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Paris-based alt meat firm SWAP Food (formerly UMIAMI) has been placed into judicial liquidation and ceased activities today (June 15) according to emails sent to industry stakeholders this week.

The firm, which was founded in 2020 and has

Canada-based startup Picketa Systems has raised a CAD$2.1 million ($1.5 million) round to expand its portable crop nutrient sensing tech, which uses AI-powered spectroscopy to give growers estimates for 13 key nutrients in minutes.

The round was led by

[Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Faraday Earth.]

Faraday Earth—a startup using non-thermal plasma to make green ammonia—claims its system could reach a levelized cost of around $500 per ton, putting it within striking distance of fossil fuel-deriv...

Chunk Foods—an Israeli startup making whole cuts of plant-based meat using solid state fermentation—is on track to become profitable late next year aided by rapid growth in foodservice, new US retail contracts, and a capex-light business model it claims enables it to compete on price with an...

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🇪🇸 Samsung backs industrial robotics startup Theker in €85m round Sif...