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| 15.09.2026 | Mars zeroes in on gut health with startup partnerships | Listen to the article 4 min
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Pringles and M&M's owner Mars is partnering with more than half a dozen startups focused on gut health and ingredient innovat... |
| 02.07.2026 | From ‘cautiously optimistic’ to ‘hollow words,’ agrifood weighs in on the US regen ag executive order | By now, plenty of agrifood industry folks have weighed in on the Advancing Regenerative Agriculture and Strengthening American Farm Resilience Executive Order, which President Trump signed last week.
Building on the Make America Healthy Aga... |
| 09.06.2026 | HowGood, Sweep partner to track carbon footprint of food, agriculture products | Listen to the article 3 min
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Sustainability research and carbon accounting company HowGood is teaming up with ESG data intelligence platform Sweep to help foo... |
| 25.03.2026 | Paulig publishes first product-level sustainability results to advance transparency | Paulig publishes first product-level sustainability results to advance transparency
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As Paulig celebrates 150 years of shaping food culture, the company continues exploring not just great taste... |
| 01.05.2025 | Why HowGood thinks food industry climate goals will withstand Trump rollback | Listen to the article 4 min
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As regulatory pressures around climate reporting shift under the Trump administration, a sustainability platform used by some of the largest ... |
| 25.04.2025 | HowGood & Watershed re-envisioning agrifood sustainability reporting through new partnership | Sustainability intelligence tracker HowGood said this week it will expand its partnership with enterprise sustainability platform Watershed to provide a “comprehensive sustainability reporting platform” to “any company with a significant fo... |
| 27.09.2024 | Navigating the Data Maze: How Informatica and HowGood Are Reshaping Food Sustainability | The food industry is a labyrinth of complexity. Tracking sustainability is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Enter Informatica and HowGood, two companies on a mission to simplify this daunting task. Their recent partnership aims t... |
| 27.09.2024 | Informatica teams with HowGood to boost food ESG performance | Informatica has announced a new partnership with HowGood, an independent research company renowned for its extensive database on food product sustainability. This collaboration aims to assist companies and food suppliers in making data-driv... |
| 26.09.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Brazilian ag marketplace Cayena bags $55m, alt-materials firm Pact raises $12m | While debate continues around use of the term “alt leather,” the products build around the concept keep rolling out. This week, two companies — Pact and Ecovative — raised funds to further their work in this area. Also bagging a capital rou... |
| 25.09.2024 | HowGood & Informatica team up to tackle food and ag’s ‘garbage in, garbage out’ data problem | The food industry is one of the most complicated sectors around when it comes to tracking scope 3 emissions, says Levent Ergin of data management firm Informatica.
As the company’s global chief ESG sustainability strategist and global head ... |
| 17.07.2024 | New Ingredion Pea Protein Enhances Texture and Taste in Cold-Pressed Bars | Ingredion Incorporated, a leading provider of specialty ingredient solutions, has launched VITESSENCE® Pea 100 HD, a pea protein designed to enhance the texture and taste of cold-pressed bars in the US and Canadian markets. This new product... |
| 22.04.2024 | Futureproofing your Morning Joe? Atomo opens ‘beanless’ coffee roastery in Seattle | [Disclosure: AgFunder, parent company to AgFunderNews, is an investor in Atomo.]
Atomo—maker of the ‘world’s first beanless espresso’—has opened a 33,547sq ft roastery in Seattle capable of producing four million pounds of ground ‘coffee’ a... |
| 04.03.2024 | How This Carbon Calculator is Helping Food Companies Better Report & Reduce GHG Emissions | 5 Mins Read New York-based sustainability research firm HowGood recently expanded its product carbon footprinting solutions to streamline corporate accounting and GHG reduction for the food industry. Its head of product, Nina DePalma, outli... |
| 17.10.2023 | ‘Not all crackers look the same.’ Sustainability intel platform HowGood targets land-use emissions with latest tool | Corporates missing sustainability targets is an old problem, but there’s a new urgency surrounding it in light of accelerating climate change and agrifood’s responsibility for one third of global emissions. While consumers, investors and go... |
| 28.09.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Paine Schwartz launches $1.7bn agrifood fund, Cricket One unveils new plant, Infarm ‘declared bankrupt’ | Agrifood’s biggest news this week is PE firm Paine Schwartz closing its $1.7 billion food- and agribusiness-focused fund. Fund VI is “exclusively focused on sustainable investments” in food and agribusiness, and the firm has already deploye... |
| 17.06.2023 | HowGood Raises $12.5 Million Round | - |
| 13.03.2023 | Foodtech at Expo West, part two: From animal-free dairy to fat… the final frontier for alt meat? | In part two of our whistlestop tour of foodtech startups exhibiting at Expo West, we look at players from Brightseed, which is exploring novel bioactives for gut health, to Epogee, which has found intriguing new applications for EPG: a plan... |
| 15.02.2023 | What does regenerative product design look like? | Editor’s Note: New Food Order is a podcast brought to by AFN’s parent company AgFunder in collaboration with Food+Tech Connect, co-hosted by AgFunder’s Louisa Burwood-Taylor and Food+Tech Connect’s Danielle Gould.
The views expressed in the... |
| 24.11.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: a $60m raise for Modern Milkman, ‘ultrasonic’ snack bars & food delivery layoffs | This week, craft beer company Bira landed new funding to expand its geographic reach while Torr FoodTech grabbed $12 million for its unusual and tech-centric approach to snack bars. In agtech, Clarifruit also raised $12 million while more l... |
| 17.11.2022 | HowGood launches platform for food companies to track scope 3 emissions | Dive Brief:
Sustainability research company HowGood launched a new measurement platform for food companies to track their scope 3 Emissions. Nearly 87% of food companies’ emissions are classified as scope 3, according to HowGood.
Companies’... |
| 15.11.2022 | HowGood Launches Scope 3 Emissions Reporting for Food Brands Globally | The World’s Largest Sustainability Database for Food Products Brings Granular Reporting on GHG Emissions to Allow Brands to Track and Reduce their Carbon Footprint
HowGood, an independent research company with the world’s largest ingredient... |
| 12.07.2022 | Q&A: HowGood exec on linking regenerative farming to food industry impact | When it comes to measuring socio-environmental impact, the agrifood sector remains in largely uncharted waters.
There are a plethora of different methods and metrics. As consumers and investors alike expect food and farming to show their su... |
| 18.05.2022 | HowGood Announces $12.5M Funding Round to Expand Sustainability Intelligence Platform and Industry Influence | HIGH FALLS, N.Y., May 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HowGood, a SaaS data platform with the world's largest ingredient and product sustainability database, today announced a $12.5M funding round led by Titan Grove, a leader in mission-and-imp... |
| 18.05.2022 | HowGood aims to boost enterprises’ sustainability intelligence | 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!
New York-based HowGood, a company that provides a... |
| 07.01.2022 | Робот в кухне и строгий клиент: самые важные тренды FoodTech 2022 | Отправной точкой всех изменений являются люди, которым нужны новые решения старых и вновь возникающих проблем.
В центре внимания последних лет находятся поколения Y (миллениалы, от 23 до 35 лет) и следующее за ним — поколение Z (зумеры).
Со... |
| 30.12.2021 | AFN’s top 20 guest articles of 2021 | AFN strives to provide holistic coverage of trends and developments across the agrifoodtech ecosystem; but we on the editorial team wouldn’t be able to do it all by ourselves. We rely on the multitude of expert commentaries, opinion pieces,... |
| 02.12.2021 | The 4 paradigms of agriculture: What are you sourcing from? | Ethan Soloviev is chief innovation officer at HowGood, a product sustainability research company based in High Falls, New York.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of AFN.
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| 02.03.2021 | HowGood Raises $6.5 Million Series A Round | - |
| 23.02.2021 | HowGood Announces $6 Million In Funding | HowGood, a SaaS data platform with the world’s largest sustainability database for the food and personal care industries, announced it has raised a $6 million investment round led by Contour Venture Partners, with participation from FirstMa... |
| 23.02.2021 | HowGood Raises $6M In Funding | HowGood, a NYC-based SaaS data platform with a sustainability database for the food and personal care industries, raised $6m in funding.
The round was led by Contour Venture Partners, with participation from FirstMark Capital, Danone Manife... |
| 22.02.2021 | HowGood Announces $6M In Funding |
NEW YORK, NY, HowGood has raised a $6 million investment round led by Contour Venture Partners.
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| 22.02.2021 | HowGood Announces $6 Million In Funding | NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- HowGood, a SaaS data platform with the world's largest sustainability database for the food and personal care industries, today announced it has raised a $6 million investment round led by Contour Ven... |
| 22.02.2021 | Danone S A : Sustainability Platform HowGood Raises $6 Million Led by Contour Venture Partners | By Josh Beckerman
HowGood, which says it has the world's largest database on food and personal care product sustainability, has raised $6 million led by Contour Venture Partners.
FirstMark Capital, Danone Manifesto Ventures, Trailhead Capit... |
| 22.02.2021 | HowGood Raises $6 Million To Keep Up With Demand For Its Sustainability Database | Alexander Gillett (left) and Arthur Gillett (right)Courtesy of the firm |
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Danone S A : Sustainability Platform HowGood Raises $6 Million Led by Contour Venture Partners | By Josh Beckerman
HowGood, which says it has the world's largest database on food and personal care product sustainability, has raised $6 million led by Contour Venture Partners.
FirstMark Capital, Danone Manifesto Ventures, Trailhead Capit... |
| 05.11.2020 | New database Latis from HowGood helps brands measure, improve their environmental impact | According to research from New York University Stern Center for Sustainable Business and the consumer research firm IRI, sustainably marketed products across categories have grown seven times faster than their conventional counter parts in ... |
| 15.09.2020 | HowGood launches Latis, a sustainability assessment tool for consumer product ingredients | The New York-based startup HowGood, which provides a sustainability database for consumer product ingredients, is publicly launching its product Latis and has already signed an initial customer with Danone North America, the company said.
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| 03.10.2019 | Making the investment case for regenerative agriculture | Farmers and investors are making financial gains from regenerative agriculture, according to several speakers at the inaugural Regenerative Food Systems Investment (RFSI) Forum.
A no-till farmer in Ohio earns a net of $500 more per acre tha... |
| 15.08.2017 | HowGood launches major expansion in mid-Atlantic with Giant Food Stores | A lot more people are going to be seeing how good the food they buy is.
Greenpoint’s HowGood announced on Twitter Tuesday that it has partnered with Giant Food Stores to begin adding ratings to products in 167 supermarkets in D.C., Delaware... |
| 05.04.2017 | Brooklyn startups raised $34 million in the first quarter of 2017 | Brooklyn startups raised $34 million between Jan. 1 and March 31 of this year, according to a review of public records. Twelve companies raised amounts ranging from $185,000 to $8.4 million.
This is only the second quarter for which we’ve k... |
| 22.03.2017 | Is ‘local’ synonymous with ‘better’? Experts weigh in at the Good Food Festival | At the Good Food Festival in Chicago, which took place March 16-18, moderator Katherine Miller, senior director of food policy advocacy at the James Beard Foundation, asked the attendees to raise their hand if buying local is important to ... |
| 09.03.2017 | Agtech Funding (& Exit) Sheet: $84m Raised in 2 Weeks (+$400m Instacart Series D), Origin Acquires AgSpace | AgSpace, a UK ag big data startup, has been acquired by Origin Enterprises, the ag retailer and agronomy company for £11.4 million ($13.9m). A further payment of £4.8m ($5.9m) will be made if the company reaches its profit targets. AgSpace ... |
| 06.03.2017 | Sustainability rating company HowGood raises $4.2m series A financing | Instead, a product’s rating is featured in the grocery store—the most standard form is a seal on the product’s price tag, but it can be as elaborate as displays or more.
“It essentially allows grocers to highlight the great products that th... |
| 03.03.2017 | HowGood Raises $4.2M Series A |
NEW YORK, NY, Leading consumer data company and developer of the world's largest database of sustainable food and consumer products ratings, has closed a $4.2M round of Series A financing
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| 02.03.2017 | HowGood Raises $4.2M in Series A Financing | HowGood, a NYC-based consumer data company and developer of a database of sustainable food and consumer products ratings, closed a $4.2m Series A financing.
Backers included FirstMark Capital, Contour Venture, Serious Change LP, Great Oaks ... |
| 02.03.2017 | HowGood Raises $4.2 Million Series A | HowGood, a leading consumer data company and developer of the world's largest database of sustainable food and consumer products ratings, today announced it has closed a $4.2 million round of Series A financing, from investors FirstMark Cap... |
| 02.03.2017 | HowGood raises $4.2 million to guide shoppers to products that match their values | Millennial consumers care about the sustainability of what they buy more than any other generation that came before them. This point is illustrated in studies from Pew Research, Clemson University and Nielsen, to name a few. Now, a New York... |
| 03.11.2016 | Tolerant Foods poised to be top contender in legume pasta category | There is more dried pasta made out of beans in the market than ever before, a response to the category’s decline. As Euromonitor found out, value sales of dried pasta fell by 6% in the US between 2009 and 2014, and double that in Western E... |
| 10.10.2014 | How HowGood works | What if you had something more to go on in choosing responsibly-sourced products in the grocery store than just the product’s label?
We recently cited a $2 million investment round for an Android and iOS app that will give you a rating for ... |
| 01.10.2014 | Food righteousness app raises $2 million [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
Greenpoint’s HowGood, an iOS and Android app that rates foods based on a number of attributes, such as sustainability and social impact, has raised a $2 million seed round, backed by FirstMark Ventures and Highline Capi... |
| 19.09.2014 | HowGood Closes $2M Funding | HowGood, a New York City-based in-store food rating system, closed a $2m round of funding.
Backers included FirstMark Capital, Highline Ventures, Serious Change, Jake Lodwick and Joanne Wilson.
The company intends to use the funds to accele... |
| 17.09.2014 | HowGood, Now With $2M In Funding, Releases Apps For More Sustainable Grocery Shopping | New mobile applications from HowGood want to help shoppers become better informed about which food is best to eat – and not just which food is healthiest, as the name suggests, but whether the animals were treated humanely, if the workers w... |
| 17.09.2014 | HowGood Raises $2M |
NEW YORK, NY, Independent research organization and the best source of information on the food we eat, today announced it has closed a $2 million round of funding.
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| - | HowGood, a startup that scores ingredients on their climate and social impact to make a more sustainable food system, just raised $12.5 million. Check out the 11-slide pitch deck it used. | HowGood This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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