Surterra’s willingness to take on some risk by building its first facility before getting initial license approval last November is one of the main reasons it is the first to start growing cannabis.
A follow-on financing for an animal health company, and an insect protein Series A are two of this week’s fundings-in-brief.
Pontifax Food and Agriculture Technology Fund, a private equity fund targeting $200m overall, has launched under the umbrella of Israeli life sciences venture capital firm Pontifax.
The rapper and endurance athlete are likely to endorse Exo’s products along with their investment.
Heat Genie’s $2.36m funding round through SeedInvest headlines this week’s fundings-in-brief.
The UK spin out of pharmaceutical company Redx Pharma, is partnering with agrochemical companies to discover new ag chemical compounds.
The New York meal kit delivery service is hoping to differentiate itself in the overheating food e-commerce market.
Two weeks ago Symbiota, an agtech startup researching beneficial microbes for plant growth, changed its name to Indigo. We caught up with Perry to hear more about this and the startup’s $56m Series B.
Monsanto Growth Ventures led the $7.5m round for Understory alongside a Madison, Wisconsin VC firm 4490 Ventures.
Israeli startup Saturas has secured $1 million to develop its precision irrigation sensor technology for permanent crops.
A busy week of fundings brings newly-named Indigo, Understory, American Botanicals and Gaia Herbs to this week’s Fundings-in-Brief
The cricket farming startup is keeping its cards close to its chest when it comes to the technology it’s building but revealed an interesting line-up of investors.
2015 surpassed our mid-year expectations raising $4.6bn across 527 deals and representing 94% year over year growth.
2 Female Agtech Entrepreneurs were selected by their peers to receive investment from VilCap Investments and Radicle Capital.
MicaSense’s $7.4m investment from a drone company and Label Insight’s $10m Series B investment from a global accounting firm are just two of this week’s Fundings-in-Brief.
Co-founder and CEO of the cultured meat startup Memphis Meats talks to AgFunderNews about the company’s history and challenges ahead.
The biotech startup is tackling one of the biggest bacterial menaces plaguing the global dairy cattle industry.
Cool Planet, the biocarbon and biofuel producer, has raised $9 million in extra funding to commercialize its soil amendment product CoolTerra, which just earned a USDA Certified Biobased Product Label.
The soil sensor company recently launched its precision irrigation product WaterValve and is expanding into Japan with strategic help.
AgriSync has created a two-way video app with a built-in dashboard to help farmers better communicate with their advisors.
