Daily news and analysis about the food tech revolution
Another successful CES (and FoodTech Live!) is in the books. We saw digital noses, smart beer brewing machines, next-gen cooking devices and automated vertical farms. You can catch up on […]
Miele announced today that it has acquired the assets of the German company, Agrilution, makers of the Plantcube indoor vertical farm. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Agrilution’s Plantcubes […]
In an old mine deep underground in Finland, something is stirring. It may sound like the intro to a monster movie, but it’s actually the location of Finnish startup EntoCube’s […]
While it’s bad news pretty much anytime a company goes under, for vertical farming, it’s also good information to have.
Today Flying Spark, an Israeli startup that makes food products from larval insect protein, announced a partnership with Thai Union Group PCL, one of the world’s largest seafood producers. As […]
Mega-corporation and food producer Cargill has invested an additional $75 million into Puris, North America’s largest pea protein producer and supplier of Beyond Meat. This is the second investment Cargill […]
Advanced Farm Technologies (AFT), an agtech robotics startup, has raised a $7.5 million Series A round of funding led by Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley (“YMVSV”), the strategic […]
Vertical farming company Eco Convergence Group announced this morning it has officially rebranded as Kalera. The Orlando, FL-based company, best known for its HyCube grow system, also said it has […]
Techstars, which runs the Farm to Fork food tech accelerator (among many others), announced a $42 million investment in fresh funding today. The round was led by SVB Financial Group, […]
Vertical farming startup AeroFarms has raised a $100 million Series E round to expand its warehouse facilities that hold massive indoor farms, and explore new types of produce it can […]
San Francisco-based vertical farming startup Plenty today unveiled some first glimpses of its new farm, Tigris. According to a press release, the farm will focus on enhancing the flavor of […]
Dundee, Scotland-based vertical farming system Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS) announced today it has raised a £5.4 million Series A funding round led by U.S.-based S2G Ventures, with participation from online […]
