Category: Startup Funding

Treez Raises $11.5m Series A for Cannabis Point of Sale Software

September 20, 2018

“The fundraising process was extremely arduous considering we started our raise over two years ago,” CEO John Yang wrote to AgFunderNews.

EXCLUSIVE: Milk & Eggs Raises $6m Seed Funding for ‘Made-to-Order’ Online Farmers Market

September 19, 2018

Milk & Eggs is different to other online grocers because what’s purchased is made-to-order; it’s like it’s providing people with their own personal farmer, according to the CEO.

Indigo Raises $250m Series E Adding Grain Marketplace to Farm Services Platform

September 18, 2018

Indigo Ag has taken the next step in its journey to becoming a consolidated farm services platform by launching a grain marketplace.

EXCLUSIVE: Improved Nature Raises $3m to Launch Plant-Based Protein Company

September 18, 2018

The company’s products include the Improved Meat portfolio, that “mimics meat in all cooking methods and forms of distribution,” according to the website.

Cargill Invests in Brazilian Swine Farm Management Software Agriness

September 13, 2018

Cargill has invested in Agriness, a Brazilian farm management software program focused on pig farms with more than 2 million sows in Latin America managed using its platform.

Growers Raises $5m Series A for Farm Data Analytics with ‘Software Plus Services’ Business Model

September 12, 2018

Growers Holdings, a digital agriculture software and services startup, has raised $5 million in Series A funding in a round led by US heartland-focused investor Lewis & Clark Ventures.

Maersk Leads Blockchain of Food Startup Ripe.io $2.4m Seed Round

September 11, 2018

Ripe.io creates what it calls a “digital bridge” between farmers, distributors, processors, traders, restaurants, grocers, and consumers to record and share data on aspects of food’s journey from farm to fork.

UPDATE: Umitron Increases Seed Funding Round for Aquaculture Automation Tech to $11m

September 10, 2018

Umitron, an Asian startup using satellite imagery, IoT, and automation to increase the efficiency of offshore aquaculture, raised the funding from the Japanese government and a Japanese venture capital firm.

GV Leads $60m Series C for Benson Hill Biosystems to Focus on Health and Nutrition

September 10, 2018

Benson Hill Biosystems, the data-led crop genetics discovery and gene editing platform, has raised $60 million in Series C funding in a round led by GV (formerly Google Ventures).

Agrograph Raises $500k in Seed Funding to Accurately Predict Crop Yields

September 6, 2018

The Madison-based company’s software combines satellite imagery and field data with machine learning algorithms to predict crop yields at the field level.

Sentera Raises $14m Series A from Syndicate of Leading Agtech Investors

September 6, 2018

“Obviously everybody likes their funders, but we are particularly happy to have this group behind us,” Sentera CEO Eric Taipale told AgFunderNews.

Tractor Zoom Raises $1m Seed Round For Farm Equipment Auction Marketplace

September 6, 2018

Some $4 billion worth of farm equipment is sold at auction in the US every year.

Bear Flag Robotics Raises $3.5m Seed Round to Automate Common Tasks on the Farm

September 5, 2018

The round takes Bear Flag’s total funding efforts to $4.5 million after it took part in the Y Combinator accelerator and raised a pre-seed round in the fall of 2017.

Enterra Feed Eyes World’s Largest Insect Farm in Wake of Series B Raise

August 28, 2018

Last week, Enterra Feed Corporation, an insect farming business from Canada, announced its latest round of funding and plans to construct three new insect factories in Canada and the US.

TeleSense Closes $6.5m Series A for Grain Monitoring IoT Platform to Reduce Spoilage

August 28, 2018

TeleSense’s proprietary sensor collects data about the condition of grains in storage to detect nonoptimal storage conditions and reduce spoilage.

AgriWebb raises $10m Series A funding, acquires FarmWizard from Wheatsheaf

August 20, 2018

The deal includes the acquisition of FarmWizard, an established UK livestock management software company from Wheatsheaf the previous owner; the investment was part cash and part equity transfer.

Full Harvest Raises $8.5m Series A for Food Waste Marketplace

August 15, 2018

Full Harvest says it is the only business-to-business marketplace for the end-to-end purchase, sale, and logistics of surplus and imperfect produce.

UK Livestock Disease Test Startup PBD Biotech Secures £400k Funding for Global Trials

August 14, 2018

The company’s development, called Actiphage, is aimed at a group of diseases caused by mycobacteria, including bovine TB which has already resulted in the slaughter of over 30,000 cattle in the UK and cost the British taxpayer more than £100m

AgFunder Invests in Foodtech Startup Chinova Bioworks’ $2m Round With DSM, Rhapsody

August 9, 2018

Chinova Bioworks has discovered a natural preservative for food and beverages using chitosan from mushrooms that can be customized for individual food and beverage companies.

Flagship’s latest venture Inari raises $40m Series B to ‘transform plant breeding’

August 9, 2018

The startup told AgFunderNews it will be using gene editing technology, including CRISPR Cas-9; it has CRISPR Cas-9’s inventor Jennifer Doudna on its board of directors.