| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.02.2025 | With a fresh $15m, Bonsai Robotics stresses the need for ‘an AI first approach’ to on-farm autonomy | Farm machinery design has always centered on the needs of humans, but the growing presence of autonomy in agriculture could change this, suggests Tyler Niday, cofounder and CEO of US-based Bonsai Robotics.
“With autonomy, you can reimagine ... |
| 12.12.2024 | UC Davis spinoff One Bio raises $27m Series A to bridge the fiber gap | One Bio—a UC Davis spinoff with proprietary technology to chop up polysaccharides from agricultural waste into “odorless, colorless, and tasteless” fibers that can be added to foods at high inclusion rates—has raised a $27 million series A ... |
| 21.03.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: India’s Jumbotail nets $18m, new investment plans for Corteva, Mondelēz & others | It’s a jam-packed week for agrifoodtech with World Agri-Tech wrapping yesterday and Future Food-Tech kicking off today over in San Francisco. Elsewhere in the world, Indian B2B ecommerce startup Jumbotail raised new funds despite a tough ma... |
| 18.01.2024 | Breaking: California-based farm-ng bags $10m to bring autonomy and robotics to smaller-scale growers | California-based farm-ng has raised a $10 million Series A round to deploy more of its modular robotics for small- and mid-sized farms.
Acre Venture Partners led the round with participation from Xplorer Capital, HawkTower and 10 other inst... |
| 31.10.2023 | FoodShot Global looks back on five years of investment, innovation and taking big risks for the food system | Big change typically involves taking risks a lot of traditional investors may not be willing to make.
This is the credo that for the last five years has driven the team at FoodShot Global, an investment platform built on the idea of funding... |
| 05.10.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Umiami raises $34.7m for plant-based whole cuts, Bonsai Robotics bags $13.5m, Blue Apron to sell for$103m | This week, French plant-based meat startup Umiami snagged €32.5m ($34.7m) to take its whole cuts platform to the US; Australian precision fermentation startup Eden Brew raised A$24.4m ($15.3m) to scale up animal-free casein production; and ... |
| 27.04.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Restaurant order app me&u bagged $30m, Remilk approved for Israeli markets, biomaterials bonanza | This week, me&u officially announced a Series C close and alt-dairy startup Remilk got approved in Israel to enter commercial markets with its products. Several biomaterials startups made headlines with fundraises, partnerships and othe... |
| 25.04.2023 | BREAKING: Brazil’s Arado (née Clicampo) secures $12m to streamline the country’s agribusiness supply chain | Brazil-based agribusiness marketplace Arado (formerly known as Clicampo) has raised $12 million in an oversubscribed Series A round. Acre Venture Partners led the round with participation from Syngenta Group Ventures and Globo Ventures as w... |
| 22.02.2023 | Source.ag ploughs $23 million following launch of its first greenhouse farming AI last year | Amsterdam-based Source.ag said it has received $23 million in series A funding, closing out the round to bring its lifetime total to $35 million.
Source.ag develops AI to assist greenhouse farm owners. The AI is able to simulate cultivation... |
| 22.02.2023 | ‘Massive impact on how we grow fresh produce.’ Why Astanor Ventures led $23m Source.ag Series A | Netherlands-based Source.ag has closed a $23 million Series A to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) system for greenhouse growers. Agrifoodtech VC Astanor Ventures led the round with participation from Acre Venture Partners and several... |
| 13.02.2023 | Exclusive: Loam Bio raises $73m Series B from Lowercarbon, Acre, others to boost soil carbon | Carbon farming startup Loam Bio has raised A$105 million ($73 million) in a Series B round co-led by Chris Sacca fund Lowercarbon Capital and Wollemi Capital. The company has also commercially launched its CarbonBuilder seed inoculum and Se... |
| 21.07.2022 | BREAKING: Meati bags $150m to make nutrient-dense meat analogues ubiquitous | Boulder, Colorado-based Meati just secured $150 million in Series C funding to accelerate the production of its whole-cut meat alternatives made from mushroom root.
The round was led by growth capital firm Revolution Growth. Cultivate Next,... |
| 02.06.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Synthesis Capital closes $300m foodtech fund, e-grocer Astro bags $60m | Though many “instant” grocery delivery startups are in the midst of layoffs, one company in Indonesia bagged a healthy Series B round this week.
Elsewhere, US ag robotics specialist FarmWise teased a new weeding implement along with its lat... |
| 11.05.2022 | GRDC’s new Tekfarm program seeks global agtech solutions for Australia’s grains sector | Grain is a thriving industry in Australia. It’s the country’s second-largest agricultural subsector by value, accounting for 27% of total gross value of ag production. In 2020-2021, there were 22,500 Australian grains farmers, who propelled... |
| 29.03.2022 | Unlocking food’s dark matter | It is often said that the food system is broken.
It is not broken.
Instead, it was designed over time to effectively and efficiently produce and distribute safe, inexpensive, and highly caloric food. While hunger has been materially reduced... |
| 02.03.2022 | Dutch startup, bringing healthy food to more people, reaps in $10 million to drive AI powered indoor farms | Climate change is driving substantial scarcity and strains in global food supply. As this accelerates in the coming years, we need to find ways to scale efficient growing solutions that lighten the footprint of agriculture. Towards safer, m... |
| 01.03.2022 | Source makes greenhouses smarter to secure the future of food supply | Agtech startup Source.ag today announced it harvested a $10 million investment to make greenhouses smarter. The founders have set their eyes on a horizon where, driven by climate change and a rapid increase in global food demand as populati... |
| 23.02.2022 | 14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies | Almost the same size as Florida, global warming has made Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier increasingly unstable. This month, researchers are attempting to reach the “Doomsday Glacier” for study, but icebergs are slowing their progress.
The cli... |
| 18.02.2022 | Moss.Earth is using NFTs & crypto carbon credits to fight climate change in the Amazon | Carbon credits are still in their early days, but some already see the system as badly in need of a digital makeover.
Among them is Moss.Earth founder and CEO Luis Felipe Adaime, who uses the words “dysfunctional” and “distorted” to describ... |
| 16.12.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Agrofy adds $30m in Yara-led Series C round to grow ‘agfintech’ services | Argentine farmer marketplace Agrofy has raised $30 million in Series C funding. The deal takes its total funding to date to $66 million across four rounds.
Yara Growth Ventures, the VC arm of Norwegian agrochemicals giant Yara International... |
| 16.12.2021 | Agrofy adds $30m to grow ‘agfintech’ services | Argentine farmer marketplace Agrofy has raised $30 million in Series C funding. The deal takes its total funding to date to $66 million across four rounds. |
| 01.12.2021 | BREAKING: Spoiler Alert raises $11m to help CPGs sell surplus inventory & cut food waste | Boston-based startup Spoiler Alert has raised $11 million in Series A funding to grow its ‘liquidation platform’ that helps consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies sell surplus and short-dated inventory to discount retailers.
The round was ... |
| 01.12.2021 | A rind is a terrible thing to waste: Spoiler Alert leaps to the rescue | We spend such a tremendous amount of our resources growing, processing, transporting and selling food items. In a world where not everyone has enough to eat, it’s a disgrace that in the US, 30%-40% of food that is produced is never consumed... |
| 01.12.2021 | Spoiler Alert raises $11m to help CPGs sell surplus inventory & cut food waste | Boston-based startup Spoiler Alert has raised $11 million in Series A funding to grow its ‘liquidation platform’ that helps consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies sell surplus and short-dated inventory to discount retailers.
The round was ... |
| 11.11.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Ascribe Bioscience gets $2.5m to fight crop loss with soil ‘signaling molecules’ | Ascribe Bioscience has raised $2.5 million in seed funding for its biopesticide solution based on ‘signaling molecules’ found in the soil microbiome.
The round was co-led by by The Yield Lab and Acre Venture Partners, with participation fro... |
| 28.10.2021 | Soil Carbon Co is now Loam Bio, raises $30m Series A funding | Australian startup Soil Carbon Co has rebranded and raised A$40 million ($30 million) in Series A funding, it announced today.
Now named Loam Bio, the Orange, New South Wales-based company inoculates crops with symbiotic microbial fungi tha... |
| 29.07.2021 | Meati must meet manufacturing & scale challenges head on after its $50m Series B coup | The alt-protein segment is bursting with startups hoping to capture growing consumer and investor interest in the space. There’s an ever-growing number of meatless options at the supermarket and on restaurant menus. For Boulder, Colorado-ba... |
| 12.05.2021 | Apeel Sciences acquires ImpactVision to look inside fruit & veg for freshness | Disclosure: AgFunder (AFN’s parent company) is an investor in ImpactVision. Learn more here.
Apeel Sciences, the food waste technology company, has acquired hyperspectral imaging startup ImpactVision. This is Apeel’s first acquisition, and ... |
| 12.05.2021 | Apeel Sciences acquires ImpactVision to look inside fruit & veg for freshness | Disclosure: ImpactVision has received investment from AgFunder, which is the parent company of AFN. Learn more here.
Apeel Sciences, the food waste technology company, has acquired hyperspectral imaging startup ImpactVision. This is Apeel’s... |
| 14.04.2021 | I can’t believe it’s not meat! Mycelium meat replacement company aims for summer launch of first products | Meati, a company turning mycelium (the structural fibers of fungi) into healthier meat replacements for consumers, is prepping for a big summer rollout.
Co-founder Tyler Huggins expects to have the first samples of its whole-cut steak and c... |
| 12.01.2021 | ‘Food as medicine’ shake maker Muniq blends up $8.2m Series A funding | A new year often means a new diet for many of us, especially as we try to remedy the bloated waistbands of our pandemic-induced holiday bingeing. Los Angeles-based Uplifting Results Labs is hoping to make that task easier with its healthful... |
| 04.11.2020 | Pushing for US & Middle East to eat organic, Saudi prince joins Back To The Roots round | KBW Ventures, the early-stage investment firm run by Saudi Arabian prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, has joined an investment round into Oakland, California’s organic gardening company Back to the Roots.
The round, of undisclose... |
| 29.10.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Colorado’s Meati secures $28m for whole-cut alternative meats | Alt-protein is easily the hottest food trend in the world right now, at least as far as venture capital is concerned. A Coloradan startup has just entered the fray with new products and $28 million in Series A funding.
Meati’s funding round... |
| 16.07.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Sericulture startup Mori raises $12m Series A to preserve food with silk | So, common sense was wrong. It turns out you can eat silk! But before you drag out that Kimono of yours and swiftly devour it in celebration, hold on a second — you need a crucial bit of cutting-edge protein extraction technology first.
Ent... |
| 29.01.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Acre VP holds first close of Fund II, brings on Greylock’s Bill Helman as partner & LP | Acre Venture Partners (Acre VP), the agri-foodtech investment firm, has reached a first close on its second fund, a multi-LP fund targeting around $125 million, the same size it reached for Fund I. The firm was founded in 2016 when it launc... |
| 16.01.2020 | Amazon for ag? Agrofy closes $23m Series B in LatAm’s largest-ever agtech deal | Argentina’s Agrofy has raised $23 million in Series B funding in the largest fundraising effort for a Latin American agtech startup on record. Agrofy is an online agribusiness marketplace matching buyers and sellers of a wide range of agric... |
| 08.09.2019 | Kite Hill, co-founded by the creator of Impossible Foods, looks to be gaining traction, too | Before he founded the plant-based burger company Impossible Foods, Patrick Brown, who spent 25 years as a biochemistry professor at Stanford, also co-founded a Hayward, Ca.-based food company called Kite Hill that has developed numerous nut... |
| 06.06.2019 | FoodShot Announces Winners of Soil 3.0 Challenge inc Trace Genomics & Carbon Sequestration Measurement | FoodShot Global, the multistakeholder investment platform, has announced the winners of its first challenge, Innovating Soil 3.0 catalyzing $3 million in equity investment for Californian soil microbiome testing startup Trace Genomics from ... |
| 18.12.2018 | Maersk Invests in ImpactVision’s “Game-Changing” Hyperspectral Imaging Tech for Food System | Maersk, the world’s largest transporter of food, has made a strategic investment in ImpactVision, a software company using hyperspectral imaging and machine learning to rapidly assess food quality. ImpactVision is an AgFunder portfolio comp... |
| 09.11.2018 | What is the Role of Gene Editing in Food System Change? | “GMOs are an old, bludgeon tool that feels dated,” said Sam Kass, food entrepreneur, former White House chef and senior policy advisor for nutrition, founder of Trove, and venture partner in Acre Venture Partners.
The definition of GMO in c... |
| 22.10.2018 | Maersk Makes 7th Startup Investment in Food Waste, Supply Chain Software Spoiler Alert | Spoiler Alert, a software and professional services startup that helps food businesses manage unsold inventory and reduce food waste, has raised a strategic round of funding from Maersk Growth, the venture arm of the world’s largest transpo... |
| 13.09.2018 | FoodShot Launches Multi-Stakeholder Platform to Invest in ‘MoonShots for Better Food’ | A non-profit consortium of venture funds, banks, corporations, universities, and foundations has launched a platform to invest in startups and projects addressing some of the food system’s major challenges.
Called FoodShot Global, the new i... |
| 09.08.2018 | Flagship’s Latest Venture Inari Raises $40m Series B to “Transform Plant Breeding” | Inari, the latest venture from venture development organization Flagship Pioneering, has raised $40 million in Series B funding.
The company describes itself as a plant breeding technology company aiming to “transform plant breeding to sign... |
| 09.08.2018 | Flagship’s latest venture Inari raises $40m Series B to ‘transform plant breeding’ | Inari, the latest venture from venture development organization Flagship Pioneering, has raised $40 million in Series B funding.
The company describes itself as a plant breeding technology company aiming to “transform plant breeding to sign... |
| 17.04.2018 | HelloFresh Taps Spoiler Alert to Cut Food Waste by 65% | In less than a year, international meal kit player HelloFresh has reduced its land-fill bound waste by 65% with the help of Boston-based startup Spoiler Alert, a software and professional services startup that helps food businesses manage u... |
| 25.01.2018 | Alibaba’s Jack Ma Interviewed by ImpactVision CEO at Davos | Editor’s Note: AgFunder is an investor in ImpactVision.
Yesterday in Davos, agrifood tech CEO Abi Ramanan interview Alibaba CEO Jack Ma in an intimate gathering of young leaders attending the World Economic Forum annual meeting.
Ramanan is ... |
| 23.01.2018 | Investing in tech for hospitality and food, Almanac Investments raises $30 million | David Barber, the storied owner of the Blue Hill restaurant, farm, and hospitality consulting mecca (a favorite of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama), has long been an angel investor in startup companies.
Individually, he... |
| 21.12.2017 | The Top 10 Farm Tech Deals of 2017 (How Many Can You Name Without Clicking?) | It was an exciting year in farm technology involving a few high profile venture capital exits and some of the largest deals on record.
In fact, funding records for this category and the subcategories within were broken more than once during... |
| 31.10.2017 | ImpactVision Raises $1.4m Seed Round to Determine Food Quality with Hyperspectral Images | ImpactVision, a software startup using hyperspectral imaging to help food supply chain companies determine the quality and ripeness of food products, has raised $1.4 million in seed funding in a round led by Acre Venture Partners.
Acre Vent... |
| 05.10.2017 | Innovative Food: Startups Raise $206m to Meet Consumer Demand for Protein & Novel Ingredients | Consumer demands are changing at a faster pace than ever as our understanding of nutrition evolves.
Protein-rich foods are in particular demand, and with the meat industry responsible for more than 15% of greenhouse gas emissions, innovator... |
| 26.09.2017 | Hain Celestial is Rewriting the “Rules” of Corporate Venture Capital | Large food corporates know that they can’t get left out of the innovation going on in the world of venture-backed food startups. There are at least 13 food companies with venture capital funds including General Mills’ 301 Inc, Kellogg’s eig... |
| 05.07.2017 | Food Incubators and Other Ways For Startups To Engage with Corporates | Editor’s Note: Sarah Nolet is founder and CEO of food and agtech consultancy AgThentic. Here she takes a look at how startups can use food incubators to engage with large companies.
There are an increasing number of large food companies see... |
| 27.06.2017 | Is Food Tech Headed for a Cleantech Correction? | A cautionary tale is quietly making its way around food tech investor communities and conferences. The tale is the story of cleantech.
In the early aughts, just after the debut of the Prius in 1997, dot-com investors turned their lonely eye... |
| 01.06.2017 | What Does Obama Think About Food Tech? Former Chef & Advisor Sam Kass Tells Us | Sam Kass has had a varied career, starting out life as a chef, working for the Obamas before Barack’s presidency, later advising President Obama on nutrition policy when they moved into the White House, and launching the Let’s Move! campaig... |
| 08.03.2017 | AccelFoods fund for food and beverage innovators reaches $35 million | AccelFoods, an accelerator and fund that backs innovative food and beverage companies, has added $15 million to its second fund, according to founding partners Jordan Gaspar and Lauren Jupiter.
AccelFoods has backed brands making products t... |
| 06.12.2016 | Tyson Joins List of Food Companies with Venture Capital Funds | This week, Tyson Foods joined the growing list of food companies with venture capital funds investing in food and agritech startups.
The company, which earlier this year shocked the sector by making an investment in plant-based meat alterna... |
| 16.11.2016 | Spoiler Alert raises $2.5 million to stop food waste, abate hunger | Spoiler Alert has raised $2.5 million for enterprise software that helps manufacturers and farms put excess food inventory to good use, instead of tossing it out.
Since it was founded in 2015, the Boston-based startup has been working with ... |
| 25.08.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: FarmShots Raises Seed Round – exclusive | FarmShots Raises Seed Round
After just completing the Y Combinator accelerator program, North Carolina-based satellite imagery startup FarmShots has closed a seed round after attracting local angel investors. Founder Josh Miller said that k... |
| 10.08.2016 | Farmers Business Network Raises $20m Series B-2 from Campbell Soup’s New Investment Fund | Farmers Business Network has raised $20 million in venture funding in a round led by food company Campbell Soup’s new $125 million food and agriculture investment fund Acre Venture Partners.
The round is an extension to the startup’s $15 mi... |
| 09.08.2016 | Farmers Business Network raises $20 million to help farmers avoid spending on what they don’t need | A startup called Farmers Business Network has raised $20 million in new venture funding to support the growth of its professional social network and data-sharing platform for agronomists.
FBN co-founder and Vice President of Product Charles... |
| 20.06.2016 | Kellogg’s creates a new fund, 1894, to back food and related startups | Instead of two scoops, here’s one big one– the Kellogg Company is launching a corporate venture arm called Eighteen94 Capital (1894) to invest in food and food-related tech startups.
The name is a nod to the year that Dr. John Harvey Kellog... |
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Meati announced it raised $50 million in July from investors such as the former CEO of Patagonia... |
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