NexSteppe, a company delivering the next generation of sustainable feedstock solutions for the biobased industries, announced today it has raised $22M Series C from Total
It’s a good day for Insectivores! Exo, a foodtech company developing insects as an alternative protein source, announced the close of a $1.2 million seed
It’s a big year for VCs funding drone companies! DroneDeploy, a smart drone management platform, announced a $2M seed round led by SoftTech VC with participation
PrecisionHawk, an information delivery company that uses a small, lightweight UAVs and cloud-based software to collect, process and analyze aerial data, today announced it has
The SmartAgriFood accelerator officially launched a €4 million open call for SMEs and web-entrepreneurs to develop a new generation of smart agriculture applications and services building
NewLeaf Symbiotics, a St Louis, Missouri-based agricultural biotechnology company focused on the commercialization of beneficial plant bacteria, announced today that it has closed a $17
Companies focused on big data and farm management tools are just sweeping up funds from VCs these days, as more farmers bring their ipads, laptops
aWhere, a Denver, CO based big data analytics company focused on the Ag industry, Elixir Capital, a private equity fund based in Silicon Valley and
Food delivery startups are raking in funds these days, and there’s yet another story to break headlines–this time, it’s 100 percent organic, local and sustainable
Singapore’s government is putting down one kind of green to get some of another. The Ministry of National Development (MND), Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority
A company called Green & Grow is really living up to its name. The Austin-based producer of bio-products to improve ag productivity just announced
As it turns out, some VC’s don’t like bugs, either. Kalamazoo-based bioinsecticide company, Vestaron Corporation, recently closed a $10M Series C Preferred Stock. The
We are excited to announce that we are partnering with Food+Tech Connect to launch a monthly AgTech Funding Roundup! We’ll be covering companies that are using
Money keeps rolling in for agtech data platforms. FarmLink, a farming productivity solutions provider, has announced it’s raised a $40 million Series B. The
Just after signing its contract with Brazil’s biggest sugarcane company, Benson Hill Biosystems is pulling in some sweet money. Benson Hill, an ag startup
The ag world has been getting lots of funding, and Agworld is no exception. Agworld, an information management platform company in the Australian agricultural
Africa’s wealthiest man isn’t only plopping big bucks into sub-Sahara Africa, but he’s also drawing in funds from even bigger players. Last week, Africa’s
Good weather forecasting is at the heart of ag, and one Indian company just received a boat-load of funds to make their forecasts even stronger.
If you’re into agtech as much as we are, keep reading. We’ve compiled a list of the top agtech funding rounds so far in 2014.
The merging of agriculture and technology will be soon be highlighted on a major public forum, as Forbes announced Wednesday morning that it will host the “Forbes Reinventing America: The AgTech Summit” in Salinas Valley, California next year.
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