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| Oct 22, 2026 | 🎥 Earth Rover bets on pulsed light to tackle weeds without chemicals | Robotic weeders are evolving quickly. Some zap their targets with lasers, hot oil or electricity, others target them with microscopic sprays or mechanical hoes.
UK startup Earth Rover is betting that a carefully targeted pulse of concentrat... |
| Oct 13, 2026 | 🎥 ClimateCrop bets on starch ‘off switch’ to improve crop performance | Neutralizing the “off switch” for starch production in plants could be the key to unlocking higher yields and boosting resilience across a vast swath of crops, says Israeli startup ClimateCrop.
Founded by Yehuda Borenstein, Erez Eliyahu and... |
| Oct 6, 2026 | 🎥 Can Picker AgRobotics’ Dr Octopus-style arms finally crack autonomous fruit harvesting? | Can robots inspired by elephant trunks finally crack the economics of autonomous fruit harvesting?
While other orchard robotic harvesters deploy rigid arms that pick, retract, and place fruit, Israeli startup Picker AgRobotics is taking a d... |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 🎥 Resurrect Bio reawakens plants’ natural defenses: ‘It’s very targeted, almost like personalized medicine’ | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Resurrect Bio]
In the evolutionary arms race between plants and pathogens, the pathogens often find a way around the plant’s defenses. Resurrect Bio has a novel, chemical-... |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Antobot scales UV-C robotics push with 300 deployments targeted in 2027 | UK-based startup Antobot is aiming to deploy 300 autonomous robots in strawberry crops next year as more growers become comfortable with using UV-C light to tackle powdery mildew and other fungal pathogens.
Rather than spraying fungicides o... |
| Sep 24, 2026 | 🎥Agrifood VC needs a different playbook, says Pymwymic: “Corporate venture capital needs to step in earlier” | In agrifoodtech investing, says Pymwymic managing partner Rogier Pieterse, it might be time to stop shooting for the stars and instead aim for the moon — and consistently land there.
“We don’t believe in what we call the US VC model, where ... |
| Sep 24, 2026 | 🎥 What is agrihealth—and can it become an investable category? The First Thirty makes the case | We’ve all heard of agritech, but what is agrihealth, and can it become a viable investment category?
For Antony Yousefian, managing partner at UK-based VC firm The First Thirty, the premise starts with a simple question: if “you are what yo... |
| Nov 18, 2025 | 🎥 Avalo harnesses ‘whole genome AI’ to accelerate crop breeding: ‘We look at the forest, not the trees’ | Most of the traits we care about in agriculture are not single gene traits, observes Avalo CSO Mariano Alvarez, PhD. They might result from hundreds, or even thousands of genes working together in ways we don’t understand. So how can breede... |
| Oct 3, 2025 | 🎥 Helios taps AI agents for ag insights at ‘worst time’ for procurement pros | “If you’re a procurement manager, a procurement analyst in the food supply chain, this is the worst time in your professional career,” says Helios cofounder Francisco Martin-Rayo. “It used to be you would deal with a disruption once every c... |
| Oct 1, 2025 | 🎥 Matt Crisp on agtech investing: ‘We need to get small in order to get big again’ | After a decade or so of agtech investing, the sector has generated a lot of excitement, but the returns haven’t always matched the hype.
That’s forcing both founders and investors to rethink what success looks like, says industry veteran Ma... |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Agrifoodtech investment models need ‘a rethink’ | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews parent company is AgFunder.]
A panel of investors at the World Agri-Tech summit in London this week unanimously agreed that the agrifoodtech investment model needs, as moderator Adam Anders put it, “a rethink.”
Pan... |
| Aug 27, 2025 | 12 months of UK agrifood strategy—and where it’s headed next | Editor’s Note: AgFunder is hosting an industry insights breakfast in London next month for corporate, family office, and institutional investors. Apply to attend here.
AgFunder representatives will go on to speak at the World Agri-Tech In... |
| Oct 7, 2024 | The venture capital model is still suitable for agtech. Sort of | With agrifoodtech investment still down and exits in the sector elusive, more folks are now asking whether the venture capital model is still applicable to agtech.
The jury, it seems, is still out on the matter. While VC investment to agtec... |
| Oct 3, 2024 | 🎥Precision pollination specialist BeeHero enters Latam market, predicts revenues of $70m+ in 2024 | A large percentage of crops worldwide rely on bees, and the cost of pollination is only going in one direction (spoiler alert, it’s up). So how can growers that rely so heavily on these tiny creatures ensure they are getting what they’ve pa... |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Australians look to World Agri-Tech to fill horticulture, grains investment pipeline | This sponsored post has been published in partnership with AgriFutures Australia. The author is Casey Dunn, a writer and corporate affairs consultant based in Orange, New South Wales.
For more than 30 years, Australia’s rural R&D corpor... |
| Dec 14, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Ag marketplace Vegrow lands $46m, Yara acquires fertilizer business, Chipotle invests in ag robotics | Welcome to the new, streamlined format of our Week in AgriFoodTech, where you’ll find less rambling from yours truly and fast access to the most important news of the week in food, agriculture and climate. (Do drop me a line if you have fee... |
| Oct 2, 2023 | Entrepreneur’s egos, European poo culture, CRISPR supermarket: What we heard at London’s agrifoodtech summits | People say the darndest things. Or do they?
After four days of panels, meetings and coffee breaks in London at the World Agri-Tech and Future Food Tech shows, AgFunderNews has compiled a list of quotes we heard from attendees on the state o... |
| Sep 27, 2023 | World Agri-Tech London: 4 ways to make agtech tools actually relevant to farmers | Panelists in an early session at this week’s World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in London spent the better part of their discussion discussing the whats, whys, and hows of agtech tools: What tools will we need to produce food now and in the ... |
| Sep 26, 2023 | European agrifoodtech innovators are more likely to be developing startups in these 3 categories | What do the following agrifoodtech categories have in common? Plant-based ingredients Pollination and bee-tech Methane reduction tools
They’re all strengths of the European agrifoodtech ecosystem, according to new research from AgFunder and... |
| Sep 16, 2022 | Plasma Waters To Host Roundtable at World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit | The Award-Winning and Patented ‘Plasma Activated Water’ innovators will showcase their world-changing technology at the two-day conference. LONDON, ENGLAND, September 16, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Robert Hardt, CEO of Plasma Waters, will h... |
| Sep 10, 2021 | Future Food-Tech To Bring Industry Heavyweights To Table On Sustainable Nutrition | 12 1
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Bringing together more than 700 senior executives and stakeholders across the food industry, the upcoming Future Food-Tech Summit is set to showcase the latest in sustainable nutrition. Taking place between Septem... |
| Aug 24, 2021 | Vegan Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed to Join Panel on Promoting Food Security Through Agri-Food Innovation | KBW Ventures founder and CEO, Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed, will join industry experts next month for the 2021 World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit on a panel discussion under the banner of Accessing New Market Opportunities.
The vegan Prince an... |
| Nov 9, 2020 | Startup Spotlight: With Numnuts, sheep tail docking and castration may not be so baaaad | There are a couple of big jobs that a shepherd or shepherdess has to take care of each year: castrating and tail docking.
The latter is the practice of removing a portion of the sheep’s tail to prevent a nasty disease called flystrike that ... |
| Oct 9, 2020 | Un startup IT pentru fermieri a obținut o finanțare de 1,2 milioane euro, cu participarea unui cofondator Bolt | Un startup IT din Estonia, activ și pe piața din România cu soluțiile sale software destinate fermierilor, a obținut o finanțare de capital de risc de 1,2 milioane de euro, de la o serie de investitori, printre care și Martin Villig, cofond... |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Unilever’s sustainable sourcing supremo talks radical supply chain transparency | Transparency was already a high priority for consumers before the pandemic hit. Now, it’s even more critical with 81% of consumers recently deeming it “extremely important”, according to a report from the Food Marketing Institute and Label ... |
| Sep 15, 2020 | China’s consumer digital revolution now reaches ‘back into the supply chain and the farm’: Local VC | The US continues to dominate investment in agritech innovation. According to AgFunder research, US startups netted $8.7 billion in funding across 683 deals last year.
That’s just over a third of all 1,858 agrifoodtech venture deals worldwid... |
| Nov 14, 2019 | Bayer CropScience COO: acquisition is exception to rule in startup interactions | In Lord of the Rings parlance, the German chemicals and life sciences giant Bayer towers over the agtech space rather like an Ent. As with those walking, talking trees of JRR Tolkien’s imagination, the German multinational has deep roots in... |
| Oct 15, 2019 | A startup cheat-sheet for London’s World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit | If you have been hurriedly using the last few weeks to prepare for London’s Future Food Tech summit by carefully reading, re-reading, and re-re-reading this 18-startup food tech cheat sheet, then here’s some more good news: there’s also thi... |
| Oct 14, 2019 | Roboscientific triumphs at Tesco Agri-T Jam | Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the Tesco’s Finest of them all?
Ten agri-tech start-ups have been flinging 7-minute pitches at UK supermarket giant Tesco and its supply chain partners for most of Monday. The series of pitches — branded s... |
| Oct 24, 2018 | Norway AgriTech: Punching Above its Weight | Editor’s Note: Anders Torud is a senior advisor at Inkubator Aas, the campus Startup Incubator at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Inkubator Aas has companies like N2Applied and Saga Robotics among its incubator companies. Edvard ... |
| Oct 11, 2018 | Tesco’s head of agriculture: ‘Water quality is a key issue no-one is innovating for’ | Barney Kay is head of agriculture at Tesco, the major UK retailer. Tesco is hosting a pitch competition at the upcoming World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in London next week. In advance of the event, we caught up with Kay to find out more a... |
| Oct 11, 2018 | Bayer’s Percy: Agritech is Maturing as Startups Attract Senior Execs and Ag Corps Look to Collaborate | Adrian Percy is the former head of R&D at Bayer, recently stepping down and becoming the company’s technology ambassador. Ahead of his speaking slot at World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in London next week, we caught up with Percy to fi... |
| Sep 28, 2017 | The State of AgriFood Tech Startups in Europe | Editor’s Note: Thomas van den Boezem is program manager at StartLife, a Netherlands-based incubator for agrifood tech startups, cofounded by world-leading agriculture university Wageningen University & Research. StartLife has a portfoli... |