Fundings-in-Brief Weekly: AeroFarms Raises $20m Series B from Global Investors, more
Startups focused on food technology, ag biotech, GPS navigation and food e-commerce make up this week’s Fundings-in-Brief.
Startups focused on food technology, ag biotech, GPS navigation and food e-commerce make up this week’s Fundings-in-Brief.
USAID, the Government of Sweden, the Government of Germany, Duke Energy Corporation, and the United States Overseas Private Investment Corporation have pledged a total of $47m to clean energy projects for agriculture.
Paine & Partners acquired the Australian pest control business through its fourth fund as industry insiders discuss the development of the ag biological industry.
The Californian startup is aiming to manufacture alternative dairy products with better nutritional and taste values than others on the market, according to co-founder Dr Neil Renninger.
This week’s news-in-brief covers the launch of a new crop-spraying drone, a $20m commitment by New Zealand to combat agricultural emissions, and agribusiness PE fund Arlon leads sugar business M&A.
The Spanish crop protection company raised funding from Monsanto, Middleland, Spanish investment firm Caixa Capital Risc, and biotech company Novozymes, to expand its product line.
Harvest Power wants to develop the organic food waste sector in the US through the expansion of its anaerobic digesters and consumer-facing soil supplement products.
Food processing technology provider 915 Labs recently closed a $3 million seed round. Here CEO Michael Locatis tells AgFunderNews more about the company.
This week’s industry news brief includes M&A news, a food e-commerce IPO, weather technology capital raising, a $46m farmland sale, and regulatory developments for the US food industry.
Cultivian Sandbox led the round as Descartes Labs focuses on providing agriculture insights and global crop production forecasts to a range of stakeholders.
goFARM Australia, the agriculture investment firm backed by the Costa Group, drew parallels between SWIIM’s technology and process, and Australia’s well-managed water entitlements system.
KKR has invested into Yuehai Feed Group through its China Growth Fund in the firm’s fifth agriculture-related investment in China.
Welcome to another AgFunderNews’ Fundings in Brief, including food and agriculture technology funding news and industry insight from the week.
BrightFarms raised the capital from a combination of venture capital firms, family offices and individual investors.
Spensa Tech raised the capital to scale up its pest detection hardware and to develop its software platform.
Welcome to another weekly news roundup with AgFunderNews. One of this week’s biggest stories is machinery giant Deere & Company’s purchase of Precision Planting from Monsanto.
The meal kit delivery company is the latest food e-commerce company to raise venture funding and comes at the same time as HelloFresh, arguably the leader in the space, plans an IPO.
Investment in food and agriculture will reach more than $4 billion by the end of the year, according to a recent report from Dutch banking group Rabobank.
Welcome to another week of Fundings in Brief with AgFunderNews, with news from Syngenta, Lariat Partners and an interesting fact about bats in ag.
The startup is building a database of healthy peptides found in agriculture byproducts for use in the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and supplement markets.