$10 million for pizza vending machine pilot program
When CES 2020 kicked off in early January we were all treated to videos of…
Author Matt Peskett
Matt Peskett
Matt has worked in digital publishing for twenty years, holding management positions at Nature (nature.com) and William Reed Business Media (foodmanufacture.co.uk, thegrocer.co.uk etc). He has also worked with Wiley Interscience, The IET, Centaur Publishing and BBC Worldwide. Since 2010 Matt has been a digital consultant working with B2B media & event companies in the agricultural, automotive, aviation and technology sectors. His private passion is growing his own food (on three allotments) and chasing the dream of a one tonne giant pumpkin. He is a member of the British Garden Media Guild and was a finalist in the Garden Media Guild Awards 'blog of the year' category in 2018 and 2019.
$1.2 million for US agtech genome engineering company Agragene
US based Agragene received $1.2 million in seed funding this week from Ospraie Ag Science…
TPG Rewards: connecting food freshness sensors & IoT
In June 2019 academics at Imperial College London (ICL) announced a prototype ‘food freshness sensor’…
No-till seed drill for UK farmers – the DSX coulter
Born from Sly Agri Ltd (a British company founded in 2006), Horizon Agriculture has announced…
Freight Farms & Sodexo expand container farming schools network
Freight Farms and Sodexo are expanding their trial partnership which has provided indoor grown salad crops at…
Kubota Canada’s FastBale – a new continuous round baler
Kubota Canada has unveiled its new FastBale – a continuous baler-wrapper that has already proved…
Noquo Foods: plant-based cheese stinks, targets better product
Swedish start-up Noquo Foods has announced the completion of a €3.25 million seed funding round…
Biggest cell-based meat investment yet – $161 million for Memphis Meats
California based start-up Memphis Meats, founded in 2015, has raised an additional $161 million from investors…
Farmers Edge, Lindsay Corporation team up on satellite imagery & irrigation
A few years ago Farmers Edge integrated daily satellite imagery into its FarmCommand® platform for…
Three healthy food acquisitions in the US, Sweden and Netherlands
A summary of three healthy food acquisitions that took place in recent days: 1. A…