Each year, the research team at AgFunder releases the most comprehensive foodtech and agtech investment research report out there: the annual, and global, AgFunder AgriFoodTech Investment Report.
The report is the result of a large collective effort, starting with our team and including contributions from a growing number of partners across the world. It represents a comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of global investment activity in the foodtech and agtech startup industry.
It’s a lot of hard work. We start with a feed from Crunchbase where our machine learning models, trained on nearly 10 years of research, help us to identify all the agrifoodtech investments alongside significant manual curation. We supplement that with data from our partners, other public data and news outlets, and the industry’s venture capital firms, to identify and categorize all deals in our sector with an unparalleled global reach.
Even so, deals can be missed and so we need your help to ensure our report continues to be the most comprehensive.
Support our team’s efforts to make sure your deals count!
The easiest way to ensure your agrifoodtech investment deals are included in our report is to add them directly to Crunchbase.
Crunchbase is an amazing service that uses crowdsourcing to collect data, which are then verified by its army of data geeks. To add your deals, you just need to create a free login (even easier if you use a social media account and link it to that) and then either add an investment deal to a current startup profile or create a new profile if the company has not yet been added.
More detailed instructions on submitting a funding round and a company profile to Crunchbase can be found here and here respectively. You can also add your investors to an existing round; instructions here.
Our in-house software will then pull these data from Crunchbase into our report. If you’re concerned about confidentiality, you can choose which details to include and which to withhold.
If, for any reason, this doesn’t work for you, you can also send your deal information directly to Crunchbase via [email protected]. We are sure their team will happily help. And you’re also welcome to email us at [email protected] — highlighting any details you want to remain confidential — and we will update them for you. But considering the vast number of deals to curate every year, submitting directly to Crunchbase will be safer.
A reminder of what’s included in our reports
- Investments in technology companies targeting the food and agriculture sector.
- Companies must be impacting or alternating how food and agricultural products are produced, transported, prepared, sold, or consumed.
- They must be private companies or microcaps with a valuation of under $350 million; some startups use a public listing to raise funding on exchanges like AIM when private funding might be more challenging – for example in the cannabis arena – but they still operate like startups unlike the vast majority of publicly-listed enterprises.
- We include equity and venture debt deals from seed stage up to late stage.
- We do not include grants or M&A transactions (except in a separate list). We may plan to report on these types of funding in future reports, so it’s still worth making sure this information is submitted to Crunchbase.
To find out more about our methodology, check out the appendix inside our latest report here.
Our report is our love letter to the ecosystem – help us to share the love and check your Crunchbase profile before *January 6, 2025* to make sure your investments are included.
