Vilsack’s visit to Cuba with Obama, lighting indoor lunar greenhouses, winners of a water innovation accelerator, and Mars joining the GMO labeling party are all featured in this week’s Industry-in-Brief.
Through its subsidiary GoodLeaf Farms, the Canadian vertical farming company has started selling produce in Canada under agreements with major retailers and distributors.
Ahead of speaking at the World Agri-Tech Investment Summit in San Francisco next week, Vishal Vasishth, co-founder of Obvious Ventures, talks about the firm’s approach to agtech investing.
Ahead of speaking at the Indoor Ag-Con in Las Vegas in April, Randy Mortensen tells AgFunderNews about the benefits and challenges of LED lighting for indoor agriculture.
The rapper and endurance athlete are likely to endorse Exo’s products along with their investment.
A meaty industry-in-brief this week includes news on the GMO labeling debate, Europe’s largest urban farm, the world’s first expired food supermarket, people moves at DuPont, and a data collective for farmers.
Phil Cruver is CEO of Catalina Sea Ranch, the first offshore aquaculture facility in US Federal waters. Here he describes the Ocean Internet of Things project that his company is also working on.
The cricket farming startup is keeping its cards close to its chest when it comes to the technology it’s building but revealed an interesting line-up of investors.
Obama’s 2017 budget includes a range of agriculture funding initiatives as NOAA approves aquaculture in federal waters in this week’s Industry-in-Brief.
Cultured meat manufacturer Memphis Meat, UK farm-2-consumer company FarmDrop and Syngenta’s acquisition by ChemChina are some of this week’s Fundings-in-Brief.
Cargill, the Municipal Employee Retirement System of Michigan and multi-family office Bessemer Trust joined existing investors to fund commercialization of Calysta’s FeedKind range.
Catalina Sea Ranch wants to help bridge a $10 billion seafood deficit in the US with the first offshore shellfish ranch in Federal US waters.
Asian demand for ‘clean food’ amid rising pollution, food scandals and increasing discomfort around the use of pesticides, is driving the region’s indoor agriculture sector, according to a new whitepaper from Newbean Capital.
We have collated 10 of the year’s most-read stories for you to enjoy over the festive period while we take a short break from publishing news.
AeroFarms has plans to build 25 farms over the next five years and expand its reach across four continents, David Rosenberg, CEO, tells AgFunderNews.
Mike Betts, director of investments at AgFunder, shares his key takeaways from the event and his thoughts on the growing aquaculture sector.
KKR has invested into Yuehai Feed Group through its China Growth Fund in the firm’s fifth agriculture-related investment in China.
BrightFarms raised the capital from a combination of venture capital firms, family offices and individual investors.
Private equity and M&A activity in the ag industry continues as a Chinese conglomerate invests into an Israeli agtech company, and Syngenta acquires a farm management software tool.
Speakers at the Indoor Ag-Con in New York on Thursday discussed some of the industry’s biggest challenges as it starts to scale.
