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Brief: Gates Foundation leads $707m investment in Dutch e-grocer Picnic

September 17, 2021

Picnic dispatches groceries from strategically located, automated hubs to its customers’ doorsteps using electric minivans.

Provivi raises $10m from Gates Foundation to bring insect pheromone tech to smallholder farmers

February 24, 2021

Provivi will use the funds to sell its pheremone-based pest control products to smallholder farmers in Kenya, Bangladesh, and India at cost.

Gates Foundation leads crop protection startup Enko’s $45 million Series B round

June 26, 2020

The Woburn, Mass.-based startup uses pharmaceutical discovery techniques to advance promising modes of action for fighting crop pests.

Gates Foundation Invests in Dairy Tech Stellapps $14m Series B, First in India

May 31, 2018

This is the first equity investment by the Gates Foundation in India, highlighting the importance of modernizing India’s dairy sector, according to Mark Kahn, partner of Omnivore.

AgTech Accelerator Launches First Startup Bringing Gates Foundation to Boragen $10m Series A

March 2, 2017

Boragen’s technology, which is licensed from Penn State University, is initially focusing on next generation, synthetic fungicides using a technology with a novel mode of action.

Gates Foundation Awards $6.1m Grant to Danforth Center for Sorghum Research

January 25, 2017

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a three-year, $6.1 million grant to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center to expand and accelerate the development and deployment of improved varieties of sorghum for smallholder farmers.

Q&A: Gates Foundation’s Christian Witt on Using Open Innovation in Agriculture

January 6, 2017

We caught up with Christian Witt from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ahead of his speaking slot at the Rothamsted Open Innovation Forum in the UK.

Ag Industry Brief: AgBiome Scores Gates Foundation Grant, EU Agrifood Accelerator Launches, Alphabet Considers Food Delivery, more

December 9, 2016

AgBiome has received another grant from the Gates Foundation while a European accelerator plans to spend $1.26m on agri-food startups and Alphabet is planning to use drones to deliver food.

How Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Invests in Agtech

March 1, 2016

Agricultural development is one of the biggest initiatives for the foundation. Here Vipula Shukla, senior program officer for agriculture, speak about the foundation’s approach to agtech investing.

AgBiome announces heavyweight investors in big Series A

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Makes First Agtech Investment in AgBiome’s $34.5m Series B

August 20, 2015

The biological crop protection startup is the first agtech equity investment by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which will look at all technologies that can play a role in increasing productivity for smallholder farmers, a spokesperson told AgFunderNews.

He says it’s not about climate. So why is Bill Gates investing in farmland?

August 27, 2021

Gates isn’t the only one to have recognized that farmland investments can lead to solid returns.

Bill Gates tells Reddit why he’s bought so much farmland

March 22, 2021

The Microsoft co-founder commented on the acquisitions for the first time since he and wife Melinda were revealed as the top private farmland owners in the US earlier this year.

Close-up Of Researcher Inspecting Meat Sample In Laboratory, from iStock

Brief: ‘All rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef,’ says Bill Gates

February 16, 2021

Promoting his new book on climate change technologies, the Microsoft co-founder said plant-based protein makers Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are “totally competitive.”

Gates can create world’s biggest agrifoodtech testbed, but needs to win over farmers first

February 11, 2021

Research released last month indicates that Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda own the largest share of farmland in the US.

Seattle, Wash. United States – December 8, 2014: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the largest private charities in the world. The aims of the Foundation include enhancing health care, reducing extreme poverty and expanding educational opportunities.

Brief: Bill & Melinda Gates revealed as largest private farmland owners in US

January 14, 2021

The Gates’ have also invested in numerous agrifoodtech startups, either through their private foundation or via other investment vehicles.

Gates-Backed Ricult Raises $1.85m to Improve Smallholder Farmer Profitability with Digital Tech Platform

June 19, 2018

“I’m a firm believer that you need to address the entire value chain,” says Usman Javaid, CEO of Ricult.

Ag Industry Brief: Gates Puts $40m Behind Livestock Vaccinations, Kroger Courts Alibaba, New John Deere Partners, more

January 26, 2018

Bill Gates invests $40 million in livestock health research through a Scottish non-profit, Kroger wants to challenge Amazon with the help of Alibaba, and more in our weekly brief.

The Week in Agrifoodtech: Umiami grabs $30m for alt-chicken, funding for forest tech grows

April 7, 2022

Elsewhere, the Gates Foundation and Qatar’s development fund pledged $200 million to help African smallholders with climate change adaptation.

Oprah, Katy Perry join GIC to take Apeel Sciences to unicorn status with $250m

May 26, 2020

Founded in 2012 with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Santa Barbara-based startup uses a plant-derived solution to add an extra ‘peel’ to the surface of fruits and vegetables.

How AgBiome develops microbial tech to help African farmers combat sweet potato weevil

September 12, 2019

The sweet potato weevil is a very difficult pest to control and it is a serious pest in Africa. So the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation asked AgBiome if they’d be willing to work on it. They’re now entering phase 2.