Square Roots unveils Tokyo company to blend traditional Japanese farming with high-tech indoor ag
February 20, 2025
The network of indoor farms will use the Square Roots IP and modular farming platform to grow specialty crops.
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Tag: vertical farming
Progress report: Where are vertical farming’s biggest leafy green growers now?
February 13, 2025
Plenty’s recent valuation slash feels like the end of a long, drawn-out death sentence for vertically farmed leafy greens. Is it actually?
Renewable energy now a ‘top priority’ for indoor agriculture: report
January 21, 2025
More growers seek technologies that reduce operational costs and support sustainability efforts, according to Agritecture’s CEA census.
Brief: Vertical farmer Dream Harvest auctions off $8m of un-used kit purchased new in 2022
January 9, 2025
According to Silicon Valley Disposition, which is handling the sale on January 14-16, the auction features equipment “purchased new in 2022 for $8,000,000, never put into production.”
Here are the top 15 foodtech deals of 2024
January 2, 2025
For many foodtech startups 2024 has been a year of resilience and confidence, a time when they managed to win investors’ trust and secure new funding despite an ongoing credit crunch. Here are the top 15 foodtech deals of the year.
Gooddrop’s ‘grow-to-wear’ apparel business looks to mass produce cotton using vertical farms
December 10, 2024
Gooddrop aims to grow cotton in vertical farms and keep spinning mills on the site of these farms to produce textiles.
Brief: Oishii raises additional funding to close Series B at $150m, preps first international expansion
November 20, 2024
The vertical farmer best known for its strawberries is also gearing up for its first international expansion via a new R&D center in Tokyo.
Brief: Vertical farming company Oishii opens solar-powered facility to grow ’20x’ more strawberries to meet market demand
June 4, 2024
The Amatelas Farm will increase production of Oishii’s popular Koyo Berry.
‘Prioritizing taste over timelines’: amidst ongoing market correction, vertical farming company Oishii raises $134m Series B
February 27, 2024
“We have a very clear strategy that will allow us to establish a brand based on our quality,” says Oishii co-founder Hiroki Koga.
Mushroom vertical farming company Smallhold files for bankruptcy; firm in ‘worse financial shape than previously disclosed’
February 20, 2024
Financial troubles along with a downturn in venture capital and demand for specialty mushrooms are behind Smallhold’s recent filing.
Data snapshot: From insect ag and vertical farming to aquaculture… the top 20 deals in Novel Farming Systems in 2023
January 11, 2024
Funding in Novel Farming Systems—an AgFunder category spanning indoor farming, insect ag, aquaculture, and algae production—fell off a cliff last year.
Is controlled environment agriculture investable today?
December 7, 2023
The environment today is more realistic and therefore investments in the sector have a much better chance for long-term sustained success.
BREAKING: Oishii adds ultra-premium tomatoes to its vertical farming lineup with launch of The Rubī
December 6, 2023
Oishii’s Rubī Tomato is grown in the company’s state-of-the-art vertical farm and available now in select Whole Foods stores in the US.
Letter on the way to the desert via MEASA
November 16, 2023
The Middle East, Africa and South Asia have many ties between them that create a huge market opportunity for agrifoodtech.
AeroFarms emerges from Ch. 11 with new CEO, focus on VA farm
September 18, 2023
The company has also hired food and ag vet Molly Montgomery as acting CEO as it focuses all efforts on its Danville, Virginia farm.
Brief: Container farming startup Freight Farms to go public for $147m via SPAC
September 8, 2023
The proposed SPAC merger with Agrinam Acquisition Corp. values indoor farming tech company Freight Farms at $147 million.
Indoor ag has hit ‘a bump on the S curve,’ not the trough of disillusionment – EY agrifood leader
August 22, 2023
EY’s Rob Dongoski dives into the macro factors impacting controlled environment agriculture — and what startups should do.
Oishii’s newest executive says she’s ‘never been more confident about the future of vertical farming’
August 15, 2023
The vertical farming company’s newly appointed chief commercial officer Rita Hudetz says one of her goals is to make Oishii a household name.
Why AeroFarms backer Cibus just launched a ‘cost effective and scalable’ greenhouse strategy for Europe
July 31, 2023
Cibus Fund II has acquired greenhouse grower Duijvestijn Tomaten and launched a new platform for growing food indoors with renewable energy.
Q&A: Local Bounti’s new CEO on greenhouses vs. vertical farms and where CEA’s next priorities lie
June 23, 2023
Former Amazon executive Anna Fabrega discusses her transition to indoor agriculture and what’s next for Local Bounti.
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