Perfect Day, a Californian startup using plants and fermentation techniques to manufacture animal-free dairy products, has expanded its Series C round to $300 million. Hawk
The media conglomerate and agribusiness giant have joined S2G Ventures and Skyline Global Partners to fund the Iowa startup, which offers a data-backed warranty service for farmers.
Recent funding for remote-sensing companies like AgroScout could signal a revival for providers of agri-drone technology.
Goterra is an on-site food waste management technology and service that disposes of waste via modular insect farms.
Dumpling turns the traditional gig economy on its head by putting personal shoppers at the center of the platform and incentivizing good customer service.
Between them, Singapore and Indonesia raised over five times the funding of all the other ASEAN countries put together.
Koh Poh Koon, the country’s senior minister for trade and industry, unveiled the grant scheme while visiting local indoor farming startup Singrow.
The Woburn, Mass.-based startup uses pharmaceutical discovery techniques to advance promising modes of action for fighting crop pests.
Dutch impact investor syndicate called the Put Your Money Where Your Meaning Is Community joined the round alongside a UK investment firm and a French food safety company.
Early Twitter and Uber backer Chris Sacca’s firm also invested in Australia’s Soil Carbon Co, which is developing a microbe-mediated method to sequester carbon.
The dairy SaaS giant has positioned itself as the digital backbone of the dairy manufacturing supply chain since it launched in 2000.
Focusing on gardeners and commercial landscapers for now, Upcycle & Co closed its recent seed round during the pandemic.
Moving towards more climate-resilient agriculture and food production was already imperative for India. The Covid-19 pandemic has made it even more urgent.
It’s the Singapore-based agribusiness’s third sustainability loan, and follows its $176 million financing last month for digitalizing the smallholder economy.
CEO Erik Fyrwald previously told AFN that Syngenta’s takeover by ChemChina “gives us the freedom for increased investment around seeds and crop protection.”
With the new acquisition, RNAissance plans to ramp up production of its sprayable RNA pesticides while expanding production.
Arkam Ventures led the pre-Series A investment in Jai Kisan, which wants to increase Indian farmers’ access to financial services – and lenders’ access to farmers.
Switching sharply to developing a vaccine for Covid-19 appears to have proved a boon for GreenLight Biosciences, a company that previously focused on developing biological pesticides.
The Chengdu company is part of China’s booming trend in ‘new convenience foods,’ with online marketing channels such as livestreaming driving 55% of its sales.
CEO Leonardo Álvarez said there were near-term gains to be made by zeroing in on replacing unhealthy and ineffective ‘E-number’ chemical preservatives.
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