Reddit Cofounder & Joe Montana Invest in $6m Seed Round for Stealthy iUNU
August 22, 2017
The round sees iUNU come out of stealth for the first time since pivoting from a plasma lighting business to greenhouse tech.
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Ag Industry Brief: $2m Cannabis Tech Raise, Organic Hydroponics, NAFTA, more
August 18, 2017
Green Bits, a point of sale software provider for the cannabis industry has raised $2.2 million from Casa Verde Capital, land grant deans defend NAFTA, and no consensus on organic hydroponics.
3Bar Raises $2m Seed Round for Biologicals With Unique Delivery
August 16, 2017
3Bar creates yield-boosting biologicals delivered in a unique container that allows the user to activate the microbes just before application, increasing the effectiveness of the product.
Disruptive Crop Insurance Startup Crop Pro Raises $8m from Agtech VCs
August 8, 2017
Cro Pro, which claims to be the first VC-backed insurer to be approved to offer federally-backed policies, aims to promote agtech adoption through unique private, agtech insurance products.
Syngenta Ventures Invests in Premier Crop Systems After Months of Trials with Software
July 26, 2017
Syngenta Ventures has acquired a minority stake in Premier Crop Systems (PCS), a Des Moines, Iowa based agronomic software tool in a growth equity investment round.
Prospera Raises $15m Series B from Qualcomm and Cisco for Ag IoT
July 25, 2017
Israeli digital ag startup Prospera has raised a $15 million Series B round for its end-to-end internet of things platform using AI and computer vision for indoor and outdoor farms.
TPG ART Invests in Brazilian Digital Ag Startup Solinftec
July 24, 2017
Global private equity group TPG has invested in Brazilian digital ag company Solinftec through its Alternative and Renewable Technologies growth equity platform TPG ART.
SoftBank Invests in Largest Ever Agtech Deal, a $200m Series B for Indoor Ag Startup Plenty
July 19, 2017
SoftBank has invested in Plenty, a vertical farming startup in California, to help the company expand into new markets and crops.
Commercial Grasshopper Farmer Hargol Foodtech Raises $600k Seed Round
July 14, 2017
According to the founder, Hargol is the only active, commercial-scale grasshopper farm in the world and consumer products customers are clamoring to get this traditional protein source.
Indian Dairy IoT Technology Stack Stellapps Raises Series A
July 13, 2017
Stellapps offers data collection and analytics to every piece of the dairy supply chain with the aim of improving the productivity, and quality of milk, and producing transparent data both for and about the dairy industry.
Poultry Manure-to-Fuel Biz BHSL Raises $7.9m, Acquires Hydro International
June 28, 2017
The company says its technology is transforming poultry production by turning a cost center — dealing with waste manure — into a source of fuel, thereby driving farm profitability through reduced energy bills.
Aphea.Bio Raises $10m in Series A and Grant Funding for Microbial Soil Technology
June 26, 2017
The startup spun out of Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), the life sciences research institute founded by the Flemish Government in 1995, and raised all the funding from local Belgian investors.
Protix Raises $50m in Largest Insect Farming Investment on Record
June 14, 2017
Protix farms insects predominantly for animal and aquaculture feed, and has cracked the scalability challenge, according to new investors.
Bowery Farming Raises $20m Series A to Hire and Expand
June 14, 2017
Founder Irving Fain told AgFunderNews that the first priority for the new funds will be staffing up.
Brief: Freight Farms Raises $7.3m Series B Round For Shipping Container Tech
June 8, 2017
Freight Farms, the startup growing lettuce inside shipping containers, has completed its Series B funding round on $7.3 million.
American Robotics Raises $1.1m Seed for Turn-Key Ag Drone Solution Still in Stealth
May 25, 2017
The round was led by angel investors and included Brain Robotics Capital, a fund focused on AI, robotics, and IoT.
Five Startups Win Accelerator Backing to Fight Food Insecurity, Waste, and Unsustainable Food Systems
May 25, 2017
The Good Kitchen, launched last year as Europe’s first accelerator program for social startup businesses tackling food issues, will award low-interest loans to the startups to get their businesses off the ground.
SwineTech Raises $1.3m Series A to Stop Sows Crushing their Piglets
May 24, 2017
80 million piglets were crushed to death by their mothers in the US last year. SwineTech is hoping to significantly reduce that number with its new technology.
Farming2020 Marks a Major Shift for the New Zealand Agtech Ecosystem
May 22, 2017
New Zealand’s agtech sector is in robust health with great deal flow opportunities for international, as well as domestic, investors. But the country lacks a coherent story that articulates our strengths in this space, writes Peter Wren-Hilton.
Agtech Funding Sheet: Startups Raise Nearly $130m in 2 Weeks
May 11, 2017
Solyent, Thymox, Propel, Hectare Agritech, Smart Earth Seeds, Taranis, Abundant, Calysta, Ceres, and Territory have all raised funding in the past two weeks.
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