France’s Sencrop Closes $10m Series A to Expand Agro-Weather Station Network
January 15, 2019
Sencrop’s Series A marks The Yield Lab’s first French startup investment.
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Coca-Cola Leads $10m Series A for Restaurant Data Tech Startup
December 19, 2018
Omnivore offers a universal point-of-sale connectivity platform that allows hundreds of third-party technologies to integrate seamlessly. It calls itself the “industry standard for POS integration.”
Maersk Invests in ImpactVision’s “Game-Changing” Hyperspectral Imaging Tech for Food System
December 18, 2018
“Several departments and colleagues within Maersk will look forward to exploring opportunities with ImpactVision,” Peter Jorgensen, venture partner at Maersk told AgFunderNews.
Ag Biotech Startups: Hi Fidelity Genetics & PlantResponse Raise Venture Funding Totaling $15.4m
December 13, 2018
This week, two startups using different biotechnological approaches to improve the efficiency of row crop farming, raised venture capital funding totaling $15.4 million.
AI-Powered Digital Grocer Farmstead Raises $2.2m Series A in Mission to Finally Crack Perishable E-Commerce
December 13, 2018
Farmstead claims to be the nation’s first AI-powered digital grocer that sources and delivers fresh, local food from farm to fridge in 60 minutes.
AgFunder Invests in Trace Genomics $13m Series A for First Scalable Soil Microbiome Test
November 15, 2018
Trace Genomics has built the first scalable soil microbiome test to help farmers predict soil disease, soil health, and crop quality, using high-throughput DNA sequencing and machine learning.
Gastrograph AI Closes $4m Series A to Predict Consumer Flavor Preferences of Food & Beverages
November 12, 2018
Gastrograph AI, a predictive analytics technology for food and beverage companies, closed a $4 million Series A round of funding last week. Gastrograph collects data about
How One Veteran’s Personal Journey Sparked the Creation of a Multi-Million Dollar Cannabis Startup
November 8, 2018
“I never consumed cannabis for the first 29 years of my life, Socrates Rosenfeld founder and CEO of Jane Technologies tells AgFunderNews after raising a $6m Series A round of funding.
In Ovo closes Series A to combat male chick culling in egg industry
November 5, 2018
Dutch startup In Ovo has completed a Series A raise with Singapore-based disruptive food system venture fund VisVires New Protein and global specialty chemicals company Evonik.
Ignitia Raises $1.1m Series A to Expand Tropical Weather Forecasting Service to Smallscale Farmers in Nigeria
October 30, 2018
Regardless of where a farmer is located, knowing what Mother Nature may have in store is a key aspect of planning day-to-day management as well as long-term decisionmaking.
Geltor Raises $18.2m for Animal-Free “Designer Collagen”
October 25, 2018
The startup, which has focused on the cosmetics industry for its first product line is set to develop products for the nutraceutical, food and beverage industries too, such as gelatin, a form of collagen often found in sweets.
Norwegian Aquaculture Feed Optimization Startup CageEye Raises Funding from Aqua-Spark
October 23, 2018
CageEye’s echo-sounder technology uses software and hardware to track acoustic data in a fish cage, while relying on machine learning to measure and analyze biomass movements.
SafeTraces Raises Further $10m for Series A from Bunge, S2G for Food Safety and Traceability Tech
October 18, 2018
Since raising the first round of Series A funding, SafeTraces gained particular traction in tracing tropical oils to determine the sustainability of the sourcing practices, and also tracing ammonium nitrate fertilizers that can be used in explosives.
Jeremy Grantham Trust Leads €3.5m Series A for Land Life Company to Reverse Land Degradation
October 16, 2018
Land Life Company is an Amsterdam, Holland-based startup using big data and technology to reverse land degradation.
Wasteless Raises $2m Series A for In-Store Retail Tech Reducing Food Waste
October 10, 2018
Founded in June 2016, Wasteless has developed a proprietary dynamic pricing algorithm for products with a limited expiration date, allowing retailers to create and display discount prices across the demand curve.
Front Range Biosciences Raises $10m Series A in Largest for US Cannabis Sector
October 8, 2018
Front Range Biosciences specializes in tissue culture propagation at industrial scale to ensure that it offers growers pest and disease-free stock.
China’s Tech Giants Drive $1.8bn Investment in Chinese AgriFood Startups – new report!
September 25, 2018
The fledgling startup industry looks different to other global markets with the vast majority of innovation and investment ($1.7 billion) taking place downstream; but China’s agrifood startup scene has something the US market does not.
Treez Raises $11.5m Series A for Cannabis Point of Sale Software
September 20, 2018
“The fundraising process was extremely arduous considering we started our raise over two years ago,” CEO John Yang wrote to AgFunderNews.
EXCLUSIVE: Milk & Eggs Raises $6m Seed Funding for ‘Made-to-Order’ Online Farmers Market
September 19, 2018
Milk & Eggs is different to other online grocers because what’s purchased is made-to-order; it’s like it’s providing people with their own personal farmer, according to the CEO.
Growers Raises $5m Series A for Farm Data Analytics with ‘Software Plus Services’ Business Model
September 12, 2018
Growers Holdings, a digital agriculture software and services startup, has raised $5 million in Series A funding in a round led by US heartland-focused investor Lewis & Clark Ventures.
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