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,
The Monsanto and Climate Corp duo is at it again. And this time, it’s in the dirt. On Thursday, Monsanto acquired the soil-analysis business formerly
When it comes to talking about food security, it’s not often that we talk global, regional and locally-focused specifics. The future of climate change and
Investeco, Canada’s first environmental investment company just announced it has closed its Sustainable Food Fund, with Canadian foundations as lead investors. Completing its final close
Greenhouses just got a little greener. BrightFarms, a New York City-based company bringing commercial hydroponic greenhouses to urban areas, raised $4.9M in a series-B round.
This week at Davos, ag and agtech was at the heart of a topic that touches each of us. Nearly 870 million people in the
Sorghum just made a sweet deal. Chromatin, Inc., a Chicago-based agtech company focused on sorghum production, recently closed its Series E round, bringing in $36
As US urban city populations grow, vertical farms are cropping up across the nation. According to the World Health Organization, city growth is exploding, and
Silicon Valley-ers are looking beyond the hills. FarmLogs, a Michigan-based software startup that provides management tools to increase farmer productivity, has raised $4 million in
While Cleantech startups have faced declining investment over the past 5 quarters, there are finally signs that cleantech investment is taking an upturn. With significant
Big data is often a big problem in ag. Many farmers do not have the time or energy to interpret it, and some data is
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