The biotechnology company removing the bitter taste from food and drinks has completed its Series A round with a commitment from a Pennsylvanian VC focused on the sector.
Agtech VC veteran Finistere led a $3.4m investment round into food discovery app ShopWell alongside S2G Ventures and other VCs.
AgFunderNews weekly roundup of fundings, M&A, and food and agriculture policy: what got most people talking this week was Impossible Foods’ whopping $108 million Series D round.
An Indonesian grocery delivery business in $12m Series A, an Indian meal delivery service raises $600k and a farmland fund closure are among this week’s fundings in brief.
MycoTechnology closed the first round of its Series A this week on $6.7m but is set to bring on another venture capital investor next week, Alan Hahn, CEO, told AgFunderNews.
Benson Hill Biosystems is developing crop traits to improve photosynthesis using a platform developed out of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center designed to improve the pace of discovery and implementation.
It’s food-first for Snap Kitchen, an Austin, Texas-based startup, which is offering consumers food to satisfy a range of diets, but the startup’s technology offering is gathering pace, co-founder and president Martin Berson tells AgFunderNews.
The fundraising round involved big tech VCs such as Verizon Ventures and Samsung Ventures, but as Filament’s technology continues to develop, the company is seeing an increasing interest from the agricultural community.
The company, which is developing a probiotic formula to resolve a microbial imbalance in some babies’ microbiome, also raised capital from Tate & Lyle Ventures and angel investors.
Ganesh Kishore, managing partner of Spruce Capital Partners, co-manager of MLS Capital Fund II alongside Xeraya Capital, caught up with AgFunderNews to discuss the fund’s first investments and how it identifies opportunities.
Next Millennium Farms and Exo have raised capital for their cricket protein production projects as investors and consumer become more comfortable with the concept.
Deals from the week include a private equity-backed Australian producer’s A$550m IPO, an agriculture fund commitment by Merced County and the Accel Partners-led Series A round of grocery delivery company Opinio in Bangalore.
Zesty, the online healthy food delivery service, will use the proceeds for expansion beyond San Francisco after attracting investment from Founders Fund and Index Ventures.
Smart irrigation company CropX has announced a $9 million Series A round led by Innovation Endeavors, Finistere Ventures, GreenSoil Investments. Prior backer OurCrowd also participated in
Microbial DNA maker Zymergen recently announced a $42M Series A led by Data Collective, with a group of investors participating, including AME Cloud Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurveston,
“Farmers everywhere will tell you that weather and water are the biggest issues,” Travis Bayer, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Asilomar Bio. The company recently closed
VitalFields announced recently that it has secured $1.2 million in Series A funding from an international syndicate of investors, including SmartCap, the investment arm of
