🎥Coffee with a kick… but no caffeine? Rarebird Coffee spills the beans on paraxanthine (Px) tinyurl.com/2jzt276k

Funding rounds were abundant this week. Read all about it in The Week In AgriFoodTech, OUT NOW! agfundernews.com/the-week-in-ag…

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Dextrose… with a 40% lower carbon footprint? Green Plains gears up to launch ‘truly disruptive’ tech at ethanol plant in Iowa...

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Where next for Beyond Meat? Experts question debt-laden firm's future in wake of grim Q1 figures #plantbasedmeat #meatalternatives #foodtech #beyondmeat #alternativeprotein tinyurl.com/5dmnwtf7

Green Plains is gearing up to open a first-of-its-kind facility at a dry corn milling plant, that it claims can make dextrose at scale with significantly lower capital intensity and a 40% reduction in carbon footprint vs the standard wet milling process tinyurl.com/mr2yc8ha

The court handling a high-profile lawsuit filed by bioreactor co ABEC vs Eat Just and its GOOD Meat cultivated meat subsidiary has issued a ruling on counterclaims from the defendants, siding with Eat Just/GOOD Meat on some matters and with ABEC on others tinyurl.com/ufkesz5r

Fungi-fueled startup eatmeati has raised more than $100m in a C-1 round led by Grosvenor Food & AgTech, and has also rolled out its #mycelium -based steaks and cutlets into 2,000 Kroger outlets across the US, taking its store count up to 6,000. tinyurl.com/5cs3axm8

.Clean Crop Technologies, Inc. has launched a commercial #coldplasma #seedtreatment facility, signed $3.4m in purchase orders, and has a sales and pilot pipeline worth $47m in ARR from companies that represent 39% of the global vegetable seed market, claims the startup. tinyurl.com/yc768nb6

Check out the key insights from our annual India AgriFoodTech Investment Report, produced in partnership with Omnivore, below.

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Can cultivated meat make the transition from a loss-making novelty served at a handful of high-end restaurants to a commercially viable alternative to animal agriculture? AFN's @ewatsonwrites lays out the arguments for, and against ➡️
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.Mattson probes #ozempic effect on food innovation, from mini-bites and hydrating pops to lighter protein drinks tinyurl.com/3bwrj3zm

AgZen's cofounder Dr. Vishnu Jayaprakash gives us the lowdown on feedback-optimized spraying... tinyurl.com/bddn4dxj

.Maia Farms has raised CAD2.3m ($1.7m) in pre-seed financing from a mixture of private capital and grant funding to fuel its fungi-based biomass fermentation operation tinyurl.com/mwx6jbfm

Caladan Bio—a startup developing a lower-cost benchtop bioreactor system designed to enhance data capture and increase experimentation throughput—has raised a $5m seed round led by Twelve Below #syntheticbiology #biomanufacturing #bioreactors tinyurl.com/55c9e8r5

Shiru is launching a first-of-its-kind discovery platform & marketplace for proteins, enabling companies in multiple industries to harness its AI and machine learning capabilities to identify and test proteins from high-intensity sweeteners to emulsifiers tinyurl.com/3k4ta45a

Exec summary: Climate Capital: Financing Adaptation Pathways for Smallholder Farmers - the pressing need & opportunities for private investment in climate adaptation in emerging markets' agriculture sectors + pivotal role played by smallholder farmers ➡️ agfunder.com/research/clima…

Indian agrifoodtech investment dropped 60% to $1 billion in 2023, but deal activity remained the same. So, how did that happen & who's still investing? Our 6th India AgriFoodTech Investment Report - produced in partnership with Omnivore - OUT NOW ➡️ bit.ly/AGFUNDERINDIA24

With investment totals down considerably, who was still investing in India's agrifood industry in 2023, and what kinds of businesses kept deal activity high? New India #AgriFoodTech #investment report, produced in partnership with Meth Gator.vc, out Tuesday.
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Plant-based cheesemaker Climax Foods has been abruptly disqualified from the prestigious #GoodFoodAwards on the eve of the awards ceremony on April 29 having been told it was a winner three months ago. #plantbased #foodtech tinyurl.com/4c45r5pe

We caught up with Nosh.bio cofounders Tim Fronzek and Dr. Felipe Lino to talk fungi, funding, and the inevitable comparisons with Quorn… #mycoprotein #mycelium #fungi #biomassfermentation #foodtech

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