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AgCulture PodcastLouisa Burwood-Taylor: Funding Shifts in Agtech | Ep. 87In this episode of the AgCulture Podcast Show, Louisa Burwood-Taylor, Managing Editor at AgFunder, discusses the evolving landscape of agrifood tech investment and the role of venture capital in agriculture. He unpacks trends shaping funding, startup challenges, and how AI and robotics are reshaping the future of farm operations. Explore the critical gaps between agtech innovation and farmer adoption. Listen now on all major platforms!Meet the guest: Louisa Burwood-Taylor is the Managing Editor at AgFunder and a pioneer in agrifood tech journalism. With nearly two decades of experience...
2025-08-1439 min
Heja Framtiden531. Louisa Burwood-Taylor: Agrifoodtech needs more investments (IN ENGLISH)From record numbers in 2021, agrifoodtech investments have plummeted - right when capital is needed more than ever. Louisa Burwood-Taylor is Head of News and Research at the venture capital and research platform Agfunder. Heja Framtiden met Louisa at the foodtech conference Big Meet in Stockholm, to discuss the investment landscape in agtech and foodtech. What has been over-hyped and what new innovations can we expect moving forward? // Podcast host: Christian von Essen // Learn more at hejaframtiden.se and subscribe to the newsletter on Substack (in Swedish only).
2024-05-0212 min
Future of AgricultureFoA 388: Agtech Reflections and Projections with David Friedberg and Louisa Burwood-TaylorPut AI to work on your farm: https://farmwave.io/"10 years on from Climate Corp’s $1bn acquisition, David Friedberg reflects": https://agfundernews.com/david-friedberg-reflects-10-years-on-from-climate-corp-1bn-acquisitionThe Production Board: https://www.tpb.co/Almost exactly 10 years ago, an acquisition was announced that caused many people in the technology and investment community to pay more attention to what was happening in agriculture: Monsanto was buying The Climate Corporation, which was founded by David Friedberg. "Climate.com became the standalone software product for farmers, and that really is kind of the reason Mon...
2023-11-0838 min
Agri-InsiderAgri-insider EP 7 - Louisa Burwood-Taylor - Agri-Food Tech's Voice of TruthLouisa Burwood-Taylor, Head of Media and Research at AgFunder, talks about the critical role of information and collaboration in shaping the future of the agri-food supply chain industry. Listen to Agri-Insider for anything and everything agri-food supply chain.
2023-10-0457 min
evokeᴬᴳ⋅Green opportunity: Asia-Pacific investments geared to tackle climate changeThis week we bring you a podcast from AgriFutures growAG, the gateway to Australia’s agrifood innovation system.Our growAG contributor, Samantha Noon catches up with Tegan Nock, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Australian microbial tech startup, LoamBio, and Louisa Burwood-Taylor, Head of Media for Silicon Valley venture capital firm, AgFunder, and Chief Editor of AgFunder News – the go-to global investment news platform.Together they explore the key investment trends and noteworthy funding rounds, from the recent AgFunder 2022 Asia-Pacific AgriFoodTech Investment Report, including LoamBio's Series A, Top 5 Aussie deal, worth $40million AUD, and what that means for A...
2022-12-1559 min
FoodTech JunkiesProceed with Caution: Lessons from the Future PastJournalist, editor, speaker, and podcast host Louisa Burwood-Taylor is a force to be reckoned with in the food innovation space. In this episode, we catch up with AgFunder's Head of Media and Research and Senior Editor of AFN to talk about the hits, misses, buzzwords, and promises of the agrifood tech renaissance. Together we discuss how to improve strategies for reaching future food goals faster.About Louisa Burwood-TaylorLouisa is Head of Media & Research for AgFunder and chief editor of its news site AFN, with 13 years of financial journalism experience. She has covered...
2022-05-0357 min
FoodTech JunkiesProceed with Caution: Lessons from the Future PastJournalist, editor, speaker, and podcast host Louisa Burwood-Taylor is a force to be reckoned with in the food innovation space. In this episode, we catch up with AgFunder's Head of Media and Research and Senior Editor of AFN to talk about the hits, misses, buzzwords, and promises of the agrifood tech renaissance. Together we discuss how to improve strategies for reaching future food goals faster.
About Louisa Burwood-Taylor
Louisa is Head of Media & Research for AgFunder and chief editor of its news site AFN, with 13 years of financial journalism experience. She has covered a range...
2022-05-0357 min
Future FoodDiving deep with Sandhya Sriram on the future of cell-cultured seafoodSince Sriram co-founded Shiok Meats three years ago, the startup has gone from strength to strength. According to AgFunder's most recent ASEAN Agrifoodtech Investment Report, it was Southeast Asia’s highest-funded startup in the ‘Innovative Food’ category in 2019.It raised $4.6 million for its April 2019 seed round, which saw Y Combinator make its first-ever investment in a ‘clean meat’ company.Last year, Shiok Meats netted $3 million in bridge funding from investors including UK firms Agronomics and Impact Venture, US trust VegInvest, and UAE-based Mindshift Capital, before closing a $12.6 million Series A round led by Dutch aquaculture-focused fund Aqua-Spark.
2021-06-2540 minFuture FoodFuture Food News Review #5: Food system cyber-attacks, Avoiding alt protein’s unintended consequences, Cashierless checkout's growthThe Future Food News Review is part of a collaboration between AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect to host meaningful conversations about the future of our food system on Clubhouse and other platforms.The Future Food News Review features leading journalists in foodtech and agtech sharing and discussing their top headlines of the week, hosted on Clubhouse.See below for a list of participating journalists and the articles they introduced; some of them joined purely for the discussion and debate. We always strive for diverse voices on Future Food News Review, so if you're a...
2021-06-241h 20Future FoodFuture Food News Review #4: Regenerative agriculture's reckoning, Questions for cell-cultured meat, Right-wing coffee, moreThe Future Food News Review is part of a collaboration between AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect to host meaningful conversations about the future of our food system on Clubhouse and other platforms.The Future Food News Review features leading journalists in foodtech and agtech sharing and discussing their top headlines of the week, hosted on Clubhouse.See below for a list of participating journalists and the articles they introduced; some of them joined purely for the discussion and debate. We always strive for diverse voices on Future Food News Review, so if you're a...
2021-05-191h 35Future FoodFuture Food News Review #3: Amazon's new private label food brand, Unabated meat consumption, SPACs for foodtechThe Future Food News Review is part of a collaboration between AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect to host meaningful conversations about the future of our food system on Clubhouse and other platforms.The journalists joining this week are:Ximena Bustillo - POLITICO (https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-agriculture)Sam Silverstein - Grocery Dive (https://www.grocerydive.com/news/amazon-unveils-aplenty-its-newest-private-label-food-brand/598223/)Leah Douglas - FERN (https://www.motherjones.com/food/2021/04/a-year-later-conditions-for-many-food-workers-at-high-risk-of-covid-19-remain-the-same/)Jenn Marston - The Spoon (https://thespoon.tech/restaurants-breakup-with-single-use-plastics-has-begun/)Lela Nargi - The Counter (https://thecounter.org...
2021-04-191h 31Future FoodFoodtech & sustainability in Asia amid food security challengesCovid-19 started in Asia, and the region was the first to feel the social and economic impacts of the disease as it spread worldwide. It’s also where businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, and governments have spent the most time dealing with Covid-19 and its effects. Their insights and experience – and the strategies they’ve adopted to ride out the pandemic – could prove invaluable to agrifood players not just in Asia, but elsewhere in the world, too.That’s why we focused the second episode of our new What The Fork?Digitalks by AgFunder series on Asia, and how agrifood bus...
2020-07-1750 minFuture FoodThe future of agrifood investing in the wake of Covid-19Covid-19 is the first big crisis for agrifood investing, an investment area that largely emerged in the wake of the global financial crisis. How will investors respond and what does it mean for the future of investment across the sector? This is part of a new series of webinars AgFunder is hosting to navigate the crisis. This first episode features Dave Friedberg, founder of The Climate Corporation, agtech's first unicorn which sold to Monsanto for $1bn, and Blake Stevens, principal at Alexandria Ventures, part of real estate investment juggernaut Alexandria Real Estate (NYSE: ARE) and lea...
2020-06-0646 min
Vertical Farming Podcast - Conversations with CEOs, Founders & Leaders in AgTech & CEA002 Louisa Burwood-Taylor - The Biggest Challenges Facing Indoor AgricultureJoin Harry Duran, host of Vertical Farming Podcast, as he welcomes to the show AgTech journalist, Louisa Burwood-Taylor. As a journalist and editor, Louisa covers foodtech, agriculture, venture capital investment and corporate innovation within the indoor agriculture industry. In this episode, Harry and Louisa discuss the societal impact of indoor agriculture and vertical farming, the emergence of competition, and biggest threats and challenges currently facing this niche industry.Special thanks to our Season 1 SponsorIGS – https://intelligentgrowthsolutions.com/ Key Takeaways02:00 – Louisa’s background in AgTech journa...
2020-05-2034 min
Future FoodDigging into dairy sustainability with Danone & ConnecterraYou’re forgiven if you missed Earth Day last week. I’m sure sustainability and climate change are far from many people’s minds right now as you grapple with a new normal that might involve sick loved ones, loss of a job, or serious challenges in your day-to-day life. Of course, our planet continues to face the same environmental challenges it did before the pandemic. Danone, the French multinational yogurt and dairy products company, certainly agrees; the company, a classified B-Corp, is a frontrunner in the food industry for tackling sustainability issues — recently recognized for its wo...
2020-04-2934 min
Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg (by Food Tank)124. Louisa Burwood-Taylor on Food Technology During COVID-19Dani Nierenberg talks with Louisa Burwood-Taylor, Head of Media & Research for AgFunder and chief editor of their news site AFN. While you're listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to "Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg" wherever you consume your podcasts.
2020-04-0822 min
Blazing TrailsAward-winning Chefs Samin Nosrat and Dominique Crenn on the Future of Food SystemsWhat is the latest thinking around our food systems and how they impact society? Award-winning chefs Dominique Crenn and Samin Nosrat joined AgFunder’s Head of Media and Research, Louisa Burwood-Taylor, to discuss the ways our food systems can be made more sustainable and equitable. Captured live, on-stage during Dreamforce ‘19. This special ten-part series based on conversations at Dreamforce 2019 is presented by WordPress VIP. With unparalleled power and flexibility, WordPress VIP is the leading provider of enterprise WordPress and powers digital customer experiences for companies like Facebook, Spotify, Capgemini, and more. In these ten episodes, you will hear...
2020-02-0653 min
Future FoodWhy foodtech and agtech VC? I ask AgFunder's investment teamWhy work in the foodtech and agtech investment space? Which category of this emerging venture capital industry are most exciting? These are some of the questions I asked two of my teammates Yanniv and Quinten who joined AgFunder in 2019. Also find out who their favorite team member is - hint - it's me!
2020-01-0918 min
Future Food2020 Special: AgFunder's Rob Leclerc on the last decade in ag and foodtechThis episode is perhaps a tad awkward as I interview my boss Rob Leclerc, founding partner of AgFunder, but Rob was as insightful as ever, sharing his thoughts on working in and around the agriculture sector for the past decade. Rob first started working with our other founding partner Michael Dean when they set up an agriculture business in West Africa at the start of the decade before founding AgFunder in 2013. We talk about agtech acquisitions, food trends, the impending shift to look at food as medicine, lessons he's learned since starting to invest and...
2019-12-2330 min
Future FoodFrom the moment we're born, we're going to know exactly what foods we should eat, for what purposeSofia Elizondo started her career as a management consultant in New York and after attending Stanford business school, discovered the world of food tech. She cofounded Brightseed in Silicon Valley to unlock the potential for plants to positively impact our health. In this episode, we discuss the vast untapped potential of the natural world for our nutrition; just 15 of the 50,000 edible plants on the earth provide 90% of our calories! So Sofia founded Brightseed to unearth the bioactive compounds in plants that have positive impacts on our bodies using artificial intelligence and computational biology. "Thirty years...
2019-07-2928 min
Future of AgricultureFuture of Agriculture 042: Agtech Foodtech and Ag Entrepreneurship with Louisa Burwood-Taylor of AgFunderAgTech has experienced quite a boom over the years. There is no question that innovation can boost tremendous improvements in the Agriculture industry. And like me, many Agriculture professionals and business owners are curious and eagerly awaiting the next big thing from AgTech. Louisa Burwood-Taylor is currently at the heart of the AgTech industry as the Chief Editor of AgFunderNews.com. She was originally a financial journalist and was privileged to shift to AgTech just when the industry started gaining significant progress. In today’s show, Louisa shares her experience in AgTech, along with invaluable en...
2017-03-0133 min