Food waste is starting to get the attention it deserves. It remains one of the biggest problems affecting the global food system and is particularly troublesome in the United States.
CropX, the Israeli irrigation and sensor technology company, has raised a further $1 million towards its Series A round from strategic investors Robert Bosch Venture Capital and the Flextronics technology accelerator Lab IX.
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There was no lack of new innovations and ideas at the conference in Brooklyn, New York today, but there were clear challenges in scaling sustainable, local food products and technologies.
FreshSurety, which is using IoT to report real-time freshness, location, and temperature of food, and Plasma Nutrition are two startups receiving $50k each.
An organic, vegan food delivery service, a Spanish e-grocer, and a social impact-focused meal delivery company are some of this week’s fundings as the food e-commerce segment shows no signs of slowing.
The Californian start-up raised the Series B funding from names such as Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures and Campbell Soup Company.
Meadow is a Y Combinator alumnus and raised the funding from an impressive line-up of mainstream tech entrepreneurs and investors.
Leading seed accelerator Y Combinator featured five agtech startups at its recent Demo Day. Here some of them discuss the benefits of the program.
A busy week of fundings includes wastewater treatment tech, drones, satellite imagery, food e-commerce, precision agriculture, and biopesticide startups.
Marc Benioff, founder and CEO of Salesforce joined the round led by OurCrowd and Eshbol Investments.
The round takes BigBasket’s total funding to over $230m as investors question the unit economics of the food e-commerce sector overall.
Microbiome Innovation Startup Pivot Bio Raises $16m Series A The microbiome is a hot topic among agtech entrepreneurs and investors at the moment as research
A new venture capital firm focused on investing in plant and culture-based meat, egg and dairy alternatives has closed a $25 million fund.
Whole Foods and Instacart have also extended their partnership on the platform, as Indian food tech company Jolly Good Fellow aims to close the gap between vendors and consumers.
Surterra’s willingness to take on some risk by building its first facility before getting initial license approval last November is one of the main reasons it is the first to start growing cannabis.
A follow-on financing for an animal health company, and an insect protein Series A are two of this week’s fundings-in-brief.
Pontifax Food and Agriculture Technology Fund, a private equity fund targeting $200m overall, has launched under the umbrella of Israeli life sciences venture capital firm Pontifax.
The rapper and endurance athlete are likely to endorse Exo’s products along with their investment.
Heat Genie’s $2.36m funding round through SeedInvest headlines this week’s fundings-in-brief.
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