Tag: vertical farming

Vertical Farming Conference

October 8, 2020

Growing a large crop yield in a small footprint subscribe to our newsletter The continually-growing world populations, the global trend to urbanisation, climate change and

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.

Vertical farming software startup iFarm raises $4m

August 20, 2020

The round was led by Gagarin Capital Partners, with Matrix Capital, Impulse VC, IMI.VC, along with various undisclosed business angels joining in.

BREAKING: Bayer and 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.

Noroo wants to power Asia’s smallholders and vertical farmers with its ‘seed to table’ model

August 4, 2020

The Korean chemical giant’s Singapore agribiz hub will “pioneer solutions for the world food supply chain through innovation, not just plain food trading,” its CEO tells AFN.

Australia’s indoor ag sector has been slow off the mark. Here’s how to give it the kickstart it needs

July 20, 2020

Australia is technologically advanced, highly urbanized, and has farmers aplenty – but its urban ag industry is practically non-existent. Sydney startup Blakthumb finds out why.

This vertical farming startup you may not have heard of says it has “industry-leading unit economics”

July 16, 2020

Kalera recently announced plans to open what it describes as the largest vertical farm in Texas.

Vertical farming in LatAm: AgroUrbana closes $1m seed funding

July 2, 2020

There’s space for vertical farming among Chile’s urban populations, where year-round fresh produce is not as abundant as you might think.

Fly, my pretties! NextProtein closes $11.2m Series A to scale up insect production in Tunisia

May 27, 2020

NextProtein, a French-Tunisian startup working on new ways to produce insect-based animal feed and fertilizer, has raised €10.2 million ($11.2 million) in Series A funding,

Indoor Ag Con Las Vegas

May 18, 2020

From start-ups to scale-ups, Indoor Ag-Con 2020 grows to offer even more opportunities connecting all agriculture supply chain stakeholders. Deeply rooted in NextGen agriculture and

Can vertical farming help in the battle against Covid-19?

April 17, 2020

Vertical farming companies have largely seen Covid-19’s pressure on globalized food supply chains as a confirmation of what they had been saying already: resilient supply chains are hyper-local supply chains, especially when it comes to fresh produce. But there is also a more direct way vertical farmers want to confront the virus.

Why Agritecture is launching a urban farm design software program now

April 13, 2020

Henry Gordon-Smith is founder of urban farming consultancy Agritecture and is today launching a new urban farm planning software tool called Agritecture Designer.

Unfazed by Covid-19, Infarm arrives InJapan and InCanada

March 26, 2020

Vertical farming venture Infarm’s Emmanuel Evita shares with AFN how Covid-19 is disrupting and driving its expansion and demand for hyper-local fresh food.

Freight Farms raises $15m Series B led by Ospraie Ag Science

February 12, 2020

The container farming startup is planning to dig deeper into plant science to optimize its connected platform and provide growers with better recipes.

Sodexo partners with container farming startup Freight Farms to bring indoor ag to college campuses

January 29, 2020

Freight Farms’ container farms can be integrated into food-focused curricula or provide work-study opportunities for curious students, as well as supplying their canteens.

UK aeroponics startup LettUs Grow raises £2.35m seed round

January 9, 2020

Early-stage life science and engineering investors Longwall Venture Partners led the round, which marks its inaugural agri-food tech investment.

Best of 2019: AFN’s 10 best read

December 19, 2019

There was a clear winner when it comes to the most read about topic in 2019. Read on to find out.

How IGS reduces vertical farming costs

December 11, 2019

It can be hard to explain exactly how Intelligent Growth Solution’s tech works, so we caught up with Niall Skinner, lead mechanical engineer at IGS to get an in-depth explanation.

she1K angel syndicate bets on ‘democratised’ vertical farming with investment in Farmshelf

December 2, 2019

she1K, the world’s first angel network led by global corporate executive women, has syndicated an early-stage investment into Farmshelf, a New York-based vertical farming startup.

Young, male farmers are flocking to a truly global indoor ag industry, CEA census reveals

November 25, 2019

The inaugural census from Agritecture Consulting and Autogrow identified key trends in CEA including a large demographic of beginning farmers and an increasingly global industry footprint.