
Indian Grocery Delivery Service PepperTap Raises $10M Series A
After its successful launch last November and a $1.2 million Seed round on March 10, PepperTap, a startup which aims to become the Fresh Direct
After its successful launch last November and a $1.2 million Seed round on March 10, PepperTap, a startup which aims to become the Fresh Direct
Algal Scientific, an algae-loving Plymouth, MI based company, closed a $7M Series B round on March 31st, receiving investments from Formation 8, Evonik Industries and Independence
Big up for city farming! UrbanFarmers, a Zurich based company providing farming solutions for urban areas, announced the successful completion of a 2.1m Series A round
Ecozen, which makes solar-powered cold storage and irrigation products for farmers, announced today that the company had raised a $1m Series A from Omnivore Partners.
March 31st – DroneDeploy went skyward today with $9 million in first round Series A financing. The company, which provides cloud-based user-friendly software platforms for
Byron Bay, Australia — In late February we told you about the sweet little Aussie start up, Flow Hive, that was taking Indiegogo by storm.
Netafim, the world’s largest provider of drip irrigation services announced a $500 million debt financing on March 6th from Israel Discount Bank, Union Bank of Israel,
From precision agriculture to biotech to drones, VCs pumped funds into companies that are revolutionizing how we grow, produce, and distribute food around the world.
LemnaTec which has developed a high-throughput research platform and agricultural analysis software, has received a $5.6 million equity investment from Anterra Capital. This news arrives after
On the heels of the Federal Aviation Administration’s recently proposed regulations on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), California-based 3D Robotics successfully raised $50 million Wednesday led
Blume Distillation, which produced biorefinery equipment for bioethanol and other ethanol based end products, announced a $1 million Series B round led by GreenTech seed, and
AgriMetis, a biotech company developing crop protection agents, closed a $7.3m Series A led by Syngenta Ventures and Acidophil. Lutherville-based Agrimetis, which was co-founded in
Despite current regulations keeping drones grounded, $86 million was invested into the burgeoning UAV industry last year.
Yield Lab, a new St.Louis-based ag tech accelerator program launched in September, announced its first class of five startups. More than 100 companies applied to the program from
St. Louis based agtech accelerator Yield Lab and Arch Grants have announced they are developing a partnership to provide resources to AgTech startups in the St. Louis region. Yield Lab
There’s fun(ding) money growing in the indoor garden. Grove Labs Inc., a Boston-based startup focused on an indoor home-gardening system, closed a $2 million
The Mosaic Company keeps getting bigger. The Mosaic Company has announced it has acquired a fertilizer distribution business in Brazil and Paraguay for $350
This week, bacteria are bringing in the big bucks. On Monday, BioConsortia, a New Zealand-based and US-funded ag biotech company, announced it raised $15
Thanks to a recent $100 million investment, you might soon reduce CO2 by driving a car, and increase crop productivity by using a carbon-negative soil.
China’s largest grain trader China National Cereals, Oil and Foodstuffs Corp, or “COFCO,” and mainland private-equity firm Hopu Investment Management Co. have agreed to pay $1.5
I’m drowning in new food! Can someone please restructure me out of this mess?