Monsanto Takes Hyper-Local Weather Data Startup in New Direction with $7.5m Series A
Monsanto Growth Ventures led the $7.5m round for Understory alongside a Madison, Wisconsin VC firm 4490 Ventures.
Monsanto Growth Ventures led the $7.5m round for Understory alongside a Madison, Wisconsin VC firm 4490 Ventures.
Former partner at Khosla Ventures Andrew Chung today launched 1955 Capital, which will invest in the energy, food and agriculture, education and health sectors.
The Applegates have been inventing and building farm technology since they were nine years old and have now launched Praxidyn, an agtech startup.
Ahead of a speaking slot at next month’s World Agri-Tech Investment Summit in San Francisco, the secretary for agriculture for California talks about how the state government supports agtech innovation.
The cricket farming startup is keeping its cards close to its chest when it comes to the technology it’s building but revealed an interesting line-up of investors.
2015 was a big year for Planet Labs, the satellite company. We caught up with Ryan Schacht, account executive for agriculture ahead of the World Agri-Tech Investment Summit in San Francisco to get an update.
ZeaKal, which is enhancing the photosynthetic capacity of soybeans, attracted funding from two agtech VC heavyweights.
2015 surpassed our mid-year expectations raising $4.6bn across 527 deals and representing 94% year over year growth.
RoCRE is an agtech incubation center attached to the world’s longest running agricultural research station Rothamsted Research, which has been researching science and innovation in the industry since 1843.
Steve Pitstick manages Pitstick Farms in Maple Park, Illinois and recently attended and spoke at PrecisionAg Innovation Series. Here he tells us some of his key takeaways from the day.
Co-founder and CEO of the cultured meat startup Memphis Meats talks to AgFunderNews about the company’s history and challenges ahead.
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 USDA Certified Biobased Product Label.
The soil sensor company recently launched its precision irrigation product WaterValve and is expanding into Japan with strategic help.
AgriSync has created a two-way video app with a built-in dashboard to help farmers better communicate with their advisors.
This is Avrio Capital’s third agtech fund and will revisit some subsectors of agtech which co-founder Aki Georgacacos believes have been overheated in recent months.
Koch Industries first turned its attention to ag biologicals in December 2014 when it acquired part of plant science company Mendel Biotechnology.
Cargill, the Municipal Employee Retirement System of Michigan and multi-family office Bessemer Trust joined existing investors to fund commercialization of Calysta’s FeedKind range.
Hortau raised the capital from a mix of US and Canadian investors to fund expansion and development.
*Agrible recently brought on new investor Flyover Capital to close out its Series A. The deal first closed in July 2015 with Serra Ventures and ADM. This is an updated version of a post that was first published on July 22, 2015.
Catalina Sea Ranch wants to help bridge a $10 billion seafood deficit in the US with the first offshore shellfish ranch in Federal US waters.