AgFunder impact fund leads Mayani’s $1.7m seed round to scale Filipino farm and fisheries produce marketplace
January 27, 2023
Operating both a B2B and B2C marketplace, Mayani has nearly 140,000 fish farmers on its platform.
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Pyramidia Ventures: a “founder on steroids” building agrifood x climate tech startups in Africa
January 12, 2023
Pyramidia Ventures is taking an alternative approach to venture capital to help solve Kenya’s pressing food security and climate change challenges.
Data snapshot: Novel Farming Systems in APAC are growing far beyond leafy greens
January 11, 2023
As demand for greater food security and traceability increases, so too will the size of the rounds for Novel Farming Systems in APAC.
Aquaconnect raises $15m to digitize India’s aquaculture supply chain for smallholder farmers
December 20, 2022
Aquaconnect will use the new capital to build up its product portfolio for both pre-harvest and post-harvest services for the aquaculture industry.
BREAKING: AquaBounty in murky water after accusations of safety violations at GM salmon plant
October 25, 2022
A former employee shares evidence of violations ranging from mishandled chemicals to unsafe water at the genetically modified salmon factory.
How Kenya’s Neruva Technologies’ ecocapsules are bringing food production to urban markets
September 14, 2022
Neruva Technologies is a Kenyan-based startup that’s leveraging indoor farming to simplify agriculture and bring food production to urban markets.
Nutreco buys Indian aquatech Eruvaka for $40m-$50m in exit for Omnivore
August 4, 2022
The Netherlands-based animal and fish feed producer has acquired close to 94% in Indian aquatech company Eruvaka as impact fund Omnivore and Eruvaka team exit.
Meet the founder: Marica Quarsingh of Sea-Stematic on creating the ‘Tesla of Seafood’
July 22, 2022
Marica Quarsingh calls her cell-cultured seafood startup, Sea-Stematic, the “Tesla of seafood” to communicate how seafood should be produced: sustainably and with the right market insights.
Tepbac deploys software & IoT to boost Vietnam’s shrimp farming sector
July 22, 2022
The startup provides automation software, connected hardware devices, and an e-commerce platform to create efficiencies for the local industry.
Brief: Nanobubble startup Moleaer raises $40m to make water more impactful for agri and aquaculture
June 14, 2022
Moleaer will use its Series C funding to increase the availability of its proprietary nanobubble equipment and address water shortages.
Why Japan’s Norinchukin Bank invested in AgFunder’s $100m agrifoodtech fund
June 7, 2022
Norichukin Bank recently joined the first close of AgFunder’s $100m Fund IV as a limited partner to advance Japan’s agriculture, fisheries, and forestry industries.
Kenya’s Victory Farms nets $5m as it edges towards precision fish farming
May 27, 2022
Victory Farms, East Africa’s largest commercial fish farmer, is setting its sights further afield in DRC, Tanzania and Rwanda.
Black soldier fly farmer Inseco raises $5.3m in South Africa’s ‘largest-ever seed round’
April 27, 2022
It’s raising the insects on organic byproducts such as food waste, before converting them into proteins and oils for use in animal feed.
Q&A: VestedWorld’s Euler Bropleh on the opportunity of investing in ‘the basics’ in Africa
January 26, 2022
Chicago-based impact investment fund VestedWorld has supported more than 20 African startups addressing critical social and market needs, like improving cost and value chain for food.
Q&A: Upward Farms wants to attract more microbes to vertical ag environments
January 24, 2022
Co-founder and CEO Jason Green discusses its new 250,000-square-foot facility and the importance of the microbiome.
Indonesian aquatech startup eFishery nets $90m in Sequoia, SoftBank-led Series C
January 10, 2022
The Bandung-based startup plans to launch into other major fish and shrimp farming markets, including China and India.
Data Snapshot: Bowery’s $300m round tops H1 2021 Novel Farming Systems deals
November 10, 2021
Novel Farming Systems ventures raised a total of $911 million in funding during the first six months of the year, according to AgFunder data.
Norway’s OptoScale nets $4.1m to grow its fish farm monitoring tech
October 13, 2021
The Trondheim-based startup believes it’s differentiated by its use of on-site edge processing, rather than relying on cloud computing.
The potential of tilapia aquaculture in sub-Saharan Africa
October 11, 2021
Tilapia farming can help feed sub-Saharan Africa’s booming population. But investment in everything from basic infrastructure to technology is needed first.
The ocean is a $100tln market opportunity
October 7, 2021
The ocean industry could be as big as the burgeoning space industry so long as investment and innovation are focused on sustainability, writes guest author Tony Chen.
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