
New Innovation is Key to Growth in the Food Sector
Ahead of FoodBytes! in Boulder and Sydney, Rabobank’s Manuel Gonzalez and Nick Fereday write about the increasing role of innovation in our food chain today.
Ahead of FoodBytes! in Boulder and Sydney, Rabobank’s Manuel Gonzalez and Nick Fereday write about the increasing role of innovation in our food chain today.
Soil and crop technologies led the week with two crop enhancement technologies raising funding in Italy and Africa.
The ag bioinformatics startup for the wine industry will be hiring new staff at its San Francisco and Spain locations to build out its microbial database and global service.
Microbe manufacturing was the name of the game this week with two fundings in the space alongside alternative protein and non-food biomass technologies.
Zymergen is engineering microbes for use across a range of industries including agriculture, and has raised one of agtech’s largest funding rounds to-date.
Tyson’s investment comes just a couple of weeks after an investor coalition worth over $1.2 trillion put pressure on some leading food companies to incorporate more plant-based meat alternatives into their supply chains and consumer products.
The next agricultural revolution is upon us. Entrepreneurs from a wide range of disciplines are innovating at a pace never seen before in the industry. But who’s funding this innovation?
This is Temasek’s 3rd agtech investment in a year.
FreshDirect was the week’s biggest deal, followed by startups from Europe, Israel, and Argentina also raising capital, making this a very diverse week for agtech funding.
Last week, greenhouse operator BrightFarms announced it raised $30 million in Series C funding, the largest US-based controlled environment agriculture investment round on record. But how did it get there?
Indoor agriculture is one of agtech’s smallest subsectors by venture capital funding, but has had some of the market’s biggest deals to-date. What does this say about access to funding?
Brightfarms, the greenhouse operator, closed a $30.1 million Series C led by growth equity firm Catalyst Investors and joined by existing investors WP Global Partners
Crop Enhancement, a startup using what it dubs “sustainable chemistry” to combat crop pests and increase crop yields in the tropics, has raised $8.5 million in Series B funding.
Blue Prairie Brands, a startup producing chicory flour to replace white flour in food, has raised $6 million in Series A funding.
Internet and cellular connectivity, and power are not always luxuries the world’s farmers can rely upon, whether in the US or in Indonesia. Gotham Analytics has a one-stop solution.
The only deal in a quiet week for agtech fundings is Agrivida, a biotech startup in the animal nutrition industry. The startup has raised $20.4
While it’s certainly been slow during the summer, there have been some notable fundings and we don’t want you to have missed them!
One of 2015’s most notable deals, AgBiome’s Series B attracted investment from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. We caught up with John Rabby and Tracy Raines to get an update.
Software for drones provider DroneDeploy has raised $20 million in Series B funding led by tech investment firm Scale Venture Partners and ExactTarget co-founder Scott Dorsey’s fund.
FarmShots Raises Seed Round After just completing the Y Combinator accelerator program, North Carolina-based satellite imagery startup FarmShots has closed a seed round after attracting
I’m drowning in new food! Can someone please restructure me out of this mess?