Better Bioeconomy

Legibility Is the New Shelf Space: What Happens When AI Filters Food Before You See It

The shift from persuasion to proof is clear. The question is who captures value inside it.

Apr 23 • Eshan Samaranayake

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Agritech Didn't Fail in Southeast and South Asia. The Capital Did.

Lessons from ‘The Opportunity for AgriTech Investment in Southeast and South Asia’ report by Beanstalk AgTech and Briter Bridges.

Apr 7 • Eshan Samaranayake

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March 2026

What It Takes to Build a Fundable Food Company After “Peak Stupid”

Siddhi Capital's Steven Finn on financing risk, cap table engineering, and where GLP-1 and AI are creating real opportunity in food

Mar 31 • Eshan Samaranayake

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‘Physical AI’ in Agriculture: Real Technical Shift or Just a New Label for Ag Robotics?

It's partly marketing. But underneath the label is a real architectural shift in how robotic intelligence is built and deployed.

Mar 24 • Eshan Samaranayake

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$105M to Save the World's Banana Supply, and A$30M to Decentralise Nitrogen Fertilisers

Also: world's first commercial cell-based chocolate, cultivated dog treats sell out in Australia, and RNA reads crop disease four weeks early

Mar 18 • Eshan Samaranayake

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Agrifood Has Plenty of Tech and Not Enough Systems Thinking

The architecture problem the sector keeps misdiagnosing as a company problem

Mar 10 • Eshan Samaranayake

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The Great Unbundling: Ag Is Breaking Apart at the Top, While Consolidating Within Segments

Lessons from Verdant Partners’ 2025 Global Food & Agribusiness M&A Review & Outlook

Mar 2 • Eshan Samaranayake

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February 2026

$8M to Resurrect Plant Immunity, and the US Declares Agriculture a National Security Priority

Also: Why India will see agritech IPOs before America or Europe, Carbon Robotics brings frontier AI to the field, and cell agriculture company reaches…

Feb 22 • Eshan Samaranayake

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Why 90% of Food Tech Fails to Scale, and What ‘Operator-Led’ Investors Do Differently

Ferry Kamp, Managing Partner of Remagine Food, on how an “invest and build” model tackles execution risk, broken partnerships, and misaligned capital in…

Feb 9 • Eshan Samaranayake

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€56M to Scale AI-Powered Imaging for Food Inspection, and Women’s Nutrition Gets Rebuilt Around Life Stages

Also: MrBeast tried cultivated chicken, fibre becomes programmable, and barns turn into early-warning systems.

Feb 2 • Eshan Samaranayake

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January 2026

€30M for Gut-Health Binding Proteins, and Robot Cowboys Comes to Ranches

Also: Why transformative ag companies can be built in any macro environment to drive outlier VC returns.

Jan 19 • Eshan Samaranayake

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Engineering the Exit: How to Get Acquired in Deep Tech

Cyril Ebersweiler, General Partner at SOSV, on the deep tech exit reality check, how founders build real buyer pull, and when to build more vs sell now.

Jan 12 • Eshan Samaranayake

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