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| 17.09.2026 | These constraints are holding agrifood back. AgFunder is investing to solve them | In the 1820s, when European farmers were pouring manure onto exhausted soils and getting very little yield back, the accepted explanation was that plants needed more humus, the decayed organic matter in the ground, which they fed on. So the... |
| 13.05.2026 | Brightseed layers agentic AI onto Forager bioactives discovery platform with Hummingbird launch | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Brightseed.]
Brightseed—a startup on a mission to illuminate the ‘dark matter of nutrition’—has launched Hummingbird, an agentic AI product built on top of its Forager bio... |
| 03.03.2026 | Diversity will define the next era of biotech infrastructure | - |
| 21.07.2025 | Brightseed’s AI Tool Uncovers 530 Health-Promoting Compounds in California Almonds | 4 Mins Read In a partnership with the Almond Board of California, AI nutrient discovery firm Brightseed has uncovered 530 phytochemicals in the nuts, including six seen for the first time.
Almonds may be way more beneficial than previously ... |
| 21.05.2025 | Brightseed addresses gut barrier function with bioactives backed by new human clinical data | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Brightseed.]
Brightseed, a startup harnessing AI to discover plant bioactives, has launched Bio Gut Core, a nutraceutical containing NCT and NFT, two compounds found to im... |
| 03.03.2025 | The Rising Tide of Postbiotics: A New Frontier in Wellness | In the world of health and wellness, trends come and go like waves on a beach. But some waves are bigger than others. Postbiotics are the latest surge, promising to reshape how we think about gut health, sleep, and stress management. As con... |
| 27.02.2025 | ADM partners on postbiotics targeting sleep, stress | Listen to the article 3 min
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Commodities giant ADM announced it will market and sell a postbiotic ingredient targeting sleep, stress and mood created by Japan... |
| 01.11.2024 | Cultivated Meat, Lab-Grown Cotton Make It to Time’s Best Inventions of 2024 List | 5 Mins Read Time Magazine has recognised a cultivated meat technology as one of the year’s best inventions, alongside lab-grown cotton and an AI platform for functional plant-based ingredients.
As further proof of the technology’s potential... |
| 17.09.2024 | Brightseed and Botalys Partner To Cultivate Sustainably Sourced Bioactive Botanicals For Beauty, Health & Wellness Sectors | Brightseed & Botalys logos
Brightseed's proprietary Forager® AI platform will analyze Botalys' vertically-farmed hydroponic plants to fine-tune bioactive-rich botanicals for cosmetics, nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals
SAN FRANCISCO an... |
| 06.09.2024 | Op Ed: Stephanie Goodwin, Nutrition Policy Director at Danone – Improving Access to Plant-Based Foods | Stephanie K. Goodwin, PhD, MPH, RD, is a nutrition and public health expert with a focus on national food and nutrition policy. Currently, she works for Danone North America to help bring the company’s mission to bring health through food t... |
| 26.06.2024 | Envisioning a future where food is synonymous with health, fostering longevity, productivity, and societal well-being | If you missed Carter’s testimony at the Senate hearing, “Feeding a Healthier America: Current Efforts and Potential Opportunities for Food is Medicine,” the replay is available here.
The hearing emphasized the importance of nutrition to red... |
| 26.02.2024 | How a new recipe can help food win in an Ozempic world | The following op-ed is written by Scott Bowman, a managing director at Clareo and the co-founder of the NOURISH Movement and Wiles Kase, a senior consultant at Clareo.
The stunning rise of anti-obesity (GLP-1 agonist) medications has caught... |
| 07.02.2024 | Manitoba Harvest and Brightseed target gut barrier function with bioactive fiber launch | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Brightseed.]
Hemp food specialist Manitoba Harvest has teamed up with foodtech co Brightseed to launch a new product nationwide at Whole Foods in the US featuring Brightse... |
| 12.09.2023 | Bytes to Bites part one: Digitizing consumption insights. Leveraging AI in food product development | Editor’s Note: Eva Everloo is senior investment analyst, and Dr. Orly Savion is CTO and principal at agri-food tech investor PeakBridge.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the authors’ own and do not necessarily reflect those ... |
| 15.06.2023 | Blue Diamond & Brightseed Find 188 Predicted Bioactive Compounds in Almonds | Leading almond marketer and processor Blue Diamond has partnered with bioactives company Brightseed to better understand the health potential of Californian almonds.
Brightseed uses a proprietary AI technology called Forager to identify bio... |
| 01.06.2023 | Топ-10 фудтех-стартапов в сегменте B2B | В России и мире растет количество стартапов с уникальными технологиями. На наш взгляд, одной из наиболее динамичных и важных отраслей является фудтех (foodtech) — технологии и инновации, которые помогают улучшить производство, доставку и ка... |
| 01.06.2023 | Топ-10 фудтех-стартапов в сегменте B2B | В России и мире растет количество стартапов с уникальными технологиями. На наш взгляд, одной из наиболее динамичных и важных отраслей является фудтех (foodtech) — технологии и инновации, которые помогают улучшить производство, доставку и ка... |
| 14.03.2023 | Sofia Elizondo of Brightseed Named Young Global Leader By The World Economic Forum | Sofia Elizondo, co-founder and COO of Brightseed, speaks on a panel discussion at the 2021 Milken Institute Global Conference. Photo credit: Kyle Grillott/Bloomberg via Getty "I’m eager to learn from my YGL peers and uncover new opport... |
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| 13.05.2022 | Brightseed Completes $68M Series B to Commercialize Novel Hemp Ingredients | Brightseed, a pioneer in tech-based phytonutrient research, announces it has raised $68M in Series B funding to accelerate its plant nutrient discovery and bring new ingredients, including special hemp-derived compounds, to market. The comp... |
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| 12.05.2022 | Brightseed raises $68M to accelerate artificial intelligence work | Dive Brief:
Brightseed, a five-year-old upstart that uses artificial intelligence to find molecules in plants that could have the biggest health and nutrition benefits in humans, raised $68 million in funding led by food technology investor... |
| 12.05.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Absolute Foods scores $100m, Mashgin bags $63m | Among this week’s largest funding rounds in agrifoodtech was the $100 million raised by India’s Absolute Foods, which is seeking to vertically integrate the ag value chain. Mashgin, a US maker of contactless self-checkout machines, also sco... |
| 11.05.2022 | Temasek leads $65m Series B round for US-based bioscience firm Brightseed | Singapore state investor Temasek has led the $68-million Series B funding round for US-based bioscience company Brightseed, according to an announcement. |
| 11.05.2022 | Brightseed Closes $68M in Series B Funding | Brightseed, a San Francisco, CA- and Raleigh, NC-based based biosciences company and creator of Forager®, a computational platform that illuminates the connections between nature and human health, raised $68m in Series B funding.
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| 10.05.2022 | Brightseed raises $68 million in Series B funding | SAN FRANCISCO — Brightseed, a biotechnology startup, has raised $68 million in Series B funding led by Temasek, with participation from new and existing investors.
Founded in 2017, Brightseed uses an artificial intelligence discovery platfo... |
| 10.05.2022 | 16 VCs and Term Sheet readers weigh in on the impending private market downturn | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
You’ve heard the rumblings. You’ve read the warnings. And you’ve seen the data hinting at an impe... |
| 10.05.2022 | Brightseed Closes $68M To Accelerate A.I.-Led Exploration of Nature for Health Solutions | Brightseed’s co-founders Lee Chae, PhD.; Sofia Elizondo; Jim Flatt, PhD. “Discovering and mapping natural bioactives to human health benefits was just the first step for Brightseed. Now, we’re launching clinically-studied ingredients and in... |
| 09.05.2022 | Brightseed’s first AI-detected ‘phytonutrient’ comes to market alongside a $68M B round | Who knows what secrets await in the hearts of plants? Brightseed has found a couple of them, anyway, using an AI-based analysis method and will be bringing its first products to market soon with the help of a $68 million B round.
Brightseed... |
| 09.05.2022 | BREAKING: Brightseed bags $68m Series B funding from Temasek, AgFunder, others to launch ingredients biz | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Brightseed.
US nutrient discovery company Brightseed has raised $68 million in funding as it scales up its novel ingredients business.
Singapore sovereign fund Temasek led the Se... |
| 09.05.2022 | Brightseed closes $68M financing to accelerate A.I. discoveries and launch own ingredients | The funding, which was led by Temasek, with participation from existing and new investors, will enable Brightseed to advance natural compound discovery and clinical validation, and launch the company’s first ingredient from a new ingredient... |
| 22.03.2022 | AgFunder captures increasing, urgent investor demand for agrifoodtech with $60m Fund IV first close | Disclosure: AgFunder is AFN’s parent company.
AgFunder, one of the world’s most active investors in foodtech and agtech startups, has increased its assets under management to $160 million – 10x in two years – with the first close of its fou... |
| 10.03.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Finless Foods nets $34m; CPGs & QSRs quit Russia | This week, cultivated seafood startup Finless Foods closed a $34 million funding round, Clean Crop Technologies raised funds for its crop protection tool, and Protenga nabbed capital for its insect farming operations.
Meanwhile, major food ... |
| 09.03.2022 | BREAKING: Brightseed discovers compounds in waste hemp hulls that could help fight fatty liver disease | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Brightseed.
Brightseed, a US startup exploring novel health and nutrition uses for plants, has discovered phytochemicals in waste hemp seed shells which could be used to treat me... |
| 15.02.2022 | As Food Cost Rise, the Need for Innovation is Acute | Inflation is everywhere, and the increase in food prices is apparent “across the board,” as Miguel Patricio, chief executive of Kraft Heinz, told the BBC in the fall, adding that the rising cost of basic ingredients such as cereals and oils... |
| 12.01.2022 | Olam calls on Brightseed’s AI to uncover health properties of garlic & pepper | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Brightseed.
Olam Food Ingredients (OFI), a division of Singapore-based agribusiness and commodities giant Olam, has partnered with US foodtech startup Brightseed to explore poten... |
| 12.01.2022 | Olam International : Artificial intelligence will look to identify novel health properties and potency in ofi black pepper and garlic supply | Brightseed and ofi announce partnership to explore health benefits in popular spices
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Medical research has shown that there are bioactives in black pepper and garlic that are known for their medicinal qualities. How... |
| 22.11.2021 | Ocean Spray teams up with Brightseed: ‘The vast majority of compounds in cranberries have never been explored for their impact in the human body’ | But what can a foodtech startup teach Ocean Spray about cranberries, bearing in mind it’s been growing them for almost 100 years and probing their health benefits for decades?
You’d be surprised, says Brightseed, which was launched by thr... |
| 18.11.2021 | Brief: Ocean Spray partners Brightseed to map ‘total health potential’ of cranberries | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Brightseed.
Massachusetts-based farmer cooperative and juice brand Ocean Spray and Californian biotech startup Brightseed have entered into an agreement which will see them colla... |
| 18.11.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Monarch Tractor’s $61m round, JBS’s cell meat bet & Bayer-Microsoft match | This week, The Week in Agrifoodtech includes news of a major strategic partnership between one of the world’s biggest agribusiness companies and one of the world’s biggest software companies; while the world’s number one meat processor made... |
| 04.08.2021 | Danone partners with nutrient discovery startup Brightseed amid ‘plant-based 2.0’ push | Disclosure: AgFunder, our parent company, is an investor in Brightseed.
Danone is significantly expanding its partnership with Brightseed, a US startup using artificial intelligence to explore novel nutritious compounds in plants, as it pus... |
| 29.10.2020 | iSelect Invests for Impact and Performance: 3 Case Studies | At iSelect, we invest for impact AND performance. We are a research-driven organization dedicated to deep diligence and careful execution.
We invest in companies that are addressing critical global issues, in large markets, and with a proje... |
| 21.10.2020 | TOP 10 AgTech Startups in the USA | AgTech or Agricultural Technology means using technology in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture with the goal of improving yield, productivity, profit and beneficialness. |
| 23.09.2020 | Are Phytonutrients The Answer to Our Health Crisis? | Are phytonutrients the answer to our health crisis? Sofia Elizondo, co-founder & COO of Brightseed joins Elysabeth Alfano on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss how AI technology is breaking through “Dark Matter” and revolutionizing... |
| 16.09.2020 | Brightseed Closes $27M Funding Round | Brightseed, a San Francisco, CA-based developer of AI technology for phytonutrient discovery, closed a $27M growth financing round.
The round was led by Lewis & Clark AgriFood.
This new financing brings Brightseed’s total funding to $52... |
| 15.09.2020 | Brightseed Raises $52 Million as Investors Bet on Artificial Intelligence-Powered Plant Discoveries | ©Brightseed
Brightseed, a US-based biosciences and AI company, announces today that it has raised $27 million in growth financing, bringing its total funding to $52 million. The company is committed to generating new knowledge from plants u... |
| 15.09.2020 | Brightseed raises $27 million for phytonutrient identification tech used in food and nutraceuticals | Brightseed, the company launched by former Hampton Creek head of research and development, Jim Flatt, to identify the presence of specific nutrients in plants that are believed to boost human health, has raised $27 million in its latest rou... |
| 15.09.2020 | Brightseed raises $27m to fuel its AI-powered phytonutrient discovery platform | Launched by three former Hampton Creek (Eat Just) executives in 2017 (Sofia Elizondo, Dr Lee Chae, and Dr Jim Flatt), Brightseed is using AI and machine learning to predict the likelihood that plants will have certain natural compounds th... |
| 15.09.2020 | Brightseed banks $27m to build out its plant nutrient discovery platform | San Francisco-based Brightseed has raised $27 million in a funding round led by Lewis & Clark Agrifood.
The startup has developed an artificial intelligence-powered platform to discover and identify phytonutrients – chemical compounds i... |
| 15.09.2020 | Brightseed Secures $27M To Explore Phytonutrients | 8 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Brightseed, which closed on a $27 million round of growth financing, developed its artificial intelligence platform, Forager, to discover phytonutrients hidden in nature.
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| 15.09.2020 | Brightseed Raises $52 Million as Investors Bet on Artificial Intelligence-Powered Plant Discoveries | Brightseed, a US-based biosciences and AI company, announces today that it has raised $27 million in growth financing, bringing its total funding to $52 million. The company is committed to generating new knowledge from plants using its Art... |
| 17.07.2020 | Announcing the Women in AI Awards winners | Watch all the Transform 2020 sessions on-demand right here.
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the second annual Women in AI Awards.
The Women in AI Awards are part of VentureBeat’s continuing commitment to diversity in AI. With that... |
| 17.07.2020 | Announcing the Women in AI Awards winners | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the second annual Women in AI Awards.
The Women in AI Awards are part of VentureBeat’s contin... |
| 18.06.2020 | Three AgFunder portfolio companies selected as World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers | We’re proud to announce that The World Economic Forum has named three AgFunder portfolio companies to its annual Technology Pioneers of 2020 list: Brightseed, Trace Genomics, and Phylagen. This list identifies 100 companies transforming the... |
| 16.06.2020 | World Economic Forum’s 2020 Technology Pioneers highlight AI’s reach | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The World Economic Forum (WEF) today announced th... |
| 10.06.2020 | Danone North America Partners With Biomedical Artificial Intelligence company to “Unlock Health Benefits from Plants at an Unprecedented Speed” | Danone North America, the world’s largest B Corp and a leader in plant-based food and beverage, has partnered with Brightseed, a biosciences and AI company, to “unlock health benefits from plants at an unprecedented speed”, using artificial... |
| 10.06.2020 | Danone North America Partners With Biomedical Artificial Intelligence company to “Unlock Health Benefits from Plants at an Unprecedented Speed” | ©Brightseed
Danone North America, the world’s largest B Corp and a leader in plant-based food and beverage, has partnered with Brightseed, a biosciences and AI company, to “unlock health benefits from plants at an unprecedented speed”, usin... |
| 10.06.2020 | Danone partners with Brightseed to discover precise health properties of plant-based ingredients, starting with soy | Editor’s note: Brightseed is an AgFunder portfolio company. Find out more about our portfolio here.
Leading dairy and plant-based food products provider Danone North America has partnered with foodtech startup Brightseed to research the hea... |
| 10.06.2020 | Danone and AI-powered startup Brightseed join forces to explore the ‘dark matter of nutrition’ | In the multi-phase partnership, Danone – which owns plant-based brands including Silk and Alpro - is seeking to get a deeper understanding of the phytonutrients present in raw soy, and determine whether they are linked to health benefits “p... |
| 07.05.2020 | Americans need better access to healthy food to lower risk of Covid-19 complications | Editor’s Note: Rob Leclerc is founding partner of AgFunder, the digitally-native agrifoodtech VC and investor in Brightseed, a Californian foodtech startup. All opinions expressed here are his own and not those of the wider AgFunder group, ... |
| 22.10.2019 | The present and future of food tech investment opportunity | Ingrid Fung Contributor
Ingrid Fung is an associate at Finistere Ventures.
There is no bigger industry on our planet than food and agriculture, with a consistent, loyal customer base of 7 billion. In fact, the World Bank estimates that food... |
| 05.09.2019 | The Modern Acre podcast: Restoring food as medicine with Brightseed | Editor’s Note: Tyler and Tim Nuss are founders of The Modern Acre, an online community and weekly podcast focused on highlighting the business of food and agriculture. In partnership with AgFunder, the Nuss’s have produced a 4-part series i... |
| 29.07.2019 | Future Food: ‘From the moment we’re born, we’re going to know exactly what foods we should eat, for what purpose’ | “Thirty years from now I think for sure we will know much more about the impact that food has on us. More or less, the level of science today is vegetables are good so have more of that, but I think in 30 years time, from the moment we are ... |
| 14.03.2019 | Reclaiming the Promise of Food for Health | Editor’s Note: Jim Flatt, PhD is cofounder and CEO of Brightseed, a foodtech startup using computational intelligence to rapidly illuminate the expansive world of natural plant compounds. These bioactive compounds have the power to transfor... |
| 13.02.2019 | 60 AgriFood Tech Startups Nominated for 2019 AgFunder Innovation Awards – Vote Now! | *VOTING EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 1, 9AM ET!*
We’re very excited to open our Third Annual AgFunder AgriFood Tech Innovation Awards, where we recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward.
Our nomination comm... |
| 01.11.2018 | UPDATE: AgFunder Opens New Food Tech/AgTech Fund to Investors, Commitments Reach $4m in 1 Week | **UPDATED NOVEMBER 1, 2018 15:00 to increase commitment size to $4 million from $2.7 million.
On Tuesday we opened our second co-investment fund to give investors — both big and small — an opportunity to invest alongside AgFunder and other ... |
