Y E A R I N R E V I E W’18I N V E S T I N G R E P O R TEuropean AgriFood TechSee our portfolio companies: agfunder.com/listingsOur in-house technology enables us to invest globally and at scale and helps us make smarter investment decisions. Through our media and research platform, AgFunder has built an community of over 60,000 members and subscribers, giving us the largest and most powerful network in the industry to help us support our portfolio companies and get them in front of decision makers.AgFunder is a global Venture Capital platformAre you a Corporate, Startup, or Investor? Learn how to get engagedagfunder.comWe invest in bold, exceptional entrepreneurs transforming our food and agriculture systemAGRIFOOD TECH FUNDING REPORT: YEAR REVIEW 2018 | AGFUNDER.COM3F&A Next is dedicated to accelerating innovation in Food and Agriculture by connecting major players. The F&A Next community consists of entrepreneurs, corporates, investors and scientists, who are dedicated to innovation in food and agriculture. F&A Next is expanding its community. Join us!F&A Next FoundersAGRIFOOD TECH FUNDING REPORT: YEAR REVIEW 2018 | AGFUNDER.COM4INTRODUCTIONAgriFood Tech Funding in Europe: 2018While the global food tech ecosystem has shown remarkable growth in recent years, Europe has clearly established is own pace and particularities. Europe is regularly positioned as one united market and often characterized as less entrepreneurial with more risk-averse and less sophisticated investors. However it is a continent with many borders, cultures and preferences. Consequently, it lacks a competitive edge when it comes to the average farm size or the consumer base of one country. In addition, government regulation, on food safety for example, varies per country, too. As you will read in this report, European trends in agrifood investments are similar to those in the US, with a few exceptions and a more even spread of technologies. Novel farming systems, particularly indoor agriculture, are strong on the continent, undoubtedly related to Europe’s leading role in horticulture. Europe is also home to a number of insect farming groups aiming to provide protein replacements for traditional feed and food ingredients. Overall investment in agrifood tech startups in Europe ison the rise. Expertise, research and available capital have improved sharply, boosting overall startup activity in the industry. A healthy funnel of quality earlier stage companies is being developed along with a (slowly) growing number of seed stage investors. Later stage capital for sizable follow-up rounds, however, is still underdeveloped. Corporate venture capital is slowly gaining relevance in the European startup ecosystem but overall Europe is still playing catch up. To stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe, Rabobank, Wageningen University & Research, Anterra Capital and StartLife jointly launched F&A Next in 2016, collectively believing that innovation will be essential to sustainably feed future generations. Entrepreneurs are needed for their drive, investors for their belief, and corporates for their mass impact. Disruptive innovation alone is not enough; it needs to be implemented and transformed into tangible applications. We are very pleased to share the latest insights on European agrifood tech with you. Many thanks to the AgFunder team for compiling this report and the participating partners (see page 9) for their contributions. On behalf of AgFunder and F&A Next,Jan Meiling, Jeroen Leffelaar and Louisa Burwood-TaylorAGRIFOOD TECH FUNDING REPORT: YEAR REVIEW 2018 | AGFUNDER.COM5What is AgriFood Tech?WHAT IS AGRIFOOD TECH?Agrifood tech is the small but growing segment of the startup and venture capital universe that’s aiming to improve or disrupt the global food and agriculture industry.As with all industries, technology plays a key role in the operation of the agrifood sector – a $7.8 trillion industry, responsible for feeding the planet and employing well over 40% of the global population. The pace of innovation has not kept up with other industries and today, agriculture remains the least digitized of all major industries, according to McKinsey.The industrial agrifood sector of today is also less efficient than other industries, with an increasing number of demands and constraints being placed on it. These pressures include a growing global population; climate change and global warming; environmental degradation; changing consumer demands; limited natural resources; food waste; consumer health issues and chronic disease.The need for agrifood tech innovation is greater than ever. This creates many opportunities for entrepreneurs and technologists to disrupt the industry and create new efficiencies at various points in the value chain. Broadly speaking, agrifood tech startups are aiming to solve the following challenges: food waste, CO2 emissions, chemical residues and run-off, drought, labor shortages, health and sugar consumption, o...
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