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| 29.09.2025 | Packaging, Cold‑Chain, and AI: Closing the Freshness Gap | Share
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Perishables fail when packaging, time, and temperature fall out of sync, and the best recent data shows that aligning those three levers pays back quickly. In February 2025, the International Institute of Refri... |
| 24.04.2024 | Saveggy Raises €1.76M for Plastic-Free Edible Cucumber Packaging | 4 Mins Read Swedish packaging solutions startup Saveggy has raised SEK 20M (€1.76M) to scale up its plastic-free, plant-based coating for fruits and vegetables, starting with cucumbers.
Lund-based Saveggy’s latest funding round of €1.76M wa... |
| 01.11.2023 | Food waste solutions for big business | The food management market is soaring to resolve grocery chains' struggle with surplus
This season, with Thanksgiving fast-approaching, Americans are all set to up their food waste. An earlier report approximated that 35% of the turkey meat... |
| 21.09.2023 | Why grocery food waste is big business | A total of 119 billion pounds of food, or 40% of all food in the US, goes to waste every year
The amount of food that goes to waste in the U.S. alone every year is, frankly, shocking: a total of 119 billion pounds of food, which equates to ... |
| 07.07.2023 | The A-List Investors: Top Celebrities Diving into the World of Startups | USA ~
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| 12.09.2022 | Startups Raise Record Sums To Cut Food Waste | 16 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
The problem of food waste has attracted more attention in recent years, and rightfully so.
By now, the rough stats are pretty familiar. Globally, approximately 30% of all food is lost or wasted. In ... |
| 31.08.2022 | Midstream Tech startups continue to bolster food supply chains navigating uncertain times | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| 28.06.2022 | Chinova Bioworks raises $6m in DSM, Rhapsody-led Series A for natural shelf-life extender | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Chinova Bioworks.
Chinova Bioworks, a Canadian company producing “natural” shelf-life extenders from fungi, recently raised $6 million in Series A funding.
The round was co-led b... |
| 12.05.2022 | Corporate commitments, policy drive record $1.9bn funding for food waste solutions: ReFED | Technology companies tackling food waste raised $1.9 billion in funding in 2021, representing 101% year-on-year growth, according to a new report from US-based nonprofit ReFED. This takes investment in food waste tech and business models mi... |
| 02.03.2022 | Data Snapshot: 2021’s top deals for food waste startups driven by environment & economics | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| 10.01.2022 | New Year, New Fund, New Opportunities in Bio + Health | 2021 saw higher than ever funding of startups, continued maturation of the tech-enabled bio and healthcare landscape, and new platforms and business models that propelled growing levels of adoption and scale amongst both upstarts and tradit... |
| 23.12.2021 | Looking Back And Ahead: What We’ve Learned From 2021 Retail | |
| 02.12.2021 | WATCH: Apeel CEO: ‘The way I think about it is that waste is this invisible tax on the entire food system…’ | But success didn’t come overnight for a company now considered to be one of the hottest properties in food/agtech, says Apeel Sciences founder and CEO Dr James Rogers, who worked out how to slow the respiration rate of fruits and veggies ... |
| 02.12.2021 | A look ahead at how technology can tackle climate change | Have few minutes? Help us improve how content is organized on IFC.org by completing a brief survey.
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This is an exciting time for climate tech. After the conclusion of COP26, the question in many people's min... |
| 18.10.2021 | Food Waste Market Map: Invest in food waste solutions to fight hunger & climate change | Alexandria Coari is vice president – capital, innovation, and engagement, at ReFED, a food waste-focused nonprofit based in Chicago, US.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those ... |
| 12.10.2021 | Emmanuel Faber and David Barber Join Impact Investor Astanor Ventures | NEW YORK, Oct. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Astanor Ventures announced today the addition of David Barber and Emmanuel Faber to its partnership team. Barber and Faber, two internationally recognized leaders in the movement towards a sustainable... |
| 20.08.2021 | Food Waste Fighting Startup Apeel Bags $250M In Temasek-Led Round | 4 Mins Read
Apeel, the startup whose tech enables longer-lasting fresh produce, has just bagged $250 million in a fresh funding round. The round, led by Singapore’s Temasek, will go towards Apeel’s continued expansion across Europe, the U.S... |
| 19.08.2021 |
Apeel Sciences Takes $250M More
| Santa Barbara-based Apeel Sciences, which has developed a plant-based coasting for fresh produce to extend its shelf life, has raised another big $250M funding round, a Series E for the company. The funding was led by Temasek, and also incl... |
| 18.08.2021 | Food waste solution company Apeel Sciences raises $250 million | Catch up on the day's biggest business storiesSubscribe to Axios Closer for insights into the day’s business news and trends and why they matter
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| 18.08.2021 | Agrifoodtech Digest: Wendy’s plans 700 parking lot ghost kitchens; Knowde nets $72m | AFN‘s weekly Agrifoodtech Digest is our selection of the top funding, partnership, and product launch headlines reported by us and other sources these past seven days.
🇺🇸 Burger chain Wendy’s plans 700 ghost kitchens by 2025 in partnership ... |
| 18.08.2021 | California-based food tech startup Apeel is fighting the $2.6 trillion global food waste; raises $250 million in new funding | According to Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), a branch of the United Nations, the global full costs of food wastage amount to about $2.6 trillion per year, including $700 billion of environmental costs and $900 billion of social co... |
| 18.08.2021 | Apeel Adds $250M to Accelerate Innovation and Sustainability in Fresh Food Supply Chains | |
| 18.08.2021 | Apeel Sciences Raises $250 Million To Reduce Food Waste | Apeel Sciences, a company whose edible coating helps extend the shelf life of produce, announced Wednesday it raised $250 million in a Series E round that brings the company's valuation to $2 billion.
The latest round attracted a large grou... |
| 18.08.2021 | 'We use food to preserve food...' Apeel raises $250m in series E to tackle food waste on a global scale with invisible edible skin | The round - supported by Mirae Asset Global Investments, GIC, Viking Global Investors, Disruptive, Andreessen Horowitz, Tenere Capital, Sweetwater Private Equity, Tao Capital Partners, K3 Ventures, David Barber of Almanac Insights, Michael ... |
| 18.08.2021 | Apeel raises $250m Series E to expand supply networks, fund tech acquisitions | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Apeel via the latter’s acquisition of ImpactVision.
Food waste reduction company Apeel has just closed a $250 million Series E round, bringing its total funding to $635 million a... |
| 18.08.2021 | $2B Valued Apeel Raises a Fresh $250M to Accelerate Innovation and Reduce Food Chain Waste | Food freshness innovation company Apeel Sciences has announced a Series E funding raise of $250 million. Backed by Oprah and Katy Perry amongst others, Apeel’s biotechnology adds an extra plant-derived peel to the outside of produce allowin... |
| 18.08.2021 | An important takeaway from Maven Clinic’s $1 billion valuation | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| 18.08.2021 | Apeel Raises Another $250 Million To Bring Produce-Saving Tech to Market | Apeel Sciences, a company whose edible coating helps extend the shelf life of produce, announced Wednesday it raised $250 million in a Series E round that brings the company's valuation to $2 billion.
The latest round attracted a large grou... |
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| 04.08.2021 | Farm tech investing is accelerating faster than ever – new report | Editor’s note: A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.
We’ve been watching the surge of investor interest in upstream, close-to-the-farm technologies since the Covid-19 pandemic started. We now have numbers that show just h... |
| 29.07.2021 | Farm Tech Investing Is Accelerating Faster Than Food Tech And General VC - New Report | As devastating as the pandemic has been, some good has emerged from the global health and economic crisis: investment to shore up global food systems has soared. Back in February we confirmed the extent of the boost investors gave entrepren... |
| 03.07.2021 | Apeel Sciences Wants To End Food Waste by Extending the Shelf Life of Your Produce | California is famous for its avocados, and avocados are a famously fickle fruit, ripe one moment and a ball of brown sludge the next.
Apeel Sciences is out to change that. The food science company has spent nearly a decade perfecting an edi... |
| 19.05.2021 | Sustainable Startup Apeel Acquires ImpactVision To Use Its AI Imaging Tech To Tackle Food Waste | 4 Mins Read
Edible peel startup Apeel, which works to eliminate food waste and plastic pollution, has acquired AI hyperspectral imaging tech company ImpactVision, and by integrating this new tech into their application systems at supplier l... |
| 12.05.2021 | Apeel Sciences acquires ImpactVision to look inside fruit & veg for freshness | Disclosure: ImpactVision has received investment from AgFunder, which is the parent company of AFN. Learn more here.
Apeel Sciences, the food waste technology company, has acquired hyperspectral imaging startup ImpactVision. This is Apeel’s... |
| 12.05.2021 | Apeel Sciences acquires ImpactVision to look inside fruit & veg for freshness | Disclosure: AgFunder (AFN’s parent company) is an investor in ImpactVision. Learn more here.
Apeel Sciences, the food waste technology company, has acquired hyperspectral imaging startup ImpactVision. This is Apeel’s first acquisition, and ... |
| 11.02.2021 | How Apeel Founder James Rogers First Found His Innovative Billion-Dollar Idea | James RogersApeel |
| 30.01.2021 | Dream Planning: How This Intrepid Entrepreneur Turned Her Fantasy Into A Honduran Dive Shop | Natalie & Shannon Shuman, Owners of Sun Divers in Roatán Island, HondurasMART Photography |
| 30.12.2020 | The 20 highest-funded agrifoodtech startups of 2020 | It safe to say that 2020 has been a difficult year for many of us – to say the very least. But as the global Covid-19 pandemic has rumbled on, agrifoodtech startups have continued to attract capital from investors.
They’ve had to work even ... |
| 31.10.2020 | Fruit And Vegetable Spoilage Is A Hidden Contributor To Underdevelopment | It has become a well-known fact that more than one third or 1.3 billion metric tons of food produced is lost or wasted each year. |
| 29.10.2020 | Apeel gets more cash to fight poverty and food insecurity in emerging markets with its food-preserving tech | In the first real test of the potentially transformative power of its food-preserving technology, Santa Barbara, California-based Apeel Sciences is bringing its innovative food treatment and supply chain management ... |
| 29.10.2020 | AgriTech startup Apeel secures $30M in funding to fight the $2.6 trillion-dollar global food waste and help smallholder farmers in emerging markets join the global food system | Smallholder farmers managing up to five hectares produce more than 50% of the global fruit supply1, yet agricultural workers still make up 65% of all poor working adults and many smallholder farmers suffer from hunger and extreme poverty. F... |
| 27.10.2020 | Apeel gets more cash to fight poverty and food insecurity in emerging markets with its food-preserving tech | In the first real test of the potentially transformative power of its food-preserving technology, Santa Barbara, California-based Apeel Sciences is bringing its innovative food treatment and supply chain management services to distribution ... |
| 27.10.2020 | Apeel Raises $30M In Funding | Apeel, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based agtech company focused on emerging markets, raised $30M in funding.
Backers included the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Temasek, and Astanor Ventures.
The company will use its new funding and t... |
| 21.10.2020 | TOP 10 AgTech Startups in the USA | AgTech or Agricultural Technology means using technology in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture with the goal of improving yield, productivity, profit and beneficialness. |
| 05.10.2020 | Walmart To Trial Plastic-Free Cucumbers With Edible Apeel Technology Made From Waste | 19 2
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Walk down your usual supermarket aisle, and bets are on that you’ll come across produce wrapped in a layer of non-recyclable plastic. Now, in a bid to meet the growing demand for more sustainable packaging from co... |
| 09.09.2020 | Synthetic Biology Startups Raised $3 Billion In The First Half Of 2020 | (Getty Images/Luis Alvarez) |
| 26.03.2020 | Need Some Good News? How About A Potential Solution To World Hunger? | Founded in 2012, after winning $10,000 at UC Santa Barbara’s New Venture Competition, Apeel Sciences has subsequently raised $110 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Andreessen Horowitz, Upfront Ventures and Viking Global Inve... |
| 12.02.2018 | Apeel Sciences seeks to slash fresh produce waste with plant-based edible skin: 'We've created this idealized little micro-climate inside of each piece of produce' | “Most people don’t think about this, but produce is a living, breathing thing, even after it’s picked,” says the Apeel Sciences founder and CEO, who is on a mission to slash food waste with Edipeel: an invisible plant-based edible peel p... |
| 15.12.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Clear Labs Raises $13m Series B from GV, Khosla, Soros-Linked Fund Invests in Arya Collateral, more | Clear Labs, a food analytics startup, raised a $13 million Series B from a series of venture capital heavyweights including Google’s venture arm GV, early-stage and angel funders Felicis Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and Chinese internet, mobi... |
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