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| 04.11.2025 | The World's Largest Environmental Award, the Food Planet Prize, Announces 2026 Longlist | The World's Largest Environmental Award, the Food Planet Prize, Announces 2026 Longlist
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As the world faces mounting pressure to align food production with planetary boundaries, the Curt Bergfo... |
| 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... |
| 14.04.2025 | ABC Impact closes Fund II with expanded LP base, including ADB | Temsek-backed private equity impact fund manager ABC Impact has raised more than $600 million for its second vehicle, it said in a statement.
Fund II, which is double the size of the firm’s inaugural fund, has garnered commitments from the ... |
| 19.09.2024 | Independent Forums Presents Future Food Systems Chicago: Igniting Innovation | Independent Forums presents Future Food Systems Chicago: Igniting Innovation, taking place at The Merchandise Mart on 24 October 2024, and featuring speakers from Mondelēz International, Beam Suntory, The Cheesecake Factory, Kerry, PURIS Ho... |
| 29.04.2024 | Taste of Zero Waste: Hilton Introduces Waste-Free Menus at 4 UK Hotels | 4 Mins Read Hilton has rolled out zero-waste menus at four of its hotels in the UK as part of its ESG strategy, alongside a low-waste menu at nearly 20 additional sites.
On Stop Food Waste Day (April 24), Hilton launched zero-waste menus at... |
| 11.03.2024 | Deals in brief: Ai Palette, Rukita, and Thryve.Earth secure funding, Sunday and Carro complete acquisitions, nine China deals, and more | NewsDeals in brief: Dolbomdream, Prefer, and Lapasar secure funding, BlackRock-Temasek partnership leads investment in Antora Energy, six China and India deals, and more
Written by KrASIA Writers Dolbomdream, Prefer, Lapasar, and more led o... |
| 05.03.2024 | ABC Impact Invests in Winnow, The Global AI Leader in Commercial Food Waste Solutions | Food loss and wastage is a global problem that worsens hunger, undermines the sustainability of food systems, and increases greenhouse gas emissions
Measuring food waste is a challenge for many commercial kitchens, with up to 20% of food pu... |
| 18.01.2024 | Guest article: With fresh funding, Metafoodx aims to scale AI-powered tools to reduce foodservice kitchen waste | Alejandro Enamorado is the capital, innovation & engagement senior manager at food waste non-profit ReFED. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of AgFunderNews.
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| 14.06.2023 | Winnow winning the food (waste) fight with a $10 million raise | Winnow estimates that in excess of $100 billion worth of food is wasted each year in the hospitality sector alone so the London-based firm developed an AI solution for the food sector to reduce waste in kitchens.
The technology harnesses th... |
| 20.07.2022 | Five Ways Technology is Revolutionising the Food Sector | The past two years have brought rapid acceleration and developments in technology and digitisation across all sectors.
Although it might feel like we’re already living at a peak digital level, countless technological advancements are happen... |
| 06.09.2021 | Food sharing app Olio raises $43m as neighbours scramble for free groceries | Sharing app Olio, which connects individuals who are looking to offload uneaten food and other household items to nearby neighbours, has raised a $43m Series B round led by VNV Global and joined by DX Ventures, the VC arm of food delivery b... |
| 28.05.2021 | Ten tips for scaling a tech company in Asia-Pacific | Scaling internationally is often a key goal for tech companies and the perfect opportunity to promote faster growth. It is exciting and the next logical step in expansion.
And yes, scaling in Asia Pacific is great, if you get it right. It ... |
| 23.12.2020 | Let’s Refocus Agri-Food Tech To Solve Today’s Critical Problems | The 4 S's: See Problems, Seek Solutions, Solve Problems and Scale SolutionsCanva |
| 22.11.2020 | 7 Things To Expect As We Edge Closer To Using Up The World’s Resources | Circular economy business models are becoming more prevalentPhoto by Chris Lawton on Unsplash |
| 23.09.2020 | Cutting down food loss and food waste: 3 retail stories | Editor’s note: Ramakrishnan M is vice president of sales and marketing at Intello Labs, New Delhi, India. [Disclosure: Intello Labs graduated from GROW, the agrifoodtech impact accelerator backed by AFN’s parent company AgFunder.]
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| 08.01.2020 | Foodservice And Restaurant Trends Driving Innovation In 2020 | Every year at Mattson, we release our New Years Trends, but this year we’re doing it in two phases. This first phase is focused on food away from home, where about half of all dining dollars are spent. Following this are our consumer packag... |
| 31.10.2019 | The scary things that UK tech is solving | It can be hard to escape stories of scary world-ending technology. Science fiction has for decades been ruminating on the possibility of extinction-summoning all-powerful AI and genocidal Austrian robots. More recently you might have notice... |
| 31.10.2019 | INTERVIEW: Urban Spring CEO Ada Yip On Fighting Hong Kong’s Plastic Addiction | 304 0
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We sat down with the CEO of Hong Kong-based startup Urban Spring, Ada Yip, who is on a mission to fight plastic pollution in the city. Hong Kongers buying more than 1.5 million disposable plastic bottles of wate... |
| 25.10.2019 | Last Week In Venture: Tackling Food Waste, Fitting As-A-Service, And Ghosting VCs | 12 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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| 25.10.2019 | Last Week In Venture: Tackling Food Waste, Fitting As-A-Service, And Ghosting VCs | 11 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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| 23.10.2019 | Tech Startup Curbing Commercial Food Waste Winnow Raises US$12 Million Series B Funding | 1
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United Kingdom-based startup Winnow, creator of a smart device to help commercial kitchens cut down on food waste, has just disclosed a Series B funding round of US$12 million. Since its inception, the company’s tool h... |
| 18.10.2019 | Winnow Raises $12M in Series B Funding | Winnow, a London, U.K.-based startup company developer of smart kitchen tech that allows commercial kitchens to reduce food waste, raised $12m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Ingka Group and Mustard Seed. This follows a recent $8m... |
| 18.10.2019 | Daily funding roundup - October 17th, 2019 | Rentgrata has raised $1M; Evervault has raised $3.2M; Versameb has raised $6.5M
Rentgrata: Rentgrata sells renter data to landlords. Rentgrata has raised $1 million in funding from M25, Syndicate Fund, Right Side Capital Management and Neln... |
| 17.10.2019 | BRIEF: Commercial kitchen food waste startup Winnow raises $12m Series B | Kitchen food waste measuring technology Winnow has been hard at work since we last covered them in January 2016. The company just announced a $12 million Series B funding round backed by Ingka Group, the parent company of IKEA, UK impact in... |
| 17.10.2019 | London-based Winnow raises €18 million in equity and debt financing to lead the global fight against food waste | London-based Winnow, which has created Winnow Vision, an AI tool helping chefs to cut food waste in half, has completed a Series B round of funding for €10.8 million, following a recent €7.2 million loan from the European Investment Bank (E... |
| 17.10.2019 | Winnow raises $12M Series B for its food waste solution for commercial kitchens | Winnow, the U.K. startup that has developed smart kitchen tech to help commercial kitchens reduce food waste, is disclosing $12 million in Series B funding.
Backing the round is Ingka Group (a strategic partner to the Ikea franchisee system... |
| 29.05.2019 | Letter from London: Britain’s ‘Food Waste Tsar’ Wants Radical, Drastic Change | The British press has a knack for dubbing powerful individuals with outlandish titles. Regulators become “watchdogs” or “ombudsmen.” Owners of newspapers become “moguls.” If your day job is helping to tackle Britain’s food waste crisis, it ... |
| 21.03.2019 | Winnow uses computer vision to help commercial kitchens cut food waste | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Roughly one third of food produced globally each ... |
| 19.10.2018 | Dairy Quality Detection Tech Wins FoodBytes! Judges’ Choice Award as Food Waste Takes 2 Prizes | SomaDetect, an agriculture technology startup that measures milk quality from every cow at milking, won the FoodBytes! New York Judges’ Choice Award. SomaDetect uses sensors that fit into existing milking equipment to measure the fat and pr... |
| 10.09.2018 | Animal Health and Antibiotic-Use Reduction Dominate Among Startups Selected to Pitch at FoodBytes! NYC | Twenty companies have been selected to pitch at FoodBytes! NYC on October 18, marking the event’s third run in the big apple. FoodBytes! is the global pitch competition organized by food and agriculture bank Rabobank with the aim of harness... |
| 15.08.2018 | Full Harvest raises $8.5 million to help farms sell their deformed produce | Full Harvest, a B2B marketplace that helps farmers shift surplus and imperfect produce to food and beverage companies, has raised $8.5 million in a series A round of funding led by Spark Capital, with participation from Cultivian Sandbox Ve... |
| 15.08.2018 | Karma raises $12 million for marketplace that helps restaurants and supermarkets reduce food waste | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
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| 15.08.2018 | Karma raises $12 million for marketplace that helps restaurants and supermarkets reduce food waste | Around one third of the food produced each year — 1.3 billion tons of it — is either lost or wasted, according to data from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization. That’s the equivalent of flushing $1 trillion worth of perfec... |
| 15.08.2018 | Full Harvest raises $8.5 million to help farms sell their deformed produce | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Full Harvest, a B2B marketplace that helps farmers shift surplus and imperfect produce to food and beverage companies, has raised $8.5 ... |
| 20.03.2018 | 2018 AgFunder Innovation Awards Winners Announced | The winners of the 2018 Agfunder Innovation Awards were announced on Tuesday, March 20 at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco, CA.
Last year, we awarded 23 startups across five categories. Since then those winners have ra... |
| 07.02.2018 | DEADLINE APPROACHING: Cast Your Vote in the AgFunder Innovation Awards | ***VOTING CLOSED***
It’s that time of year again to recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward with the AgFunder Innovation Awards. These are peer-selected awards based on votes placed by you, our 45... |
| 25.01.2018 | 37 of the UK’s fastest growing Tech Companies join Upscale 2018 | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Today we’re announcing the new 37 companies joining Upscale for 2018. The Upscale Programme from Tech City UK, now in its third year, powers some of the fastest growing tech c... |
| 04.12.2017 | Why Did IKEA Invest in AeroFarms and What is Next For This New Agrifood Tech Investor? | In October, New Jersey indoor farming group AeroFarms announced that is had closed its Series D round on $40 million with a new, eye-catching investor in Swedish furniture giant IKEA Group.
The investment is part and parcel of an initiative... |
| 31.10.2017 | Winnow Raises $7.4M in Growth Funding | Winnow, a London, UK-based provider of a hospitality sector technology to fight food waste, raised $7.4m in growth funding.
The round was co-led by Circularity Capital, Mustard Seed and D-Ax.
The company intends to use the funds for product... |
| 23.10.2017 | Term Sheet — Monday, October 23 | BUBBLE-MAKER
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| 22.10.2017 | Winnow raises further $7.4M for its smart kitchen tech that reduces commercial food waste | Winnow, the U.K. startup that has developed smart kitchen tech to help commercial kitchens reduce food waste, continues to be on a roll. It counts the likes of IKEA, Compass Group, and AccorHotels as customers, and estimates its 600-plus cl... |
| 09.02.2017 | Agtech Funding (& Exit) Sheet: Observant Acquired by Jain, Winnow Solutions Raises Convertible, more | Observant, the Australian manufacturer of in-field hardware and cloud-based applications for precision farm water management, has been acquired by Jain Irrigations, the global irrigations business. Observant was founded in 2003 by Simon Hol... |
| 24.01.2016 | Winnow Raises $3.3M in Series A Funding | Winnow, a London, UK-based provider of food waste reduction smart meters, raised $3.3m in Series A funding.
Backers included UK-based impact investor Mustard Seed, Swiss investment firm D-Ax, and some existing investors.
The company intends... |
| 20.01.2016 | London-based Winnow raises $3.3 million to expand its unique solution for cutting food waste | Winnow – the technology company behind the Winnow smart meter – helps chefs cut food waste by automatically measuring what gets thrown away. The London-based startup has just completed its Series A funding round of $3.3 million which was le... |
| 20.01.2016 | Food Waste Smart Meter Winnow Bags $3.3M Further Funding | Who would have thought there’s money in measuring how much food a professional kitchen throws away? Food waste smart meter maker Winnow has bagged a further $3.3 million in funding.
Investors in what the startup is talking up as an “oversub... |
| 20.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 20, 2016 | Khazanah Nasional invested $160M in WeLab; LendUp raised $150M; Maluuba secured $6.2M funding
Maluuba, a machine learning company that offers a Siri-like experience for Android devices, today announced that it has secured $9 million CAD (ab... |
| 11.05.2015 | Winnow Scores Seed Funding For Its Food Waste Smart Meter | Winnow is on a mission to help the hospitality industry cut down on food waste by making the kitchen ‘smarter.’ It does this via the Winnow smart meter, a set of smart scales and accompanying tablet app that lets kitchen staff easily log wh... |
| - | Winnow | “Looking for commercial food waste solutions to minimise waste? Meet Winnow and discover your new food waste automation system that helps cut food waste in half.” |
| - | Let’s Refocus Agri-Food Tech To Solve Today’s Critical Problems | What critical problems are my actions solving today? Can we in the agri-food tech innovation space ask ourselves this question more frequently?
We live in a time of unprecedented innovation and unprecedented challenges. The determining fac... |
| - | A new Walmart in-store AI is giving employees advice on how to sell products before it’s too late | Walmart is piloting a new in-store artificial intelligence to advise associates on everything from when bananas are likely to rot to when to mark down seasonal clothing.
The goal is to reduce food waste and fashion waste, which leads to mil... |
