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Category: Series C

BREAKING: Perfect Day closes $140m Series C led by Temasek to scale B2B dairy alternatives

December 11, 2019

We asked Perfect Day why they're leaving value on the table by focusing on partnerships and not marketing its own brand and how they're staying ahead of the competition.

Two food supply chain startups capture $64.5m in funding this week

October 31, 2019

A cold chain logistics automation startup scored $31m in funding while an app-based ingredients ordering platform for restaurants raised $33.5m.

EXCLUSIVE: Provivi raises $85m Series C to combat field pests with pheromones

October 15, 2019

Provivi produces pesticide alternatives for farmers based on insect pheromones, the natural secretions animals use to find one another for mating.

Microfluidics mastery earns Switzerland’s Creoptix $8m Series C

October 4, 2019

Much attention on the work at Creoptix has been on the use of their bioanalytical instruments in the discovery of new drugs and cures for diseases. But there is a relevant agtech application as well, a spokesperson for the company tells AFN

ZeaKal clinches $15 million Series C funding, hires veteran DuPont exec

September 10, 2019

Totaling $15 million, the round includes the $10 million strategic investment from Canopy Rivers announced earlier this year. Existing investors Finistere Ventures and Middleland Capital participated in the round, which was oversubscribed.

Bioenergy DevCo captures $106m to digest waste in a city near you

September 5, 2019

Anaerobic digestion is already used widely in Europe where the population is more attuned to environmental concerns but also as there's limited room for landfills, forcing businesses to find other solutions for food waste.

Silicon Valley is bullish about food delivery robots, but cities and consumers aren’t 100% sold…yet

August 20, 2019

Robotics startup Starship Technologies closed a $40 million venture round for its cooler-sized delivery robots but some cities are cracking down on autonomous robot testing amid consumer safety concerns.

Agrosavfe snags €35 million to bring bio-crop protection products to market

August 8, 2019

The Belgium-based company will use the Series C financing round to get its first product, a biofungicide, to market.

Inari raises $89m Series C to make seeds diverse again

August 6, 2019

With plans to accelerate commercialization in the US corn and soybean markets, this next-gen seed company claims that this is the largest funding round secured by a female CEO for an ag biotech startup to date.

Are Food Delivery Apps the Death Knell of Home Cooking? Gousto Says No with Extra £30m Funding

July 18, 2019

Gousto is a bet on people still finding enough joy and value in cooking their own meals at home — even those in big cities starved for time or charged a king’s ransom for every inch of rental space, writes Richard Martyn-Hemphill.

Two Startups Converting Methane into Animal Feed Raise Funding from Gas Giants in Europe & Asia

June 27, 2019

Finding alternative uses for methane could be an important tool in the fight against climate change as the gas is responsible for at least a quarter of global warming and is over 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

Farm Tech & Supply Chain Tech Drive $1.6bn in Funding to European AgriFood Tech Startups in 2018

May 23, 2019

Europe's agrifood tech ecosystem raised just 9% of the funding that went to foodtech and agtech startups globally in 2018. But deal activity increased 23% as agrifood tech startups in the region closed a similar number of deals as in the US.

Ninjacart Raises $89m from Tiger Global in India’s Largest-Ever Farm Tech Deal

April 24, 2019

Ninjacart, an Indian agritech startup that connects farmers to retailers, has raised Rs625 Cr ($89.5m) from New York-based hedge fund Tiger Global, taking its valuation to $320 million, according to the Economic Times.

Dutch Biotech Startup Ceradis Secures €9m for New Biofungicide

April 24, 2019

It has taken the team of scientists at Ceradis more than a decade to develop a line of earth-friendly agriculture products. Now, with several on the market, the Dutch company has raised €9 million ($10 million) to commercialize a new biofungicide that prevents crop disease.

Top 20 Retail & Restaurant Tech Startups in 2018

April 10, 2019

Retail and restaurant tech is a category of agrifood tech startups encompassing technologies and services aimed at making retail food businesses more profitable as well as improving shopper experience at the supermarket, in restaurants and other brick & mortar stores.