The innovations will open up the cut fruit market, cut food waste, unlock new export markets, and reduce shipping costs, claims Tropic.

The network of indoor farms will use the Square Roots IP and modular farming platform to grow specialty crops.

“You ought to care about biologicals because it’s going to be a very significant segment — and already is,” Dr. Pam Marrone said during an online talk this week about biological crop products in ...

A new player is plotting a move into the lactoferrin market with plans to construct a precision fermentation facility in the Midwest producing the high-value ingredient using genetically engineered ...

US-based 80 Acres Farms has raised an additional $115 million, bringing its total funding to more than $370 million; the company will also focus on plant genetics for indoor agriculture with the ...

Israel-based bioinsecticide company IBI Ag has raised $6.1 million in the first tranche of its Series A funding. Corteva led the round through its investment and partnership platform Corteva Catalyst, ...

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.

ProFuse Technology—an Israeli startup best-known for media supplements that increase the speed and efficiency of muscle tissue formation in cultivated meat—has launched a high throughput screening ...

Lever VC has announced the first close of its Fund II with an initial $50 million for early-stage investments in agrifoodtech startups. The fund—which will remain open to new investors until its final ...

Edacious—a startup developing a rapid testing and data insights platform to measure and map nutrient density in whole foods from meat and milk to fresh produce—has closed an $8.1 million seed round ...

If 2024 was a year of market corrections and recalibration, 2025 could be a year of “chaos,” “uncertainty” and “short-term decision making,” predict agrifoodtech investors quizzed by AgFunderNews at ...

Under a 10-year purchasing agreement, Brevel will supply CBC with its algae-derived ingredients, grown in a high-yielding process combining LED lighting and sugar-based (‘dark’) fermentation. “A ...