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Bowery Farming Raises $20m Series A to Hire and Expand

June 14, 2017

Founder Irving Fain told AgFunderNews that the first priority for the new funds will be staffing up.

10 Online Platforms Helping Future Indoor Farmers

June 13, 2017

Indoor farming is a business and business is hard. Here are five online platforms to help indoor farmers.

Vertical farming startup Plenty acquires Bright Agrotech to reach ‘field scale’

June 13, 2017

The move to acquire Bright Agrotech will give Plenty the breadth of expertise and IP to scale with rapid speed, and is a natural move after a four-year relationship, according to Matt Barnard, cofounder and CEO.

Ag Industry Brief: Agrilyst Indoor Farming Survey Open, Climate Ventures 2.0 Cohort, Coca Cola Investing $1.7bn in India Ag, more

June 9, 2017

Blue Apron filed for an IPO, and an internal dispute at Hampton Creek are just two stories in this week’s industry brief.

Brief: Freight Farms Raises $7.3m Series B Round For Shipping Container Tech

June 8, 2017

Freight Farms, the startup growing lettuce inside shipping containers, has completed its Series B funding round on $7.3 million.

The first Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled Augmented Reality crop management system may be coming to an indoor farm near you very soon.

How to Build Artificial Intelligence That’s Smarter Than a Farmer

June 5, 2017

The first artificial intelligence (AI) enabled augmented reality crop management system may be coming to an indoor farm near you very soon, according to Ryan Hooks of Huxley.

Five Startups Win Accelerator Backing to Fight Food Insecurity, Waste, and Unsustainable Food Systems

May 25, 2017

The Good Kitchen, launched last year as Europe’s first accelerator program for social startup businesses tackling food issues, will award low-interest loans to the startups to get their businesses off the ground.

Agtech Funding Sheet: Startups Raise Nearly $130m in 2 Weeks

May 11, 2017

Solyent, Thymox, Propel, Hectare Agritech, Smart Earth Seeds, Taranis, Abundant, Calysta, Ceres, and Territory have all raised funding in the past two weeks.

Aquaculture Feed Innovator Calysta Completes $40m Series D With Temasek & Mitsui

May 4, 2017

The financing will enable the business to achieve commercial scale manufacturing of its FeedKind protein, which is an alternative feed ingredient for fish, livestock and pet nutritional products.

Aquaculture’s $100bn Feed Challenge Presents Big Opportunity for Entrepreneurs

April 19, 2017

The search is on for a sustainable alternative to the 30 million tons of wild caught fish that are currently used to feed farmed fish.

Agtech Funding Sheet: SEC Filing Reveals Freight Farms Has Raised $5.7m Towards Larger Series B

April 13, 2017

AgShift, an ag data startup helping farms automate their compliance reporting, also closed a pre-seed round. Online office catering service Platterz and pivoted Indian agri-marketing platform Ninjacart also raised funding.

Agtech Funding Sheet: Agersens Raises $2m for Fenceless Farming Tech, Ecoation’s Disease Detection Tool Raises $1m, more

April 6, 2017

Also in this week’s funding sheet, Waycool, a fresh produce distribution service for smallholder farmers in India raised funding from George Soros-backed Aspada Investments.

AgFunder Joins KPMG & Bosch to Invest in The Yield’s $6.5m Series A

April 5, 2017

The Yield is an Australian microclimate sensing, IoT and predictive analytics startup for aquaculture and agriculture.

celebrities investing in food and agriculture technology

Agtech Funding Sheet: Leonardo DiCaprio invests in LoveTheWild, ProducePay raises $7m

March 16, 2017

LoveTheWild, the Boulder-based frozen seafood brand that only sources farmed fish, has closed an undisclosed Series A round of funding with Leonardo DiCaprio and seafood-focused

Microalgae-based Aquaculture Vaccine Tech Wins Nutreco Feed Tech Challenge

February 24, 2017

MicroSynbiotiX, a startup creating a novel oral delivery process for fish, has won the Nutreco Feed Tech Challenge.

Ag Industry Brief: Global Agripreneurs Challenge in Jo’Burg, White House Hints at Tighter Cannabis Regs, Cricket Food Co Awarded $100k Grant, more

February 24, 2017

Also, John Deere has opened a strategic technology office in the Iowa State University Research Park and Aggrigator launches a Farm to Shelf Marketplace for small farmers to sell direct to restaurants, schools, and grocery stores.

Agtech Funding Sheet: Front Range Bio Raises $1.5m, Yume Raises $2m for Food Waste Mitigation, SunBasket Series C

February 23, 2017

A biotech company working on improving the consistency and efficiency of cannabis cloning raised seed funding from an impressive array of investors while an Aussie wholesale surplus food marketplace got the attention of impact investors.

Bowery Launches AI-Enabled Indoor Farming Business with $7.5m in Seed Funding

February 23, 2017

Bowery has built a vertical farming facility in New Jersey that uses automation, machine learning, and vision systems to monitor and tend to its crops.

A Guide to Seafood & Aquaculture Technology: Startups Raise $193m in 2016 but More Innovation Needed

February 16, 2017

Investment in seafood and aquaculture technology increased 271% compared to the $52 million raised across both 2014 and 2015, but there is still a huge need for technology to bring efficiency and sustainability to the industry.

Ag Industry Brief: First Ag Data Lawsuit in Poultry Industry, Agribusinesses Write to Trump, AgriProtein to Roll Out 100 Insect Farms, more

February 10, 2017

A meaty industry brief this week includes a lawsuit against larger food companies including Tyson and Perdue, new grant options for food & ag research, India’s TIME winner of the year, and a plan to build 100 black soldier fly farms.