Welcome to another AgFunderNews’ Fundings in Brief, including food and agriculture technology funding news and industry insight from the week.
BrightFarms raised the capital from a combination of venture capital firms, family offices and individual investors.
Spensa Tech raised the capital to scale up its pest detection hardware and to develop its software platform.
Welcome to another weekly news roundup with AgFunderNews. One of this week’s biggest stories is machinery giant Deere & Company’s purchase of Precision Planting from Monsanto.
The meal kit delivery company is the latest food e-commerce company to raise venture funding and comes at the same time as HelloFresh, arguably the leader in the space, plans an IPO.
Investment in food and agriculture will reach more than $4 billion by the end of the year, according to a recent report from Dutch banking group Rabobank.
Welcome to another week of Fundings in Brief with AgFunderNews, with news from Syngenta, Lariat Partners and an interesting fact about bats in ag.
The startup is building a database of healthy peptides found in agriculture byproducts for use in the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and supplement markets.
Chris Baggott, the serial entrepreneur and co-founder of two major marketing software programs, has turned his attention to food and agriculture with the creation of two new startups.
Singapore and China ventures Honestbee and Womai have joined the food e-commerce boom with $215m in combined funding this month.
Phyto Partners, a new investment firm from Florida focused on making investments into the growing legal cannabis industry, has invested into business intelligence and data provider New Frontier.
Private equity and M&A activity in the ag industry continues as a Chinese conglomerate invests into an Israeli agtech company, and Syngenta acquires a farm management software tool.
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.
The plant-based alternative meat producer has so far raised $17m towards its Series E from one VC as funding for the sector grows.
Agtech VC veteran Finistere led a $3.4m investment round into food discovery app ShopWell alongside S2G Ventures and other VCs.
Welcome to another addition of AgFunderNews’ weekly roundup. Drones are back in the news, PE investors exited a Scottish shellfish company and an organic frozen fruit brand for $600m, and the World Bank’s IFC has invested in BigBasket.com
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.
The San Francisco startup is providing fresh, healthy alternatives to the unhealthy snacks that currently dominate vending machines.
Brooklyn-headquartered Farmigo is offering consumers an opportunity to buy local produce online while India’s PepperTap raised $36m Series B from investors including India’s Amazon, SnapDeal.
Ambronite, a Finnish food tech startup producing organic meal replacement drinks, or “drinkable supermeals”, is the latest alternative food technology company to attract high profile investor interest.
