Express interest in investing in Fund V. AgFunder is a top 100 VC, according to TIME and Statista. Is your business ready for AI analytics? Find out more here. This big news this week… A flurry of carbon removal megadeals from Microsoft, which teamed up with Indigo for soil carbon removal, Varaha for biochar, and Rubicon Carbon for forestry. Elsewhere… a cash injection for biopesticide startup SenseUP, which is tackling the twin challenges of cost and stability in RNAi-based crop protection....
11 days ago • 3 min read
Express interest in investing in Fund V. AgFunder is a top 100 VC, according to TIME and Statista. Is your business ready for AI analytics? Find out more here. The big news this week: New US Dietary Guidelines recommend a near-doubling of the current protein RDA and debut a redesigned food pyramid emphasizing animal-based sources. It's prompted a flurry of debate over how this squares with advice to limit saturated fat. "Highly processed" foods, meanwhile, are off the menu. What this means in...
18 days ago • 3 min read
Express interest in investing in Fund V. AgFunder is a top 100 VC, according to TIME and Statista. Is your business ready for AI analytics? Find out more here. 2025 was meant to be the year agrifoodtech found its footing again. Instead, it turned into something messier: a year of recalibration, retrenchment, and some very public reality checks. Funding fell further than many expected, some high-profile companies stumbled or collapsed, and long-standing assumptions about consumer demand,...
25 days ago • 2 min read
Express interest in investing in Fund V. AgFunder is a top 100 VC, according to TIME and Statista. Is your business ready for AI analytics? Find out more here. The big news this week: More grim news in the cultivated meat space as Meatable folds, but a glimmer of hope as fellow Dutch startup Mosa Meat raises fresh capital. Plant-based blues: Konscious Foods ceases operations Lights, camera, action: The AgFunderNews team rounds up the good, bad and ugly events in agrifoodtech in 2025, and...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Express interest in investing in Fund V. AgFunder is a top 100 VC, according to TIME and Statista. Is your business ready for AI analytics? Find out more here. The big news this week: "Animal-free dairy” pioneer Perfect Day says initial operations will begin at its new facility in India in the second half of 2026, while Meati turns off the lights at its production site in Thornton, Colorado. Regen ag: Reactions to USDA’s $700m program ranged from unbridled excitement to skepticism....
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Express interest in investing in Fund V. AgFunder is a top 100 VC, according to TIME and Statista. Is your business ready for AI analytics? Find out more here. The big news this week: Crunch time for cultivated meat as Believer Meats—the only player with a large-scale facility—calls it quits. It's premature to write the sector off before it's even out of the starting blocks, insists industry pioneer Dr. Mark Post, but firms must now recalibrate and "prioritize fundamentals over speed." US ag...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Express interest in investing in Fund V. AgFunder is a top 100 VC, according to TIME and Statista. Is your business ready for AI analytics? Find out more here Remarkable retraction: A "landmark" paper on glyphosate safety has been pulled—25 years after publication. It's riveting timing for Bayer’s Roundup Supreme Court appeal. Yet the trigger was a random reckoning for the scientific relic, reports Jenn Marston. 🤔 Too much "regenerative organic" certification could distract us from building a...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Express interest in investing in Fund V. AgFunder was recently recognized as a top 100 VC by TIME and Statista. Is your business ready for AI analytics? Find out more here The big news this week: Is a slow-release bolus the best way to slash methane emissions in pasture raised cattle? Armed with fresh capital, New Zealand-based Ruminant BioTech is gearing up for launch in 2026. Also... - Regenerative organic certification: Does the food industry really need it? - Monetizing methane: Landfill...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
The big news this week: Insolvent Miyoko's has a new owner, but the founder says she won't serve as a brand ambassador. Plus, are corporates ditching ESG goals, or just reframing them around climate resilience? Also... - Engines a go: Tractor Junction nets $26m to give India's farmers access to used vehicles with affordable loans. - Rise of the machines: DailyRobotics enters the strawberry harvesting race with a 'bot that can pick 2–3x faster than humans. - Space race: The future of...
2 months ago • 4 min read