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AgFunder
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AgFunder is a venture capital and intelligence platform focused on deeptech and deep science startups that could solve global problems in food, agriculture, or planetary health.
Investments areas include AI, robotics, drones, biotech, techbio, synbio, materials science, photonics, and therapeutics.
Founded in 2013 and based in Silicon Valley, AgFunder is one of the world’s most active foodtech and agtech VCs. We were born online, and with our publication AgFunderNews and our research department, we’ve built a global ecosystem of 90,000+ subscribers. This gives us one of the most powerful networks to help build impactful and important companies.
Our in-house AI GAIA supports both our research and investment teams, identifying promising founders and technologies across our focus areas and indexing tens of thousands of companies each year.
Investments areas include AI, robotics, drones, biotech, techbio, synbio, materials science, photonics, and therapeutics.
Founded in 2013 and based in Silicon Valley, AgFunder is one of the world’s most active foodtech and agtech VCs. We were born online, and with our publication AgFunderNews and our research department, we’ve built a global ecosystem of 90,000+ subscribers. This gives us one of the most powerful networks to help build impactful and important companies.
Our in-house AI GAIA supports both our research and investment teams, identifying promising founders and technologies across our focus areas and indexing tens of thousands of companies each year.
How to protect your IP on a budget: A primer for foodtech startups
In the world of foodtech, defining and protecting your intellectual property (IP) is mission critical. It factors into business plans and can be pivotal to securing investment. But how do you do it on a budget, and how do you avoid making costly mistakes?
For a quick primer, we caught up with patent attorney Dr. Eran Noah at Noah IP (tagline: ‘Innovation is priceless, but IP protection comes at a cost’). The former director of IP at animal-free dairy startup Remilk, Noah has a BSc. in Life Sciences, an MSc. in Molecular Biology & Microbiology and a PhD. in Protein Biochemistry & Structural Biology. He is also an IP mentor at the Good Food Institute’s GFI Mentor Program.
In our 15-minute chat, we covered:
What is patentable? Something novel, non-obvious, with clear utility or application?
What should you try and patent, when should you file an application, and what’s best left as a trade secret?
How does the filing process work?
What costly IP mistakes do startups make?
What is an ‘IP strategy’?
What's a fractional IP director?
For a quick primer, we caught up with patent attorney Dr. Eran Noah at Noah IP (tagline: ‘Innovation is priceless, but IP protection comes at a cost’). The former director of IP at animal-free dairy startup Remilk, Noah has a BSc. in Life Sciences, an MSc. in Molecular Biology & Microbiology and a PhD. in Protein Biochemistry & Structural Biology. He is also an IP mentor at the Good Food Institute’s GFI Mentor Program.
In our 15-minute chat, we covered:
What is patentable? Something novel, non-obvious, with clear utility or application?
What should you try and patent, when should you file an application, and what’s best left as a trade secret?
How does the filing process work?
What costly IP mistakes do startups make?
What is an ‘IP strategy’?
What's a fractional IP director?
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MOA Foodtech on biomass fermentation: Sustainability isn't enough. We have to achieve lower prices
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MOA Foodtech is an AI-powered B2B platform for producing ingredients via biomass fermentation fed on feedstocks from food and agricultural waste.
Onego Bio: Avian flu has changed the game for animal-free egg proteins
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While investments in some parts of the alternative protein category have cooled off, the market doesn’t need much convincing that there’s mileage in replacing eggs, says Maija Itkonen, cofounder and CEO of Finnish precision fermentation startup Onego Bio, which makes egg white proteins with microbes instead of chickens.
Ultrafine bubbles can drive efficiency in biomanufacturing, claims Hydrosome Labs
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Thanks to their unique properties, ultrafine bubbles (a.k.a. ‘nanobubbles’) are gaining traction in everything from indoor farming to wastewater treatment. But new research suggests they could also deliver dramatically higher yields in biomanufacturing, claims Dr. Nick Jackowetz at Hydrosome Labs.
'The food of the future will be manufactured in a tank...' Biomass fermentation at MISTA Growth Hack
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Biomass fermentation, in which whole microbial or plant cells are harvested from fermentation tanks to create products from DHA-rich animal feed to alt meat, is distinct from precision fermentation, which can involve costly downstream processing steps to extract the purified target ingredient from the cells. So where are the biggest opportunities, and are big CPG companies buying into this oppo...
Heura CEO: ‘We can transform ultra-processed foods into highly nutritious options’
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While it made its name selling meat alternatives, Heura has since developed novel texturizing technology that can be applied to everything from cheese to pasta, enabling higher levels of protein, less saturated fat, and fewer additives, says the Barcelona-based startup, which is now exploring partnerships and licensing deals to achieve maximum impact. Heura’s ‘process-controlled microstructure ...
Enifer revives 20th century mycoprotein operation, with a new twist
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Finnish startup Enifer is one of a flurry of new players in the biomass fermentation space growing mycoprotein. But what makes it stand out from the crowd, and does the world need more mycoprotein? For a start, its core product (brand name: PEKILO) has already been produced successfully at industrial scale, and can run off a variety of feedstocks aside from pure glucose, said cofounder and CEO ...
Insulin from insects? FlyBlast CEO on why bugs beat microbes for recombinant protein production
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Right now, recombinant proteins are typically produced by microbes in big steel bioreactors. But could the black soldier flies give these tiny bio-factories a run for their money? We caught up with Antwerp-based startup FlyBlast at the Future Food-Tech summit in London to find out more...
‘Can the market sustain all the new mycoprotein capacity? Absolutely…’ says ENOUGH CEO
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“Candidly,” admits ENOUGH CEO Jim Laird, scaling up mycoprotein production at the firm’s new plant in The Netherlands has been tough. “We’ve had a hard 12 months in terms of production efficiencies.” But demand is strong, with “really stunning interest” from large meat companies, he claims. With industry pioneer Quorn reporting lackluster sales and Sweden’s Mycorena filing for bankruptcy in Jul...
Cultivated meat: ‘A valley of death we can't cross without a massive infusion of public investment’
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The last two years have been challenging to say the least for cultivated meat and seafood companies trying to raise capital, with AgFunder data showing that funding peaked at $989m in 2021, dipped slightly to $807m in 2022 and then fell precipitously in 2023 (-78%) to $177m, against a backdrop of a -50% drop in agrifoodtech investing that year. There is little sign things are picking up in 2024...
Foodtech investing: 'You can't escape the fundamentals...'
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'It’s been a grim couple of years for foodtech investment, with the whole segment, fairly or unfairly, often judged by the performance of some high-profile alt protein players that have burned through huge amounts of money with little to show for it. So what have we learned and where do we go from here? AgFunderNews caught up with Andrew Ive, founder and managing general partner at early-stage ...
Precision pollination startup BeeHero enters Latam market, predicts revenues of $70m+ in 2024
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A large percentage of crops worldwide rely on bees, and the cost of pollination is only going in one direction (spoiler alert, it’s up). So how can growers that rely so heavily on these tiny creatures ensure they are getting what they’ve paid for and optimized their chances of successful pollination? AgFunderNews caught up with Omer Davidi, cofounder and CEO at precision pollination startup Bee...
Keeping fish cold and water clean across the supply chain in Kenya with Kimani Gichuche
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Adili Solar Hubs is using solar energy to provide cold storage for small-scale aquaculture and fisheries and is creating a marketplace to link that produce with tradespeople for the last mile distribution. CEO Kimani Gichuche had a background in energy before coming into agrifoodtech.
Developing one of the first bioherbicides in the world, with Claire Baker
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"We're a front runner; I can't name another biological herbicide really. There are some in the books but I don't know if they're successful," says Claire Baker, CEO of Kuvu Bio Solutions, a company fighting weeds for African agriculture. Amid growing herbicide resistance globally, as well as faltering food security in Sub-Saharan Africa, Baker's father discovered the efficacy of a fungus called...
AI PANEL: How is artificial intelligence impacting the food, ag and materials space?
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At AgFunder’s AGM (May 2024), head of engineering Robin Ranjit Singh Chauhan explores how artificial intelligence is impacting the food, ag, and materials space, with panelists from AgFunder portfolio companies Cromatic, Atinary Technologies, and dataspan.ai
Pow.bio: Smarter, not bigger, bioreactors will unlock economic viability of precision fermentation
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Pow.bio: Smarter, not bigger, bioreactors will unlock economic viability of precision fermentation
Liberation Labs on biomanufacturing 2.0: ‘What matters is whether the capacity is fit for purpose’
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Liberation Labs on biomanufacturing 2.0: ‘What matters is whether the capacity is fit for purpose’
Hyfé CEO: More sustainable feedstocks are key to driving the bioeconomy
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Hyfé CEO: More sustainable feedstocks are key to driving the bioeconomy
What will unlock the unit economics of precision fermentation? Wild Microbes weighs in at SynBioBeta
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What will unlock the unit economics of precision fermentation? Wild Microbes weighs in at SynBioBeta
Fats from fermentation: Chewing the designer fat with Nourish Ingredients at SynBioBeta
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Fats from fermentation: Chewing the designer fat with Nourish Ingredients at SynBioBeta
Hoxton Farms tackles fat, the final frontier for alt meat
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Hoxton Farms tackles fat, the final frontier for alt meat
Coffee with a kick… without the caffeine? Rarebird spills the beans on paraxanthine
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Coffee with a kick… without the caffeine? Rarebird spills the beans on paraxanthine
Dinner's ready! Hyphen's robotic makeline in action
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Dinner's ready! Hyphen's robotic makeline in action
🎥 Germin8 Ventures on a ‘bruising’ year in venture capital
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🎥 Germin8 Ventures on a ‘bruising’ year in venture capital
Ayana Bio CEO on how plant cell culture can futureproof the botanical supply chain
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Ayana Bio CEO on how plant cell culture can futureproof the botanical supply chain
Pongamia: New kid on the plant-based block?
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Pongamia: New kid on the plant-based block?
🎥Vivici CEO on making dairy proteins... without cows
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🎥Vivici CEO on making dairy proteins... without cows
Supergut shines in Ozempic era: 'We've tripled the business over the past 5-6 months'
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Supergut shines in Ozempic era: 'We've tripled the business over the past 5-6 months'
Meatiply CEO: 'We're creating cultivated meat products that are more healthy and nutritious'
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Meatiply CEO: 'We're creating cultivated meat products that are more healthy and nutritious'
Have you found a way to pollinate passion fruit?
he should work on growing berries into hand fruits. I want a blueberry the size of a basketball
why would he wear the sweater that makes him look more like bert than he already does.
Hi agfunder please if you can reply me, i would really appreciate it... I have a question please 🙏🏾
Go to Hell 👌❗
I am in love with your butter leaf lettuce that I buy from Heb . I want to thank you that you have good healthy products like that. God bless you.
"Now is a great time to invest" said every dead duck of a company. Sad for you mate.
"The economics just HAVE TO work" he pleads. Please please please fund me governments. Because business has seen the light and is heading over the horizon!!
LOL, what a lying toerag. Same old claims which have been shown to be completely wild. A study has been done showing how this stuff results in 4 to 25 times the emissions of actual meat, and that's even using the not-fit-for-purpose joke that is GWP100. Give up mate, it's over.
We put too much chemicals, antibiotics and other nasty synthetics to grow tissues in the lab. Even bovine serum extracted from the blood of animals is needed particularly as a hormone source in the culture and cant be replaced. As soon as the consumers realize what they are eating is far worse than the actual meat both from health and animal welfare, they will stop eating it. And this is even if these companies would take over the issues with the mass production of the meat. None of these products will see the light of the day and they are there only with their empty promises and hypes from the friendly media. As soon as the investors finally realize it won't work, they all vanish just like most of the others did.
If you could produce the active compounds artificially would be a real solution. However, they would need to be tested not to have impact the health of the animals or the human consumers. Also see if sargassum would have the same impact as it is available in large quantities and is actually a serious problem in certain coasts.
I see it more as a 'if the results are good is because of us and if doesn''t, something else was involved'. In general, mainly a Snake Oil marketing company heavily relied on aggressive marketing and advertisement.
Very interesting! I think one of the main issues to make sure and convince the authorities that the disease is specific for a certain pest plant. Also there is a good chance for resistance development in the plant. For this I would suggest the use of 2 or more strains being used at the same time. This has a big potential particularly here in Australia for the exotic pest plants such as lovegrass. However convincing the authority that fusarium would be specific plant would be a monumental task as fusarium is a massive problem in Australia and Australian government sections are like dinosaurs.
"firms in the space have been slashing headcount..." And making sausage? LOL I guess nobody wants to eat fake meat!
Thanks for a great interview!
This was great
Operational in 2024 as touted? Not at the present pace of construction. Money troubles, lack of skilled labor, building material delays EPA snags? Something is fishy.
Was brought here by Tony Seba’s discussions and predictions on precision fermentation. Fascinating discussion on the future of dairy products, thank you all!
I'd fund this! i think this stuff could really go somewhere.
But can we trust the BBC?
More power to you, Ryan! I'm so happy to see you guys expanding in India. I hope you will help in completely eradicating the animal-based dairy industry from this country.
If duckweed is grown in wastewater, would it take up contaminants present in the water and would not be suitable for human consumption?
Seriously good development, but wonder if there is research on land based plants that would be even better and more economically efficient Good on you people though!
Good
I actually prefer the shorter videos
The disparity between development cycles versus market cycles, I feel, is so important and often underestimated. I love how efficient and versatile pongamia seems to be so I hope these efforts to diversify and increase financial resilience will pay off. Having more viable options increases worldwide food safety resilience, and it's hard to complain about that. All this said. Pongamia is a tree and that comes with its own challenges. From what I can find, it takes 5 years to go from seed to harvest and that doesn't necessarily mean it'll be a great amount of beans. They said they can achieve consistent high-yields but I'm not sure what that means on a tangible timescale. To start with, I'd like to actually see some hard numbers when they talk about "more biomass per acre than soybeans" that also take into consideration the full lifecycle of the plant. Then, I would also like to see what kind of time scales would be possible if demand were to increase due to, say, some agricultural land degrading to grade 3. I would also be curious about how well the regenerative properties of this plant actually compare, reliably and empirically, to other available methods. Same with the "relatively low water usage". In other words, I'd like to see more technical, black and white data about the plant itself and all related claims.
Nice
This video is a hidden gem! Very interesting startup, they're essentially encouraging a completely new production chain of melanin-based products. Very interesting that they're using their own bacteria, too, instead of E. coli and the usual suspects. I hope to hear great things from them in the future!
This is a crappy business model for me as a family farmer … I pay you for rock dust and put down the product & you make the carbon credit money?????
Yeah, unless their dust is able to generate the same benefit as aglime for cheaper, I really don't understand the appeal. Also, how much carbon capture are we talking, here, actually? Is it enough to offset mining and production emissions? I'm left with more questions than answers
I think there will be a viable model at the right price because the stuff does add value. The tricky part is Nerds Selling To Farmers. They will overcomplicate it.
I've looked for "the Ingredients list" on perfect day web, & google search. I asked perfect day on their own website, a few Weeks ago. What is SO secretive of the beginner 'food' that the specialized bacteria (use) to transform into lactose-free product? & IMPORTANT KEY: The AMOUNT of coconut oil or 'other oils' that perfect day 'prescribes/uses' 🧐Without consideration of People's different metabolism of CONCENTRATED OILS that Likely prove Allergic reactions, congestion-accumulation PAIN in tissues. One size DOES Not fit all Because Whole coconut Should REMAIN whole to Be Perfectly Nutritional!! 😮😢
If they can make ghee with precision fermentation, they will save billions of people from dependence on palm oil. PF ghee can save countries in the indian subcontinent, Middle East and Africa trillions in foreign exchage. It can restore food security around the world.
Beyond Meat is going bankrupt, these guys will too. Plant based food is not good for you. Research the carnivore diet and you’ll find thousands that lost weight, fixed type 2, arthritis, brain fog, low energy, and many other things. Meat is a superfood the powers that be don’t want us to have. The thousands of chemicals inside meat cannot be created in a stainless steel tank. Eating unproven food like this turns you into a guinea pig. There are no long term studies on what diseases this change in diet will cause. They have no idea what will happen and assume it will be good for you. Don’t be a guinea pig!
Did any of these people say they can produce whey or casein cheaper than major dairy farmers, and sell it to us cheaper than them?
depends. if precision fermentation receives the same amount of subsidies as dairy and the industry is brought to scale then probably
It's matter of time. Price party in 3 years.
Was surprised they only spoke about price parity from one side - cow milk inputs and costs will only go up, accelerating with climate change.
Cool, the "food" theyre making is a "red dye" for processed food slaves who eat junk.
David is brilliant and I very much appreciate his capacity for systems thinking, science , and business. The piece that I think is unappreciated is that food isn't simply about calories. The industrialization of food and synthesis of food products has led to unintended consequences and aberrations in human biology. Obesity and chronic disease continue to rise and strongly correlated to modern manipulation of food systems. As a clinician there is a fundamental axiom that I have witnessed time and time again, disrupting an aspect of a natural system in isolation tends to lead to dysfunction to other parts of the system.
Good day, great video and great job!!! I wish you success and a 250% increase in yields!!! I would like to ask you to use your video on your TH-cam channel to promote artificial insemination in Ukraine. Your copyright will be preserved! Thank you again from the bottom of my heart
I believe governments should reach out and adjust prices of traditional dairy products and meat. These prices are not adjusted for the damage they inflict on the environment, biodiversity and climate. Gradual adjustment of prices would create a more level playing field, which in turn would change the economics dramatically. That said, I also think that much attention must be paid to factors like taste: these products should also be attractive, they should taste good.
I believe we should put a tax on what you eat.
the industries are heavily subsidized... no need to adjust, just remove the subsidies and give them to vegetable, fruit, and legume farmers instead. and precision fermentation companies, why not
As an Engineer {EE} I find this process fascinating with great potential except for some historic facts. Corporations never have the best interest of the public in mind. In just the last century, for example, steel roller mills allowed for massive amounts of white flour to be milled and the bran/germ sold off as cattle feed. Now most everyone could afford the "rich man's" white bread but didn't care up to 40 of the nutrients in wheat berries had been removed. It took a massive increase in pellagra, beriberi, anemia before government, in 1946, forced the millers to "Enrich" the flour and add back in, 4 nutrients out of the 40 they took out. Then it took until 1996 until the millers were forced to add folic acid to stem the increase in birth defects. Even if you can assure 100% identical protein and texture, what about the nutrients and minerals in true natural products? Or must we go the synthetic route for those? Put back in 5 +/- of the 40 +/- of the nutrients that don't exist in this product? I can easily imagine how the Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab's, WEF, UN, Globalists of the world can and will manipulate our food supply to achieve their true goal of a massive depopulation of the planet by up to 90%. When I think of these people and companies like Monsanto, I cannot help but think animals walking and eating in a farm yard somehow are cleaner and better for humanity.
Your red hat is showing.
Your content is good but Growth is poor 😢Because of Proper Seo and proper promotion In your video. If You want I will do proper seo and organic Promotion In your video
Hello AgFunder , I hope you are fit and fine. I saw your TH-cam channel " AgFunder ”. Your channel subscribes 642 and video are 47 . Your channel and video content are very good. Also, the thumbnail design is very attractive. But here are some problems: TH-cam video SEO score is very low. Not title - description - tag are SEO friendly Not sharing on social media platforms and your TH-cam channel is a lot of trouble As a result views, likes and subscribers are not increasing.
If you listen to this guy long enough your eyes start to cross.
So with all this data, it's amazing you still don't know the exact conditions on Uranus
very well done interview, thanks , learned a lot
Hey besties
Very inspiring to see the history of Climate -- because we founded a company similar to Climate in 2018 in Germany without being aware of that, and without really knowing their journey. So great to see how somebody went the same path 10 years earlier than we did.
Friedberg is smart af, dayumn
This guy is made differently. All-In Pod is definitely lucky to have him as a bestie.
David Sacks is crying somewhere that Friedberg doing a 41 min Science Corner.
It’s amazing how humble David is, a lot of us who watch All In doesn’t know about this because he never mentions it.