Norway AgriTech: Punching Above its Weight
During this year’s World Agritech Innovation Summit in London, five out of the 13 startups showcased were Norwegian. Why does this small mountain nation have so many technology ideas?
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Norwegian Aquaculture Feed Optimization Startup CageEye Raises Funding from Aqua-Spark
CageEye’s echo-sounder technology uses software and hardware to track acoustic data in a fish cage, while relying on machine learning to measure and analyze biomass movements.
UPDATE: Umitron Increases Seed Funding Round for Aquaculture Automation Tech to $11m
Umitron, an Asian startup using satellite imagery, IoT, and automation to increase the efficiency of offshore aquaculture, raised the funding from the Japanese government and a Japanese venture capital firm.
AgriFood News Aggregator: Chowbotics Raises $11m, IoT for Food Safety, Millennial Food, Driverless Tractors, more
The AgriFood News Aggregator features headlines from around the globe collected on AgFunder’s news sharing platform #feedit each week. Have news to share? Post it here and engage, share, and debate with your peers.
UPDATE: Aquaculture Startup Ecosystem Takes a Step Forward with New Accelerator
The Hatch accelerator will start its first cohort this spring and CEO Carsten Krome says the effort is a response to the holes he has seen in the current ecosystem for aquaculture technology startups.
Cargill Launches Second Tool in New Digital Suite, Targeting Aquaculture
Cargill has launched a new digital platform for aquaculture, the second platform in a suite of digital tools announced in October.
Ag Industry Brief: New Venture Fund Eschews NY, CA Startups, Trump to Address Farm Bureau, End of Year M&A, more
J.D. Vance, author of "Hillbilly Elegy" and former Peter Thiel employee, will lead the $150 million Rise of the Rest fund aimed at startups in cities outside California, Massachusetts, and New York, plus more in our weekly brief.
Algae is Poised to Become a Mainstream Food Ingredient if Supply Can Keep Up With Demand
Algae in various forms can be integrated into a wide array of foods and beverages, ranging from veggie shakes and smoothies to meal replacements and the growth potential is limited only by the capacity to establish a robust, ever-expanding supply chain.
Aquaculture Fund Aqua-Spark Moves Beyond Farms and Feed With Two New Investments
Aqua-Spark has finalized two investments this week that signal the fund dedicated to the future of aquaculture is moving beyond farms and feed.
Who are the Leading Insect Farming Startups?
Since 2014, insect startups raised $124 million. Of this, $4.2 million went to companies creating consumer products for human consumption - the rest went to insect farming operations.
Ag Industry Brief: Anheuser-Busch Partners with Agrible, Fish2.0 Announces Finalists, New Aussie Accelerator Launches, more
Fish 2.0, the business competition for sustainable seafood-focused innovations, announced the 40 companies that will pitch to investors November 7–8 during the Fish 2.0 Innovation Forum at Stanford University.
Aquaponics Operation Raises $6.5m in Series A and USDA-backed Debt
The company will soon break ground on a 117-acre property in Boynton Beach, Florida, which contains a 55-acre man-made lake where the firm will operate a “de-coupled” aquaponics system.
Report: Algae Market to Reach $45bn by 2023
After gaining “superfood" status, the market for algae could reach up to $44.7bn by 2023, according to a new report.
Protix Raises $50m in Largest Insect Farming Investment on Record
Protix farms insects predominantly for animal and aquaculture feed, and has cracked the scalability challenge, according to new investors.
Agtech Funding Sheet: Startups Raise Nearly $130m in 2 Weeks
Solyent, Thymox, Propel, Hectare Agritech, Smart Earth Seeds, Taranis, Abundant, Calysta, Ceres, and Territory have all raised funding in the past two weeks.
Aquaculture Feed Innovator Calysta Completes $40m Series D With Temasek & Mitsui
The financing will enable the business to achieve commercial scale manufacturing of its FeedKind protein, which is an alternative feed ingredient for fish, livestock and pet nutritional products.
Aquaculture’s $100bn Feed Challenge Presents Big Opportunity for Entrepreneurs
The search is on for a sustainable alternative to the 30 million tons of wild caught fish that are currently used to feed farmed fish.
AgFunder Joins KPMG & Bosch to Invest in The Yield’s $6.5m Series A
The Yield is an Australian microclimate sensing, IoT and predictive analytics startup for aquaculture and agriculture.
Agtech Funding Sheet: Leonardo DiCaprio Invests in LoveTheWild, ProducePay Raises $7m Series A, more
LoveTheWild, the Boulder-based frozen seafood brand that only sources farmed fish, has closed an undisclosed Series A round of funding with Leonardo DiCaprio and seafood-focused venture capital fund Aqua-Spark.
Microalgae-based Aquaculture Vaccine Tech Wins Nutreco Feed Tech Challenge
MicroSynbiotiX, a startup creating a novel oral delivery process for fish, has won the Nutreco Feed Tech Challenge.