Serbian startup Bpacks unveils bioplastics from bark: ‘It’s a massively underutilized natural resource’ March 29, 2024 Elaine Watson Bpacks combines bark from timber production, used coffee grounds and other bio-based materials to create pellets that can be used by packaging manufacturers to create a variety of materials from produce packaging to meat trays.
Meet the founder: ‘You cannot be green if you’re in the red’ when it comes to financing regen ag, says Agreena’s Simon Haldrup
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Kraft Heinz nets $171m for clean energy, ALOHA raises $68m, Poseidon raises $20m
🎥Terviva’s strategic pivot: ‘The development cycles of our tech are longer than the economic cycles in which we operate’
‘Incremental’ innovation, a warning on the push for profitability and investors ‘scared shitless’ about portfolios: overheard at World Agri-Tech
Khosla, Friedberg strike positive note amid agrifoodtech funding winter: ‘Exceptional founders have nothing to worry about’
🎥Vivici CEO on whey from fermentation: “If we narrow the message only to ‘animal-free,’ we’re pigeonholing ourselves”
The Week in AgriFoodTech: India’s Jumbotail nets $18m, new investment plans for Corteva, Mondelēz & others
Brief: Orbillion raises new capital for predictive modeling platform to de-risk cultivated meat scaleup
Locus Fermentation Solutions raises $30m in debt financing following ‘strategic restructuring,’ revamps carbon farming scheme
From seed varieties to finance access, South-South collaborations are critical to boosting African agriculture
Meet the founder: FYTO’s Jason Prapas on ‘turning a nitrogen problem into high-grade protein’ for dairy farmers
Meet the founder: FYTO’s Jason Prapas on ‘turning a nitrogen problem into high-grade protein’ for dairy farmers
Umaro Foods raises $3.8m in new financing as it scales up meat-free bacon ‘at half the cost’ of animal bacon
Meet the founder: Verdant Robotics’ Gabe Sibley on NASA rovers, self-driving cars, and ag robots: ‘They have to be insanely robust’
Exclusive: Triplebar Bio teams up with FrieslandCampina Ingredients to make lactoferrin via precision fermentation
Meet the founder: Protix’s Kees Aarts on insect ag… ‘You can’t come in with a Silicon Valley playbook and outcompete a legacy industry in 3 years’
‘Prioritizing taste over timelines’: amidst ongoing market correction, vertical farming company Oishii raises $134m Series B
Mushroom vertical farming company Smallhold files for bankruptcy; firm in ‘worse financial shape than previously disclosed’
Exclusive: BSF ‘breeding as a service’ startup FreezeM nets $14.2m series A. ‘We want to be the seed company for the insect ag industry’
Danone VP on methane reduction in dairy: ‘You can’t force this on farmers, you have to meet them where they are’
Varaha raises $8.7m to help smallholders in Asia & Africa transition to climate-friendly farming methods
Women entrepreneurs are a missed opportunity in venture capital. Here’s how investors and policymakers can change that
🎙️’We could use $100bn per year.’ Astanor’s Eric Archambeau on how agrifoodtech will mature after its dot com-style crash
Rise of the machines: What will drive adoption of robotics and automation in specialty crops?