A bumper week of fundings as we catch up from the holidays offer a diverse look at the types of startups innovating in the food and ag space today.
The recent backing of Irish AI startup Nuritas by rock band U2 got us to thinking which other food and agtech startups have raised funding from celebrities. Here’s a list of 39 we found.
A busy week of fundings as the year draws to a close includes food safety technology, insect farming, food waste technology, Indian supply chain technology and more.
This funding marks Commercial Drone Fund’s fourth investment, but its first foray into ag-focused drone technologies.
This week’s fundings range from a robot weeder manufacturer to an indoor ag company using shipping containers to a company producing smart plant pots.
This values the company at $117 million making AgriProtein not only one of the best-funded insect farming businesses globally with around $30 million raised to-date but the most valuable, according to its founders.
Catch up on a diversified week of fundings in the food and agtech market as things start to heat up as we approach the end of the year.
French startup Algama raised a $3.76 million venture round led by Hong Kong billionaire Li-Ka Shing’s venture arm Horizons Ventures as algae continues to make new waves with diversified uses.
A busy week of fundings includes startups from the biologicals, cannabis, poultry, livestock monitoring, and food delivery sectors.
Decisive Farming recently raised $6 million in Series A funding and focuses on one key area to keep the competition at bay.
A varied week of agtech fundings includes a food waste-to-biofertilizer company, a leading global private equity firm, an Irish startup using artificial intelligence to find healthy peptides, a precision ag software startup, and more.
A bumper week for agtech fundings includes a diverse mix of cannabis tech, nutrition tech, food e-commerce, weather monitoring, and indoor agriculture.
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?
Brightfarms, the greenhouse operator, closed a $30.1 million Series C led by growth equity firm Catalyst Investors and joined by existing investors WP Global Partners
Blue Prairie Brands, a startup producing chicory flour to replace white flour in food, has raised $6 million in Series A funding.
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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!
