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.
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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.
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,
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.
Bowery CEO: Building tech is expensive, takes time but has direct impact on economics of vertical farming
November 12, 2019
Bowery Farming, the New York-based vertical farming startup that counts Google, First Round Capital, and famous chef Tom Collichio as investors, has just raised an
The second generation of vertical farming is approaching. Here’s why it’s important.
November 4, 2019
As vertical farming moves into its next phase where operating expenses are dropping, Boaz Toledano writes that it will be able to compete with the industry organic industry.
Indoor AgTech Landscape: 1,000+ companies innovating inside
September 26, 2019
People are recognizing the potential opportunity for indoor growing to address many of the challenges in food and ag. Since the Plenty funding in late 2017, we have seen a surge of funding for both sunless and greenhouse approaches, says The Mixing Bowl releasing its first Indoor AgTech Landscape.
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