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.
Hortau raised the capital from a mix of US and Canadian investors to fund expansion and development.
*Agrible recently brought on new investor Flyover Capital to close out its Series A. The deal first closed in July 2015 with Serra Ventures and ADM. This is an updated version of a post that was first published on July 22, 2015.
Microsoft and the USDA have announced the winners of their Innovation Challenge, a competition tasking entrepreneurs with making good use of the USDA’s recently-released data.
The agtech startup accelerator, which already has five companies in its portfolio from the 2015 cohort, selected six businesses ranging from gene technologies to frozen fish eggs.
A $110m financing for a refrigerated warehouse, a microbiome research company’s Series B funding and ChemChina’s continued bid for Syngenta contribute to this week’s fundings-in-brief.
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.
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The Canadian ag big data company raised the funding from existing investors to extend the reach of its hardware and software business.
Investment rounds by startups in the UK, Singapore, and the US contributed to the week’s funding volumes.
The ag data software company released three new services in 2015.
The seed treatment company raised the majority of the funding from an Australian agriculture producer.
Japan’s Planet Table closes $850k Series A, India’s FreshMenu raises $16.5 million, while Lok Capital and Aspada Investment Company invest in supply chain tech.
The food waste-to-fertilizer startup is constructing its first commercial scale facility in Sacramento after signing a food supply agreement with a local supermarket.
Indian business incubator CIIE, which was responsible for India’s first agtech accelerator, contributed to the funding round alongside two angel investors.
Grownetics raised funding from cannabis-focused VC Phyto Partners to expand its early stage sensor and data analytics technology.
MGV has revealed its portfolio of agtech investments to AgFunderNews ranging from precision agriculture technologies to life science companies, ag biologicals, and new crops and new business models.
The family office invested in the Series B round of MJ Freeway, a cannabis tracking software provider, as food e-commerce companies in Asia continued to raise funds.
The Israeli sensor and data analysis startup is one of few using dendrometers to measure water stress in plants.
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