Purdue University launches $2m Ag-celerator program
The university wants to help launch startups from the research conducted on its campus which is focused on advancing crop traits and generating higher yields.
The university wants to help launch startups from the research conducted on its campus which is focused on advancing crop traits and generating higher yields.
Startups focused on food technology, ag biotech, GPS navigation and food e-commerce make up this week’s Fundings-in-Brief.
Paine & Partners acquired the Australian pest control business through its fourth fund as industry insiders discuss the development of the ag biological industry.
The agtech investor’s journey to exit is still unclear. Here are four routes to exit and their challenges as discussed at the World Agri-Tech Investment Summit.
The two agribusinesses are partnering up to develop biological solutions for agriculture with an eye toward commercialization.
The firm’s fourth fund is expecting to announce a first close on $75m in early 2016.
The startup is building a database of healthy peptides found in agriculture byproducts for use in the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and supplement markets.
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.
Phytoption poised to transform the natural additives sector with its solubilizing technology and recently won the BioCrossroads New Venture Competition.
Carl Warner has created a series of short animations depicting agricultural technologies developed in the UK to help combat hunger in developing nations.
The biotech research company expects its engineered “energy” tobacco to outperform other leading biomass feedstocks as a low cost, sustainable alternative to fossil fuels.
Ag-biotech and biologicals took center stage at this year’s Ag Innovation Showcase in St Louis and the event highlighted how biotech and agriculture have morphed into a diverse and exciting area of innovation.
Groundwork BioAg recently announced the close of a Series B round with previous investors ICV in addition to Middleland Capital’s agriculture technology venture fund, SRK
The Ag Innovation Showcase, one of agtech’s first conferences, is in its seventh year, and will feature presentations from its highest number of women-owned startups.
Middleland Capital was joined by public-private venture organization Invest Nebraska in the $750,000 seed round for Blue Prairie, which is developing prebiotic flour from chicory root.
Benson Hill Biosystems is developing crop traits to improve photosynthesis using a platform developed out of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center designed to improve the pace of discovery and implementation.
Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers and Cultivian Sandbox are among a hot list of VCs backing animal nutrition biotech company Agrivida.
The company, which is developing a probiotic formula to resolve a microbial imbalance in some babies’ microbiome, also raised capital from Tate & Lyle Ventures and angel investors.
Ganesh Kishore, managing partner of Spruce Capital Partners, co-manager of MLS Capital Fund II alongside Xeraya Capital, caught up with AgFunderNews to discuss the fund’s first investments and how it identifies opportunities.
A group of researchers at Washington State University have been working with Ultraviolet C light, or UVC light, to help organic producers make sure their produce is safe without having to use any chemical-based sanitization products.
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