This week, India’s BigBasket raised more than $100 million for online grocery delivery, as did Germany’s Choco to curb food waste by connecting restaurants to suppliers. 🇳🇿 Leaft Foods raises $15 million Series A from Khosla Ventures, others. 🇺🇸 Del Monte pledges net zero emissions by 2050. 🇹🇷 🇺🇸 Turkish “instant delivery” startup Getir partners […]
“We hope this report broadens the conversations around higher protein foods and moves the discussions away from an overemphasis on protein. Yet the debate around livestock, particularly meat, lacks nuance and ignores context and important differences in production systems and differences in world regions, it says. Globally, annual meat consumption has increased over the past […]
Brooklyn-based Square Roots has built its business around the idea of putting its vertical container farms as close to consumers as possible, usually in dense urban areas. URB-E’s battery-powered electric bikes are designed to tow up to 800 pounds of product in attached cargo carts at a fraction of the cost of conventional delivery vans. […]
Supporting smallholder farmers in Africa can reap huge benefits; they account for around 60% of the continent’s population. “The new investment takes us one step closer to fulfilling our mission of building the largest network of profitable African farmers using technology, to ensure food security. “ThriveAgric’s fundraising objectives are geared towards growth through vertical and […]
