How reality crushed Ÿnsect, the French startup that had raised over $600M for insect farming

How reality crushed Ÿnsect, the French startup that had raised over 0M for insect farming

How reality crushed Ÿnsect, the French startup that had raised over $600M for insect farming

Admin6 months ago010 mins

French startup Ÿnsect shot into the spotlight when “Iron Man” star Robert Downey Jr. touted its merits on the Late Show during Super Bowl weekend 2021. Now, nearly four years later, the insect farming company has been placed into judicial liquidation — essentially bankruptcy — for insolvency. The company’s demise is hardly a surprise, as…

The 14 top agtech, food tech startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield

Admin6 months ago08 mins

Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and from them, the top 20 compete on the big stage for the Startup Battlefield Cup and a cash prize of $100,000. But the remaining 180 startups blew us away, too, in their respective…

XRobotics’ countertop robots are cooking up 25,000 pizzas a month

Admin1 year ago06 mins

XRobotics thinks it has cracked the code on getting pizza restaurants to adopt robotics. The San Francisco-based robotics company built a countertop robot called xPizza Cube, which is roughly the size of a stackable washing machine, and uses machine learning to apply sauce, cheese and pepperonis to pizza dough. The machines, which lease for $1,300…