SomaDetect, the 43North winner that makes sensor equipment for dairy farmers, is getting a financial boost from the diary industry’s biggest dairy processors.

If you’ve ever tried your hand at home juicing — or watched a local spot make you juice to order — you probably noticed that a lot of pulp gets left behind. Some larger juiceries have partners that can take the pulp to use for animal feed or compost, but many smaller juiceries end up just throwing it away since they don’t have the resources to get it to farmers.

Another FoodBytes! competition took place in NYC last week, giving 19 food and agriculture startups the opportunity to pitch their innovations to investors. AI dairy company SomaDetect took home the top prize: Judges’ Choice Award.

As strategic investors go, it doesn’t get much better than this. Buffalo-based SomaDetect has received an investment from the Dairy Farmers of America, a farmer-owned dairy cooperative based in Kansas City, Kanas, that serves more than 14,500 family farmers. Earlier this year, SomaDetect participated in the Kansas City, Missouri-based Sprint Accelerator, of which DFA is a sponsor.

Innovopro has developed a patented method to process chickpea protein that, chief executive Taly Nechushtan says, means the company can offer a highly functional alternative to the alt proteins currently dominating the market.

UK food tech start-up OddBox is on a mission to tackle food waste. Along the way, the company wants to build farmer incomes while providing consumers with cheap, fresh, healthy produce delivered to their doors. We caught up with founders Emilie Vanpoperinghe and Deepak Ravindran to find out more.

En quelques semaines, les ventes de la jeune entreprise de la Montérégie ont augmenté de 800 %

We speak to Abi Ramanan of Impact Vision to find out why and how food businesses should get involved in the anti-food waste mission

The co-founder of the start-up transforming food inspection offers a quick glimpse into tech innovation, investment, and involvement with Rabobank’s FoodBytes! competition

L’entreprise Nectar mise sur l’intelligence artificielle et sur des capteurs installés à l’intérieur des ruches pour donner une voix aux abeilles… et favoriser ainsi leur survie. Maxime Johnson nous en dit plus.

La start-up Oatbox a obtenu plus de 1,5 M$ auprès d’investisseurs québécois

FoodBytes! by Rabobank has announced the startups that will take the stage at FoodBytes! Montreal, a food and agriculture pitch competition-meets-networking platform.

Flashfood Inc. is a Toronto-based startup that aspires to become an international online broker for grocers to better manage marked-down food they would otherwise throw away