VC Rockstart is looking for the 'boring' agtech firms – this is the sector set to boom: 'Will massively boost production'

Mark Durno, managing partner for agrifood at Rockstart. Photo: Rockstart. Collage: Impact Loop.
12 juni 2025
09:39
Amsterdam-based impact investor Rockstart wants to transform the global agri-food system by focusing on having both a healthy planet and a healthy gut.

Impact Loop sat down with Mark Durno, Rockstart's managing partner for agrifood, to discuss what's cooking within agri and foodtech now:

→ The "boring" agtech solutions that work
→ The area that will boom
→ What it takes to sell a product to farmers

When it comes to ag tech, moonshot solutions like vertical farming seem to have wilted before they had a chance to grow.

But there are still plenty of "boring" innovations to get excited about, according to Dutch-Danish venture capital firm Rockstart, which has made agrifood one its core investment pillars.

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