Tag: Germany

Choco raises $100m Series B funding to streamline restaurants’ ingredient purchasing

July 20, 2021

It’s taking aim at food waste by helping restaurant suppliers move expiring items more quickly.

RootCamp is looking for agritech startups to join its latest batch & disrupt the food value chain

July 15, 2021

Are you an agritech startup that wants to scale its business to its full potential and have a positive impact in the agrifood industry?

EXCLUSIVE: Agrando raises $14m in Europe’s biggest farmer marketplace Series A to date

July 6, 2021

The Munich-based platform said it will use the funding for international expansion, scaling its operations, and investment in R&D.

Future Food 🎙️: Why Bayer’s former CEO joined a startup working on microbial crop protection

June 3, 2021

AgBiome is using its intricate understanding of the plant-related microbiome to develop biological solutions to infections, insects, and nematodes.

Why Germany’s Amathaon Capital invested in autonomous tractor startup AgXeed

May 27, 2021

AgXeed offers an autonomous tractor that can be used with a variety of implements, which Amathaon thinks is vital to the future of robotics in ag.

Is this the fastest-growing vertical farming business in the world?

March 11, 2021

Indoor agriculture is highly competitive and highly funded. Who’s leading the race? We spoke to Henry Gordon-Smith of urban ag consultancy Agritecture to find out.

Brief: Infarm tops up Series C to $270m; moves into chilis, mushrooms & tomatoes

March 11, 2021

Infarm CEO Erez Galonska declined to comment on rumors that the startup has retained perennial IPO underwriter Goldman Sachs to help it raise more funds.

Brief: BASF to launch 30+ sustainable ag R&D projects worth $9bn by 2030

March 5, 2021

The projects will complement BASF’s offerings in seeds, seed treatments, biological and chemical solutions, and digital services.

Brief: Infarm launches modular growing & distribution center to expand footprint faster

February 24, 2021

The new growing center takes six weeks to construct and can produce the equivalent of up to 10,000-square-meters of farmland, according to InFarm.

Agtech CVC: BASF Venture Capital on ‘catalyzing change for the chemicals industry’

February 17, 2021

Bioinformatics. Drone surveillance. Farm robotics. BASF Venture Capital’s Markus Solibieda talks to AFN about tech innovations the company’s backing to complement and disrupt the agri-chemicals status quo.

Agrifoodtech firms are flocking to Singapore, with Perfect Day the latest to land

December 20, 2020

The city-state’s trade minister predicts “many other companies” will follow Perfect Day and others setting up R&D and manufacturing facilities there.

The rise of the reused machines: Germany’s E-Farm raises $5.3m Series A

October 1, 2020

The Hamburg-based startup has built an online marketplace for secondhand agricultural machinery, using AI-powered valuation and offering EU-wide warranties.

Infarm raises $170m in first close of Series C

September 17, 2020

Infarm says that by 2025 its operations will reach more than 5 million square feet to become the largest distributed vertical farming network in the world.

Denmark’s Plant Jammer scoops $4.7m from Dr Oetker, Miele to develop its ‘digital chef’

August 26, 2020

The foodtech startup is using AI to build a “digital chef” that creates sustainable, personalized recipes for home cooks.

EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s Mushlabs raises $10m for sustainable mycelium production

August 18, 2020

Singapore’s VisVires New Protein and Switzerland’s Redalpine co-led the Series A funding, which will assist Mushlabs with scaling up its mycelium growing operations.

Bayer & Temasek launch $30m seed genetics business targeting vertical farms

August 12, 2020

Named Unfold, the new venture has received $30 million in funding from the two companies, along with rights to germplasm from Bayer’s vegetable portfolio.

EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s Agrando closes seed funding for online agribusiness marketplace

February 13, 2020

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.

EXCLUSIVE: AgriTech Capital invests in ag.supply, the German ‘Amazon of AgTech’

October 23, 2019

AgriTech Capital has just closed a multi-million dollar investment into Germany’s Ag.Supply. The exact amount has not been disclosed on record.

Regen Ag Renegade: How an investment banker turned farmer is making regenerative ag happen in Germany

October 22, 2019

Benedikt Bosel is regenerating his family’s farm in East Germany and inspiring other farmers in the region to do the same.

InFarm Joins Vertical Farming Pantheon With Titanic $100m Series B

June 11, 2019

Berlin-based portable vertical farm startup InFarm on Tuesday disclosed a vast Series B raise of $100 million, bringing its total funding to over $134 million.