
PodPonics, Hydroponic Produce Grower, Closes a $3.4M Series A
From BrightFarms to Grove Labs, funding indoor farms is all the rage these days. PodPonics, an Atlanta-based hydroponic grower of produce, closed a $3.4
From BrightFarms to Grove Labs, funding indoor farms is all the rage these days. PodPonics, an Atlanta-based hydroponic grower of produce, closed a $3.4
The famous Taggares family holds interested investors in limbo no longer, today announcing their IPO terms. Today, Taggares Agriculture, a Kennewick, WA-based farming company
By: David Sands. This post originally appeared on SeedStock.com. Farmers often don’t have an easy time getting access to capital to sustain and grow their
Typically, big data is only found in big land. Commercial farms and huge farms are looking for sensors and software to better manage their fields;
A leading bio-pesticide company, Marrone Bio, just made a big move that might lead to a ramp-up of business. Marrone Bio Innovations Inc., a
There’s fun(ding) money growing in the indoor garden. Grove Labs Inc., a Boston-based startup focused on an indoor home-gardening system, closed a $2 million
Another day, another dollar into ag. Davis, CA-based agtech company, Arcadia BioSciences, announced on Thursday it secured $33 million in a private equity Series
The CDC says that in the US, about 1 in 6 people getting sick from food-borne illnesses, causing 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths each year.
Miss the AgTech Summit at the Global AgInvesting Conference last week in NYC? Don’t worry–we grabbed a handful of the big takeaways about AgTech innovation
About 40 percent of food in the US is wasted each day. Each year, the average American family spends $2,200 on wasted food. One company,
The green space continues to grow greener. Indian-based ag venture capital firm, Omnivore Partners, has backed MITRA, an Indian agtech startup that specializes in
AgLocal, a company that previously a ‘meat marketplace’ has shifted to be a meat subscription service. And, they’ve just raised $1.3 million to bolster their
Taggares Agriculture Corp., a Kennewick, WA-based company with a mission to buy Pacific Northwest farmland, has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
This week, bacteria are bringing in the big bucks. On Monday, BioConsortia, a New Zealand-based and US-funded ag biotech company, announced it raised $15
By: Fiona Harvey, Award-winning environment journalist for the Guardian. This post originally appeared on Ensia. “When [the trucks] came through they could not get access
Thanks to a recent $100 million investment, you might soon reduce CO2 by driving a car, and increase crop productivity by using a carbon-negative soil.
If you’re in-tune with the Valley, watching investment trends and looking for new opportunities, chances are you’ve started looking into Ag. In February in
Enterra Feed Inc., a Vancouver-based fertilizer and animal feed company, has announced it closed a $5 million venture-funding round with Avrio Capital. “It’s particularly
Sorry, Miss Bessy—privacy may no longer be yours. Silent Herdsman Limited, a UK-startup that has developed a decision-support platform using high-tech cattle-collars, has raised
Wednesday morning’s announcement of a Series A funding in the ag space tells us that while developing commercial robots may have a high price tag,
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