moves. This month, the USDA gets a new director, DoorDash shuffles executives, Flashfood an... |
| Mar 2, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Shef cooks up $75m, Futura Gaïa lands $11m, Asuene closes $22.8m | This week, US-based Shef, which runs an online marketplace for home-cooked meals, announced new funding, as did France’s Futura Gaïa, for its soil-based vertical farms. Climate tech startup Asuene closed a $22 million round and several comp... |
| Feb 23, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pure Salmon nabs $507m, FreshToHome bags $104m, more layoffs for agrifood | This week, Amazon backs India’s FreshToHome and Pure Salmon inked a whopping $507 million deal with Saudi Arabia’s government. Layoffs continue, while regulators in Finland approve the use of “burger patty” in marketing plant-based meat pro... |
| Feb 23, 2023 | The Many Ways AI & ChatGPT Will Disrupt Food Tech | 4 Mins Read AI and ChatGPT offer a wide range of use cases across the food tech supply chain- we explore the most exciting.
You may be part of the more than 100 million people that have given ChatGPT, Open AI’s optimized language model, a w... |
| Feb 12, 2023 | Artificial intelligence's dirty secret | Meet the hidden human workforce behind the boom in artificial intelligence
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| Feb 10, 2023 | Estonian biotech ÄIO raises €1M to make alternative oils and fats | Estonian biotech ÄIO raises €1M to make alternative oils and fats
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| Feb 2, 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... |
| Feb 2, 2023 | Michroma raises $6.4M to speed commercialization of natural red food color | Dive Brief:
Precision fermentation ingredients maker Michroma raised $6.4 million in a seed round to fast-track its commercialization of a natural red coloring for food and beverage. The round was led by Supply Change Capital — which receiv... |
| Jan 24, 2023 | Brief: Plenty confirms closure of South San Francisco vertical farming facility | Vertical farming startup Plenty has confirmed with AFN that it is closing its South San Francisco facility.
The company will shift all production to its Compton, California facility, though it will continue to have a retail presence in the ... |
| Jan 19, 2023 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Sollum Technologies nabs $30m; phantom carbon credits & food delivery shutdowns | Sollum Technologies raised the largest funding round this week, for its programmable LED lighting for greenhouses. Multus Biotechnology also secured funding, while The Guardian and others unveiled an investigation into a nonprofit for what ... |
| Jan 18, 2023 | The Top 3 Future Foods I Tasted At CES 2023 | 5 Mins Read
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Vegan entrepreneur Noah Hyams shares his top 3 future of food finds at CES 2023, from fermented plant-based soy protein to bioengineered microbe-based soft serve.
CES never used to be a food-forward show. But in 20... |
| Jan 12, 2023 | The week in agrifoodtech: $42m for No Meat Factory, New Age Eats ‘lets go’ of pilot facility, Benson Hill co-founder passes away | This week, Canadian alt-protein startup No Meat Factory raised Series B funding, while down in the US, New Age Eats let go of its nearly completed pilot facility. There were two new deals for forestry-related projects along with new funding... |
| Nov 14, 2022 | Vow raises $49.2M to expand cultivated meat production | Dive Brief:
Cultivated meat maker Vow closed a $49.2 million Series A round, the largest to date for any company in the space. The round was co-led by Blackbird and Prosperity7 Ventures. Other participants include Toyota Ventures, Square Pe... |
| Nov 3, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Bayer backs high-protein chickpeas, Qwick lands $40m, vertical farms shut down | Bayer’s investment arm, Leaps by Bayer, invested in high-protein chickpeas startup NuCicer and hospitality staffing platform Qwick picked up $40 million. In agtech, Ostara closed a $70 million round for fertilizer from water treatment plant... |
| Oct 27, 2022 | Doing Avocado-Eaters a Solid the World Over, Apeel Introduces Avocado Freshness Scanning System | Today Apeel announced they would unveil new freshness detection technology for avocados this week at the Fresh Produce Association Global Produce & Floral Show. |
| Oct 13, 2022 | The next generation of ghost kitchens: 10 new startup concepts around the world | They never did replace the dine-in restaurant but ghost kitchens — kitchens that are not attached to a specific restaurant — are a permanent, and growing feature, of the hospitality industry. Today, early-stage startups founded in the last ... |
| Oct 8, 2022 | Pizza Hut is Deploying Robots to Deliver Pizzas | Joaquin Victor Tacla, Tech Times 08 October 2022, 06:10 am
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CARACAS, VENEZUELA - NOVEMBER 30: View of a Pizza Hut logo at a store in Caurimare on November 30, 2020 in Caracas, Venezuela. CryptoBuyer has ... |
| Oct 4, 2022 | Vow unveils southern hemisphere’s ‘largest’ cultivated meat facility, plans Singapore launch | Australian alternative protein company Vow has opened what it says is the largest cultivated meat facility in the southern hemisphere, in Alexandria in Sydney. The Vow Factory 1 will produce “as much as 30 tonnes” of cultivated meat annuall... |
| Sep 29, 2022 | Cashierless Stores Are Getting A Mind Of Their Own | Ravi Annavajjhala - CEO, Kinara Inc. |
| Sep 22, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Swiftly bags $100m for grocery tech, Pano’s $20m to fight wildfires with AI | This week, retail and grocery tech startup Swiftly bagged a mega-round while front-of-house restaurant software startup Zenchef cooked up new financing to expand its presence. In agtech, Pano raised funds to fight wildfires with AI and Land... |
| Sep 14, 2022 | Data Snapshot: It’s still early days for ghost kitchen investment | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| Sep 1, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Planted’s $72m for whole-cut ‘chicken,’ genomics startup Pattern snags $35m | Swiss alt-protein startup Planted raised Series B funding to expand its line of whole-cut plant-based chicken items. Agtech and genomics startup Pattern also announced Series B funding, while carbon-neutral milk company closed a Series A ro... |
| Jul 14, 2022 | Why Brevel says its microalgae will become the most popular alternative protein ingredient | Brevel founder Yonatan Golan says that in time, the microalgae his company makes will be the alternative protein ingredient of choice.
And he’s not just talking about this protein dominating the nascent microalgae ingredient space. Golan sa... |
| Jul 7, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Green Generation Fund raises $120m, Amazon takes Grubhub stake | This week, Germany’s Green Generation Fund landed more capital to invest in alt-protein startups, while Israeli foodtech firm Phytolon scored funding for its natural food coloring tech.
In the food delivery realm, Amazon bought a stake in G... |
| Jul 2, 2022 | California Passes Landmark Bill Investing Millions in Alt Protein and Plant-Based School Lunches | This week, the California state legislature adopted a $308B budget that, for the first time, allocates public funding for alternative protein research while expanding plant-based school meals. Supporting robust research
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| Jun 30, 2022 | Beyond Meat to launch plant-based steak, CEO says | Dive Brief:
Beyond Meat will launch a plant-based sliced steak product most likely later this year, CEO Ethan Brown said at The Wall Street Journal’s Global Food Forum, the newspaper first reported. It will first launch at retail and then i... |
| Jun 16, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Little Leaf Farms bags $300m, Wonder lands $340m to cook meals curbside | Mega-rounds this week went to controlled environment agriculture (CEA) company Little Leaf Farms and food delivery concept Wonder. Magic Spoon, best known for its “high-protein, low carb” cereal, finally landed in retail (and raised more fu... |
| Jun 9, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Brevel’s microalgae protein bags $8.4m, Brazil’s Agrotools closes $21m, CHONEX raises $6m | This past week, alternative protein raised more funding including Brevel’s seed round to further develop its microalgae-based protein ingredient, SCiFi Foods’ rebrand and major VC backer, and Cocuus’ 3D printing alt-protein tech. In agtech,... |
| Jun 2, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Synthesis Capital closes $300m foodtech fund, e-grocer Astro bags $60m | Though many “instant” grocery delivery startups are in the midst of layoffs, one company in Indonesia bagged a healthy Series B round this week.
Elsewhere, US ag robotics specialist FarmWise teased a new weeding implement along with its lat... |
| Jun 2, 2022 | NFTs Are So Much More Than Just Jpegs, They Are Redefining Access And Ownership In Media And Entertainment | Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are still a bit head-scratchy for some. While there’s a lot of excitement around NFTs within the media and entertainment industries, there’s also a lot of skepticism and criticism. Some critics discredit NFTs as n... |
| May 5, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Zepto bags $200m, Stanford launches climate change school | This week, Indian “instant delivery” e-grocer Zepto got closer to unicorn status with its Series D fundraise, while Colombia’s RobinFood raised funds to expand its ghost kitchen network across Latin America. Elsewhere, cultivated leather st... |
| Apr 21, 2022 | Chipotle hopes new $50m fund will continue its ‘technological transformation’ | US fast-food chain Chipotle has launched Cultivate Next, a venture fund that will invest in early-stage startups developing food and restaurant tech that lines up with the company’s own growth goals.
Cultivate Next, run by Chipotle chief te... |
| Apr 19, 2022 | Chipotle launches $50M venture fund in bid to foster new restaurant tech | In a bid to position its brand as more tech-forward — and, in the process, foster new culinary innovations — Chipotle today announced the launch of Cultivate Next, a venture fund run by Curt Garner, the restaurant chain’s chief technology o... |
| Apr 18, 2022 | Nowadays puts its spin on plant-based nuggets | The alternative protein space is hot, hot, hot as evidenced by both the number of companies developing products and the venture capital going into the space.
Investment into alternative proteins, for example, plant-based meats and dairy sub... |
| Apr 11, 2022 | Plant-based meat is running out of steam, but it’s still the future | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
It feels like practically every other day, a splashy new story about plant-based protein is hitting the bu... |
| Apr 1, 2022 | EXCLUSIVE: IntegriCulture debuts animal-free serum tech to radically reduce cultivated meat costs | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in IntegriCulture.
IntegriCulture has announced the commercial release of its basal medium which can be used to produce cultivated meat without the addition of animal-derived growth... |
| Mar 31, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Beewise closes $80m round, Arzeda nabs $33m | This week, Israeli bee tech company Beewise raised funds to save the world’s apine population with robotic hives, while US autonomous greenhouse tech provider Koidra closed its seed round. In alternative protein, US-based companies closed r... |
| Mar 17, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Licious nets $150m, Bear Robotics raises $81m | Licious, an India e-commerce marketplace for meat, scored $150 million in Series F-plus investment this week, while California’s Bear Robotics bagged $81 million for its robot restaurant servers. Over in agtech, Local Bounti snapped up a ri... |
| Mar 16, 2022 | Miso Robotics partners with Chipotle for tortilla chip-making robots | Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here.
After years of frying and flipping burgers at White Castle locations, Miso Robotics’ autonomous kitchen assistant has a new gig: making tortilla chips for Chipotle. Miso today... |
| Mar 16, 2022 | Miso Robotics partners with Chipotle for tortilla chip-making robots | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
After years of frying and flipping burgers at Whi... |
| Mar 15, 2022 | No longer just a fad: NFTs are making their way into every industry | We might be hearing less about multi-million dollar token purchases these days but the NFT boom is far from over. While the cost of some high-profile NFTs might be returning to more realistic price levels, the tokens are expanding their uti... |
| Mar 10, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Finless Foods nets $34m; CPGs & QSRs quit Russia | This week, cultivated seafood startup Finless Foods closed a $34 million funding round, Clean Crop Technologies raised funds for its crop protection tool, and Protenga nabbed capital for its insect farming operations.
Meanwhile, major food ... |
| Mar 8, 2022 | IWD 2022: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 166
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The two biggest plant-based protein startups in the world are run by men. The majority of the rising cell-based protein startups are also run by men, alongside most of the vegan investment groups that fund them... |
| Feb 28, 2022 | BREAKING: S2G leads $12.3m Series A for food rescue app Flashfood | North America-based Flashfood has raised a $12.3 million Series A for its mobile app-based marketplace that partners with stores to “rescue” grocery items bound for the landfill and sell them at heavily discounted prices.
S2G Ventures led t... |
| Feb 16, 2022 | Hyphen raises $24m in Tiger-led Series A to automate restaurant makelines | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Hyphen.
US-based Hyphen has raised $24 million in a round led by Tiger Global to expand its robotic makeline to more commercial kitchens in the US.
Toast co-founder and president... |
| Feb 10, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Protix bags $57m for bugs, Endless West gets $60m for molecular spirits | This week, the Netherlands’ Protix bagged big bucks for insect protein, while US-based Cooks Venture secured capital to breed slower-growing chickens.
Over in the cryptocurrency world, an initiative born as a joke might actually wind up as ... |
| Feb 3, 2022 | Do Consumers Want Or Need These Biotech Foods? | A sequencing chromatograph showing a DNA sequence and a sample of DNA from the human genome mapping ... [+] project carried out by the Medical Research Council in Cambridge. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images) SSPL via Getty Images |
| Jan 27, 2022 | Инновации на кухне: 5 прогнозов для продуктов питания и техники | Умный контейнер для доставки
В последние несколько лет такие компании, как Walmart и Amazon, пытались определить, как доставлять еду, когда нас нет дома. Среди идей была доставка напрямую в холодильник, на обеденный стол, доставка до гаража... |
| Jan 27, 2022 | Redefine Meat raises $135M for global expansion | Dive Brief:
Israel's Redefine Meat, which makes 3D printed plant-based steaks, raised $135 million in an investment round, according to Israeli business publication Globes. The round, made up of many existing investors, was led by Hanaco Ve... |
| Jan 25, 2022 | Plenty raises $400m from Walmart, others in vertical farming’s largest funding to date | US-based Plenty has secured $400 million in Series E funding in what is the largest investment round to date for a vertical farming company. New investors One Madison Group and JS Capital led the round. Existing investor Softbank Vision Fun... |
| Jan 25, 2022 | Brief: Plenty raises $400m from Walmart, others in vertical farming’s largest funding to date | US-based Plenty has secured $400 million in Series E funding in what is the largest investment round to date for a vertical farming company. New investors One Madison Group and JS Capital led the round. Existing investor Softbank Vision Fun... |
| Jan 17, 2022 | How surplus food marketplace Full Harvest will spend its $23m Series B funding | For years, general consensus agreed the bulk of food waste in developed countries happened at the consumer-facing end of the value chain: in restaurants, retail outlets, and inside people’s homes. More recent data suggests otherwise. Accord... |
| Dec 30, 2021 | 22 predictions we made in 2021, and the 13 we got right | At the start of the year, the Future Perfect team sat down to try to predict what was to come in 2021. It’s a little exercise we do every year to flex our forecasting muscles.
As it turns out, our predictions this year were closer to the ma... |
| Dec 16, 2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: EzCater nets $100m, McCain bets $55m & Good Meat gets green light | This week, vertical ag player Infarm and corporate catering startup ezCater each closed funding rounds that kicked their valuations to over $1 billion. In the alt-protein world, Eat Just secured further regulatory clearances in Singapore fo... |
| Dec 14, 2021 | jack & annie’s closes $23M; aims to make jackfruit hero among meat alternatives | Jack & annie’s, a sustainable, animal meat alternative brand made from jackfruit, announced Tuesday $23 million in Series B funding.
The round was co-led by Creadev and Desert Bloom and included participation from Wheatsheaf and existin... |
| Dec 11, 2021 | Inside Wavemaker Labs' Push to Automate Restaurants | Like so many other sectors, the restaurant industry continues to face a severe labor shortage.
The November 2021 jobs report found that employment in the leisure and hospitality sector was down by 1.3 million, or 7.9%, since February 2020—b... |
| Dec 7, 2021 | Stellar Growth Defined Bee’s 2021 Amid Adjustments to “New Normal” | As COVID-19 drags into another year, we feel lucky that from our vantage point we see a silver lining. 2021 was a year in which we, along with much of the world, learned whether we could stand steady on the ever-shifting grounds that have b... |
| Nov 11, 2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Fazenda Futuro nets $58m; Growers Edge buys FarmlandFinder assets | There was plenty of newsworthy M&A action over the past week.
US food delivery company DoorDash announced a deal to acquire Finnish counterpart Wolt in an $8.1 billion all-stock transaction; while US cloud kitchen company Reef took over... |
| Nov 10, 2021 | Is Anyone Right About the Future of Cultivated Meat? Does It Matter? | 1
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As cultivated meat continues to attract investors and regulatory approval, questions about its long-term viability are on the rise.
Bring up the topic of cultivated meat in a group setting and you’re likely to get all... |
| Oct 27, 2021 | Как кожа хамелеона: разработан материал, который меняет цвет, если рыба испорчена | Вам, вероятно, попадалась рыба, которая издает неприятный запах. Причина — в летучих веществах, которые содержат морепродукты, таких как диметиламин и аммиак. По мере повышения температуры кислотность рыбы меняется, и выделяется аммиак.
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