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The established specialty mineral and chemical provider will combine Growers Insight’s platform with its agronomic services.
Equinom uses computational breeding, not genetic engineering, to breed crops with enhanced properties, such as a higher protein pea.
Although it’s interested in biologics, it claims farmers still need the high rate of efficacy that chemical agriculture has to offer.
Climate scientist, inventor and founder of two sustainable businesses, Adam Lowry is currently CEO of Ripple Foods, a dairy-free milk products company. His first company was Method, the sustainable cleaning products brand that’s now a household name.
The VC firm 7percent Ventures is confirmed as lead investor, having plowed in £200,000. By the time of close, a total of 1,759 investors had backed the round.
The acquisition will add 1,800 weather stations to the company’s existing European network to support hyper-local weather data for farmers.
The design process is about not patronising farmers with solutions they do not need, but realizing farmers as concerned about boosting their bottom line in a tight margins business. “Every farmer is a CEO, Agrando’s founder tells AFN.
With the team at Yofix confirming the closure of a Series A funding round at $2.5 million, it is now clear that a few dairy behemoths have acquired a bit of a taste for plant-based yogurts.
Michelle Egger and Leila Strickland are the founders of BIOMILQ, a biotech company seeking to optimize a woman’s breastmilk by culturing it in a bioreactor, rather than the natural way.
The French feed ingredient developer uses a proprietary encapsulation technology to make fish feed more efficient once its consumed.
UK-based BigSIS has closed a pre-seed round of funding, AFN can reveal.
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The firm has already made two investments from the new fund: Agrofy, the Argentinian agribusiness marketplaces that made waves a couple of weeks ago with its record-breaking Series B round, and Inari, the gene-editing for ag startup.
The Swiss company has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from California-based Agroecology Capital, an agtech venture capital firm.
Noquo has yet to settle its core ingredient(s), admitting it’s a hard problem to crack, but a list of heavyweight investors clearly thinks the team can go the distance.
RootWave owes its electrical spark of inspiration to years of earlier efforts from the CEO’s father who had been trying out ways to electrify weeds in the 1980s
The biotech business uses co-products from the whisky distillation process to produce microalgae, which are high in omega3 and other nutrients.
The new funding follows Rockstart AgriFood’s September announcement that it had raised its first €15 million and invested in 10 startups.
