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Move over leafy greens: Seedo Corp is cultivating saffron indoors
June 10, 2021
The Israeli company wants to make saffron more accessible and affordable by growing the spice – which is more expensive than gold – indoors with the assistance of technology.
Future Food 🎙️: How Bowery reached $2.3bn and is building its biggest farm yet
May 27, 2021
Bowery just closed the biggest-ever vertical farming funding round. Listen to our recent podcast with its CEO Irving Fain here.
Bowery bags ‘biggest-ever’ vertical farming raise with $300m Series C
May 25, 2021
Bowery will use the funding to fuel R&D efforts around new crop varieties like cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, root vegetables, and tubers.
CEA Food Safety Coalition launches certification standard for indoor-grown leafy greens
May 10, 2021
The CEA Food Safety Coalition has launched a new certification for indoor leafy greens growers that takes into account the industry’s specific attributes.
Brief: UAE’s Madar Farms partners with UK vertical farming startup IGS
April 22, 2021
Madar Farms is one of several indoor ag operations that the UAE – which imports 80% of its food – has invested in to boost domestic production.
Oishii sees itself as ‘the Tesla of vertical farming.’ Here’s how it’s cracking CEA strawberries
March 31, 2021
Oishii is growing strawberries in vertical farms with the help of bees – and founder Hiroki Koga is taking his cue from none other than Elon Musk.
Brief: US vertical farming group AeroFarms joins unicorn club, strikes SPAC deal to go public
March 26, 2021
The Newark-based company is set to merge with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp, raising as much as $357 million in gross proceeds at a $1.2 billion valuation.
Brief: US federal court rules that hydroponic produce can be certified organic
March 25, 2021
The Center for Food Safety had petitioned the US Department of Agriculture to cease its certification of hydroponic operations as eligible for the government’s ‘organic’ program.
Hydroponics startup Babylon Micro-Farms raises $3m seed capital for US expansion
March 18, 2021
It offers a ‘plug-and-play’ hydroponic growing system that can produce as much food as 2,000 acres of farmland, according to the Richmond, Virginia-based startup.
‘Lab-on-a-chip’ startup Nordetect raises $1.5m, targets indoor farming
March 15, 2021
Denmark’s Nordetect wants to help CEA startups get a better glimpse of their nutrient use without waiting weeks for a lab test result.
Vertical farming startup Oishii raises $50m for bee-assisted, carbon-neutral strawberry cultivation
March 11, 2021
With backing from Sony and other investors, US-based Oishii grows the berries indoors using ancient Japanese farming practices.
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: 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.
Ex-Impossible Foods VP Dana Worth on his new role at Plenty & the future of indoor farming
February 1, 2021
After six years at Impossible Foods, Dana Worth is joining CEA startup Plenty as senior vice president – just as indoor farming begins to really heat up.
Biological innovation is key to the economic & environmental sustainability of CEA
January 6, 2021
New research from biotech startup BYAS suggests that a microalgae extract could improve the commercial viability of indoor & vertical farms.
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.
‘Silicon meets Salinas’: Unfold’s CEO talks tech convergence, startup culture & seed science
November 12, 2020
Unfold launched in August with $30m in funding from Bayer and Temasek. John Purcell, CEO and Bayer’s former vegetable R&D chief, has had a busy few months.
Plenty scoops up $140m in Series D round led by Driscoll’s and SoftBank
October 15, 2020
Plenty will use the funding to build out its new Compton, CA, facility and to research strawberry cultivation alongside new investor Driscoll’s.
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