By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Alpha JWC Ventures (Alpha JWC) has led a $6.85 million Series A for Indonesia-based Beleaf, a comprehensive agtech startup with a core business centered on Farming-as-a-Service (FaaS). This investment saw participation from Openspace, alongside several strategic angels, and reflects Alpha JWC’s strong support of the company as it is […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Fraud has been all too rampant in the grain industry in recent years, as a string of multi-million dollar schemes have been featured in the news, going so far as to spark the USDA’s National Organic Program to release new rules early this year aimed at stopping organic food […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media BeeHero’s groundbreaking hive monitoring technology is officially entering the Australian market through a newly announced partnership with Monson’s Honey and Pollination, a leader in the country’s beekeeping and pollination industry. BeeHero’s mission as explained by company CEO Omer Davidi is “…to deliver pollination accountability for commercial crop growers, by […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Many of us have seen documentaries in which scientists trace the ancient origins of individuals by analyzing the isotopes present in their teeth, determining the nearly exact location of where an individual was born and then lived. Now, a company called Oritain is bringing similar abilities to trace the […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Today, every four out of 10 pounds of animal protein consumed on a global scale are fish, leading to 90 percent of the world’s marine fish stock to be either exploited, over-exploited, or depleted, creating a situation primed for the emergence and successful market adoption of cell cultured seafood. […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Located in Ghent, Belgium, Aphea.Bio is a fully integrated microbial product developer with a mission to build a sustainable, reliable, and profitable future for agriculture. With a mission centered on its novel high-throughput APEX R&D platform capitalizing upon the untapped microbial space, the company has been successful in building […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media UNCAGED Innovations, a biomaterials startup founded in 2020, explains that today’s eco-conscious leathers rely heavily on plastic-based materials – a fact it aims to address through its mission to redefine the use of leather in consumer and automotive goods. To do this, UNCAGED is developing a platform of biomimetic […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media By leveraging technology, Amsterdam-based Source.ag intends to democratize access to sufficient fruits and vegetables through AI-driven greenhouses, which the startup stated is a safer, more reliable, and climate-resilient method of production. Founded in November 2020 by CEO Rien Kamman and CTO Ernst van Bruggen, the startup’s proprietary algorithms generate […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Bio-manufacturing has great potential for decarbonization, but it also faces a range of hurdles. If successfully harnessed for key industrial sectors such as foods, fuels, materials, and chemicals, it is estimated to have the ability to mitigate at least 3 GT of carbon emissions per year by 2030. However, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media On November 15, 2022, the global population surpassed 8 billion on its way to breaching 10 billion by 2050. Connected with the expectation is the need to produce more food than has been produced in the past 10,000 years combined (staggering!). To accomplish this, it would require a 70 […]
