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.

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 ...

“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 ...

Eat Just and its cultivated meat subsidiary GOOD Meat have reached an agreement in principle to settle their legal dispute* with bioreactor supplier ABEC, according to court documents, although the ...

MeliBio, a California-based startup developing honey without bees, says it is on course to reach profitability by the year end as it ramps up sales in the US market. “In 2024 we went from 10 stores to ...

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 ...

College students from Tulane University and Louisiana State University plan to save literal truckloads of food this Super Bowl Sunday in New Orleans via their work with nonprofit the Food Recovery ...

Finally Foods—a molecular farming startup producing dairy proteins in potatoes—is gearing up for its first field trial in southern Israel next week, less than a year after launch. “One of the key ...

This week, Norwegian vertical farming startup Avisomo secured $5.2 million, Belgian sustainable crop protection startup BiocSol snapped up $4.6 million, and US-based PlantBaby raised $4 million for ...

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 ...