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The rapid adoption of GLP-1 medications is doing more than managing weight; it is beginning to rewire consumer behavior and investment priorities across the entire food system. PeakBridge, a leading agrifood venture capital firm and F&A Next organizing partner, is at the forefront of analyzing these shifts to identify where the strongest commercial moats are […]

Plant Science director at Wageningen University & Research, Dr Richard Harrison, reflects on a future where we can combine a diversity of farming systems and explores where the role of biotechnology will fit. Harrison explains how the current combination of increasing knowledge, AI and more accessible techniques is democratising science and speeding up biotechnology. Harrison […]

During last F&A Next edition, Time-Travelling Milkman, a startup dedicated to enhancing plant-based dairy with irresistible healthy creaminess, emerged as one of our ten ‘Next Heroes in Food & Agtech.‘ Following their recent announcement of securing a significant €850,000 seed investment, we had the pleasure of sitting down with Dimitris Karefyllakis (on the far right), […]

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F&A Next Innovation partners Cosun and Oost NL team up to jointly invest €8M in Wageningen-based foodtech scaleup revyve to boost the development of sustainable, upcycled and local food ingredients, derived from byproducts of beer breweries.
Enko Chem, a startup employing AI and machine learning to help farmers sustainably protect their crops from pests and disease publicly launched after securing $45 million in a Series B round of financing, bringing its total funding raised to date to $66 million. Led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the latest round attracted a strong mix of existing (Anterra Capital and Rabobank) and new investors (Finistere Ventures, Novalis LifeSciences, Germin8 Ventures, TO Ventures Food).

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