Meet co-founders Maija Itkonen and Dr. Christopher Landowski, whose Finnish alt-egg startup Onego Bio uses a genetically engineered strain of fungus – instead of chickens – to makes egg proteins, and is on track to achieve self-affirmed GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) status this year. #altegg #egg #altprotein #alternativeprotein #foodtech #eggprotein #microbes #fungus #precisionfermentation #synbio #syntheticbiology #Finland #USA
AgFunder
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
San Francisco, California 42,770 followers
AgFunder invests in exceptional founders transforming food & agriculture. #agrifoodtech #food #health #agriculture
About us
AgFunder is a Bay Area VC firm investing in exceptional and bold entrepreneurs who are aiming to build the next generation of great food tech and agtech companies. AgFunder has $170m AUM and invests pre-seed to Series A with $500k - $5m checks. AgFunder also runs AgFunderNews (AFN) a publication which has a full time media team, with nearly 5,000 article written. To learn more we can be reached at info@agfunder.com
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External link for AgFunder
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
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- Privately Held
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- Agriculture, Networking, Investment, and Crowdfunding
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Employees at AgFunder
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Tom Shields
I work on things that matter with people I care about. Mostly doing CEO/CTO coaching and advisory work.
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Cliff Hinrichs
Venture Investor | ex-Google | INSEAD MBA
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John F. Diener
CEO Vertical Oceans | AgFunder Mentor | Trendlines Investment Committee
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Frank Leffelaar
Agri-food Tech Strategy & Growth, Mentor, Connector, Board Advisor, Angel & Impact Community Supporter, Transformative Innovation, Sustainability…
Updates
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US distributors off DJI drones — the clear leader in the US ag spray drone market with an 80%+ share — are “engaging directly with lawmakers” to ensure members of Congress understand the potentially devastating effects a ban on DJI drones would have on the agricultural industry. #drone #agriculturaldrone #dronetechnology #agtech #agritech #DJIdrone #robotics #agrobotics #cropinputs #agspray #drones #agriculture #growers #USA #UScongress
Ag drone distributors form coalition to fight moves to block DJI drones in US market
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Precision agriculture has the power to disrupt farming, driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning, but farmers, their suppliers and purveyors of precision ag technologies also need to be aware of the associated legal risks, write guest columnists Dr. Siegmar Pohl and Jordan Glassman of San Francisco law firm Kilpatrick.
Guest article: AI can transform precision agriculture, but what are the legal risks?
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Chilean startup ByBug has raised a $1.4 million to build a platform to produce recombinant proteins from genetically engineered black soldier flies, an approach it claims is cheaper and more scalable than using engineered microbes via precision fermentation. "Insects have the capacity to perform post-translational modifications that microbes cannot," says co-founder Jose Del Solar Bou… #biomanufacturing #insectfarming #insectprotein #insects #precisionfermentation #recombinantproteins #blacksoldierfly
ByBug: Black soldier flies can deliver cheaper, more scalable recombinant protein production
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ThriveAgric has a target to provide $500 million in credit to 10 million smallholder farmers by 2027 and $1 billion to 20 million by 2050. #Africa #agribusinessmarketplaces #agrifinance #climatechange #cropinputs #smallholderfarmers #farming #agriculture #foodsecurity #emergingmarkets #irrigation #droughtresistance
300,000 tons of grain and counting: Nigeria's ThriveAgric aims for year-round food production for Africa's smallholders
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Meet Donát Posta 🌾🌎🧑🌾 and Jimmy Fong 🌾🌎👩🌾, whose company scoutlabs is working to digitize insect trapping systems in the specialty crop arena. #digitization #insects #pestmanagement #specialtycrops #growers #insecttraps #biologicals #farmers #agronomists
Scoutlabs unpacks the process of digitizing pest management and ‘the changing buyer’ in agtech
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🖋 Letter from our editor, Louisa Burwood-Taylor... "I was first captivated by the potential of regenerative ag 10 years ago, but the movement was little known beyond small circles, and in the business and investment world I lived in, barely at all... (but) last week at Groundswell, the UK-based regenerative agriculture festival hosted by the Cherry family, the movement felt unified, positive – and big!" #RegenerativeAgriculture #Sustainability #FutureOfFarming #AgTech #Innovation #SustainableAgriculture #agriculture #regenag #farming #growers #AgFunder #AgFunderNews
Letter from our editor: Groundswell 2024 hints at the common ground regenerative agriculture needs
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🔗 Read The Week In AgriFoodTech ➡ https://lnkd.in/gxmct38A 🌎 Agrifoodtech funding drops 12.5% YoY in H1 2024. 🇺🇸 Mineral winds down: ‘We will no longer be an Alphabet Inc. company; but our technology will live on…’ 🇧🇷 With $12m in fresh funding, Brazil’s Gênica tackles soil health, the next phase for ag biologicals. 🇺🇸 ‘The pressure is on’ as ag biologicals evolve past ‘the peak of inflated expectations’. 🇺🇸 UPSIDE Foods initiates new round of layoffs as state lawmakers take aim at cultivated meat. 🇺🇸 Tufts University professor has ‘zero worries’ about long-term viability of cultivated meat. 🇺🇸 Generative AI will transform CPG, says Amazon exec: ‘Personalization is going to evolve very quickly’. Wharf42 | Western Growers | Rohlik Group | eAgronom | Vertus Energy | Vital Farms | UNCAGED Innovations | ReciMe | VANETTA FOOD #AgFunder #AgFunderNews #agtech #agritech #foodtech #agrifoodtech
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Meet the founder: Founded in 2021 by Louise Parlons Bentata and engineer Nestor Rueda-Vallejo, Bluemethane is a member of AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator cohort 5 and is on a mission to remove methane from a variety of water sources, starting with wastewater treatment in the UK, where utility companies have committed to achieve net-zero status by 2030. #agfunder #goGROW #carboncredits #carbonmarkets #greenhousegases #meetthefounder #methane #UK #wastetech #wastewater #women
Bluemethane unveils novel tech to capture methane from water
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Varaha has made impressive progress with Enhanced Rock Weathering. We're excited to be invested in such science-driven and impactful work! #varaha #erw #enhancedrockweathering #frontiercoalition #carbonremoval #smallholders #farmers #india #carboncredits
IIMA | Pennstate | ex-Bayer | Regenerative Agriculture | Soil Carbon Modeling | Nature-Based Solutions
Today, I am thrilled to share the incredible progress our team at Varaha has made over the past 7 months to conceptualize & launch our Enhanced Rock Weathering (#ERW) program. We're proud to be educating smallholder farmers and being able to deploy over 6,000 tons of sustainable rock powder (<150 micron particle size) so far, to remove carbon permanently from the atmosphere. At Varaha, science is the foundation for everything we do. I'm proud to have led the scientific precision we've integrated into our ERW program, demonstrated by our thorough soil and pore water testing. Building on our experience of conducting thousands of soil tests, we aim to create public evidence that will help catalyze the ERW sector for smallholders, which is currently lagging. I am also proud to announce that we have secured dedicated financing to scale our ERW program up to 250,000 tons of rock powder deployment by the end of the year. As a citizen of the Global South myself, leading a project in the Global South that empowers farmers like Mohan and Naveen, and laborers such as Shantabai, is immensely gratifying. Madhur Jain | Vishal Kuchanur | Ikarus Janzen | RTP Global | Omnivore | Norinchukin Bank | Octave Wellbeing Economy Fund | Theia Ventures | AgFunder | Orios Venture Partners | Better Capital | Nan Ransohoff | Randy Spock | Joanna Klitzke | Phil Renforth | Kurt Tsuo| Mark Kahn | Tommy Bennett #varaha #erw #enhancedrockweathering #frontiercoalition #carbonremoval #smallholders #farmers #india #carboncredits