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2018-08-15 | |
| Full Harvest, a B2B marketplace focused on reducing food waste, has raised $8.5 million in Series A funding led by Spark | |
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2018-08-09 | |
| Inari, the latest venture from venture development organization Flagship Pioneering, has raised $40 million in Series B funding. The company describes itself | |
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2018-08-08 | |
| RootWave, a UK agtech startup, has created technology that enables the use of electricity to kill weeds by boiling them inside out from | |
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2018-08-02 | |
| Apeel Sciences, a Goleta, Calif.-based startup backed by both Bill Gates and Andreessen Horowitz, has raised a $70 million Series C in its effort to | |
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2018-07-25 | |
| GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., July 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Cool Planet, an agricultural technology company focused on soil health solutions, announced that it has closed | |
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2018-07-24 | |
| Spanish agtech startup Agroptima has raised €1.2 million ($1.4m) in Series A funding for its farm management software platform. Agroptima says it is the | |
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2018-07-19 | |
| AgBiome, the plant microbiome research and products company which counts the Gates Foundation as an investor, has raised $65 million in Series C | |
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2018-07-18 | |
| HerdDogg, a US startup developing an IoT product for livestock farmers, has raised $2.3 million in seed funding. Midwest-focused venture capital firm | |
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2018-07-17 | |
| Clean Seed Capital Group, a Canadian agtech company, has agreed to acquire the Iowa, US-based planting technology business Harvest International, for | |
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2018-07-16 | |
| Nutrien, the world’s largest fertilizer and ag retail business, has acquired Agrible, a digital agtech startup from Champaign, Illinois, for $63 | |
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2018-07-11 | |
| Sensient Technologies, a global colors, flavors, and fragrances company, has acquired Mazza Innovation, a Canadian startup with a novel method of extracting plant-based | |
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2018-07-10 | |
| Phenospex, a Dutch startup manufacturing a novel type of sensor for the ag industry, has raised €2 million ($2.4 million) in Series A | |
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2018-06-28 | |
| California-based remote sensing startup Ceres Imaging has raised $25 million in Series B financing from one existing and one new investor, taking the company’s total | |
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2018-06-26 | |
| Cibus, a company using gene editing technology to breed crops with improved characteristics, has raised $70 million in Series C funding. Fidelity Management and Research | |
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2018-06-26 | |
| DroneDeploy, an image analysis platform for commercial drone operators, has raised $25 million in a series C round of funding led by the Invenergy | |
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2018-06-26 | |
| WaterBit, a Californian startup building an autonomous irrigation solution (AIS) for produce and nut growers, has raised $11.4 million in Series A funding. Without | |
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2018-06-21 | |
| Umitron, an Asian startup using satellite imagery, IoT, and automation to increase the efficiency of offshore aquaculture, has raised S$11.2 million ($8.3 million) | |
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2018-06-20 | |
| Finless Foods, a San Francisco-based startup working on culturing tuna using cellular agriculture, has closed a $3.5 million seed round led by California | |
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2018-06-14 | |
| Stine Seed Farm has invested $5 million in Smart Ag Inc., an Iowa technology firm that has developed a full stack software platform | |
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2018-06-13 | |
| Tropic Biosciences, the UK-based startup using gene-editing technology including CRISPR to optimize coffee and banana crops, has raised $10 million in Series A | |
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2018-06-12 | |
| WATERLOO, Ontario, June 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- P&P Optica (PPO) and Fulcrum Global Capital (FGC) have announced their partnership to accelerate the deployment of | |
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2018-06-08 | |
| AVA Technologies, a Canadian startup that’s manufacturing smart indoor gardens for consumers, has raised C$2.6 million ($2 million) in seed funding from Vancouver-based | |
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2018-06-04 | |
| AgriProtein, the insect farming business, has raised $105 million in equity and debt into its UK holding company from a large, overseas listed | |
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2018-05-31 | |
| ecoRobotix, a Swiss farm robotics startup, has raised $10.7 million in Series B funding in a round led by European agrifood tech investor | |
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2018-05-31 | |
| Stellapps Technologies, the Indian IoT and data analysis stack for the dairy supply chain, has raised $14 million in Series B funding in | |
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2018-05-30 | |
| Karnott, a Lille, France-based agtech startup, secured €2.5m in funding. Backers included Partech and Leap Ventures. The company intends to | |
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2018-05-24 | |
| Dutch dairy AI platform Connecterra has raised €4.2 million ($4.9 million) in Series A funding including a €1.7 million non-dilutive grant from the European Union. | |
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2018-05-22 | |
| Algaia, a French company manufacturing algae-based products for the agriculture feed, personal care & nutraceutical industries, has raised €4 million ($4.7 million) in | |
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2018-05-16 | |
| BIGH (Building Integrated Greenhouses), a startup based in Brussels, Belgium, has opened its first aquaponic farm on a site spanning 4,000 meters squared above | |
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2018-05-15 | |
| Motorleaf – an artificial intelligence startup focused on bringing actionable, data-driven insights to greenhouse and indoor operators – announced today it has raised $2.85 million | |
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2018-05-10 | |
| Bushel, a farm relationship management tool for grain elevators, has raised $7 million in funding from a syndicate of individual investors in the | |
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2018-05-10 | |
| Resson has raised a $14-million round of funding led by Indian conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra. This is the Fredericton agtech company’s second eight-figure funding round | |
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2018-05-09 | |
| Plant breeding startup Rootility has raised $10 million in Series C funding in a round led by UK-based ADM Capital. ADM’s Cibus Fund | |
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2018-05-02 | |
| Future Meat Technologies, an Israeli startup manufacturing meat from animal cells in a laboratory, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding, in a | |
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2018-04-20 | |
| A Canadian company building its new U.S. headquarters in Centennial said it's completed its Series B fundraising round of $15.9 million. Inocucor Corporation of Montreal is | |
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2018-04-20 | |
| Biological crop input company Inocucor has closed its Series B round at $38.5 million, bringing in Pontifax Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifax | |
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2018-04-05 | |
| Seattle-based insect farming startup Beta Hatch has closed an oversubscribed $2.1 million seed round. Beta Hatch cultivates mealworms for animal feed using patent-pending equipment, a trade-secret process, | |
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2018-03-29 | |
| FoodLogiQ, a software platform aimed at mitigating food safety and traceability issues has raised a $19.5 million Series A round from a diverse | |
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2018-03-26 | |
| AgShift, a California-based food inspection technology startup using deep learning to assess the quality of produce has raised a $2 million seed round | |
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2018-03-26 | |
| Syngenta plans to acquire Brazilian farm management software platform Strider for an undisclosed sum, pending regulatory review by Brazilian authorities. This will be the second | |
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2018-03-20 | |
| Pairwise Plants has raised a $25 million Series A round co-led by Monsanto Growth Ventures and healthcare investment firm Deerfield Management. Pairwise is a | |
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2018-03-19 | |
| Remote sensing startup Skycision has raised a $1.1 million seed round led by Innova Memphis. Skycision uses drone and satellite imagery to help farmers with | |
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2018-03-15 | |
| Hazel Technologies has raised a $3.26 million Series A round led by food and agtech VC S2G ventures. The company develops small packets to | |
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2018-03-14 | |
| New Zealand agtech statup BioLumic has raised a $5 million Series A round to commercialize its ultraviolet light-based seed and seedling treatments. The round was | |
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2018-03-08 | |
| Early Stage investment in agrifood tech startups reached $10.1 billion in 2017, posting a 29% year-over-year increase and reversing the downward trend of 2016 when | |
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2018-03-07 | |
| Hummingbird, a UK-based remote sensing startup has raised a €3 million ($4.1 million) Series A round to expand its platform on three continents. Investors in | |
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2018-03-06 | |
| Micropep Technologies, a French ag biotechnology company, has raised a €4 million ($4.94 million) Series A round of funding. The round was led by | |
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2018-03-06 | |
| Argentinian agribusiness marketplace Agrofy has raised an oversubscribed $6 million Series A round led by Sao Paulo Ventures (SP), along with corporate VCs Bunge | |
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2018-02-28 | |
| Inscripta (formerly Muse Bio) has raised a $55.5 million Series C round led by healthcare investor Mérieux Développement and Washington, DC-based private equity firm | |
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2018-02-27 | |
| San Francisco-based Boost Biomes has raised a $2.05 million seed round to continue to develop its DNA-sequencing- based microorganism discovery platform, led by Nimble Ventures and | |
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2018-02-26 | |
| Israeli precision irrigation technology company Saturas has raised a $4 million Series A round from a group of international investors. Saturas’s sensing system is comprised of | |
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2018-02-14 | |
| Syngenta recently announced it purchased FarmShots, Inc. of North Carolina. FarmShots provides high-resolution satellite imagery on its eight million enrolled acres. FarmShots images provide plant health | |
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2018-02-05 | |
| American Robotics (AR), a Boston-based startup developing a fully autonomous drone for farmers, has raised a $2 million second seed round from investors close | |
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2018-02-02 | |
| Indoor farming software startup Agrilyst has raised an undisclosed strategic round, bringing in new investors with the aim of expanding the scope of its product | |
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2018-01-31 | |
| Cainthus, an Irish startup focused on using computer vision and predictive imaging analysis to monitor the health and well-being of livestock has received | |
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2018-01-31 | |
| Cavallo Ventures, the venture arm of agriculture retailer Wilbur-Ellis has made an undisclosed investment in Seattle-based mealworm farming startup Beta Hatch. The company has closed | |
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2018-01-29 | |
| Tyson Foods‘ venture arm has joined the laundry list of well-known investors backing cultured meat developer Memphis Meats. The San Francisco-based company raised | |
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2018-01-24 | |
| Drone-enabled aerial data and safety platform provider PrecisionHawk has raised a $75 million Series D round from a laundry list of major tech and agriculture | |
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2018-01-23 | |
| Dane Creek Capital Corp. (“DCCC”), has announced it has completed its third round of financing for Midgard Insect Farms Inc. (“Midgard” or the “Company”) taking | |
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2018-01-22 | |
| UK-based startup KisanHub has raised a £1.75 million ($2.43m) second seed round to expand its farm management and data analytics software platform capabilities, with a | |
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2018-01-18 | |
| French microorganism developer Novolyze has raised a €2.2 million ($2.69m) second seed round for its foodborne illness mitigation technology. Novolyze develops and manufactures microorganisms to improve | |
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2018-01-18 | |
| Food waste-to-fertilizer technology startup WISErg has raised a $19.2 million Series C round, bringing the company’s total fundraising to $56.6 million. The round was led by family | |
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2018-01-10 | |
| Israeli farm management software startup FieldIn has raised a $4m second seed round to expand its pest management platform for specialty crops. FieldIn monitors pesticide applications | |
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2018-01-08 | |
| Biological crop input company Inocucor has closed its Series B round at $38.5 million, bringing in Pontifax Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifax | |
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2018-01-02 | |
| SuperMeat, an Israeli cultured meat startup, has raised a $3 million seed round to develop its cultured chicken product in the first of what | |
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2017-12-23 | |
| Nigeria’s first and leading digital agritech start-up company, Farmcrowdy, said it had secured $1 million seed funding from a range of international and local investors. | |
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2017-12-20 | |
| Nuritas, an Irish biotech startup has raised a $20 million Series A round led by agtech VC Cultivian Sandbox. Nuritas has developed a | |
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2017-12-19 | |
| FarmWise, an agricultural robotics and IoT startup has raised a $5.7 million seed round to commercialize the company’s automated weeding robot. FarmWise has developed | |
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2017-12-18 | |
| FluroSat, an Australian crop health software startup, has raised an A$1 million ($770k) seed round for its decision support platform for cotton and | |
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2017-12-18 | |
| Indian weather forecasting startup Skymet Weather Services has raised a Series C Round to expand its network of 6,000 automatic weather stations (AWS). The round | |
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2017-12-14 | |
| Ginkgo Bioworks, a Boston startup genetically engineering microbes for partner companies in the flavor, fragrance, agriculture, and food industries, has raised $275 million | |
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2017-12-06 | |
| Indigo Agriculture, the Boston-based microbial crop technology startup, has closed its Series D funding round on $203 million, the largest fundraising effort by | |
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2017-12-05 | |
| Asilomar Bio, a San Francisco-based maker of chemical crop inputs has raised a $12.25 million Series B Round to bring it’s first chemical | |
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2017-12-04 | |
| Tortuga AgTech, a Denver-based robotics startup targeting controlled-environment fruit and vegetable growers has raised a $2.4 million Seed round. Tortuga Agtech is developing robotic | |
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2017-12-01 | |
| Uptake, a data analytics startups that uses sensor data to optimize machinery including farming equipment, has raised a $117 million Series D round. | |
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2017-11-30 | |
| Farmers Business Network (FBN), a farmer-to-farmer digital network offering data insights, input procurement, and crop marketing services, has raised $110 million in Series D | |
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2017-11-28 | |
| Israeli drone software startup Skyx has raised an undisclosed seed funding round to commercialize software that allows one operator to control a fleet of up | |
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2017-11-16 | |
| Pure Harvest, a greenhouse farming company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has raised a $4.5 million seed round to build climate-controlled, tech-enabled | |
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2017-11-06 | |
| Multinational chemical company Yara International has acquired Agronomic Technology Corp (ATC), an agricultural field modeling company for soil, water, crops, and fertilizer, for an undisclosed sum. ATC is the | |
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2017-11-02 | |
| TIPA Sustainable Packaging, an Israeli startup manufacturing bio-based, fully compostable packaging for the food and fashion industries, has raised $11 million in Series | |
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2017-11-01 | |
| Ceres Imaging has raised an additional $2.5 million in Series A funding from existing investor Romulus Capital. The Oakland-based company announced a first | |
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2017-10-31 | |
| ImpactVision, a software startup using hyperspectral imaging to help food supply chain companies determine the quality and ripeness of food products, has raised | |
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2017-10-26 | |
| Aqua-Spark, the Dutch venture capital fund, has finalized two investments this week that signal the fund dedicated to the future of aquaculture is moving | |
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2017-10-26 | |
| Farmobile, an ag data collection software and hardware company, has raised $18.1 million in a Series B funding round led by private investors | |
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2017-10-25 | |
| Nairobi and New York-based agricultural data startup Gro Intelligence has raised an undisclosed Series A round led by TPG Growth, an arm of the | |
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2017-10-24 | |
| A biomaterials startup using CRISPR gene-editing technology has raised $4.4 million in seed funding for its plant-based bio-peroxide technology. Solugen will use the funding to | |
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2017-10-18 | |
| San Francisco-based traceability technology SafeTraces has raised $6.5 million in a Series A round led by impact investor Omidyar Network. Agrifood tech investors | |
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2017-10-17 | |
| Japanese drone company Nileworks has raised a ¥800 million ($7.12 million) financing round to expand the capabilities of its automated crop sprayer drones. The round, which | |
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2017-10-04 | |
| Brazilian automated inspection technology platform with agriculture applications Tbit has raised a BRL $1 million ($320k) in seed funding from the BR Startup Fund, | |
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2017-09-26 | |
| Indigo Ag, the startup using plant microbiome research to create microbial inputs for farmers, has raised $156 million towards its Series D round. The | |
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2017-09-20 | |
| Early stage investment in agrifood tech startups reached $4.4 billion in the first half of 2017, posting a 6% year-over-year increase reversing the downward trend | |
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2017-09-19 | |
| Israeli sweetener-alternative startup, Douxmatok has raised an $8.1 million Series A round from Israeli life sciences and food tech investors. According to the company, Douxmatok allows | |
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2017-09-14 | |
| German agribusiness Bayer CropScience and Ginkgo Bioworks, a startup genetically engineering microbes for the flavor, fragrance, and food industries, have partnered with hedge fund | |
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2017-09-14 | |
| Farm technology startups, a subset of the broader AgriFood Tech market, raised $1.13 billion in early stage funding in the first half of 2017, representing | |
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2017-09-14 | |
| MycoTechnology, the company using mushrooms and fungi to remove bitter tastes from food and drinks, closed its Series B funding on $35 million. A | |
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2017-09-13 | |
| Biological pesticide firm Greenlight Biosciences has raised an $18 million Series D round led by led by farmland and agtech fund investor Fall Line Capital. | |
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2017-09-07 | |
| Agrible, the Champaign, Illinois startup offering a suite of decision support software tools for farmers as well as sustainability tracking for food brands, | |
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2017-09-06 | |
| Blue River last raised funding at Series B stage in a $17 million round led by Pontifax AgTech, joined by Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), Syngenta | |
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2017-09-05 | |
| The Mexican government has committed $4.1 million to three local agtech venture capital funds. The aim of the fund commitments is to support the country’s | |
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2017-08-24 | |
| Big data analysis platform Descartes Labs has raised an oversubscribed $30 million Series B round led by new investor March Capital, a Californian venture | |
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2017-08-24 | |
| Square Roots, the Brooklyn-based indoor farmer training program and container farm founded by Kimbal Musk, has raised a $5.4 million seed round led | |
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2017-08-23 | |
| Cultured meat developer Memphis Meats has raised a $17 million Series A round with a laundry list of well-known investors.
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2017-08-23 | |
| Chemical crop enhancement maker Plant Impact (PIM) has raised $5.1 million of equity financing on the London Stock Exchange. The company initially listed in 2006.
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2017-08-22 | |
| Seattle-based greenhouse software company iUNU has raised $6 million from Initialized Capital and Liquid 2 Ventures, run by Reddit-cofounder Alex Ohanian and NFL hall-of-famer | |
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2017-08-16 | |
| Columbus-based biologicals producer 3Bar has raised a $2 million Seed Round lead by Rev1 Ventures, an Ohio-focused early-stage VC with a focus on healthcare, materials, | |
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2017-08-09 | |
| Dupont Pioneer has acquired farm management software platform startup Granular for $300 million, AgFunderNews has confirmed.
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2017-08-01 | |
| Plant-based burger maker Impossible Foods has raised a $75 million in Series E funding, with Singapore state fund Temasek leading the round. This marks the | |
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2017-07-28 | |
| Gene editing has caused a lot of excitement in agriculture technology circles for its potential to produce crops, and even animals, with improved characteristics. The | |
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2017-07-27 | |
| Seattle-based Arzeda has raised a $12 million Series A round to expand the capacity of its synthetic protein and enzyme development operation. The nine-year old | |
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2017-07-26 | |
| Syngenta Ventures has acquired a minority stake in Premier Crop Systems (PCS), a Des Moines, Iowa based agronomic software tool in a growth equity | |
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2017-07-25 | |
| Israeli digital ag startup Prospera has raised a $15 million Series B round for its end-to-end internet of things platform for indoor and outdoor farms.
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2017-07-24 | |
| Global private equity group TPG has invested in Brazilian digital ag company Solinftec through its Alternative and Renewable Technologies growth equity platform TPG ART.
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2017-07-19 | |
| Indoor vertical farming company Plenty has raised $200 million in a Series B round of funding, the largest agtech investment to date.
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2017-07-14 | |
| Israeli grasshopper farming firm Hargol Foodtech has raised $600,000 in seed funding from Sirius Venture Capital in Singapore and SLJ Investment Partners in The Netherlands.
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2017-07-13 | |
| Stellapps, an Indian data collection and analysis stack for the dairy supply chain, has closed a Series A round of funding ahead of | |
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2017-07-10 | |
| NewLeaf Symbiotics, a biological crop input startup based in St Louis, has closed a $24 million Series C round led by Monsanto Growth Ventures | |
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2017-07-06 | |
| Agricultural biotechnology and micropropagation company Phytelligence has raised $6.95 million of a potential $16 million Series B closing August 4.
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2017-06-29 | |
Guelph, ON – June 29, 2017 Mirexus Biotechnologies Inc. (Mirexus) is excited to announce that it has closed an investment round of $12 million. Mirexus is a safe and natural nanomaterials company based in Guelph, Ontario that is commercializing PhytoSpherixTM, a novel technology based on polysaccharide nanoparticles that can be used in a wide variety of markets ranging from cosmetics to nutraceuticals to applications in human health. The funds will be used to finance a factory to produce PhytoSpherixTM, and to fund at least three years of operations as the company grows. GEL Tech (Canada), Inc., a subsidiary of Barbados-based Goddard Enterprises Ltd (Goddard)., is leading the investment round, which is in the form of a convertible note. The investment syndicate includes members of the GreenSky President’s Club, an Ontario-based network of high-net worth active angel investors. Said Mirexus President and CEO, Dr. Phil Whiting, “As revenue grows, we believe the best path forward is to produce PhytoSpherix™ in our own factory here in Ontario – for sale around the world. This will allow us to produce high quality material under exacting manufacturing standards as we meet the needs of our growing customer base. We will build a first-of-a-kind plant using our own proprietary process that only uses water and energy to extract this natural nanomaterial from Ontario sweet corn. This facility keeps us right here in Guelph – close to abundant agricultural lands and the University of Guelph - where this technology was first developed. ” The facility will be built on land that the company has committed to purchase from the City of Guelph. In addition to the factory, the proceeds of the capital will be used to boost business development, particularly in the Personal Care market, and increase R&D to develop new personal care, nutraceutical, and biomedical applications. Said Goddard President and CEO, Anthony Ali, “We are extremely excited about our involvement in a ground-breaking technology. We have watched the progress made by the Mirexus team over the past two and a half years, and we believe that the factory is the next logical step to support the growth of the organization”. GreenSky Capital Inc., a registered Ontario exempt market dealer that is affiliated with the GreenSky President’s Club, brokered the transaction, as it has previous Mirexus fundraising. About Mirexus Biotechnologies Inc. Mirexus Inc. is a safe and natural biomaterials company based in Guelph, Ontario that is commercializing a novel nanotechnology based on polysaccharide nanoparticles that can be used in a wide variety of markets ranging from cosmetics to nutraceuticals to biomedical applications in animal and human health. This technology was originally developed at the University of Guelph in the laboratories of Professor John Dutcher. www.mirexusbiotech.com About Goddard Enterprises Inc. Goddard Enterprises Limited (GEL) is a publicly traded Barbadian company, listed on the Barbados Stock Exchange, with a varied business portfolio that encompasses interests in the Caribbean as well as Central and South America. GEL's subsidiary companies are found in: airline catering, industrial and restaurant catering, meat processing, bakery operations, automobile retail and automotive parts, real estate, the manufacture of aerosols and liquid detergents, investments, rum distilling, general trading, packaging, fish and shrimp processing, property rentals, general insurance, financing as well as shipping agents and stevedoring. The Group includes both subsidiaries, that are wholly owned or in which GEL has a majority shareholding, and associated companies. GEL has not less than a 51% stake in those firms in which it has a majority share, while it holds 20 % to 50% of the associated companies. The main divisions of business in which GEL is involved are catering, manufacturing, services, finance as well as import distribution. www.goddardenterprisesltd.com About GreenSky Capital: GreenSky Capital is an award winning corporate finance advisory firm based in Toronto, delivering customized financial solutions to small and medium sized technology firms. GreenSky looks for long-term partnerships with high growth potential companies and dedicated entrepreneurs. GreenSky principals bring together a unique combination of experience in technology, law and finance who bring extensive business, finance and entrepreneurial experience into a real-world context. www.greenskycapital.com | |
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2017-06-28 | |
| Irish agtech company BHSL, a specialist in converting poultry manure into fuel, has closed a €7 million ($7.9m) funding round and immediately announced a major business acquisition.
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2017-06-26 | |
| Belgian startup Aphea.Bio has launched into the biopesticides and biostimulants sector with €9 million ($10.07m) in funding from a Series A funding round | |
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2017-06-14 | |
| New Jersey-based indoor farming company Bowery Farming has raised $20 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by General Catalyst and GGVCapital, with | |
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2017-06-14 | |
| Protix, a Netherlands-based company, has raised €45 million ($50.5 million) in equity and debt funding to expand its insect farming business. This is | |
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2017-06-08 | |
| Freight Farms, the startup growing lettuce inside shipping containers, has completed its Series B funding round on $7.3 million.
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2017-05-30 | |
| US indoor agriculture group AeroFarms has raised over $34 million, according to a Securities & Exchange Commission Filing. The funding is the first close | |
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2017-05-25 | |
| American Robotics, an agricultural drone and automation startup, has raised $1.1 million in seed funding. The round was led by angel investors and | |
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2017-05-24 | |
| Around 1-in-10 piglets in commercial farms die from being crushed by their mothers die, with the number even larger on organic farms. Last year, this | |
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2017-05-11 | |
| Farmnote, a Japanese startup manufacturing wearable technology to collect data from cattle, has raised ¥500 million ($4.6 million) in funding.
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2017-05-11 | |
| The founder of Rockit Global, the New Zealand company that holds the global rights to the mini Rockit apple variety, has sold over 50% of | |
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2017-05-10 | |
| Aerial imagery and analytics company Ceres Imaging has raised a $5 million Series A round of funding led by Romulus Capital. The company, which | |
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2017-05-04 | |
| California-based sustainable fish and livestock feed innovator Calysta has completed a $40 million Series D funding round, led by Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co, | |
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2017-05-04 | |
| Taranis, an Israeli precision agriculture intelligence platform, completed a $7.5 million Series A round led by Finistere Ventures, an agtech and life sciences-focused | |
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2017-05-03 | |
| Abundant Robotics, a robotics and automation startup, has raised $10 million in Series A funding in a round led by GV (Google Ventures). | |
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2017-04-27 | |
| Plant-based ingredients foodtech startup Nutriati has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Tate & Lyle Ventures, a London-based firm focusing on | |
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2017-04-27 | |
| Some big names are making an investment in food stamps — specifically in Propel, a startup that helps food stamp recipients manage their benefits.
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2017-04-19 | |
| The search is on for a sustainable alternative to the 30 million tons of wild caught fish that are currently used to feed farmed fish.
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2017-04-12 | |
| Full Harvest, an online platform selling food seconds to businesses, has closed a $2 million seed round led by Wireframe Ventures. | |
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2017-04-11 | |
| Quebec-based Agrisoma Biosciences, a startup developing and selling Carinata seed, has raised $15.4 million in Series B funding to support the company’s global expansion.
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2017-04-05 | |
| Fresh from raising €1.65 million ($1.78 million) of Series A investment, UK-headquartered InspiraFarms is expanding its supply of cold storage and food processing technology to | |
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2017-04-04 | |
| A UK-based animal agriculture technology company has spun out of the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute and The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and raised £10 | |
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2017-03-30 | |
| TPG Alternative and Renewable Technologies (TPG ART), an arm of the $70 billion global private investment house TPG, has invested in Inocucor Technologies, | |
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2017-03-28 | |
| Benson Hill Biosystems (BHB), the plant biology, big data analytics and cloud computing startup, has raised $25 million in an oversubscribed Series B round | |
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2017-03-27 | |
| Arable Labs, the agriculture sensor and analytics company, has raised $4.25 million in Series A funding in a round led by family office-backed | |
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2017-03-23 | |
| Cool Planet, the biofuel-turned-biological ag products company, has raised $19.3 million in venture funding from existing investors to drive the commercialization of its | |
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2017-03-20 | |
| Farmers produce grain and livestock, but when harvest is over, where do they sell? Often to the closest location or whatever buyer they can find. | |
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2017-03-09 | |
| AgroSavfe, a Belgian agro-biotech company that is developing a new generation of biopesticides, has increased its Series B financing round to $11.6 million. | |
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2017-03-09 | |
| HarvestPort, the online farm equipment and services marketplace, has raised $2.5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Chicago-headquartered agtech | |
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2017-03-09 | |
| An agricultural technology company has been acquired by listed Dublin group Origin Enterprises in a deal worth up to £16m (€18.5m).
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2017-03-08 | |
| Farmers Business Network (FBN), a farmer-to-farmer network offering data management and input procurement services, has raised $40 million in Series C funding co-led by | |
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2017-03-06 | |
| Epicrop Technologies, a Lincoln, Nebraska-based startup using epigenetics to improve crop yields, has raised $3.2 million in Series A funding.
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2017-03-02 | |
| TL Biolabs, a startup offering $15 genomic tests for beef and dairy cattle, and the software needed to analyze the results, has raised | |
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2017-03-02 | |
| Satellite imaging startup Astro Digital has raised $16.65 million in Series A funding from a group of family offices, including existing investors.
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2017-02-27 | |
| A private equity firm and a group of venture capital investors have exited their investments in two plant-based alternative meat companies. The deals were announced | |
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2017-02-21 | |
| Maple Leaf Foods (MFI: TSX) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Brynwood Partners VI L.P. to acquire Lightlife Foods, Inc., a | |
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2017-02-08 | |
| Agriculture venture development organization TechAccel has made a strategic investment in animal feed additive startup Agrivida alongside the Iowa Corn Growers Association‘s equity investment fund | |
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2017-02-07 | |
| arc-net, a Northern Ireland-based supply chain security and analytics company, has received £2 million ($2.5 million) in funding from Dr. Richard Steeves, the founder | |
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2017-02-07 | |
| TerrAvion, the San Leandro, California-based startup providing aerial imagery from manned aircraft to farmers, has raised $10 million in Series A funding.
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2017-01-31 | |
| Catalina Sea Ranch (CSR), the first offshore shellfish ranch in US federal waters, has raised $2 million in funding for its mussel farm off the coast | |
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2017-01-31 | |
| FarmLogs, the decision support and ERP software tool for farmers, has raised $22 million in Series C funding in a round led by | |
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2017-01-06 | |
| AgriMetis, the crop protection spin-off from healthcare innovation firm Acidophil, has raised $23.5 million in Series B funding in an oversubscribed round | |
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2016-12-16 | |
| Food waste tech startups are finally getting the attention of the high profile investors they deserve.
This week, Apeel Sciences, a biotech startup targeting food waste, raised | |
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2016-12-16 | |
| The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, the branded consumer products company for lawn and garden care, this week agreed to acquire Oso Technologies, the manufacturer of the Plant | |
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2016-12-16 | |
| Insect farming is starting to raise some big bucks as French company Ynsect reveals today that it has raised $15.2 million in Series B funding | |
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2016-12-14 | |
| Agricultural efficiency is poised to take a big leap with drone technology now that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is streamlining regulations for unmanned aerial | |
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2016-12-09 | |
| TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture Ltd. has closed an $8.5 million equity financing, which will help expand its vertical farming technology into new markets.
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2016-12-08 | |
| French startup Agricool has raised $4.3 million (€4 million) from newly launched VC firm Daphni as well as Parrot founder Henri Seydoux and Captain | |
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2016-12-08 | |
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2016-12-02 | |
| AgriProtein, a South African startup growing insects for animal feed using waste, has raised $17.5 million in growth stage funding from strategic investors | |
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2016-11-28 | |
| In its first foray into the European market, Monsanto subsidiary The Climate Corporation has acquired VitalFields, an Estonian farm management software company.
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2016-11-22 | |
| There are a variety of new food sources making their way into the supermarket mainstream, including Exo’s cricket-based protein bars, Perfect Day’s yeast-derived, animal-free milk, | |
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2016-11-22 | |
| Manufacturers have been a part of the food waste reduction movement. In a recent Food Waste Reduction Alliance report, 100% of major companies surveyed | |
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2016-11-22 | |
| In California, Zipongo received $18 million to further develop nutriomics and behavioral science to enable health providers and disease management systems to leverage food | |
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2016-11-16 | |
| AVIS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioConsortia, Inc., innovator of microbial solutions for natural plant trait enhancement and crop yield improvement, announced that it has raised this | |
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2016-11-09 | |
| Anuvia Plant Nutrients, the Florida-based plant nutrient company, announced today that it has secured an additional $23 million in equity capital from current investors. This | |
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2016-11-09 | |
| Midwestern BioAg Inc., a Madison company that makes and sells fertilizer and does soil consulting, said Thursday it has raised $21.3 million.
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2016-11-08 | |
| A new generation of software companies are helping farmers lower their costs and boost yields. But it means changing long-standing habits.
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2016-11-07 | |
| Decisive Farming has raised a $6 million (CAD) Series A round. The financing hails from McRock Capital Corporation, a Toronto venture capital fund manager focused | |
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2016-10-28 | |
| Investments by companies and venture capitalists in agricultural technology reached a record of as much as $25 billion globally in 2015, and that figure will | |
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2016-10-28 | |
| Paris, France – 14 June 2016 – ALGAMA, a young French foodtech company, is developing innovative, healthy, tasty and sustainable food that harnesses the unique | |
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2016-10-25 | |
| Constellation Brands Inc. agreed to sell its Canadian wine business to the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Toronto, for C$1.03 billion ($783 million), as the U.S. | |
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2016-10-21 | |
| Biome Makers, an ag bioinformatics startup for the wine industry, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding from global investment firm Viking Global | |
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2016-10-14 | |
| The alternative protein startup Beyond Meat has attracted investment from Tyson Foods, the largest meat processor in the US, for its Series F round of | |
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2016-10-14 | |
| Zymergen, a startup engineering microbes for use across a range of industries including agriculture, has raised $130 million in Series B funding. This | |
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2016-10-13 | |
| Toronto, Canada (October 11, 2016) Vive Crop Protection has announced the closing of growth financing to support 2017 commercial expansion. The financing was led by Radar | |
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2016-10-12 | |
| The Agricultural Development Bank of China [AGDBC.UL], one of the country's main policylenders, agreed to loan at least 3 trillion yuan ($450 billion) by 2020 for | |
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2016-09-30 | |
| Farmers Edge, a global player in precision agriculture and independent data management solutions, has announced that it will receive $6,107,563 million CAD from Sustainable Development | |
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2016-09-30 | |
| IKEA GreenTech, an IKEA Group venture capital company, announced today that it has invested in Terramera Inc., a Canadian company with a unique | |
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2016-09-16 | |
| Blue Prairie Brands, a startup producing chicory flour to replace white flour in food, has raised $6 million in Series A funding.
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2016-09-13 | |
| MLS Capital Fund II and 1955 Capital Co-Led the Round, With Bandgap Ventures and Initial Investor Phoenix Venture Partners Rounding Out the Syndicate
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2016-09-09 | |
| The only deal in a quiet week for agtech fundings is Agrivida, a biotech startup in the animal nutrition industry. The startup has raised $20.4 million | |
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2016-09-09 | |
| Verizon is set to launch an Internet-of-Things (IoT) and decision support product for permanent crop farmers this quarter. The Verizon AgTech product aims to improve the | |
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2016-08-29 | |
| Startup will use the $1.8 million in federal seed money to build six large-scale seeders for field testing as it looks to break new ground | |
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2016-08-29 | |
| Software for drones provider DroneDeploy has raised $20 million in Series B funding led by tech investment firm Scale Venture Partners | |
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2016-08-22 | |
| Québec-based Intelia Inc., an agricultural technology company, has received an undisclosed round of financing from Canadian venture capital firm Avrio Capital, members of | |
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2016-08-19 | |
| The Kalamazoo-based company that produces bio-pesticides developed from spider venom that are non-toxic to fish, birds, and mammals, raised the funds in two tranches, with | |
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2016-08-18 | |
| Powerplant Ventures has closed a $42 million fund aimed at funding plant-centric companies. The fund’s goal is to leverage technologies that tap into | |
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2016-08-17 | |
| Farmers Business Network has raised $20 million in venture funding in a round led by food company Campbell Soup’s new $125 million food | |
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2016-08-17 | |
| How would you describe Indigo Cotton? Indigo’s product is a microbial seed coating. Almost every modern agricultural seed is coated before it’s planted — typically | |
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2016-08-16 | |
| Winfield US and The Climate Corporation Partner to Integrate Tech Tools
Seed and crop protection business Winfield US and The Climate Corporation, Monsanto’s weather data platform, | |
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2016-08-02 | |
| Livestock monitoring and data analysis startup AgriWebb has raised $3 million in seed funding in a round led by existing investors and Australian | |
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2016-08-02 | |
| Prospera, an Israeli startup using computer vision, data science, and machine learning to monitor and analyze crops, has raised $7 million in Series | |
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2016-07-23 | |
| Wimbledon champion Andy Murray has invested in UK startup Hectare Agritech, which is the manager of two agriculture trading platforms: SellMyLivestock, and | |
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2016-07-22 | |
| Supreme Pharmaceuticals, a Canadian company producing medical cannabis in a hybrid greenhouse, has raised $3.6 million in a private placement. The company is | |
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2016-07-21 | |
| Permanent crops — the collective name for the fruits and nuts that are grown on trees or vines — are grown on 380 million acres globally and | |
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2016-07-15 | |
| Agrivi, one of Europe’s most successful agtech startups, has raised €1 million ($1.1 million) in Series A funding for its farm management, and | |
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2016-07-14 | |
| Cellular agriculture, the process of cultivating meat, eggs, and leather in cell culture rather than raising and slaughtering livestock, has attracted the attention of Singapore’s | |
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2016-07-13 | |
| KisanHub, a UK-based agriculture big data hub, has raised $1 million in seed funding from Notion Capital, a venture firm focused | |
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2016-07-12 | |
| A startup based in Connecticut, US called Ancera has raised $8.9 million in Series A funding to develop and commercialize its food testing | |
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2016-07-06 | |
| Amerra Capital Management, a New York-based agribusiness asset manager, has acquired more than 90 percent of the Andromeda Group, a Mediterranean aquaculture company.
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2016-07-05 | |
| Northern California-based Kite Hill, a plant-based dairy alternative startup, has raised $18 million in a round led by 301 INC, General Mills’ new | |
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2016-07-04 | |
| Ginkgo Bioworks, a startup genetically engineering microbes for partner companies in the flavor, fragrance and food industries, has raised $100 million in Series | |
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2016-06-23 | |
| New Brunswick data processing company announces $11-million Series B funding round;locates a U.S. office near Silicon Valley
A Fredericton company that uses image processing algorithms | |
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2016-06-08 | |
| Animal health startup MastiLine has raised a Series A investment round from Dutch investment and development agency NOM, Dutch loan financiers | |
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2016-06-07 | |
| Planetary Resources, a satellite company on a mission to mine asteroids for natural resources, has raised $21.1 million in Series A funding from | |
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2016-06-03 | |
| Swiss drone imagery company Gamaya has raised SFr 3.2 million ($3.2 million) in Series A funding to develop its hyperspectral imaging sensor and | |
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2016-06-03 | |
| Terramera, a startup that’s on a mission to change the fate of many biological ag products, has raised $10 million in venture capital.
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2016-06-02 | |
| Amerra Capital Management, a New York-based agribusiness asset manager, has acquired more than 90 percent of the Andromeda Group, a Mediterranean aquaculture company.
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2016-05-30 | |
| Farmers Edge, a global leader in precision agriculture and independent data management solutions, has announced that Osmington, Inc., a Toronto-based commercial real estate | |
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2016-05-26 | |
| Caribou Biosciences, a startup founded by Jennifer Doudna, the scientist largely attributed with the discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool, has raised $30 million | |
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2016-05-25 | |
| Connecterra, a Dutch animal health monitoring technology company, has raised $1.8 million in seed funding.
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2016-05-19 | |
| Agriculture 4.0 resolves the conflict between ecology and security of supply - Bösel from Bioenterprise Capital Ventures Selected as Chair of AgTech Specialists Group with the | |
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2016-05-19 | |
| BiOWiSH Technologies, a company using microorganisms to increase the efficiency of fertilizers; promote drought resistance in crops; and extend the shelf-life of fresh | |
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2016-05-07 | |
| Last week, drone-enabled aerial data and safety platform provider PrecisionHawk closed an $18 million Series C with the likes of Verizon Ventures, Yamaha | |
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2016-05-06 | |
| A drone sensor startup and analytics company Slantrange has raised $5 million in Series A funding from a broad range of investors including | |
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2016-05-05 | |
| Tasmanian agtech company The Yield has closed a $2.5 million investment led by global technology and services provider Bosch Group. Existing | |
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2016-04-21 | |
| On December 4, 2015, McMillan closed an asset purchase transaction in which Headwaters Inc. (NYSE: HW) acquired through its Canadian subsidiary, Allmet Roof Products, Ltd. | |
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2016-04-21 | |
| Food waste is starting to get the attention it deserves. It remains one of the biggest problems affecting the global food system and is particularly troublesome | |
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2016-04-20 | |
| CropX, the Israeli irrigation and sensor technology company, has raised a further $1 million towards its Series A round from strategic investors. This | |
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2016-04-12 | |
| Agri-Neo aims to set a new standard for food safety
You can kill dangerous bacteria in dairy products using pasteurization. You can sanitize fruits and veggies | |
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2016-04-01 | |
| Halifax-based SkySquirrel Technologies has closed a $1-million investment round as it enhances its drone-based technology for monitoring and improving crop health and enters new markets.
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2016-03-21 | |
| A new venture capital firm focused on investing in plant and culture-based meat, egg and dairy alternatives has closed a $25 million fund. | |
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2016-03-17 | |
| Anterra Capital, the European agtech investment firm, has held a second close of its first fund on $125 million, getting further investment from | |
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2016-03-11 | |
| Last week hyper-local weather data service Understory raised $7.5 million in Series A funding in a round led by Monsanto Growth Ventures, and | |
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2016-03-10 | |
| Eating insects for their protein is not a new concept. Getting people to bite on to the idea, however, is a more recent development.
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2016-03-03 | |
| Norgen Biotek Corp. Announces Supply Agreement with Biodesix Enabling the First EML4-ALK Liquid Biopsy Test with Results in 72-Hours
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2016-03-03 | |
| Three-year project aims to optimize plant production of therapeutic antibodies, including PlantForm's trastuzumab (Herceptin®) for breast cancer
A research partnership between PlantForm Corporation and Dr. Mike Dixon, | |
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2016-02-29 | |
| The Campbell Soup Company has announced that it is launching a $125 million venture capital (VC) fund to invest in food startups. The fund, under the banner Acre | |
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2016-02-26 | |
| Agriculture Technology Investment Storms to $4.6bn in 2015 as Global Investors Take Note
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2016-02-26 | |
| Tiny Farms Raises Seed Round from a Zuckerberg as Cricket Farming Heats Up – exclusive
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2016-02-25 | |
| ZeaKal, a biotechnology startup producing genetically-modified seeds, has raised $5.3 million from agtech VC heavyweights Finistere Ventures and Middleland Capital. A group of | |
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2016-02-24 | |
| EpiBiome, a biotech startup tackling one of the biggest bacterial menaces plaguing the global cattle industry – bovine mastitis – has raised $6 | |
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2016-02-23 | |
| Cool Planet, the biocarbon and biofuel producer, has raised $9 million in extra funding to commercialize its soil amendment product CoolTerra, which just earned a | |
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2016-02-19 | |
| Avrio Capital Closes Third Largest Agtech Fund on $110m
Avrio Capital, the Canadian agtech venture capital firm, has closed its third food and agriculture | |
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2016-02-19 | |
| FaceTime for Farmers Raises $450k Seed Round to Develop Visual Remote Support App – exclusive
Des Moines, Iowa-based startup AgriSync has raised $450k in | |
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2016-02-05 | |
| Twenty fifteen was a busy year for water and irrigation technology as the subsector raised $670 million across 20 deals, according to AgFunder’s upcoming investment | |
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2016-02-05 | |
| Calysta, a company manufacturing sustainable fish and livestock feed from soil microbes, has raised $310 million in Series C funding from a bevy | |
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2016-02-02 | |
| Pioneering Offshore Aquaculture and IoT Project Raises $1.5m in Seed Funding
Catalina Sea Ranch, a company establishing the first offshore shellfish ranch in US | |
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2016-01-28 | |
| Agriculture biotechnology company Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies(AST) has closed a $3.4 million Series A from Australian ag producer Twynam Agricultural Group and a group | |
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2016-01-28 | |
| Precision Agriculture Pioneer, Farmers Edge, Closes $58M Investment Led by Mitsui and Kleiner Perkins
Field-Centric Approach to Digitizing Farms Takes Root Across Russia, Brazil, Australia, Canada | |
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2016-01-28 | |
| Food waste is becoming a serious problem globally. According to a recentreport by United Nations Environment Programme and the World Resources Institute, about one-third of all food | |
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2016-01-25 | |
| California Safe Soil (CSS), the startup using food waste to make fertilizer, has raised $5.9 million in equity capital, bringing to a close the | |
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2016-01-19 | |
| A French agricultural robot company has raised €3 million ($2.7 million) in seed capital in its first venture capital round. Naïo Technologies manufactures agribots for | |
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2016-01-13 | |
| Israeli sensor and data analysis startup Phytech closed an undisclosed Series A round of funding last week after getting commitments from new investor Syngenta Ventures | |
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2015-12-17 | |
| Blue River Technology, the Californian startup that is using robots to weed, thin and spray vegetable fields, has raised $17 million in a | |
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2015-12-16 | |
| “The nature of the business means that we are always in capital raising mode,” David Rosenberg, CEO of AeroFarms tells AgFunderNews.
AeroFarms, which grows | |
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2015-12-11 | |
| US agribusiness private equity firm Paine & Partners has acquired a majority stake in AgBiTech, an Australian biological pest control company.
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2015-12-11 | |
| Ripple Foods, a Californian startup producing plant-based milk, has raised $13.6 million in Series A funding from a group of undisclosed venture capital | |
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2015-12-10 | |
| Croda International Plc, a speciality chemical manufacturer behind some of the biggest, most successful brands in the world today announces that it has agreed to | |
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2015-12-07 | |
| The market for biopesticides is projected to reach USD 6.60 Billion by 2020 at a CAGR of 18.8% from 2015 to 2020, according to a | |
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2015-11-30 | |
| Agriculture-focused investment funds have raised $3.87 billion so far this year, already surpassing the $3.86 billion raised during 2014, according to data provider Prequin.
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2015-11-23 | |
| Descartes Labs, a software startup using artificial intelligence to process satellite imagery, has raised $5 million in Series A funding in a round | |
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2015-11-19 | |
| SWIIM System announced today that it has closed a $3 million Series A round led by Australian-based agricultural productivity investor goFARM | |
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2015-11-16 | |
| Hydroponic greenhouse company BrightFarms has closed a $13.65 million Series B-1 round led by WP Global Partners, the institutional fund management firm, family | |
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2015-11-16 | |
| Pest detection technology company Spensa Technologies has closed a Series A round of funding on $2.5 million after raising the round from existing investors.
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2015-11-06 | |
| Irish bioinformatics technology company Nuritas has raised $3.4 million in Series A funding in a round led by Singaporean food and ag private | |
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2015-10-26 | |
| Mirexus Biotechnologies Inc. is pleased to announce that it has closed its Series A Investment Round, the first part of which was announced on April | |
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2015-10-16 | |
| Medical cannabis legalization is gathering momentum across the US. At the end of 2014, New York State joined the 22 others that have legalized the | |
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2015-10-13 | |
| GreenSky Principal Greg Stewart named Chairman of Mirexus Board
Toronto, ON – October 8, 2015 - The GreenSky Accelerator Fund I, LP (“the Fund”) is excited | |
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2015-10-08 | |
| Impossibly Foods, one of a new wave of Sillicon Valley-backed companies promising to "transform the global food system", has raised $108m in its latest round | |
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2015-09-30 | |
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2015-09-09 | |
| September 9, 2015 – Enerkem Inc., a waste-to-biofuels and chemicals producer, announced today it has raised C$152.6 million and has initiated the production | |
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2015-09-09 | |
| A company that is using the humble mushroom to improve the taste of everyday food and drinks, has created waves in the venture capital industry | |
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2015-08-28 | |
| Aug. 26, 2015 - Farmers Edge™, today announced the addition of Osmington Inc., to its team of investors. The backing of Osmington Inc., marks | |
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2015-08-27 | |
| Animal nutrition biotech company Agrivida has raised $23 million in Series D funding from a range of heavyweight venture capital firms. The round, which | |
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2015-08-27 | |
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2015-08-27 | |
| Biological crop protection company AgBiome has attracted the attention of the world’s largest foundation and arguably a leader in venture philanthropy in its | |
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2015-08-19 | |
| August 18, 2015 - Marking Cargill’s second aquaculture feed acquisition in two months, the company has signed an agreement with Altor Fund III and Bain | |
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2015-08-18 | |
| $2.5-million federal investment will go towards new technology
Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Que. – Bonduelle Research Inc. will receive a $2.5-million investment from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada towards | |
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2015-08-17 | |
| Agri PE Fund Blue Road Invests in Fruit & Veg Producer
Blue Road Capital, an agribusiness private equity fund, which counts pension funds such as New | |
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2015-08-14 | |
| Drones have long been used for military purposes, but Nova Scotia-based start-up Sky Squirrel Technologies Inc. has found a more peaceful use for the technology.
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2015-08-04 | |
| What a start to the year! Today AgFunder releases its Midyear AgTech Investing Report (Free Download) and 2015 has already lived up | |
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2015-07-29 | |
| Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced today an investment of $2.5 million to Bonduelle Research Inc., to introduce a new food preservation technology which prolongs the | |
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2015-07-27 | |
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2015-07-24 | |
| The European Investment Bank (EIB), Europe’s development finance institution, has signed an agreement with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to support entrepreneurship and | |
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2015-07-24 | |
| There are a variety of precision agriculture tools on the market today, each offering a different way for farmers to access and analyse data about | |
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2015-07-23 | |
| July 21, 2015 - MLS Capital Fund II, co-managed by Spruce Capital Partners and Xeraya Capital, announced at the 12th Annual BIO World Congress on | |
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2015-07-22 | |
| In the “Player to be Named Later” Department, from California comes new that Amyris announced a multi-year, multi-million-dollar collaboration agreement with a “global food ingredients supplier”. Under | |
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2015-07-22 | |
Deal gives Cargill opportunities in Ecuador, a critical aquaculture growth market
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2015-07-22 | |
Agriculture tech is a hot space for venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.
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2015-07-16 | |
| Biotech startup Clara Foods announced the close of $1.7 million in seed funding from David Friedberg, Gary Hirshberg, Ali and Hadi Partovi, Scott Banister, and | |
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2015-07-16 | |
| July 2, 2015 - North Castle Partners announced today that it has acquired a controlling interest in Sprout Organic Foods, Inc. ("Sprout"), a developer, marketer, and | |
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2015-07-14 | |
| According to the American Association of Port Authorities, “The United States is served by some 360 commercial ports that provide approximately 3,200 cargo and passenger | |
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2015-07-09 | |
| The governments of Canada and Manitoba are working together by investing in the province’s successful hemp industry.
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2015-07-08 | |
| Having spent more than twenty years commercializing technology in the agricultural sector, I’m excited by the growing interest and investment in Agricultural Technology.
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2015-07-06 | |
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2015-06-25 | |
| AgriTech irrigation startup CropX has raised $9 million in a Series A financing round ked by Finistere Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, and GreenSoil Investments. OurCrowd also participated | |
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2015-06-22 | |
| “Farmers everywhere will tell you that weather and water are the biggest issues,” Travis Bayer, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Asilomar Bio. The company recently closed | |
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2015-06-22 | |
Israeli ingredients firm Frutarom has acquired New Zealand-based fruit ingredients company Taura Natural Ingredients Holding Ltd for about US$70m, the company has said. | |
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2015-06-22 | |
| Microbial DNA maker Zymergen recently announced a $42M Series A led by Data Collective, with a group of investors participating, including AME Cloud Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurveston, | |
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2015-06-21 | |
| PowWow, a startup that specializes in technology like a tool that detect leaks and help farmers keep track of their water usage, has | |
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2015-06-20 | |
| In this guest post, we asked Bob Morris of AndMore Associates, LLC, to highlight some of the breakthrough changes and innovations that are | |
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2015-06-18 | |
Bioenterprise is selected as one North America’s top accelerators and opens the newest office in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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2015-06-18 | |
| April 22, 2015 - Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that it has acquired the assets of HarvestMark®, a provider of food traceability and | |
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2015-06-15 | |
| Topcon Positioning Group has announced the acquisition of Norac Systems International, a developer of ultrasonic sensing and boom control | |
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2015-06-15 | |
| Middle market businesses holder Compass Diversified Holdings (“CODI”) announced earlier this week that it will acquire Fresh Hemp Foods, which operates under the brand name | |
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2015-06-12 | |
| June 12, 2015 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency has registered Vive Crop Protection, Inc.'s azoxystrobin-based fungicide product using Vive's proprietary Allosperse® formulation technology. | |
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2015-06-11 | |
| June 4, 2015 - Hortau Corp., an industry leader in precision irrigation management systems since 2002, has secured $5 million in financing from | |
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2015-06-08 | |
| June 4, 2015 - Funding for the food tech and agtech space is exploding. In 2014, a whopping 42 new funding opportunities launched ( | |
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2015-06-08 | |
| May 27, 2015 - Venture capital firm Obvious Ventures announced the close of its first fund, raising $123,456,789. The firm exceeded its initial target of $100 | |
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2015-05-27 | |
| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Farmers Edge™ and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Embrace In the Investment of the Future of Agriculture
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2015-05-27 | |
| May 22, 2015 - Impact First Investments (IFI), Israel’s first investment firm focused on investing in local technology and innovative startups to create a positive | |
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2015-05-22 | |
| On May 19, 2015 - Farmers Business Network (FBN) announced that it raised $15 million in funding towards the development of its precision | |
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2015-05-22 | |
| May 8, 2015 - Arvegenix, the St. Louis-based agtech startup developing Pennycress, an annual energy crop grown over winter when land is idle, | |
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2015-05-14 | |
| Editors Note: Joseph Regan is a managing partner at Bioenterprise Capital, a Canadian VC firm investing in agriculture technology. He was recently a panelist | |
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2015-05-06 | |
| April 24, 2015 - Alexander Candese
Berkeley-based drone company, 3D Robotics, announced an expansion of their Series C round on April 23. | |
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2015-05-06 | |
| Producing safer poultry through a new class of antimicrobials
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2015-04-22 | |
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2015-04-10 | |
Cennatek believes there’s money to be made in discarded mushroom | |
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2015-04-10 | |
| Guelph ON, April 10, 2015 – Mirexus Biotechnologies Inc. (inventors of PhytospherixTM - the world’s first safe & natural monodisperse nanomaterial) has announced a new | |
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2015-04-01 | |
| Apr 1, 2015 - Rob Leclerc, Melissa Tilney
Before Monsanto acquired Climate Corporation in late 2013 for nearly $1 billion, few investors gave much thought | |
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2015-04-01 | |
| DroneDeploy went skyward today with $9 million in first round Series A financing. The company, which provides cloud-based user-friendly software platforms for drone operations, accessible | |
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2015-03-31 | |
| Imagine a bunch of skinny jean-wearing hipsters sitting in a well lit studio above a Cambridge coffee shop adorned with minimalist artwork, drafting the next | |
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2015-03-31 | |
| Funding will support testing of antibodies in an innovative mouse model
Guelph ON, March 31, 2015 - PlantForm Corporation will receive technical and business advisory services, | |
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2015-03-30 | |
| Yangon, March 30, 2015
(Reuters) - Japan's Mitsubishi Corp. is to form a joint venture with a Myanmar company that will manufacture and distribute | |
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2015-03-27 | |
| February 16, 2015 - Vonnie Estes
Having spent more than twenty years commercializing technology in the agricultural sector, I’m excited by the growing interest and investment | |
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2015-03-18 | |
| There are a number of good reasons why a startup should consider venture capital (VC) support.
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2015-03-16 | |
| Spruce Capital and Xeraya Capital Announce First Close of $150 Million Biogreentech Venture Fund. Investments Will Target Innovative Technologies Addressing Global Societal Needs in Food and | |
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2015-03-13 | |
| February 25, San Diego - Finistere Ventures, a California-based innovation capital firm and one of the pioneers in the rapidly growing agriculture technology (Agtech) sector, | |
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2015-03-12 | |
| With operations around the world, Farmers Edge Inc. promotes Innovation in Precision Agriculture
Winnipeg, MB – February 25, 2015 – Farmers Edge | |
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2015-03-10 | |
From aphid-fighting fungus to mighty mites, Anatis Bioprotection's all-natural pest | |
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2015-02-04 | |
| Black River Asset Management, the alternatives fund management arm of agribusiness giant Cargill, has closed two agri-related funds totaling $1.287 billion, according to | |
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2015-01-20 | |
| MEDFORD, Mass. (January 10, 2015) – Agrivida, Inc., an innovative technology company focused on animal nutrition, announced today that it has raised $12 | |
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2014-11-24 | |
| Farmers often predict the quality of harvests based on weather conditions and other external factors, similarly, looking at recent investment seeding activity, the portents look | |
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2014-06-10 | |
| June 10, 2014 - GreenCentre Canada is pleased to announce their investment of $150,000 into Canadian start-up company, Mirexus Biotechnologies Inc. | |
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2014-06-02 | |
| Raven Industries Applied Technology Division announced purchase of SBG Innovatie BV and its affiliate Navtronics BVBA. SBG is headquartered | |
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2014-04-09 | |
| (March 10, 2014) Bayer CropScience has signed an agreement to acquire Biagro Group, headquartered in Gral Las Heras, Provincia de Buenos | |
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2014-01-21 | |
| Vancouver, BC (January 13, 2014) Lignol Energy Corporation (TSXV: LEC) ("LEC" or the "Company"), has agreed to acquire all of the outstanding and | |
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2014-01-18 | |
| AgSquared LLC is proud to announce today that it has acquired Local Dirt – a pioneering online local food marketplace that | |
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2014-01-18 | |
| ONCE Innovations, a developer of animal-specific light-emitting diode (LED) lighting systems based in Plymouth, Minn., announced the successful completion of a $5.3 million | |
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2013-11-25 | |
| In a strategic move to engage in agricultural water use efficiency, Yara has acquired the German water sensor company ZIM Plant Technology | |
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2013-11-12 | |
| In a deal marking Mosaic's second big deal this year, Minnesota-based Mosaic Co. has announced it will buy CF Industry Holding's | |
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2013-10-02 | |
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2013-09-04 | |
| Toronto, ON (September 3, 2013) - Keiretsu Forum Toronto announced yesterday that it is staring a new partnership with Guelph based Bioenterprise Corporation, a business | |
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2013-08-29 | |
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Funding from U.K.-based Atlantic Assets Trust Limited will advance the company’s first biosimilar drug candidate towards completion of Phase 1 human clinical trials
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2013-07-19 | |
| Tuscaloosa, AL (July 15, 2013) - Inventure International (Pte) Limited, holding company of renewable process technology leader Inventure Renewables Inc., recently closed a $7.2 million | |
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2013-07-11 | |
| (July 5, 2013) - Monsanto Australia increased its shareholding in InterGrain on June 28th to 26% from its current 19.9%. The opportunity for Monsanto Australia | |
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2013-06-21 | |
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Investissement Québec joins as strategic investor.
Montreal, QB (June 20, 2013) - Enerkem Inc., a waste-to-biofuels and renewable chemicals company, announced today the closing | |
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2013-06-10 | |
| (May 3, 2013) - Farmers in Western Canada will benefit from an enhanced selection of online weather and agronomic tools from WeatherFarm.com, following | |
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2013-05-07 | |
| (May 2, 2013) - Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) announced today that it has completed due diligence on GrainCorp Limited | |
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2013-02-06 | |
| Monsanto also signs research collaboration agreement with and makes equity investment in Synthetic Genomics Inc., co-founding company of Agradis, Inc. | |
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2013-01-30 | |
| Vancouver, BC (January 22, 2013) - Solegear Bioplastics Inc., a developer of award-winning bioplastic technologies, is pleased to confirm that it has received | |
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2013-01-02 | |
| Khartoum (December 18, 2012) - Sinnar state signed a partnership with the Saudi Tala Company to produce sugar, ethanol and bio-fuel in Sinnar state from | |
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2012-12-14 | |
| Synthetic biology specialist Intrexon has agreed to purchase a 48% slice of aquaculture firm AquaBounty Technology, for $6 million in cash, | |
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2012-11-28 | |
(November 28, 2012) - BASF has completed the acquisition of Becker Underwood from Norwest Equity Partners, a U.S.-based private equity investment | |
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2012-11-21 | |
| (November 20, 2012) - Syngenta announced today that it will acquire Sunfield Seeds, a U.S.-based provider of sunflower seeds production and | |
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2012-10-31 | |
| (October 23, 2012) Increasing demand for food, fuel and feed in developed and developing markets will continue to drive strong returns for equity investors in | |
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2012-09-28 | |
| (September 24, 2012) - Bayer CropScience has a robust strategy in place and is geared for continued strong growth over the mid-term, said | |
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2012-09-26 | |
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(September 20, 2012) - BASF plans to acquire Becker Underwood for a price of $1.02 billion (€785 million).
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2012-09-26 | |
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(September 19, 2012) - Syngenta announced today that it has agreed to acquire Pasteuria Bioscience, Inc., a U.S.-based biotechnology company.
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2012-09-24 | |
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2012-09-20 | |
| (September 10, 2012) - Now here’s a fun one: Blue River Technology is an 18-month-old company out of Stanford University that | |
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2012-08-14 | |
| Vancouver, BC - (August 9, 2012) Solegear Bioplastics Inc., a developer of award-winning bioplastic technologies, today announced it has secured Series A financing, | |
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2012-08-02 | |
| Rochester, NY (July 27, 2012) - Sweetwater Energy, Inc., a Rochester, NY-based cellulosic sugar manufacturer, announced today it has oversubscribed and closed its Series A | |
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2012-07-19 | |
| (July 19,2012) - Nestle SA (NESN.VX) said Thursday it has bought a stake in a U.S. maker of a food powder marketed to aid Alzheimer's | |
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2012-07-10 | |
| Luxembourg / New York, NY (July 2, 2012) - Sodrugestvo Group S.A. announced an agreement in which Mitsui & Co., Ltd. has become a 10-percent | |
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2012-07-05 | |
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Further milestone to strengthen the fruits and vegetables business: Bayer CropScience acquires US-based biological company AgraQuest for close to US$ 500 million
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2012-07-04 | |
| (June 12, 2012) - Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), the private sector arm of the Islamic Development Bank | |
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2012-06-13 | |
| Netherlands (May 18, 2012) - Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement | |
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2012-06-06 | |
| New York (May 14, 2012) - TIAA-CREF has finished reaping funds for its agricultural investment company, raising $2 billion, including commitments from pension funds of | |
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2012-05-31 | |
| Tokyo (May 29, 2012) - Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp will buy U.S. grain merchant Gavilon for $3.6 billion, a landmark deal that may put | |
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