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.
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.
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?
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!
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
Two startups working on food safety and traceability technologies raised funding this week.
There’s no doubt that agriculture technology, as a sector of innovation, is having a moment. But how will agritech investment play out over the long term?
Investment into agriculture technology startups fell 20% year-over-year in the first half of 2016, as 307 funding deals collected $1.75 billion. At the same time, deal activity increased 7% and the number of unique investors increased 52% year-over-year.
A bumper edition of fundings-in-brief includes bioinsecticides, precision ag, cannabis, lots of food e-commerce, and biotech.
Israeli Computer Vision Startup Prospera Closes $7m Series A Prospera, an Israeli startup using computer vision, data science, and machine learning to monitor and analyze
AgriWebb is one of very few big data startups focusing on the livestock sector.
Cultivation Capital Leads $1.2m Round in Data Analytics Startup S4, New Wave Foods Closes Seed Round for Seafood Alternative, and Innit Raises $18m for Connected Food Platform in this week’s Fundings-in-Brief.
New Wave Foods CEO is confident about the potential for her shrimp alternative to sustainably disrupt the conventional shrimp market at affordable prices.
Motorleaf has built a smart and automated indoor farming operating system, consisting of hardware devices and software analytics, for cannabis and produce growers.
Wimbledon champion Andy Murray has invested in UK startup Hectare Agritech, which is the manager of two agriculture trading platforms: SellMyLivestock, and Graindex.