| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.07.2021 | P&P Optica gets Series B funding to bring hyperspectral imaging to the meat industry | Covid-19 has raised serious questions about the safety, efficiency, and overall efficacy of meat processing. From labor shortages to infected workers to empty store shelves, the pandemic has only highlighted the many ways in which the indus... |
| 12.05.2021 | Apeel Sciences acquires ImpactVision to look inside fruit & veg for freshness | Disclosure: AgFunder (AFN’s parent company) is an investor in ImpactVision. Learn more here.
Apeel Sciences, the food waste technology company, has acquired hyperspectral imaging startup ImpactVision. This is Apeel’s first acquisition, and ... |
| 12.05.2021 | Apeel Sciences acquires ImpactVision to look inside fruit & veg for freshness | Disclosure: ImpactVision has received investment from AgFunder, which is the parent company of AFN. Learn more here.
Apeel Sciences, the food waste technology company, has acquired hyperspectral imaging startup ImpactVision. This is Apeel’s... |
| 15.04.2021 | Complexity, AI & the future of food: Biometrics & the future of food safety | Editor’s note: Joseph Byrum is an Aspen Institute Business & Society fellow and spent 25 years as an R&D executive in the agricultural industry. This is the fifth in a series of guest articles on the potential impact of artificial i... |
| 21.05.2020 | PathSpot sells a scanner that fact checks your handwashing efficacy | The novel coronavirus disease has reminded millions that handwashing is a great way to avoid preventable diseases. Christine Schindler, the CEO and co-founder of PathSpot, has been preparing for the past three months for the past three year... |
| 04.05.2020 | Agrifood corporates turn to startups to hedge disruptions and get an edge on trends | This post is part of a collaboration with F&A Next, an AgFunder Network Partner, ahead of its fifth annual conference, hosted virtually on Wednesday, 13 May 2020 at 4pm CET (11am ET). Registration is open here. F&A Next was founded ... |
| 29.01.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Acre VP holds first close of Fund II, brings on Greylock’s Bill Helman as partner & LP | Acre Venture Partners (Acre VP), the agri-foodtech investment firm, has reached a first close on its second fund, a multi-LP fund targeting around $125 million, the same size it reached for Fund I. The firm was founded in 2016 when it launc... |
| 17.09.2019 | The Modern Acre podcast: leveraging tech to disrupt outdated processes with ImpactVision | Editor’s Note: Tyler and Tim Nuss are founders of The Modern Acre, an online community and weekly podcast focused on highlighting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... |
| 01.07.2019 | World Economic Forum Selects ImpactVision as One of 56 Technology Pioneers in 2019 | Editor’s Note: Abi Ramanan is founder and CEO of ImpactVision, one of AgFunder’s portfolio companies that’s combatting food waste and food safety with hyperspectral imaging.
Today, the World Economic Forum selected ImpactVision as one of 56... |
| 23.05.2019 | Chick-fil-A’s AI can spot signs of foodborne illness from social media posts with 78% accuracy | 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!
Chick-fil-A might not be the first place you’d ex... |
| 25.01.2019 | Caterers in China are reportedly using AI to spot unhygienic cooks | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If you’ve ever harbored doubts about the hygiene of the cooks flipping your burger and frying your fries, you’re definitely not the onl... |
| 25.01.2019 | Caterers in China are reportedly using AI to spot unhygienic cooks | If you’ve ever harbored doubts about the hygiene of the cooks flipping your burger and frying your fries, you’re definitely not the only one. Thepaper.cn (via the South China Morning Post) reports that local authorities in eastern China hav... |
| 25.12.2018 | The AgriFood Tech Industry’s 2018 Christmas Grinch List | The holidays offer a time to reflect on the closing year as well as a time to consider the things to come. This year, AgFunderNews reached out to the agrifood tech universe to find out what investors and startup execs are hoping to leave be... |
| 18.12.2018 | Maersk Invests in ImpactVision’s “Game-Changing” Hyperspectral Imaging Tech for Food System | Maersk, the world’s largest transporter of food, has made a strategic investment in ImpactVision, a software company using hyperspectral imaging and machine learning to rapidly assess food quality. ImpactVision is an AgFunder portfolio comp... |
| 17.12.2018 | How ImpactVision is Using AI to Detect Unripe or Contaminated Food | Computer vision is infiltrating just about every industry — to bring analytics to retailers’ shelves, identify early signs of Alzheimer’s, and even help security cameras identify weapons.
Then there is ImpactVision, which is leveraging mac... |
| 12.12.2018 | How ImpactVision is using AI to detect unripe or contaminated food | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Computer vision is infiltrating just about every industry — to bring analytics to retailers’ shelves, identify early signs of Alzheimer... |
| 12.12.2018 | How ImpactVision is using AI to detect unripe or contaminated food | Computer vision is infiltrating just about every industry — to bring analytics to retailers’ shelves, identify early signs of Alzheimer’s, and even help security cameras identify weapons.
Then there is ImpactVision, which is leveraging mach... |
| 28.11.2018 | The Innovators Under 35 Europe 2018 | Technology to eliminate the waste of food, solar strips to regenerate burned skin faster and artificial intelligence that analyzes electrocardiograms as well as a real doctor, among the winning projects
The European community will meet on ... |
| 10.09.2018 | Animal Health and Antibiotic-Use Reduction Dominate Among Startups Selected to Pitch at FoodBytes! NYC | Twenty companies have been selected to pitch at FoodBytes! NYC on October 18, marking the event’s third run in the big apple. FoodBytes! is the global pitch competition organized by food and agriculture bank Rabobank with the aim of harness... |
| 02.08.2018 | Who Will Come Out a Winner at FoodBytes! New York? | FoodBytes!, the startup business competition by Rabobank, a global food and agribusiness bank, is returning to New York City and startups can apply now through August 12.
The pitch competition, to take place on October 18, gives 20 pre-sele... |
| 31.07.2018 | Hyperspectral Imaging Sets New Standards for Food Monitoring | Editor’s Note: Abi Ramanan and Gustav Nipe the CEO and CTO of ImpactVision respectively. ImpactVision is a software company combining hyperspectral imaging with machine learning for food companies’ supply chains to reduce waste and fraud an... |
| 15.05.2018 | ImpactVision Can Detect Foreign Objects in Food Using Hyperspectral Imagery | ImpactVision, an AgFunder portfolio company, has launched a new application that uses hyperspectral imagery to detect foreign objects in food.
The key benefits of ImpactVision’s system for foreign object detection are that it is non-invasiv... |
| 22.02.2018 | AgFunder Starts Investing in FoodTech and Agtech | The top-line numbers suggest that the agrifood tech industry is flooded with capital, but the reality is that there are still very few investors dedicated to agrifood tech, especially at the early stages of Seed to Series B. While AgFunder ... |
| 07.02.2018 | DEADLINE APPROACHING: Cast Your Vote in the AgFunder Innovation Awards | ***VOTING CLOSED***
It’s that time of year again to recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward with the AgFunder Innovation Awards. These are peer-selected awards based on votes placed by you, our 45... |
| 25.01.2018 | Alibaba’s Jack Ma Interviewed by ImpactVision CEO at Davos | Editor’s Note: AgFunder is an investor in ImpactVision.
Yesterday in Davos, agrifood tech CEO Abi Ramanan interview Alibaba CEO Jack Ma in an intimate gathering of young leaders attending the World Economic Forum annual meeting.
Ramanan is ... |
| 16.01.2018 | San Francisco Banker From Mexico Launches FoodBytes! For Food/Tech Entrepreneurs, Part I | FoodBytes! founder Manuel Gonzalez in New York City. Photo by Nina Roberts |
| 31.10.2017 | ImpactVision Raises $1.4m Seed Round to Determine Food Quality with Hyperspectral Images | ImpactVision, a software startup using hyperspectral imaging to help food supply chain companies determine the quality and ripeness of food products, has raised $1.4 million in seed funding in a round led by Acre Venture Partners.
Acre Vent... |
| 28.08.2017 | 20 Startups Make the Cut for FoodBytes! Austin | Twenty food and agriculture startups have been selected to pitch at FoodBytes! Austin, TX on Tuesday, Sept. 26 at Brazos Hall. The pitch competition will feature solutions to food challenges including livestock management, food bi-product u... |
| 28.06.2017 | Food Industry Leaders Take a Full-Systems Approach at Mixing Bowl Hub in Silicon Valley | Yesterday, food tech and agtech startups, along with investors, nonprofits, and other stakeholders, met up in Mountain View, CA to discuss how downstream consumer decisions affect upstream food decisions and the reverse.
Here are a few high... |
| 23.06.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Food & Agtech Business Competitions and Accelerators Gather Pace, more | It’s Time for the 2017 Census of Agriculture!
Hey, farmers: make sure your voice is heard and your operation counted in the USDA’s 2017 Census of Agriculture. This includes unconventional and urban farmers. Why take the time to fill out the... |
| 16.05.2017 | FoodBytes! Announces 20 Startups to Pitch in New York | Rabobank, the global food and agribusiness bank, has unveiled the 20 startups selected to pitch at the upcoming FoodBytes! event in NYC on June 15. The two-day event will bring innovative companies together with investors, and industry lead... |
| 01.05.2017 | Singularity University expanding its mission | Singularity University (SU), a global community with a mission to educate, inspire, and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges, has announced the creation of five new community Chapters arou... |
