Farming is expensive and the payout isn’t always guaranteed, but DeHaat hopes to soften the financial stress for its members with new offerings like credit and insurance.
Europe’s agrifood tech ecosystem raised just 9% of the funding that went to foodtech and agtech startups globally in 2018. But deal activity increased 23% as agrifood tech startups in the region closed a similar number of deals as in the US.
The startup has an SaaS platform that provides users with forward-looking views of commodity markets that they can translate into actionable business decisions.
The indoor ag software developer has also added former Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan to its Board of Directors.
Red Sea Farms, a Saudi Arabian startup developing saltwater-tolerant crops and saltwater-based greenhouses in the Middle East, has secured $1.9 million in funding. The startup
Aleph Farms claimed in December 2018 that it was the first company to demonstrate that it can grow steak directly from bovine cells without harming the cow.
Many Kenyan farms struggle for access to quality farming products like vaccines, fertilizers or diagnostic equipment; the farmers also find it hard to attain or acquire sound veterinary or technical expertise, according to Sidai.
Retail and restaurant tech is a category of agrifood tech startups encompassing technologies and services aimed at making retail food businesses more profitable as well
With food delivery startups becoming more popular than ever, restaurants are turning to technologies like food-focused POS systems to keep pace with the rapidly rising digital tide.
Flitt is an online matchmaking platform for food producers, traders and transport providers.
Animal health startup Applied LifeSciences & Systems (ALSS) closed an $8 million Series A round of equity financing co-led by Merck Animal Health and Mountain
**UPDATED: MARCH 27, 13:55 ET. Added additional Aqua-Spark investment announced today, and corrected Aqua-Spark’s assets under management to €72.5m** BioFishency, an aquaculture filtration technology startup,
iUNU hopes to take some of the manual data-entry aspects of greenhouse operation into the 21st century by automating as much of the process as possible.
Motif will focus on providing food companies with ingredients for their growing alternative protein product lines in the plant-based and meat alternative space. It will also use Ginkgo’s science and technology to design and engineer new cells to develop other new food formats.
Former Climate Corp CEO David Friedberg has invested in Tillable through his investment holding company The Production Board.
Microbiome data analytics company Phylagen has raised a $14 million Series A round led by Peter Thiel-backed Breakout Ventures, agrifood tech venture pioneer Cultivian Sandbox, supply
ADM Ventures is purposeful about the types of companies it considers investing in.
Animal health technologies are coming into focus this year after largely lagging crop technologies in startup investment.
The Colorado-based startup is targeting big players in the food system to recapture lost food at scale while offering end-to-end logistics. It closed this top-up ahead of a larger Series B in the near future.
Until now, the Tel Aviv-based startup has been operating in stealth mode, honing its technology and accelerating adoption of its service with a clandestine list of clients including large-scale citrus growers.
