IFT Staff

Food Technology Staff

Delivering Chinese food

Investments to China-based agri-food startups jumped 222% last year to $5.8 billion, according to a recent report from AgFunder. Several factors drove the huge increase in funding, including a 60% increase in the number of deals to 283, a couple of big billion-dollar-plus deals that skewed the data somewhat, and a likely improvement in data reporting.

Funding to startups from the farm to food processing accounted for only $906 million of the nearly $6 billion but increased 806% compared to 2017.…

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