Elaine Watson

As 2025 approaches, what technologies, from robotics to AI, are agrifoodtech startups keeping watching? Elaine Watson fired off some emails.

A US defense spending bill just passed in Congress requires an unspecified national agency to conduct a risk assessment on DJI spray drones

What's keeping agrifoodtech startups awake at night, from funding blues to regulatory hurdles? To find out Elaine Watson quizzed founders...

Precision fermentation startup Onego Bio, which makes egg proteins with microbes instead of chickens, is eyeing a site in Wisconsin for its first in-house production facility for ‘Bioalbumen,’ a trademarked ingredient that is bio-identical to ovalbumin, the primary protein in egg white.

Food manufacturers have been looking for viable egg replacements for years as prices yo-yo with every avian flu outbreak, says Onego Bio.

The unit economics of growing animal proteins such as ovalbumin in plants are more favorable than using precision fermentation, claims PoLoPo

While multiple startups engineer microbes to produce animal proteins via precision fermentation, PoLoPo and others in the ‘molecular farming' space

ClimateAi offers AI-powered ag insights driven by long-range weather forecasting. But is it delivering actionable info for food & ag firms?

A flurry of startups offering AI-powered ag insights driven by long-range weather forecasting has emerged on the scene in recent years.

MOA Foodtech has built an AI-powered biomass fermentation platform to transform byproducts from the food industry into high value ingredients