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Announcing THRIVE’s Latest Accelerator Cohort!

We are delighted to announce the ten global startups selected to join the 8th cohort (THRIVE VIII) of award winning accelerator program. The ten companies were selected from an applicant pool of over 800 startups from across 78 countries. The competitive selection process, conducted by THRIVE’s corporate partners, focused on the startups’ potential impact on sustainability […]

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AgTech Precision Agriculture

Future Crops Announces New Investment Round, Led by Tencent

Future Crops announces a new investment round led by Tencent to accelerate growth. Future Crops is shaping the future of agriculture and our food system, making it more safe, resilient, and efficient.  An Israeli-Dutch venture, Future Crops has developed advanced vertical farming from cutting-edge technology that uses a unique soil-like substrate to better reproduce the […]

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FoodTech Natural Ingredients Sustainability

Phytolon and Ginkgo Bioworks Collaborate to Take Biological Production of Vibrant Food Colors to the Next Level

Phytolon, a growing startup company making natural food colorants, announced a partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA), the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, to produce vibrant cultured food colors via fermentation of yeast. Under this partnership, Phytolon is leveraging Ginkgo’s ability to engineer biology at scale to work together on the production of vibrant […]

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FoodTech Meat

Meatable cements its place as a leader in the cultivated meat sector with a suite of new senior appointments

Meatable, an industry-leading food company developing cultivated pork and beef with groundbreaking technology, has announced the appointment of a number of industry leaders to key management roles. This follows a successful Series A funding round in March 2021 which raised $47M. These new appointments will help accelerate its product development and put it in pole position for […]

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Agriculture Startups Sustainability

When Zero-Waste Meets 3D Printing

GREENFILL3D – a Polish start-up operating on the edge of ecological, biodegradable materials and 3D printing, announces the premiere of its unique filament based on wheat bran – GF3D Branfill3d. The material was created in accordance with the modern concepts of zero-waste and circular economy – the wheat bran is a production waste resulting from […]

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AgTech Precision Agriculture

Agritech and the future of farming

“The Complex problems faced by farmers made me look for simple and sustainable solutions. Agritech I strongly believe is the way to go. The book offers high impact solutions and an implementation path based on my grassroots work, which can be adopted rapidly.  I hope my efforts succeed in convincing all stakeholders including the farmers, […]

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FoodTech Fund Raise Plant-based Foods

ChickP completes Round A of US$8M to accelerate growth under new CEO

FoodTech start-up ChickP, Ltd. names Liat Lachish Levy as the new CEO and has finalized Round A of US$8M in total. This investment round was led by a group of executive investors from Singapore under Genisys Capital Private, Ltd., and backed by strategic partner and plant-based nutrition foodTech company Growthwell Foods, Ltd. with its leading […]

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AgTech Events FoodTech

Cultivate Tomorrow Pitch Day

Cultivate Tomorrow is a grassroots initiative launched by students from MIT, Northwestern, Yale, UW Madison, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC San Diego, UVM, and Ohio State University. The Founder and Director is Jasmin Kern, currently an undergraduate senior at MIT studying Chemistry with a focus on Food and Agriculture. Other organizers include PhD candidates in […]

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AgTech Precision Agriculture

Agmatix Launches a New Plant Nutrition Carbon Footprint Optimizer to Reach Crop Yields Targets with Lower Carbon Footprint 

Agmatix, a start-up AgTech business owned by leading global specialty minerals company, ICL, today announces the launch of its Plant Nutrition Carbon Footprint Optimizer within its highly acclaimed new data technology platform. The new and unique feature now enables ag-professionals and crop consultants to better understand the carbon footprint of their crop nutritional recommendations and […]

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AgTech Events Precision Agriculture

Webinar series: Industrial challenges in AgTech & new startup technologies

RootCamp is organizing a series of 4 webinars about relevant topics that are shaping the innovation scene in the agtech industry: robotics, digitalization, circular economy and soil health. Join the panel discussion and get to know from experts, corporate partners and startups the latest status and newest trends on these topics. The webinars are organized in […]