MagGrow’s magnetic spray tech attracts $7.1m for Series A round
August 11, 2020
Impact investor Astanor Ventures led the round, joined by similarly impact-minded WakeUp Capital
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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.
Syngenta restructures, rebrands, and relaunches after taking $5.6bn Chinese biz on board
June 18, 2020
CEO Erik Fyrwald previously told AFN that Syngenta’s takeover by ChemChina “gives us the freedom for increased investment around seeds and crop protection.”
Clean Crop Technologies raises $3m to curb post-harvest food waste
June 10, 2020
Prime Impact Fund led the company’s seed round to support its safe, chemical-free approach to killing crop mold and toxins.
Dole and Boragen team up to stop consumers going bananas over deadly Black Sigatoka disease
May 22, 2020
The world’s banana crop is at risk due to a number of diseases that threaten to wipe it out.
The Yield bags $7.13m from Yamaha, others in ongoing round; Bosch converts notes
May 11, 2020
The Yield – an AgFunder portfolio company – is “poised to be The Climate Corp of horticulture,” said Yamaha Motor Ventures’ Nolan Paul.
Arise, robotic slug slayers
April 27, 2020
Slugs are greedy guests on farms. Some estimates reckon a single slug is capable of killing up to fifty wheat seeds within one week of sowing. A group of UK innovators and farmers are working on a robotic solution.
EXCLUSIVE: Crop Enhancement raises $8m Series B to support trials for its ‘safer chemistry’ pesticide coating
March 11, 2020
In the bio-based inputs race, this California-based startup thinks a foliar coating approach for tackling pests can overcome the biologics efficacy debate.
World Food Day 2019: Cooking up new crops for the future
October 16, 2019
#WorldFoodDay calls for action to make healthy and sustainable diets affordable and accessible to everyone. We find out what chefs and suppliers are doing.
Intelligent Spray Contol System – Field Demo Event
September 11, 2019
See what 10-years of USDA development and testing created, and Smart Guided Systems commercialized for sale in a Field Demo Event. Published research reports conclude:
“If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” – how crop tech startups like Lavie Bio chart the market
September 10, 2019
The Tel Aviv-based biologicals startup is leveraging an investment from Corteva to introduce and market a new line of biological crop treatments.
Terramera raises $45m Series B on mission to reduce chemical use in ag by 80%
September 5, 2019
Karn Manhas, CEO of Terramera, believes organic input products could soon be as effective if not more effective than damaging chemicals used today.
Brief: AgroSpheres raises $4m Series A with Ospraie, Wilbur Ellis, for ‘Minicell’ pesticide tech
August 28, 2019
The Virginia-based startup is developing a novel delivery system for crop protection products using nano-technology for its ‘Minicell’ platform.
Oxford spin-out MoA is rebooting decades-old science to tackle “herbicide crisis”
August 22, 2019
The startup is hunting for new “modes of action” to kill weeds, which would open up opportunities to develop entirely new classes of herbicides. It has just raised £6.3 million in Series A funding.
Agrosavfe snags €35 million to bring bio-crop protection products to market
August 8, 2019
The Belgium-based company will use the Series C financing round to get its first product, a biofungicide, to market.
Dutch Biotech Startup Ceradis Secures €9m for New Biofungicide
April 24, 2019
It has taken the team of scientists at Ceradis more than a decade to develop a line of earth-friendly agriculture products. Now, with several on the market, the Dutch company has raised €9 million ($10 million) to commercialize a new biofungicide that prevents crop disease.
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