AgShift, an ag data startup helping farms automate their compliance reporting, also closed a pre-seed round. Online office catering service Platterz and pivoted Indian agri-marketing platform Ninjacart also raised funding.
Full Harvest is on a mission to repurpose the 20 billion pounds of produce that are wasted at the farm level each year.
Also this week, VDO TechAccel and microbiome startup Indigo both expand their leadership teams.
Also in this week’s funding sheet, Waycool, a fresh produce distribution service for smallholder farmers in India raised funding from George Soros-backed Aspada Investments.
Hampton Creek CEO Josh Tetrick announced that the SEC was closing the investigation and that it had not found any instances of wrongdoing related to the buyback scheme.
A busy week include Saudi Arabia’s first fly farm, a UK agtech innovation hub, Impossible Foods’ new plant-based meat factory, SeaWeb champions and more!
The Climate Ventures 2.0 application deadline has been extended to March 31, 2017, while a new initiative at UC Merced aims to position current students at the edge of the intersection between food, energy, and water.
ReFED Names Chris Cochran As First Executive Director ReFED, a collaborative, cross-sector effort of 40 businesses, non-profits, foundations, investors and policymakers committed to reducing food
A bumper two weeks of funding saw 14 startups raise $184m across on-farm biotech, biotech, satellite imagery, India, 3D printing, including Instacart’s $400m Series D. There was also an ag data acquisition in the UK.
Hazel Technologies is developing technology to increase the shelf life of fruit with packaging inserts.
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 within a week of each other.
Also, John Deere has opened a strategic technology office in the Iowa State University Research Park and Aggrigator launches a Farm to Shelf Marketplace for small farmers to sell direct to restaurants, schools, and grocery stores.
A biotech company working on improving the consistency and efficiency of cannabis cloning raised seed funding from an impressive array of investors while an Aussie wholesale surplus food marketplace got the attention of impact investors.
Land O’Lakes, the major US dairy cooperative, is calling on innovators from the tech industry to enter the Land O’Lakes Prize.
Investment in seafood and aquaculture technology increased 271% compared to the $52 million raised across both 2014 and 2015, but there is still a huge need for technology to bring efficiency and sustainability to the industry.
Farm management software startups dominate this week’s funding brief, while an alternative dairy and cannabis investment company also raised funding.
It may sound too good to be true, but according to David Rowe, founder and president at Choco Finesse, the proof is in the chocolate pudding.
We caught up with Isabelle Decitre, founder of the awards, to find out more about her motivation for launch FFAA and why it’s needed in Asia.
A meaty industry brief this week includes a lawsuit against larger food companies including Tyson and Perdue, new grant options for food & ag research, India’s TIME winner of the year, and a plan to build 100 black soldier fly farms.
Securing funding for food and drink start-ups is more difficult than doing the same job for innovators in other industries, according to Alessio D’Antino, CEO and co-founder of Crowdfooding UK.
Sponsored
Sponsored post: The innovator’s dilemma: why agbioscience innovation must focus on the farmer first