The top 20 Ag Biotech deals of 2019
Despite a slow down in investment in 2019, Ag Biotech was still one of the top categories for seed funding, and the most active upstream category.
Despite a slow down in investment in 2019, Ag Biotech was still one of the top categories for seed funding, and the most active upstream category.
The Canadian icon will ramp up its expansion in China and improve its digital capabilities with a helping hand from the Shenzhen-based tech giant.
The Yield – an AgFunder portfolio company – is “poised to be The Climate Corp of horticulture,” said Yamaha Motor Ventures’ Nolan Paul.
Ecoinno wants to offer a ‘third way’ between traditional, petroleum-based plastics, and bioplastics produced from non-naturally occurring polymers.
Duckweed is rich in protein and grows incredibly fast. It can double in biomass every two days.
Hatch is inviting startups to apply for the fourth cohort of its aquaculture-focused program, which has accelerated the likes of Finless Foods and Jala.
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The early-stage startup wants to help packers, and eventually retailers, better manage their inventories so that consumers never have to suffer overripe fruit again.
GROW becomes an accredited mentor partner for the Singapore government program, while launching its ‘Pre Accelerator’ for “very early stage” startups.
PlantEver is the name under which the US agribusiness giant’s fake meat will be marketed to Chinese shoppers, starting from the end of June.
Farmers have been so hungry for the corn and wheat amendments that the startup has sold out multiple times flying in the face of skepticism over microbes’ efficacy.
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The US coffee chain and Sequoia China will make “strategic co-investments” in emerging, tech-driven food and retail startups “created in China, for China.”
PLA’s platform helps beef producers run their businesses more efficiently through the power of data analytics and connection to animal health companies and the founder thinks Covid-19 will accelerate farmer interest in such livestock tech.
While other investors are tightening their purse strings as the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps the world, Jerusalem Venture Partners has neither stalled nor scrapped its new plant-based protein deal.
Ergos allows farmers to deposit their grain at a local micro-warehouse so that it can be ‘withdrawn’ at a different location, Aavishkaar’s Vineet Rai explains.
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“We can’t oversimplify this into good vs evil. The democratization of nutrition is the next frontier of food. Proteins – which are necessary for all key human biological functions, including the musculo-skeletal system, the circulatory system, the pituitary system, and our overall health – will play a critical role in this democratization,” says Victor Friedberg announcing FoodShot’s latest focus area.
Moka, a Jakarta-based startup offering POS software for food merchants, could help the on-demand ‘super app’ build out its service offering to restaurants.
Gousto, a UK meal kit company, is seizing the moment either way; it has tapped its investors for an additional £33 million ($41 million) in a funding round led by Perwyn, BGF, MMC Ventures and the influencer and fitness guru Joe Wicks.
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