Despite oil prices below $50, it looks like there’s still life in cleantech investing. Edeniq, a biorefining and cellulosic technology company, has announced they they’ve
New Mexico-based EcoPesticides which is developing ‘green’ biologic pesticides with has announced the completion of its $400,000 Series A from the New Mexico Startup Factory, the New
Chicago-based Chromatin, which produces sorghum seed for food and feedstock for both animals and biofuels, announced last week that they had raised another $12 million
Some more news has emerged from the Soylent deal. On Sunday we reported that health drink maker Soylent was raising $10 million, but yesterday Chris Dixon of
An SEC filing is showing that GrowLife has added another $68,000 of investment to the $14.5 million in equity and debt financing they raised in 2014 over
Village Capital is seeking early-stage fintech ventures for its FinTech for Agriculture: East Africa 2015 Accelerator. Selected innovators will participate in a three-month accelerator program,
Gladstone (Nasdaq:LAND) announced that it closed on the acquisition of a 331-acre strawberry farm in Salinas, California, for approximately $17.0 million. The Company won the
Agtech startups will be coming from all over California to pitch their solutions to a panel of growers and investors at the AgTech Meetup in Salina
It’s no secret that billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is a big fan of marijuana. So it’s fitting that his $2 billion investment company, Founders
Paine & Partners, a global private equity firm focused on investing in food and agribusiness has announced that they’ve closed $893 million in capital commitments for their
EdenShield a Tel Aviv based agtech company coming out of the Mofet/Trendlines accelerator has raised $1 million in financing led by the Israeli-focused crowdfunding platform OurCrowd. EdenShield
AgFunder listed company, Edyn, has announced today that their Garden Sensor and Water Valve has been named a 2015 CES Best of Innovation honoree in
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Hampton Creek has just announced a huge $90 million Series C financing led by Li Ka-Shing’s Horizons Ventures and Khosla Ventures. This comes just ten months after
The Boston Globe has reported that Freight Farms has raised a $3.7 million Series B round from Spark Capital to continue building out its farm
It’s been a big year for FarmLogs. Fresh off the heels of a $4 million Series A back in January of this year, FarmLogs has just
Koch has announced that it has acquired the biological research and development business of Mendel Biotechnology. The business will operate as Mendel Biological Solutions and will
Monsanto’s Climate Corporation has acquired agtech startup 640 Labs to strengthen the company’s efforts to build the industry’s leading data science platform for farmers. Details of
AgFunder Event: AGERPoint, which Emily covered a couple of weeks ago, will be holding an investor webinar on Thursday, December 4 at 12:00 Pacific/3:00 Eastern. You
FarmOnline reports that private investment group TGP with $66 billion AUM sold AU$171.4 million of assets in Inghams Enterprises (an extensive portfolio of chicken production facilities in
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