| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.10.2024 | The venture capital model is still suitable for agtech. Sort of | With agrifoodtech investment still down and exits in the sector elusive, more folks are now asking whether the venture capital model is still applicable to agtech.
The jury, it seems, is still out on the matter. While VC investment to agtec... |
| 22.03.2023 | ‘It will be a year of bust-ups, roll-ups and M&A’: VC predictions for agrifoodtech investment | [Disclosure: AFN’s parent company is AgFunder.]
At the recent World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco, Cascadia Capital managing director Scott Porter asked a panel of VCs if they thought agrifoodtech investment would improve in ... |
| 21.02.2023 | Startup Showcase: Anterra Capital – Investing in Transformative Companies Revolutionizing the Food System | Anterra Capital is a venture capital fund based in Amsterdam that focuses on investing in fast-growing companies that are transforming the global food system. The company’s mission is to make the global food supply chain safer, more efficie... |
| 05.10.2022 | 7 investors discuss how agtech can solve agriculture’s biggest problems | Climate change and geopolitical instability are wreaking havoc on agriculture. To gauge how VCs are responding to these issues, we spoke with seven investors.
For starters, rising greenhouse gas emissions are driving punishing droughts and ... |
| 02.06.2022 | Dalma claws on €15 million to unveil superapp for pet parents in France and beyond | With 200 million cats and dogs in European households in 2021 and a pet population now twice as large as the EU population of children under 15, the pet care sector is over a €30-billion industry in Europe.
Pet insurance startup in France, ... |
| 19.05.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Downey Jr’s Footprint backs Motif; Unilever joins $1bn regen ag fund | One of India’s leading food and restaurant delivery services made another big-ticket acquisition this week, while alt-protein producers raised several early-stage rounds. Upstream, Unilever joined a new $1.06 billion fund to accelerate adop... |
| 17.05.2022 | Anterra closes $260m Fund II, says quality of agrifoodtech opportunity ‘has increased exponentially’ | From AgFunderNews by Jennifer Marston & Louisa Burwood-Taylor |
| 17.05.2022 | EXCLUSIVE: Anterra closes $260m Fund II, says quality of agrifoodtech opportunity ‘has increased exponentially’ | Agtech investment firm Anterra Capital has closed its second Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund on $260 million. The fund will invest in entrepreneurs developing biotech and digital solutions across the agrifoodtech value chain, fr... |
| 10.05.2022 | Led by former Curve co-founder and Monzo COO Tom Foster-Carter, online grocery startup Lollipop raises £5 million | London-based Lollipop has raised £5 million in a seed funding round led by Octopus Ventures. Targeting busy families, particularly with children, Lollipop is the app that finally brings meal planning, shopping, and cooking services all unde... |
| 13.04.2022 | Brief: Ginkgo Bioworks and Elanco launch animal health company BiomEdit | US synthetic biology company Ginkgo Bioworks and Elanco Animal Health Incorporated are launching a “microbiome innovation” company that will develop microbiome-based products and services for improved animal health. The new company, called ... |
| 01.07.2021 | Anterra Capital Announces $175 Million Initial Closing of Second Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund | Institutional investors including Eight Roads Ventures, Novo Holdings, Rabo Investments, Tattarang and others to expand venture investment globally in the growing Food & Ag segment |
| 30.06.2021 | Anterra Capital Announces Initial Closing of Second Agrifoodtech Fund at $175M |
Anterra Capital , the international agrifood VC firm and investor partner of StartLife, announced the initial closing of its second food and agriculture technology fund, Anterra F&A Ventures II. With $175 million they exceeded the tar... |
| 21.05.2021 | UPDATED: ProducePay scores $43m Series C funding from VCs, development banks | Editor’s note: This article was updated on May 21, 2021, to provide comment from ProducePay founder Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck.
Online ag marketplace ProducePay has raised $43 million in a Series C round co-led by Silicon Valley-based firm G... |
| 20.05.2021 | BREAKING: ProducePay scores $43m Series C funding from VCs, development banks | Online ag marketplace ProducePay has raised $43 million in a Series C round co-led by Silicon Valley-based firm G2VP, the World Bank‘s International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the Inter-American Development Bank‘s IDB Invest.
Existing i... |
| 05.05.2021 | 8 startups reshaping the global food system | Editor’s note: This post is part of a collaboration with F&A Next, an AgFunder Network Partner. F&A Next was founded by Anterra Capital, StartLife, Rabobank, and Wageningen University & Research.
F&A Next is a platform dedic... |
| 21.04.2021 | The carbon question: Making global carbon markets work for farmers | Editor’s note: This post about carbon markets is part of a collaboration with F&A Next, an AgFunder Network Partner. F&A Next was founded by Anterra Capital, StartLife, Rabobank, and Wageningen University & Research.
F&A Nex... |
| 01.04.2021 | Mosa Meat CEO on choosing non-GMO, differentiation & pricing the novelty factor | Editor’s note: This post is part of a collaboration with F&A Next, an AgFunder Network Partner. F&A Next was founded by Anterra Capital, StartLife, Rabobank, and Wageningen University & Research.
F&A Next is a platform dedic... |
| 09.11.2020 | Anterra Capital Strengthens Ties with StartLife As Investor Partner |
Anterra Capital, one of largest dedicated agrifoodtech venture capital firms in the world and a pioneer in the sector, has entered into an investor partnership with StartLife. Together we will back entrepreneurs who are building a healthi... |
| 09.09.2020 | Danone dares to dream of regenerative dairy | Danone has been crafting pledge after pledge on sustainability, urging its rival big food conglomerates to follow suit. Recently recognized for its work reducing deforestation, the French multinational last year launched a coalition to look... |
| 26.06.2020 | Gates Foundation leads crop protection startup Enko’s $45 million Series B round | There’s a long list of problems with chemical agriculture treatments: they’re destructive to soils and waterways; they can be hazardous to human and other organisms’ health; and they’re increasingly ineffective, as pests and weeds develop r... |
| 08.06.2020 | Temasek leads $46m Series B for Ascus Bio’s microbe-based animal feed additives | The US animal health market generates around $10 billion in sales each year, according to the Animal Health Institute, and makes up roughly one-third of the global market. It is on pace to reach $73.6 billion by 2027. Although increased spe... |
| 19.05.2020 | Sexy supply chain tech & other takeaways from F&A Next 2020 | This post is part of a collaboration with F&A Next, an AgFunder Network Partner. F&A Next was founded by Anterra Capital, StartLife, Rabobank and Wageningen University & Research. Read about F&A Next 2019 here.
A few years f... |
| 12.05.2020 | 8 global agrifoodtech startups reimagining the future of food | This post is part of a collaboration with F&A Next, an AgFunder Network Partner, ahead of its fifth annual conference, hosted virtually on Wednesday, 13 May 2020 at 4pm CET (11am ET). Registration is open here. F&A Next was founded ... |
| 04.05.2020 | Agrifood corporates turn to startups to hedge disruptions and get an edge on trends | This post is part of a collaboration with F&A Next, an AgFunder Network Partner, ahead of its fifth annual conference, hosted virtually on Wednesday, 13 May 2020 at 4pm CET (11am ET). Registration is open here. F&A Next was founded ... |
| 02.04.2020 | Agri-foodtech VCs assess Covid-19’s impact on the sector and portfolios | As we all “shelter in place” and “socially distance” ourselves, we are learning a lot about what we can live without. And what we can’t.
Agri-foodtech investors seem to be collectively counting their blessings in that respect.
“We probably ... |
| 26.03.2020 | Raising capital in a pandemic: ‘There is plenty of dry powder looking to get to work in this market’ | “These are choppy waters and everything is a little uncertain, but we think that food and agriculture is a resilient and stable sector and we’ll continue to make investments in the space,” said Amanda Donohue-Hansen, VP at Cultivian Sandbo... |
| 03.03.2020 | What it takes to scale an agrifood tech startup | This post is part of a collaboration with F&A Next, an AgFunder Network Partner, ahead of its fifth annual conference in Wageningen, Netherlands, 13-14 May 2020. F&A Next 2020 will focus on the impact of food and agriculture innovat... |
| 30.01.2020 | Are you the next Hero of Foodtech & Agtech? Apply to pitch at F&A Next in May! | F&A Next, Europe’s first platform for startups, scale-ups, investors and corporates in food & agriculture to boost disruptive innovations, is looking for startups to apply to pitch at the F&A Next 2020 conference in May for a ch... |
| 16.01.2020 | 2019 was a breakout year for alternative protein startups. What’s in store for 2020? | This post is part of a collaboration with F&A Next, an AgFunder Network Partner, ahead of its fifth annual conference in Wageningen, Netherlands, 13-14 May 2020. F&A Next 2020 will focus on the impact of food and agriculture innovat... |
| 11.06.2019 | Vestaron Announces Series B Financing | With its proprietary platform for the optimization and production of peptide-based biopesticides, Vestaron is leading the development of a novel class of crop protection products – peptides (small proteins) that have the proven modes of act... |
| 30.04.2019 | 7 Top Agtech Startups Defining the Future of Agriculture | AgriFood tech is a maturing market, as evidenced by the swell in investing activity last year. Startups in the space attracted nearly $17 billion in investment capital–a 43% increase from the previous year, according to data from AgFunder. ... |
| 29.04.2019 | Empowering Innovative Businesses to Unseat and Disrupt the Agricultural Giants | Editor’s Note: Adam Anders in managing partner at Anterra Capital, the agtech venture capital firm. Here he writes about an interview he conducted with famed entrepreneur Tony Fadell.
Over the last few years, the agricultural sector has inc... |
| 25.04.2019 | 7 Food Tech Startups Defining the Future of Food in Europe | It may seem like a few food tech companies get all the media—and investor—love. (We’re looking at you Beyond Meat and your IPO headlines this week!) But startups are building and championing new technologies across the entire food value cha... |
| 31.01.2019 | India: Vet pharma Ashish Life Science raises $6m from Eight Roads, Anterra Capital | Premium
Veterinary pharmaceuticals company Ashish Life Science has raised Rs 45 crores ($6.3 million) in a round led by Eight Roads Ventures, the proprietary investment arm of Fidelity International Ltd.
Continue reading this story with a s... |
| 31.01.2019 | Indian Animal Health Startup ALS Raises $6.3m Series A from Fidelity’s Eight Roads, Anterra Capital | Ashish Life Sciences (ALS), an Indian agtech startup developing pharmaceuticals for animals, has raised Rs45 crores ($6.3 million) in a round led by the Indian venture arm of Eight Roads, Fidelity’s proprietary investment arm.
Dutch agrifoo... |
| 12.12.2018 | Why is Europe Behind in Food Tech Investment? | European food tech startups are on course to have raised between €750 million to €1 billion in 2018, according to different estimates. That will be around a 40% decline on 2017 funding levels.
When you take out 2017’s largest deals — includ... |
| 18.10.2018 | Produce Pay Raises $14m Series B to Help Farmers Get Paid | Produce Pay, a food tech startup with an online marketplace for fresh produce farmers and distributors, has raised $14 million in Series B funding.
Agribusiness marketplaces are a hot trend in agrifood tech at the moment as entrepreneurs lo... |
| 18.10.2018 | Rabo Frontier Ventures invests in Agtech company ProducePay | Rabo Frontier Ventures (RFV), Rabobank’s strategic investment arm, invested in Agtech company ProducePay. This Los Angeles based company provides fresh produce farmers with financial resources, tech tools and data insights. ProducePay has s... |
| 18.10.2018 | ProducePay raises $14m Series B to help farmers get paid | Produce Pay, a food tech startup with an online marketplace for fresh produce farmers and distributors, has raised $14 million in Series B funding.
Agribusiness marketplaces are a hot trend in agrifood tech at the moment as entrepreneurs lo... |
| 23.03.2018 | Boston Tech Watch: Desktop Metal, Nuance, Zagster, Elephant & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 3/24/18, 1:38 pm. See below.] This week in Boston tech, we’re tracking a 3D printing rivalry now headed to court, layoffs at a local bike-sharing startup, a leadershi... |
| 21.03.2018 | Anterra Capital Raises $75M Extension to Its Fund Focused Fund | Anterra Capital, an Amsterdam and Boston-based specialist venture capital firm that backs the entrepreneurs who are transforming the global food system, raised $75m extension to its fund.
Backed by Rabobank and Eight Roads, the fund now tot... |
| 21.03.2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, March 21 | 5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER
Pär-Jörgen Pärson, a general partner at Swedish growth investment firm Northzone, made a really great bet 10 years ago. He led Spotify’s Series A round in 2008.
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| 20.03.2018 | Anterra Capital Raises $200M for Fund | Anterra Capital, a specialist venture firm that backs the entrepreneurs who are transforming the global food system, today announced a $75 million extension to its fund. The total of the fund is now $200 million.
Anterra invests in companie... |
| 20.03.2018 | Anterra Capital Raises $200M for Fund | Anterra Capital, a specialist venture firm that backs the entrepreneurs who are transforming the global food system, today announced a $75 million extension to its fund. The total of the fund is now $200 million.
Anterra invests in companie... |
| 20.03.2018 | Anterra Capital Extends Fund to $200m and Widens View with Three New Investments | Agrifood technology VC Anterra Capital has extended its first fund by $75 million to $200 million in total, making it the largest single dedicated agtech fund in the world. The additional funds came from existing LPs, including Dutch global... |
| 14.03.2018 | Nestlé Backs New European AgriFood Tech VC Five Seasons Ventures, Launching with €60m Fund | Five Seasons Ventures, a new European VC focusing on agrifood tech investments has launched its first fund, announcing a first close on €60 million ($74.3m). Backers include Nestlé, the European Investment Fund, Fondo Italiano d’Investiment... |
| 27.11.2017 | The State of Play for Farm Robotics | Farm Robotics startups are a captivating segment of the agrifood technology sector, partly because robots are fascinating to watch, but also because the problems they solve are pressing, not least the issue of labor.
“We can import labor, o... |
| 29.10.2017 | Farmobile Raises $18M Series B from Anterra Capital | OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Farmobile, the farm data company, has raised $18.1 million in Series B funding to expand its data platform to help farmers ground-truth their data, mitigate risks and generate a revenue stream from the ... |
| 29.10.2017 | Farmobile Raises $18M Series B from Anterra Capital | OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Farmobile, the farm data company, has raised $18.1 million in Series B funding to expand its data platform to help farmers ground-truth their data, mitigate risks and generate a revenue stream from the ... |
| 26.10.2017 | Farmobile Raises $18m Series B from Private Investors, Anterra | Farmobile, an ag data collection software and hardware company, has raised $18.1 million in a Series B funding round led by private investors in Kansas City along with Dutch agtech venture capital firm Anterra Capital and Kansas-based crop ... |
| 20.10.2017 | French Agrifood Tech VC Capagro Doubles Fund to €124m | Capagro, a French agrifood tech VC firm, has announced a second close of its Capagro Innovation Fund adding €66 million, ($78 million) and bringing the fund’s total to €124m ($147m).
The fund was founded in 2014 with €37.5 million ($44.4 mi... |
| 18.10.2017 | Q&A: Talking Farm Robotics With Anterra Capital’s Dan Harburg | Funding for farm robotics and equipment startups may have contracted by 13% in the first half of this year, according to AgFunder data, but the acquisition of “see and spray” robotics company Blue River Technologies by monolithic tractor ma... |
| 28.09.2017 | The State of AgriFood Tech Startups in Europe | Editor’s Note: Thomas van den Boezem is program manager at StartLife, a Netherlands-based incubator for agrifood tech startups, cofounded by world-leading agriculture university Wageningen University & Research. StartLife has a portfoli... |
| 12.01.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Otto Robotics Raises $1.5m, Organic Chicken Processor Raises $2.7m, Diet to Go Raises $500k, more | AgriMetis, a crop protection spin-off from healthcare innovation firm Acidophil, closed a $23.5 million Series B in an oversubscribed round led by Anterra Capital. Learn more about the round and the healthcare VC that joined it in our recen... |
| 05.01.2017 | AgriMetis Raises $23.5m Series B for Natural Products-Derived Crop Protection Research – exclusive | AgriMetis, the crop protection spin-off from healthcare innovation firm Acidophil, has raised $23.5 million in Series B funding in an oversubscribed round led by Anterra Capital.
Joining the round and making a crossover investment from the ... |
| 10.11.2016 | Framing the Ag Opportunity for Non-Ag Investors at the Kauffman Fellows Reunion | The Kauffman Foundation hosted more than 200 investors from five continents last month in Kansas City for the Kauffman Fellows Reunion VC Summit. Fellows attended an invite-only gala and day of discussion on global trends in venture capital... |
| 11.08.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Startup Manufacturing Wine without Grapes Raises $2.7m, Ashton Kutcher Invests in Farm-2-Consumer Startup, Vestaron Raises $18m, lots more | Alternative Wine Startup Ava Winery Raises $2.7m Seed Round with Horizon Ventures
Ava Winery, a startup engineering wine without grapes or fermentation, has raised $2.7 million in seed funding in a round led by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-s... |
| 16.03.2016 | Anterra Capital Closes on $125m Fund, Opens Boston Office | Anterra Capital, the European agtech investment firm, has held a second close of its first fund on $125 million, getting further investment from Rabobank, the Dutch global food and agriculture bank, and Eight Roads, the proprietary capital ... |
| 16.03.2016 | Anterra Capital Closes Second Agritech Fund, at $125M | Anterra Capital, an Amsterdam, the Netherlands-based agritech growth capital firm, held the second close of its fund, at $125m.
Existing investors are Rabobank, a global food and agribusiness bank, and Eight Roads, the proprietary investmen... |
| 16.03.2016 | Anterra Capital Announces $125M Food & Ag Tech Fund | March 16, 2016, San Francisco – Anterra Capital (“Anterra”), the international food and agriculture growth capital firm, today announced a second close of its food and agriculture technology fund, raising the fund’s total capital to $125 mi... |
| 19.12.2015 | Farmobile Completes $5.5M Series A Funding | Farmobile, a Kansas City, MO-based tech company specializing in farm data, completed a $5.5m Series A round of funding.
The round was led by Anterra Capital.
The company will use the funds to develop and distribute new modules on top of its... |
| 04.03.2015 | LemnaTec Receives €5M Equity Investment from Anterra Capital | LemnaTec GmbH, an Aachen, Germany-based provider of high-throughput research platforms and analysis software for plants, received a €5m equity investment from Anterra Capital.
The company intends to use the proceeds to expand globally, part... |
| - | Dalma claws on €15 million to unveil superapp for pet parents in France and beyond | With 200 million cats and dogs in European households in 2021 and a pet population now twice as large as the EU population of children under 15, the pet care sector is over a €30-billion industry in Europe.
Pet insurance startup in France, ... |
| - | Led by former Curve co-founder and Monzo COO Tom Foster-Carter, online grocery startup Lollipop raises £5 million | London-based Lollipop has raised £5 million in a seed funding round led by Octopus Ventures. Targeting busy families, particularly with children, Lollipop is the app that finally brings meal planning, shopping, and cooking services all unde... |
