Food Tech News: Sustainable Agriculture Leaps in Earth and in Outer Space
In this week’s news cycle which seems to be filled with ever-more-scary headlines, it can be hard to look anywhere but the eye of the storm. However, if you want […]
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Cooks Venture Raises $4M to Expand Regenerative Agriculture Initiative
Cooks Venture, a startup focusing on sustainable agriculture and food supply, today announced a $4 million capital raise led by Golden West Food Group. The startup also hired Ankur Agrawal, […]
MIT Halts Work on the Controversial Open Agriculture Initiative Food Project
MIT has closed down much of its Open Agriculture Initiative following allegations of academic dishonesty and improper dumping of wastewater, according to an article published in the NY Times. Late […]
FarmWise Raises $14.5M for Autonomous Weeding Agriculture Robot
FarmWise announced today that it has raised a $14.5 million Series A round of funding for its autonomous agriculture robots. The round was led by Calibrate Ventures with participation from […]
Cooks Venture Raises $12M to Spread Regenerative Agriculture through Heirloom Chickens
Today regenerative agriculture company Cooks Venture announced the close of a $12 million senior secured financing round provided by AMERRA Capital Management. Founded by Matthew Wadiak, the ex-COO of meal […]
Indoor Urban Agriculture Is Growing Up Thanks to These Cities
At this point, the benefits of indoor urban farming are common knowledge: fresher food, fewer transportation emissions, and less spoilage thanks to shorter transit distances. NYC’s Gotham Greens highlighted those […]
CAS Wants You (and Everyone Else) to Know About Cellular Agriculture
Maybe you’ve heard of this thing called ‘cellular agriculture.’ It’s basically the practice of creating animal products from animal cells, instead of entire animals — and it’s the science behind […]
Six Suggestions for Alphabet X’s Agriculture Ambitions
Alphabet X (part of Google family of companies), said that it is exploring ways to use AI to improve food production. During the MIT EmTech Digital event in San Francisco […]
SavorEat Plans to Build an Appliance For The Home That Prints & Cooks Meat
“That’s our goal,” said Vizman when I caught up with her via a zoom call. “Where we can also have, next to a microwave, we can have machines that you […]
Bright Idea! Saga Robotics Uses UV Light to Kill Crop Mildew
Ultra-Violet light is having a moment because of its germ and virus killing capabilities. While there is a lot of interest in using UV light inside food delivery lockers and […]
AppHarvest Partners With the Dutch Government to Make Kentucky an Indoor Farming Powerhouse
Agtech startup AppHarvest this week announced a partnership with the Dutch government, the state of Kentucky, and several other organizations including universities to turn Appalachia into an “ag-tech epicenter,” according […]
TurtleTree Labs Raises $3.2M Seed Round for its Cultured Human Breast Milk
Turtle Tree Labs, a Singapore-based startup that creates milk from mammalian cells, announced yesterday that it has raised a $3.2 million seed round of funding. Green Monday Ventures, KBW Ventures, […]
