Tag: israel

Israel’s most active venture investor partners New Zealand’s Sprout on agrifoodtech

November 17, 2020

OurCrowd is teaming up with agtech accelerator Sprout to take a little of the ‘Startup Nation’ magic down under.

EXCLUSIVE: WeedOUT closes Series A at $4.2m; appoints former Monsanto M&A chief

November 17, 2020

The Israeli bio-herbicide startup will use the funding for product development, scaling its operations, and regulatory advancements.

NovaQuest, Mileutis sign $20m deal for peptides to protect cow udders

October 26, 2020

Bovine mastitis is a major financial and welfare problem for dairy farmers, but standard antibiotic treatments are increasingly controversial.

Stressed out by the pandemic? There’s a personalized plant-based snack for that

October 20, 2020

With mental health in the spotlight amid Covid-19, personalized nutrition companies are busy designing ways to keep stress at bay.

Shana tova! Israel’s Phytolon ferments its way toward a technicolor of food with $4.1m funding

September 23, 2020

Phytolon has been working on a proprietary, fermentation-based technology to produce its own spectra of plant-based food colors.

CropX acquires New Zealand precision effluent and smart irrigation decision startup

September 10, 2020

Covid-19 has created new opportunities for acquisitions as startups struggle to fundraise, according to CropX CEO Tomer Tzach.

SupPlant and ClimaCell want to make precision agtech affordable for Asia’s poorest farmers

August 26, 2020

Israel’s SupPlant and US-based ClimaCell have joined forces to make precision ag insights more accessible to low-income farmers in emerging markets.

SavorEat gets funding for 3D printer that builds and broils plant-based patties

July 29, 2020

Is there a case to be made for distributed, hyper-local food processing models? SavorEat CEO Racheli Vizman thinks so.

Taranis banks $30m Series C with tech giants Hitachi, Micron among new investors

July 21, 2020

The round’s large close amid Covid-19 further cements Taranis’ reputation as a dogged drone survivor in one of the most scrutinized areas of agtech.

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.”

Arieli Capital hopes for desert agri-miracles with funds for a new innovation center

June 9, 2020

Few would dispute that growing fish or strawberries in a desert is a remarkable idea, even in 2020.

Israel’s Saturas secures an initial $3m of Series B funding

May 28, 2020

Former investors in Saturas — Gefen Capital and Hubei Forbon Technology — have committed to the round, alongside the Trendlines Agrifood Fund

The Greeneye team testing their AI weed detect and spray platform

Syngenta invests in $7m seed round for Israeli autonomous chemical reduction tech Greeneye

May 27, 2020

Trials already indicate how a precision method like Greeneye’s can reduce a farmer’s herbicide usage by 65‒92%, according to Greeneye.

Now is the time to invest in foodtech

April 30, 2020

As investors seek diversity in order to weather the storms ahead, now, more than ever, FoodTech stands out for its value, its strength, its opportunities and the benefits it brings, writes PeakBridge Partners.

InnovoPro raises $15m Series B for chickpea protein tech

April 28, 2020

While other investors are tightening their purse strings as the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps the world, Jerusalem Venture Partners has neither stalled nor scrapped its new plant-based protein deal.

Singapore’s Growthwell gets $8m in Temasek-led round, invests in Israeli alternative protein startup

April 27, 2020

Growthwell, which has been making ‘mock meats’ for the Southeast Asian market since 1989, is looking to ride the plant-based new wave.

LIC scraps $70m dairy tech deal as Covid-19 chills shareholder sentiment

April 8, 2020

The New Zealand dairy farmers’ cooperative made its bid for Israel’s Afimilk before the worst of the pandemic hit, but says it’ll continue to seek investment opportunities.

Syngenta leads Series A for WeedOut to commercialize first species-specific biological herbicide

March 5, 2020

Syngenta Ventures’ Michael Lee tells AFN how the firm is viewing the biologics space and why WeedOut’s species-specific approach is so important.

Kraft Heinz invests in $110m Series B for cloud retail robotics startup Fabric

February 25, 2020

Israel-based Fabric (formerly CommenSense) is currently working to expand its US footprint with its robot-backed software platform to provide micro-fulfillment almost anywhere