The Iowa-based fintech startup helps agrifood retailers, lenders and growers offset financial risks in adopting sustainable practices. The digital toolkit includes a crop …
Some 90% of the world’s soil could be degraded by 2050, jeopardizing food production. Puna Bio makes organic biofertilizers with microorganisms that have …
Jakarta-based Eratani acts as a tech-enabled marketplace for small rice farmers, offering the farmers credit, insurance, agronomic support and connections to farm input …
A decade ago, a wave of startups started showing up in Kenya, India and other emerging markets tackling the issue of fragmented, under-resourced, …
Investors have reupped in Johannesburg-based Khula, an online platform connecting commercial and smallholder farmers to suppliers, financiers and offtakers. PepsiCo’s agriculture fund, Kgodiso …
A group of Stanford University graduate students launched San Francisco-based Nitricity in 2018 to develop a plant-based and climate-smart solution to synthetic nitrogen …
Phoenix-based MyLand launched in 2014 to provide “soil-as-a-service” to small farmers and other food growers. The agrifood tech company uses native microalgae and other …
Nigeria’s Agriarche is a female-founded agritech startup that offers farmers and produce aggregators storage, inputs, logistics and payments services. Its mobile platform, called …
Food waste is a significant global challenge with far-reaching environmental and economic consequences. When food waste ends up in landfills, it decomposes and …
Cambridge, Mass.-based Inari uses artificial intelligence to speed up plant breeding and gene editing to create high-yielding, climate resilient seeds for crops such …
A tricky tech play for the agriculture sector is finding a place among India’s millions of small-scale farms to strengthen livelihoods and generate …
Chocolate makers are scrambling to secure cocoa supplies amid threats from unpredictable weather, deforestation and aging cacao trees. “The industry needs solutions and …
Bain Capital Double Impact, the impact vertical of private equity firm Bain Capital, has made its first foray into sustainable agriculture. The investment …
Hyderabad-based Marut Drones designs unmanned vehicles for crop planting, spraying and surveillance in rural India. It operates a fleet of about 750 drones …
Few startups have cracked the code for how to build a sustainable business securing and growing the livelihoods of 500 million smallholder farmers …
Rubio Impact Ventures backed Denmark and UK-based Female Invest to help close the gender wealth gap. In Europe and North America, women will …
San Francisco-based fund manager RSF Social Finance has made three loans through its RSF Social Investment Fund, an evergreen debt fund looking to …
Authentic food products can drive a whole lot of authentic demand. That’s the food industry buzz after this week’s news that PepsiCo will …
Germany alternative-protein startup Formo lands $61 million, launches animal-free cheese in more than 2,000 stores.
Close to 300 million people in Africa are undernourished; one out of every four people on the continent faces food insecurity. Incofin Investment …
Brazil is the world’s largest producer of sugarcane, accounting for one-third of global production for ethanol, fertilizer and animal feed as well as …
Omnivore is making a push to support India’s biotech companies alongside other agrifood tech ventures to help mitigate climate impacts in agriculture. “We …
Just 10% of the produce harvested by India’s farmers gets processed in-country, presenting a revenue opportunity for farmers and others in the agricultural …
The Nutritious Foods Financing Facility has secured $11 million in catalytic first-loss capital from USAID and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation …
Autonomous vehicles aren’t just for the streets of San Francisco or Shanghai. Monarch Tractor is a California startup that began producing fully electric, …
Africa’s shea industry employs nearly 16 million women, providing a critical input to the global confectionery and cosmetic industries. Land degradation and deforestation …
Tender Food (formerly Boston Meats) uses a fiber-spinning process akin to making cotton candy to turn plant protein into “structured” cuts of meat, …
Monitoring soil health and carbon is key to cutting land-based emissions, but is complex and expensive. Downforce, based in the UK, uses remote …
Solugen uses natural feedstocks such as corn sugar to produce chemicals commonly used in fertilizers, cleaning agents, wastewater treatment, construction and energy production. …
Nairobi-based Gro Intelligence has spent the last 12 years analyzing and delivering predictive farm data in order to improve the resilience of global …
Gurgaon-based FarMart is working to improve the efficiency and cut waste from India’s food supply chains through a network of 3,500 local logistics …
Luxembourg-based PeakBridge has raised $187 million to invest in agriculture and food companies that are leveraging AI and digitalization to drive healthy and …
Rice is a staple crop for more than half of the global population. Demand is projected to double by 2050. But traditional rice …
The Agtech startup iProcure launched a decade ago to untangle supply-chain logistics for Africa’s hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers. Now the company …
ImpactAlpha, May 6 — Healthy soils are critical for food security, farming profitability and carbon sequestration. Vancouver-based Miraterra launched in 2022 to provide …
“Imperfect produce” startups that salvage fresh foods destined for the landfill can be found throughout the US and Europe. Nairobi-based Farm to Feed …
“Where are we?” It’s the question I’m constantly asking myself about food waste reduction. There are many viable food waste solutions, and many …
Nairobi-based SunCulture has been making affordable irrigation systems for smallholder farmers in Africa since 2013. A decade ago, farmers had difficulty finding affordable …
Difficulty finding and hiring farm workers, particularly migrant workers, is hurting production on American farms. Seso, based in San Francisco and Monterrey, Mexico, …
Mad Capital raised $10 million in 2021 for its debut Perennial Fund, which went on to finance two dozen farmers in the US …
Astaxanthin is used in aquaculture feed to enhance the health and pigmentation of farmed fish and shrimp. Synthetic astaxanthin is cheaper than natural …
ImpactAlpha, February 15 — San Francisco-based Hippo Harvest is still standing after the shakeout of other controlled-environment produce producers. The company’s leafy greens …
ImpactAlpha, February 7 – It’s been a tough couple years for companies trying to offset global meat consumption with alternatives made from plants. …
ImpactAlpha, January 31 – Chennai-based Aquaconnect supports fish and shrimp farmers with remote monitoring and access to cold storage, logistics and buyers. The …
ImpactAlpha, January 22 – The United Arab Emirates imports more than 80% of its food. The country is betting on indoor, vertical farms …
