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[ad_1] “You have 130 million farmers plus their families who are vulnerable… Traditional urban insurance brokers do not understand [their] needs,” founder Jatin Singh told AFN. The post India’s GramCover banks pre-Series A funding for rural insurance network appeared first on AgFunderNews. Read Original Report Here By Ag Funder News [ad_2]

[ad_1] A global pandemic provides the industry with an opportunity to demonstrate not only its staying power but its strong consumer demand, as well. The post Highly Essential? Legal cannabis continues to come of age despite Covid-19 appeared first on AgFunderNews. Read Original Report Here By Ag Funder News [ad_2]

[ad_1] The funding will be used to construct what it describes as the largest mealworm facility for animal feed in North America. The post Insects for animal feed startup Beta Hatch raises $3m Series A1 appeared first on AgFunderNews. Read Original Report Here By Ag Funder News [ad_2]

[ad_1] If most people knew how some diseases threaten to take out their favorite foods, they’d go bananas. On average, humans around the world eat 130 bananas each year making them a staple but the global crop is at risk. Colombia declared a national state of emergency in 2019 when its banana crop, one of its top exports, […]

[ad_1] European Agri-FoodTech startups raised $3.4 billion in funding in 2019 across 419 deals, a 70% year-over-year growth, according to AgFunder’s latest research. Looking ahead to 2020, the picture is not so rosy with early indications of more muted funding levels between January and March of this year as the startup industry across sectors started […]

[ad_1] Urban farming gets a boost as the Singapore Food Agency and Housing & Development Board tender out nine multi-storey car park rooftops to growers. The post Singapore food and housing agencies to rent out public rooftops for urban farms appeared first on AgFunderNews. Read Original Report Here By Ag Funder News [ad_2]

[ad_1] This post is part of a collaboration with F&A Next, an AgFunder Network Partner. F&A Next was founded by Anterra Capital, StartLife, Rabobank and Wageningen University & Research. Read about F&A Next 2019 here. A few years from now, the coronavirus pandemic may feel like a distant memory. For now, it seems to be […]

[ad_1] SoftBank – one of the world’s most active agrifoodtech investors last year – has reported a ¥1.9 trillion ($17.7 billion) annual loss on its Vision Fund startup portfolio. This staggering deficit from the Vision Fund – which SoftBank launched in 2017 with backing from Saudi Arabian sovereign fund PIF, UAE sovereign vehicle Mubadala, Apple, […]

[ad_1] Singapore-based agribusiness Olam has secured loans worth $176 million from International Finance Corporation (IFC) – the World Bank‘s investment arm – and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Olam will deploy the capital to boost the smallholder-dominated commodity crop sector across Asia and Africa. This will include a drive towards more widespread use of […]

[ad_1] GROW – the Southeast Asian agrifoodtech accelerator by AgFunder – is inviting startups from across the Asia-Pacific region to apply for its new program focused on food security: Singapore Food Bowl. With the initial support of Enterprise Singapore and Dole Packaged Foods, Singapore Food Bowl brings industry and startups together to build more resilient, […]

[ad_1] For the third episode of our new What The Fork? Digitalks by AgFunder series, AgFunder was joined by S2G Ventures, the world’s most active foodtech and agtech venture capital investor, to exclusively discuss new research conducted by the firm. S2G recently published a report looking at how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting the global […]

[ad_1] Even before a global pandemic led to sweeping shelter-in-place orders, the idea of growing food at home was rather en vogue. As far back as 2017, reports showed that one in three Americans were growing some of the food they ate at home.  Now, as the pandemic pinpoints weaknesses in the food supply chain […]

[ad_1] Ag Biotech, which includes on-farm inputs for crop & animal ag including genetics, microbiome, breeding, animal health, cooled down in 2019 compared to prior years. Startups in the category raised $1.1 billion in funding, according to Agri-FoodTech Investing Report, but deal activity dropped 22% year-over-year while dollar investment declined 33%. Despite the slow down, […]

[ad_1] This post is part of a collaboration with F&A Next, an AgFunder Network Partner, ahead of its fifth annual conference, hosted virtually on Wednesday, 13 May 2020 at 4pm CET (11am ET). Registration is open here. F&A Next was founded by Anterra Capital, StartLife, Rabobank and Wageningen University & Research. Read about F&A Next 2019 here. If anything is made clear by […]

[ad_1] The Yield has raised A$11 million ($7.13 million) in an ongoing round led by Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley – the VC arm of Japanese automaker Yamaha Motor. [Disclosure: The Yield is an AgFunder portfolio company. AgFunder is the parent company of AFN.] German tech and engineering giant Bosch, already a shareholder […]