Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto was the week’s biggest piece of news, but we also have items from agtech startups, such as Farmigo, accelerators such as Thrive, and legislators.
IntelinAir, a San Jose-based automated aerial imagery analytics startup, closed its seed round consisting of $3 million in equity and $500k in venture debt from
Blue Prairie Brands, a startup producing chicory flour to replace white flour in food, has raised $6 million in Series A funding.
For the eighth round of this annual event, 20 companies will present across multiple technology categories while panel discussions will focus on food waste, gene-editing technology and a keynote from farmers.
John Deere’s acquisition of Precision Planting from Monsanto has been called into question by US Anti-trust officials, while Caribou Biosciences expands and Virtrus Nutrition acquires Farmeron.
While it’s certainly been slow during the summer, there have been some notable fundings and we don’t want you to have missed them!
FarmShots Raises Seed Round After just completing the Y Combinator accelerator program, North Carolina-based satellite imagery startup FarmShots has closed a seed round after attracting
Two startups working on food safety and traceability technologies raised funding this week.
AgFunder, AgThentic, and Ag Innovation Development Group have released a new report detailing the 77 different startup resources for food and ag startups.
Ahead of the release of his new data-heavy report, Patrick Keating of Keating International gives an exclusive insight into how the global food system has progressed since the earliest forms of food and agriculture technology.
A bumper edition of fundings-in-brief includes bioinsecticides, precision ag, cannabis, lots of food e-commerce, and biotech.
Good Eggs, which last year shocked consumers by shutting down operations outside of the Bay Area, has surprised the market again by raising $15 million.
Why 2 veggie restaurant tycoons, the founder of ZICO coconut water, and a VC from Disney’s Steamboat Ventures are placing their bets on plant-based foods.
Agri-food technology innovation has begun to emerge as a hot topic in Australia, but if it wants to truly break through, the conversation needs to shift.
The WFP has tasked itself with achieving “Zero Hunger” by 2030 and is looking to agriculture innovation and technology to help get there.
Drone delivery, GMO labeling, antibiotics in cows, agtech startups joining accelerators, new hires, and food safety are some of the issues covered in the weeks’ industry brief.
Israeli Computer Vision Startup Prospera Closes $7m Series A Prospera, an Israeli startup using computer vision, data science, and machine learning to monitor and analyze
Edible Manhattan and VaynerLive hosted the first ever Food Loves Tech Expo in New York last month to showcase technologies aiming to disrupt our food chain.
Cultivation Capital Leads $1.2m Round in Data Analytics Startup S4, New Wave Foods Closes Seed Round for Seafood Alternative, and Innit Raises $18m for Connected Food Platform in this week’s Fundings-in-Brief.
New Wave Foods CEO is confident about the potential for her shrimp alternative to sustainably disrupt the conventional shrimp market at affordable prices.
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