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Category: Novel Farming Systems

Insects for animal feed startup Beta Hatch raises $3m Series A1

May 22, 2020

The funding will be used to construct what it describes as the largest mealworm facility for animal feed in North America.

Agri-FoodTech in Europe boomed in 2019, with funding up 70% YoY. What’s in store for 2020?

May 21, 2020

European Agri-FoodTech startups raised $3.4 billion in funding in 2019 across 419 deals, a 70% year-over-year growth, according to AgFunder’s latest research. Looking ahead to

Singapore food and housing agencies to rent out public rooftops for urban farms

May 21, 2020

Urban farming gets a boost as the Singapore Food Agency and Housing & Development Board tender out nine multi-storey car park rooftops to growers.

Farmshelf wants to take home growing systems from gimmick to grocery store replacement

May 14, 2020

The startup is now taking pre-orders for a bookshelf-sized at-home growing system producing leafy greens, herbs, and more.

EXCLUSIVE: Lemna cultivator DryGro closes $4.7m Series A to sustainably replace soy in livestock feed

May 7, 2020

Duckweed is rich in protein and grows incredibly fast. It can double in biomass every two days.

Hatch 4.0 accelerator is open for innovators who can bring sustainability to aquaculture

May 7, 2020

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.

Viva, Las Vegas! Nevada’s Cultiva nets $2.94m funding to stop crops getting sunburn

May 5, 2020

As any fruit farmer will tell you, sunlight is great — until your trees get sunburnt. The scorching of high value fruits like apples or

Top 20 Novel Farming System Deals of 2019

May 1, 2020

Novel farming systems saw a 37% increase in funding over 2018 as maturing companies raised larger rounds for the diverse segment.

BRIEF: Welsh hydroponics startup Phytoponics raises fresh round of £500k

April 30, 2020

The Welsh controlled environment farming company Phytoponics designs, develops, and supplies Deep Water Culture systems for large scale hydroponic crop production.

Amid Covid-19, the Gulf region commits $200m to safeguard its food security with agtech

April 15, 2020

Kuwait’s Wafra and UAE’s Abu Dhabi Investment Office have both made commitments to develop agtech in their countries, but are taking different approaches.

Unfazed by Covid-19, Infarm arrives InJapan and InCanada

March 26, 2020

Vertical farming venture Infarm’s Emmanuel Evita shares with AFN how Covid-19 is disrupting and driving its expansion and demand for hyper-local fresh food.

Meat alternatives and indoor agriculture drive investment growth in agri-foodtech startups

March 9, 2020

Venture capital investment across all industries dropped in 2019 — around 16%, according to the VenturePulse report — against a backdrop of global uncertainty related

Are you a greenhouse tech startup? Priva is offering investment and mentorship. Apply now!

March 3, 2020

The Dutch company recently launched an innovation lab to let promising startups make good use of its unparalleled database in a bid to tackle greenhouse cultivation’s biggest challenges.

Growing cannabis legally in the UK is hard, but far from impossible

February 27, 2020

BDS Analytics has forecast that the worldwide legal cannabis industry generated revenues in the region of £11.5 billion in 2019 and is expected to grow to around £35 billion by 2024. Alongside this phenomenal rate of growth, the UK agriculture sector is embarking upon a period of unprecedented change.

From AgFunder with love: Global agri-foodtech funding reaches $19.8bn in 2019

February 25, 2020

there are a few ways to interpret this $19.8 billion figure. Though it signals a 4.8% drop in funding and 15% decline in deal activity year-over-year, it also represents a staggering 250% growth in five years, and proves that the huge scale of investments in 2018 was no freak outlier.

India’s answer to vertical farming raises $5.5m Series A

February 13, 2020

“Vertical farming is not especially relevant in India,” says Omnivore’s Mark Kahn, but its equivalent is a company that galvanizes and coordinates the tens of thousands of already existing greenhouses dotted on the outskirts of India’s major cities, like Clover.