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AKA Foods Secures 17.2 Million Dollars in Seed Funding

AKA Foods Ltd. today announced the completion of a 17.2-million-dollar seed funding round led by renowned AI experts and entrepreneurs Alex and Michael Bronstein. The funding marks the official launch of AKA Studio, a secure AI system and proprietary platform that enables food companies to create, optimise, and launch products much faster, smarter, and more […]

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Horticulture Startups

Loet Rummenie Appointed as Director of HortiScience Innovation Center

The Hortiscience Innovation Center (HIC) has appointed Loet Rummenie as its first Director, effective June 16, 2025. Rummenie brings over six years of experience as Program Director at StartLife, Europe’s leading agrifoodtech accelerator, and has a strong track record in startup support and ecosystem building. HIC is a newly established initiative in Bleiswijk, founded by […]

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AI Startups

Six disruptive startups driving innovation in fintech, agtech, lifesciences tech and more

NEC X, the Silicon Valley venture studio backed by NEC’s advanced technologies and global businesses, announced the six visionary startups selected for Batch 13 of its Elev X! Ignite program – a cohort that reflects surging demand for innovation in agriculture, healthcare, compliance, financial services and enterprise tech. Elev X! continues to experience record-breaking growth, with applications jumping […]

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AgTech FoodTech Startups

Agnition Ventures announces startup accelerator in partnership with Singapore-based Agrifood Futures

Ravensdown’s venture arm, Agnition, has partnered with Singapore-based Agrifood Futures to offer Land x Launch™, an accelerator program for overseas startups to launch in New Zealand. The program scout’s agricultural technology startups from Agrifood Futures’ global network and supports them with local expertise and potential investments from Agnition to test their product with Kiwi farmers. […]

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FoodTech Fresh Produce Nutrition

Hitachi launches food quality visualization solution with time-temperature sensing ink

Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd. (HIES) is now offering paid samples of its innovative food quality visualization solution using time- temperature sensing ink. This ink, which changes color based on elapsed time and temperature, enables cost-effective quality monitoring in the supply chain. Without requiring power or retrieval, the solution simplifies tracking temperature-sensitive products, improving […]

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BioTech Protein

New Wave Biotech launches Bioprocess Foresight to help biomanufacturing innovators design smarter, commercialise quicker and scale greener

AI bioprocess simulation software company New Wave Biotech is helping alt protein and biomanufacturing companies design better, commercialise quicker and scale greener through new technology launched today.  The Bioprocess Foresight platform harnesses AI-powered simulation to give biomanufacturing innovators a clear picture of techno-economics, output and environmental impact, tailored to their process with their data. Not only does the solution provide […]

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AgTech FoodTech Startups

Women Founders and Funders Singapore 2024 announces 10 standout agrifoodtech entrepreneurs to pitch

Women Founders & Funders Singapore 2024 has unveiled the 10 entrepreneurs selected to pitch on Wednesday 20 November, showcasing women agrifoodtech founders transforming our food system. This will be the third annual FTW Ventures’ Women Founders and Funders Singapore, complementing the annual San Francisco event of the same name, and has become a go-to networking […]

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AgTech FoodTech Startups

$3 million in prize money awarded to seven global food, beverage, and agriculture startups

Empire State Development (ESD) recently announced Unibaio, of New York, NY, as the grand-prize winner of sixth annual Grow-NY business competition which is focused on enhancing the emerging food, beverage and agriculture innovation cluster in Central New York, the Finger Lakes and the Southern Tier. The competition awarded $3 million — including the $1 million […]

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NEC X reveals Elev X! Ignite cohort batch 12: seven startups transforming AI, sustainability and software quality assurance

NEC X, the Silicon Valley venture studio backed by NEC’s advanced technologies, has revealed the seven new standout startups selected for the Elev X! Ignite cohort, Batch 12. Since 2018, NEC X has helped fuel the launch and growth of over 130 innovative tech startups, transforming their visionary ideas into scalable successes. The latest ventures […]