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Agri-TechE members named in global FoodTech 500 finalists

Agri-TechE

Breedr, Small Robot Company and Cellular Agriculture were among the top global agri-tech companies listed in the FoodTech 500 report by Forward Fooding.
The organisers comment: “It is our ambition that the FoodTech 500 becomes the Fortune 500 of AgriFoodTech, a list of top innovators and disruptors in the industry and the go-to leaders of this emergent and ever-evolving sector.
“With over 2,000+ applications received for this year, the competition to make the 2020 FoodTech 500 was fierce. So, from all of us at Forward Fooding, we would like to thank all the companies that enter this year’s competition as well congratulate to all the teams that have made our ranking for the great milestones they have achieved so far and for all the impact they are creating with their work!”

$4.1B raised 

423 companies out of 500 have received investments – raising a total of over $4.1B in funding to date. This figure doesn’t include undisclosed funding activities and has been validated using external data sources from the FoodTech Data Navigator.
The companies were selected from a pool of international AgriFoodTech startup and scaleup companies using a unique methodology that is used to rank them based on their business size, digital footprint, and sustainability practices

Companies in the Agri-TechE ecosystem listed in FoodTech 500


More information about the report is available at forwardfooding.com.