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Location: United States, California, San Francisco
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Founded date: 2012
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Investment Stage: Seed; Series A; Series B; Series C
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| 28.10.2024 | Ag Marketplaces & Fintech startups are the most popular category of African agrifoodtech investment in 2024 | Startups in the Ag Marketplaces & Fintech category have taken the top spot for funding in recent months, overtaking the Midstream Tech category in 2023 and bringing in $65 million, or 41% total investment on the continent so far in 2024... |
| 17.10.2024 | NEW REPORT: African agrifoodtech funding recovers 1.6% YoY in H1 2024 amid global funding challenges | African agrifoodtech funding is showing mild growth and recovery in 2024, with startups in the sector raising $145 million in the first half of 2024, a 1.6% year-over-year increase vs H1, 2023. But Africa still represents a small fraction o... |
| 27.09.2024 | Insect farmer Ÿnsect in ‘advanced discussions’ with investors after filing safeguard plan with French court | Ÿnsect—one of the highest-profile players in the nascent insect farming space—has filed a safeguard plan with a commercial court in Évry, France, in a bid to stay afloat as it raises funds to expand production at its mealworm facility in Am... |
| 26.09.2024 | Eion's Innovative Path to Carbon Removal: A Game Changer for Agriculture and Climate | In the race against climate change, innovative solutions are sprouting like wildflowers. One such solution is Eion, a startup that is transforming the agricultural landscape through enhanced rock weathering (ERW). This method not only captu... |
| 26.09.2024 | Eion: $3 Million (Series A Extension) Raised And Carbon Removal Deal Signed With Microsoft | Eion, a carbon removal company turning the proven science of enhanced rock weathering (ERW) into a scalable climate solution, announced a contract to deliver 8,000 tons of permanent carbon dioxide removal to Microsoft. And Eion also announc... |
| 24.09.2024 | Eion Raises $3M in Series A Extension | Eion, an Oakland, CA-based carbon removal company, raised $3M in Series A extension funding. Backers included Growmark, AgFunder, Ridgeline, Trailhead Capital, Overture Partners, Mercator Partners, Exelon Foundation, and others. The company... |
| 29.07.2024 | Deals in brief: Hive Health raises USD 6.5 million, AgFunder VC closes fourth early-stage fund, ten China and India deals, and more | Hive Health raises USD 6.5 million in pre-Series A round Hive Health, a health insurance company based in Manila, has raised USD 6.5 million in a pre-Series A funding round. Key investors include Gentree Fund and Beenext, with participation... |
| 29.07.2024 | AgFunder VC raises $102m for latest agrifood tech fund | AgFunder VC, a US-based agrifood tech investor, has raised $102 million for its latest early-stage fund, surpassing its $100 million target. |
| 24.07.2024 | AgFunder VC closes Fund IV oversubscribed on $102m, reveals deep tech portfolio focus | AgFunder VC, the global deep tech venture capital firm investing in startups that can positively impact food and agriculture, and accelerate human progress, has closed its fourth early-stage fund on $102 million, surpassing its target. [Dis... |
| 03.07.2024 | Agrifoodtech funding drops 12.5% YoY in H1 2024 | Data Snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new re... |
| 14.06.2024 | Investment Climate Podcast: Rob Leclerc of AgFunder – How to Get Funded in 2024 | In this podcast series, co-produced by vegconomist, Alex Shandrovsky interviews investors about benchmarks for funding Alt Proteins in 2024 and uncovers the investment playbooks of successful Climate Tech CEOs and Leading VCs. Podcast Host ... |
| 06.06.2024 | Cultivated Meat Startup Aleph Farms Lays Off 30% of Staff As Part of ‘Asset-Light’ Growth Strategy | 5 Mins Read Israeli cultivated meat producer Aleph Farms has let go of 30% of its domestic workforce, reportedly due to difficulties in securing capital amid its scale-up process. Aleph Farms, one of only four companies cleared to sell cult... |
| 22.05.2024 | Who’s investing in climate adaptation for smallholder farmers? | Data Snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new re... |
| 15.05.2024 | Agribusiness markets & eGrocery still lead India’s agrifoodtech VC funding, but Bioenergy & Biomaterials on the rise | Data Snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new re... |
| 02.05.2024 | Florida Officially Bans Cultivated Meat as Governor Mocks World Economic Forum | 9 Mins Read Florida governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill to ban the sale and production of cultivated meat in the state, in a news conference that poked fun at the World Economic Forum. The alternative protein industry says it’s “reckles... |
| 24.04.2024 | Ketones will fuel the next generation of energy drinks, say ex-Pepsi & Coke execs behind KEY, as AgFunder leads $4m seed round | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in KEY.] KEY—a startup led by former PepsiCo and Coca-Cola execs on a mission to disrupt the US functional beverage segment with a zero-sugar ketone-fueled energy drink—has e... |
| 22.04.2024 | Futureproofing your Morning Joe? Atomo opens ‘beanless’ coffee roastery in Seattle | [Disclosure: AgFunder, parent company to AgFunderNews, is an investor in Atomo.] Atomo—maker of the ‘world’s first beanless espresso’—has opened a 33,547sq ft roastery in Seattle capable of producing four million pounds of ground ‘coffee’ a... |
| 19.04.2024 | Meet the Founder: Neatleaf’s Elmar Mair discusses the critical role of autonomy in ag: “It takes a lot of anxiety out of cultivation” | Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Neatleaf. As AgFunder partner Tom Shields recently wrote, it’s time to take greenhouses into the next era, where we’ll need to “optimize yield and reduce costs. To do tha... |
| 17.04.2024 | Data snapshot: Investment in food waste tech down in the US, but sector still ‘well positioned to outperform overall trends’ | Data Snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new re... |
| 16.04.2024 | OlsAro raises $2.7m to expand climate smart crop breeding platform: ‘We’re enabling farming on otherwise unfarmable land’ | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in OlsAro.] OlsAro—a Swedish startup developing wheat varieties resilient to environmental stressors—has raised a €2.5 million ($2.7 million) seed round led by Future Food Fu... |
| 12.04.2024 | Meet the founder: Hyphen’s Stephen Klein on ‘humbling’ startup experiences, pandemic pivots, and why you don’t need a robotic sledgehammer to crack a nut | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Hyphen.] Robots—especially the ones with articulated arms that you might see in Tesla plant—are pretty cool, says Hyphen cofounder Stephen Klein, who had his first, “hum... |
| 09.04.2024 | From novelty to necessity? The evolution of insect farming | On paper, insect farming ticks all the right boxes. Black soldier fly larvae (BSFL), mealworms and crickets can transform food and agricultural waste into high-quality protein, oil and fertilizer at record speed with a fraction of the input... |
| 09.04.2024 | How biotech startup Seadling is turning seaweed into a high-impact crop for smallholder farmers | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Seadling.] For Simon Davis, launching a biotech startup first involved six years of sailing around the Pacific ocean. Having left the chiropractic field he’d worked in for... |
| 04.04.2024 | 🎥 Germin8 Ventures on a ‘bruising’ year in venture capital, and new opportunities in ‘frontier science and computation’ | In 2023, agrifoodtech represented just 5.5% of all venture capital sector dollars, down from 6.7% in 2022 and 7.6% in 2021, despite the fact that the food & ag industry accounts for almost a fifth of global GDP and is a major contributo... |
| 03.04.2024 | Data snapshot: From ‘lightning in a box’ to microbial carbon capture, agrifoodtech investment moves upstream in Australia as investors focus on climate mitigation | Data Snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new re... |
| 22.03.2024 | Meet the founder: FYTO’s Jason Prapas on ‘turning a nitrogen problem into high-grade protein’ for dairy farmers | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in FYTO.] Fast-growing aquatic plants such as lemna present an intriguing new sustainable protein source for humans and animals, provided you can find ways to grow and proces... |
| 21.03.2024 | Biological progress or bathtub brews? The state of US crop biologicals in 2024 | Bathtub brew. Snake oil. Bugs in a jug. For years, companies developing biologicals — a form of crop protection derived from naturally occurring substances like microbes, peptides, and plants — have labored under the shadow of these labels,... |
| 18.03.2024 | SDG Impact Japan Co., Ltd. Announcement regarding additional investment by AgFunder SIJ Impact Fund, which invests in the agri-food tech field that contributes to sustainable food production | - |
| 18.03.2024 | SDG Impact Japan Co., Ltd. Announcement regarding additional investment by AgFunder SIJ Impact Fund, which invests in the agri-food tech field that contributes to sustainable food production | [SDG Impact Japan Co., Ltd.] AgFunder SIJ Impact invests in the agri-food tech field that contributes to sustainable food production Notice regarding additional investment in the Fund *View in browser* *SDG Impact Japan Co., Ltd.* Press rel... |
| 14.03.2024 | Global Agrifood Tech Funding Down by 50% As Deals Become Smaller and Fewer | 6 Mins Read The global agrifood tech financial landscape remains difficult, with funding in the sector down by 49.2% from 2022-23, reaching $15.6B – the lowest it has been in six years – according to a new report by AgFunder. A lot has been... |
| 13.03.2024 | Letter from an underinvested category: agrifoodtech | There’s no way to sugarcoat this: investment in agrifoodtech startups is at its lowest point in six years. Not only is it lower than those pre/early-Covid, crazy-VC-inflated-valuations years between 2018 and 2021 but it also declined as an ... |
| 12.03.2024 | New report: Agrifoodtech startup investment drops 50%, accounts for just 5.5% of global VC dollars | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company is AgFunder.] Investment in agrifoodtech startups has hit its lowest point in six years, declining nearly 50% from 2022 to 2023 as a result of fewer and smaller deals, according to AgFunder’s just-r... |
| 11.03.2024 | Umaro Foods: Seaweed Bacon Revolution | Umaro Foods, the Californian plant-based meat producer, has secured $3.8 million in funding to launch its innovative seaweed bacon into supermarkets. Led by AgFunder, the financing round aims to reduce production costs and expand the reach ... |
| 06.03.2024 | Umaro Foods raises $3.8m in new financing as it scales up meat-free bacon ‘at half the cost’ of animal bacon | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Umaro Foods.] Umaro Foods has raised $3.8m in new financing including a seed 2 equity round led by AgFunder and grant funding as it gears up to launch its seaweed-based ... |
| 02.02.2024 | Innovating the ‘picks and shovels’ of the greenhouse: Why AgFunder invested in robotics startup Neatleaf | Tom Shields is a partner at AgFunder, the parent company of AgFunderNews. AgFunder recently led a $4 million round for Neatleaf, a robotic cultivation management platform for indoor farming environments. More often than not, the simplest in... |
| 23.01.2024 | Neatleaf Secures $4m in Funding Led by AgFunder to Fulfill the Demand for AI-Driven Cultivation Technology | Neatleaf, a first-of-its-kind cultivation management platform that uses data, AI, and robotics to help the cultivation industry manage their crops and improve their yields, has secured $4 million led by AgFunder, one of the world’s most act... |
| 10.01.2024 | What’s in a name? How the term ‘AgriFoodTech’ came to be | Louisa Burwood-Taylor is the managing editor and head of news & research for AgFunder and AgFunderNews. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of AgFunderNews. AgriFoodTech. It do... |
| 22.12.2023 | ‘It’s not sexy to talk about a grain elevator but it’s required’: Bushel’s Jake Joraanstad on 10 years of agtech evolution | “How do we build technology that farmers will use?” Jake Joraanstad, co-founder and CEO of ag software provider Bushel, started asking that question long before the advent of the crowded farm startup scene we know today. Back then, “agtech”... |
| 18.12.2023 | 10 years of Farmers Business Network, from ‘tremendous fear and uncertainty’ to a ‘tremendously exciting future’ | In 2014, Charles Baron and Amol Deshpande were concocting an idea that was practically unheard of in agriculture. “The goal was to put the world of agriculture at the farmers’ fingertips and empower them through information, technology and ... |
| 18.12.2023 | Celebrating 10 years in agrifoodtech with special AgFunder e-zine! | Ten years ago, Michael Dean and Rob Leclerc incorporated AgFunder, AgFunderNews’ parent company, with the mission to bring more investment and innovation to the agriculture and food sectors. This was the same year Monsanto acquired Climate ... |
| 13.12.2023 | Data snapshot: 10 years of restaurant tech funding shows the rise and fall of food delivery | Data snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts ab... |
| 07.12.2023 | Meatiply Secures Funds to Expand Cell-Based Operations for Meat and Functional Ingredients | Meatiply, a Singapore-based cultivated meat startup, has reportedly raised $3.75 million in the first close of a seed funding round co-led by previous investor Wavemaker Partners and AgFunder with participation from Seeds Capital, the inves... |
| 16.11.2023 | Data snapshot: APAC alt protein investment trends… Transitioning from CPG to picks and shovels | Data snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts ab... |
| 15.11.2023 | 🎥Better Bite Ventures on alt protein funding: ‘Investors are looking for companies with stronger fundamentals’ | Two years ago, investors were throwing money at alt protein startups. Today, the environment is significantly more challenging for firms seeking to raise money. What changed? We caught up with Michal Klar, founding partner at Better Bite Ve... |
| 09.11.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Talus Renewables nabs $22m for green ammonia, Getir buys FreshDirect | This week, Talus Renewables closed a funding round for its green ammonia system and vegetable waste firm Letoon Holdings secured capital. M&A is coming for online grocery, as evidenced by Getir’s acquisition of US-based FreshDirect. The... |
| 07.11.2023 | 🎥 What is the market opportunity in China for meat and dairy alternatives? | With Beyond Meat mulling a restructure of its operations in China due to lackluster demand, what is the market opportunity in China for meat and dairy alternatives? When it comes to plant-based meat, Matilda Ho, managing director at Chinese... |
| 01.11.2023 | Data snapshot: Ag Biotechnology investment surges in Asia-Pacific as funding swims upstream | Data snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts ab... |
| 26.10.2023 | New report: VCs bet on ag biotech & farmtech as the new stars of Asia-Pacific’s agrifoodtech ecosystem | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company is AgFunder.] Asia-Pacific has long been a hotbed for agrifoodtech innovation. That’s unlikely to change, despite the recent drop in agrifoodtech funding to the region. Investment in Asia-Pacific ag... |
| 26.10.2023 | APAC AgriFood Report: Funding Hits A Low, But Farm Tech & Novel Foods Are On the Rise | 5 Mins Read Agrifood tech startups in Asia-Pacific saw an investment of $6.5B in 2022, a 58% fall from the year before – but agtech funding for farmers and primary novel food production increased by 24% year-on-year, according to a new repo... |
| 26.10.2023 | France’s CarbonFarm Technology bags €2.5M to decarbonise rice farming and production | Read this article in: France-based CarbonFarm Technology, a climate tech startup, announced that it has raised €2.5M in its seed round of funding. The round was led by Racine² in partnership with Serena and Makesense. TechMind, Ponderosa Ve... |
| 18.10.2023 | Data snapshot: Farm management software adoption still low in Africa despite need for it | Data snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts ab... |
| 11.10.2023 | Data snapshot: Macro-headwinds put Africa’s normally resilient supply chain startups to the test | Data snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts ab... |
| 04.10.2023 | Data snapshot: Investment capital shifts to growth stage startups in African agrifoodtech ecosystem | Data snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts ab... |
| 03.10.2023 | Why we invested in Atinary Technologies: A glimpse into the future of chemistry R&D | Manuel Gonzalez is a partner at AgFunder, the parent company of AgFunderNews. AgFunder recently led a $5m seed round into Atinary Technologies, a startup using machine learning to dramatically accelerate the materials discovery process. Whi... |
| 02.10.2023 | 🎥10 years on from Climate Corp’s $1bn acquisition, David Friedberg reflects | Ten years ago today, Monsanto announced that it was purchasing the Climate Corporation, a company using “machine learning to predict the weather and other essential elements for agribusiness,” for $1 billion. I started reporting on the agri... |
| 29.09.2023 | Atinary Technologies banks $5m in seed round | |
| 27.09.2023 | Data snapshot: the largest funding rounds of the decade for Africa agrifoodtech | Data snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts ab... |
| 26.09.2023 | AgFunder leads $5m seed round for ML-powered Atinary Technologies to turbocharge R&D process | [Disclosure: AgFunder is the parent company of AgFunderNews.] Atinary Technologies, a Swiss-American startup deploying machine learning (ML) to accelerate the materials discovery process, has raised a $5 million seed round led by AgFunder a... |
| 25.09.2023 | Technology can’t solve everything but more Africa agrifoodtech investment is critical as climate change impacts and food insecurity worsen | Last week we published our second Africa agrifoodtech investment report and it was a bumper edition of over 50 pages showcasing when and where investors are placing bets on the region’s food and agriculture startup community. Seemingly immu... |
| 21.09.2023 | Data snapshot: Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt lead the way for agrifoodtech investment in Africa | Data snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts ab... |
| 14.09.2023 | NEW REPORT: African agrifoodtech startups face headwinds as VC funding drops sharply from record-breaking 2022 | Disclosure: AgFunder is the parent company of AgFunderNews. There’s no denying 2023 has been a gloomy year so far for agrifoodtech financing in Africa — as is the case in most other markets around the world. Africa’s food and agriculture te... |
| 04.09.2023 | How agritech startups are contributing to SA’s agriculture sector | Despite little VC capital, South Africa’s agritech sector is pushing ahead. TechCabal caught up with a few to get more info on their contributions to SA’s breadbasket sector. According to Wandile Sihlobo, an agriculture economist and author... |
| 23.08.2023 | Data snapshot: Indoor farming & insect meal top India’s Novel Farming systems investment category | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new r... |
| 16.08.2023 | Data snapshot: 5 years of agrifoodtech investment in India | Data snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts ab... |
| 02.08.2023 | Data snapshot: India farmtech investment ‘relatively strong’ despite a harsh fundraising environment | Data Snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts ab... |
| 30.07.2023 | This week in food tech: New fund shows food investments are still simmering | If you’re adventurous with your food, or just like to keep up with the fast-moving food tech industry, here’s a roundup of this week’s stories and some notable news we weren’t able to cover. Supply Change Capital The venture capital fund ma... |
| 28.06.2023 | Data snapshot: Latin American foodtech funding trends contrast with global stage as food delivery maintains momentum | Data Snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts ab... |
| 28.06.2023 | Brief: Omnivore to pump $150m into India’s agrifoodtech startups with first close of third fund | Indian agrifoodtech investor Omnivore has announced the first close of its third fund, with $150 million to invest in startups developing breakthrough technologies for agriculture, food, climate, and the rural economy. A pioneer in Indian a... |
| 22.06.2023 | Data snapshot: Brazil still leading Latin America agrifoodtech investment, but keep an eye on Mexico | Data Snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts ab... |
| 15.06.2023 | NEW REPORT: VCs are underinvesting in Latin America agrifoodtech. Fintech and conservation tech could change that | Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company is AgFunder. Historically, agrifoodtech venture capital has underinvested in Latin America despite the region’s natural resources, biodiverse ecosystems and high levels of food production. Latin Amer... |
| 07.06.2023 | Data snapshot: Agribusiness Marketplaces & Fintech continue to dominate India’s upstream investments | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new r... |
| 23.05.2023 | NEW REPORT: Indian agrifoodtech startups raise $2.4bn in 2022 as investors head upstream | Editor’s Note: AgFunder is AFN’s parent company. Please note, AgFunder has adjusted its reporting on Indian agrifoodtech investment to follow the calendar year, in line with the global report. Previous AgFunder India reports were based on t... |
| 23.05.2023 | India’s agrifoodtech sector attracts $2.4b VC funding in 2022: report | InvestmentsLandscape reportsNews Deepti Sri · 24 May 2023 · 2 min readIndia’s agrifoodtech sector attracts $2.4b VC funding in 2022: report Venture capital investments in India’s agrifoodtech startups totaled US$2.4 billion in 2022, accordi... |
| 19.04.2023 | Digitizing the supply chain drove investment increase in African agrifoodtech in 2022 | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new research re... |
| 30.03.2023 | Funding to Biomaterials startups bucks global decline increasing 14% to $2.2bn as industry looks for non-synthetic alternatives | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new research re... |
| 16.03.2023 | In a tough year for fundraising, upstream startups ‘solving big problems’ are the most defensible | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company is AgFunder. “I don’t even remember 2021!” AgFunder partner Manual Gonzalez declared from the stage this week at the AgFunder 2023 Global Report special briefing in San Francisco. Gonzalez, along with Winnie... |
| 09.03.2023 | NEW REPORT: Climate agrifoodtech bucks global funding decline as sector brings in $29.6bn in 2022 | Editor’s Note: AgFunder is AFN’s parent company. There’s no denying the second half of 2022 was terrible for venture capital, and agrifoodtech was no exception. Funding to foodtech and agtech (agrifoodtech) startups reached $29.6 billion in... |
| 22.02.2023 | Farm software startups in Asia Pacific raised more funding in 2022 despite downturn | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze food and agriculture technology investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to be one of the ... |
| 20.02.2023 | How 3 AgTech & FoodTech startups are growing with equipment financing | Venture capital investors pumped $51.7 billion in financing into agrifood technologies in 2021, which represented a whopping 85% increase over 2020, according to the 2022 AgFunder AgriFoodTech Investment Report. [Disclosure: AFN’s parent co... |
| 14.02.2023 | Look to other geographies for business models and not just their tech; takeaways from World Bank’s Africa-Korea Agtech Summit | An awards ceremony marked the culmination of the Africa-Korea Agtech Challenge and Summit, a World Bank initiative held in Nairobi to identify and collaborate with innovators of “disruptive agricultural technologies” (DATs) from Korea, Keny... |
| 08.02.2023 | Restaurant and retail tech investment in Asia-Pacific peaked at $1.1 bn in 2021 with drop expected for 2022 | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder, a food and agriculture technology venture capital firm. Click here for more research from AgFunder and ... |
| 01.02.2023 | Who were the most active food and agriculture technology venture capital firms in 2022? | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder, a food and agriculture technology venture capital firm. Click here for more research from AgFunder and ... |
| 14.12.2022 | Data snapshot: Thanks to Swiggy’s mega-deals, restaurant marketplaces lead India agrifoodtech funding | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new research re... |
| 30.11.2022 | NEW REPORT: Indian agrifoodtech startups net record-breaking $4.6bn in fiscal 2022 year | Disclosure: AFN‘s parent company is AgFunder. Indian agrifoodtech startups netted a record-breaking $4.6 billion across 230 deals in the fiscal year 2022 (FY22), according to the AgFunder Indian AgriFoodTech Investment Report 2022, in colla... |
| 29.11.2022 | Propagate raises $10M Series A to advance agroforestry industry | Funding will allow commercialization of its agroforestry-focused software, development, and financing ecosystem Propagate, a commercial agroforestry platform, has closed a $10M Series A led by Belgium-based The Nest. Other investors include... |
| 29.11.2022 | Verdant Robotics lands $46.5m in fresh funding from Cleveland Avenue, AgFunder & others | US-based Verdant Robotics has closed a $46.5 million Series A for its “Robotics as a Service” technology that combines crop applications with data analytics for farmers. Cleveland Avenue led the round joined by DCVC Bio, Future Ventures and... |
| 16.11.2022 | Data snapshot: With less eGrocery, late-stage agrifoodtech deals lose dominance in Asia-Pacific | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new research re... |
| 25.10.2022 | Investments In APAC Agrifood Tech Set a New $5 Billion Record, According To New Report | 4 Mins Read Last year was a banner year for agrifood tech companies across Asia Pacific. And 2022 is following with notable achievements, with more than 360 investment deals in the first half of the year totaling more than $5 billion, accor... |
| 25.10.2022 | NEW REPORT: Asia-Pacific agrifoodtech startup funding defies global decline in 2022 | It’s widely accepted that 2022 is a difficult year for the global financial markets. Asia-Pacific’s venture capital and agrifoodtech industries are by no means immune; investment flows to the region’s foodtech and agtech startups reached ju... |
| 24.10.2022 | Propagate raises $10m from AgFunder, others to help more farmers reap the benefits of agroforestry | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Propagate. US-based agroforestry platform Propagate has raised a $10 million Series A round. Belgium-based The Nest led the round. AgFunder, the TELUS Pollinator Fund, Techstars,... |
| 21.10.2022 | Hoxton Farms raised $22 million to pack in the fat and up the taste of meat alternatives | London-based cultivator of fat as an ingredient for the meat alternatives industry Hoxton Farms has raised a fresh $22 million in a Series A round. The lipids are aimed at breaking ground on a pilot facility for producing cultivated fat, i.... |
| 20.10.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: new investments in alternative fat, Kroger buying Albertsons, Beyond Meat cuts 200 jobs | This week saw two new investments in startups making alternative fat products: Australia’s Nourish Ingredients and UK-based Hoxton Farms. Kroger announced plans to buy fellow grocery giant Albertsons and precision spraying startup Smart Ass... |
| 19.10.2022 | Data snapshot: Climate-related agrifoodtech in majority of upstream African investment, but more funding needed | Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events... |
| 13.10.2022 | The next generation of ghost kitchens: 10 new startup concepts around the world | They never did replace the dine-in restaurant but ghost kitchens — kitchens that are not attached to a specific restaurant — are a permanent, and growing feature, of the hospitality industry. Today, early-stage startups founded in the last ... |
| 12.10.2022 | Data Snapshot: Seed stage deal activity jumped 70% YoY in African agrifoodtech investment | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new r... |
| 05.10.2022 | Data Snapshot: African agrifoodtech entrepreneurs and investors are focusing on the supply chain | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new research re... |
| 30.09.2022 | Meet the Founder: Why Nowadays’ Max Elder picked healthy plant-based nuggets over cultivated meat | “Most of my experience starting Nowadays has been seeing big brick walls and trying to run through them,” declares Max Elder, co-founder and CEO of plant-based foods company Nowadays. He’s not one to be deterred by such challenges, though. ... |
| 29.09.2022 | Data snapshot: Launch Africa, Flat6Labs Cairo lead Africa agrifoodtech investment | Investments in African agrifoodtech startups reached record heights in 2021, according to AgFunder’s inaugural Africa-focused report in collaboration with BII and FMO. But who were the key investors driving the $482.3 million invested in 20... |
| 21.09.2022 | Data snapshot: 90% of African agrifoodtech investment went to Nigeria, Egypt and Kenya | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new r... |
| 20.09.2022 | African agrifoodtech startups raise $1.1 billion in five years but still just 1 per cent of global market | The African agrifoodtech industry is rapidly gathering pace, according to the inaugural AgFunder Africa AgriFoodTech Investment Report in collaboration with the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank (FMO) and British International Investme... |
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