Pontifax Food and Agriculture Technology Fund, a private equity fund targeting $200m overall, has launched under the umbrella of Israeli life sciences venture capital firm Pontifax.
Ahead of speaking at the World Agri-Tech Investment Summit in San Francisco next week, Vishal Vasishth, co-founder of Obvious Ventures, talks about the firm’s approach to agtech investing.
On International Women’s Day, AgFunderNews reporter Lauren Manning caught up with three female agtech entrepreneurs to find out what it’s like working in agtech.
Ahead of speaking at the Indoor Ag-Con in Las Vegas in April, Randy Mortensen tells AgFunderNews about the benefits and challenges of LED lighting for indoor agriculture.
A meaty industry-in-brief this week includes news on the GMO labeling debate, Europe’s largest urban farm, the world’s first expired food supermarket, people moves at DuPont, and a data collective for farmers.
Phil Cruver is CEO of Catalina Sea Ranch, the first offshore aquaculture facility in US Federal waters. Here he describes the Ocean Internet of Things project that his company is also working on.
Heat Genie’s $2.36m funding round through SeedInvest headlines this week’s fundings-in-brief.
ATC, which is currently raising $5 million on AgFunder, will soon deliver the first retrofit of a tractor with its commercial product eDrive to FamilyFarms Group.
The UK spin out of pharmaceutical company Redx Pharma, is partnering with agrochemical companies to discover new ag chemical compounds.
ESEV Genetics is a research & development company focused on cannabis breeding and genetics. Here Noam Chehanovsky, CTO and co-founder of the company, describes the benefit of MAS.
Agricultural development is one of the biggest initiatives for the foundation. Here Vipula Shukla, senior program officer for agriculture, speak about the foundation’s approach to agtech investing.
Two weeks ago Symbiota, an agtech startup researching beneficial microbes for plant growth, changed its name to Indigo. We caught up with Perry to hear more about this and the startup’s $56m Series B.
Politicians are also urging a close eye is kept on the mergers of Dow Chemicals and DuPont and Syngenta and ChemChina in this week’s Industry-in-Brief.
Monsanto Growth Ventures led the $7.5m round for Understory alongside a Madison, Wisconsin VC firm 4490 Ventures.
Farmer Business Network’s new business line FBN Procurement, a service helping farmers to source ag chemicals at the cheapest rates possible, has raised some questions in the industry.
Israeli startup Saturas has secured $1 million to develop its precision irrigation sensor technology for permanent crops.
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.
FarmLink’s division, rules around healthy eating and food labeling, and updates in the GMO labeling debate make up this week’s Industry-in-Brief.
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