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21.03.2024 | Biological progress or bathtub brews? The state of US crop b... | Bathtub brew. Snake oil. Bugs in a jug. For years, companies developing biologicals — a form of crop... | agfunderne... |
04.12.2023 | With a fresh $25m in hand, AgroSpheres aims to build ‘unprec... | While generally seen as safer for planetary health, biopesticides are frequently less effective than... | agfunderne... |
21.08.2023 | Cultivated beef co Omeat begins generating revenues… but not... | Cultivated meat startup Omeat—which uses nutrients harvested from the plasma of “healthy, living cow... | agfunderne... |
22.06.2023 | Omeat emerges from stealth armed with $40m to scale novel ap... | Armed with $40 million in funding, Los Angeles-based startup Omeat has emerged from stealth with a “... | agfunderne... |
16.06.2023 | Meet the founder: Bond Pet Foods’ Rich Kelleman on pet paren... | A former ad exec who began to question the ethics of industrialized meat production after doing some... | agfunderne... |
08.05.2023 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | April 2023 | Welcome to the latest edition of the DIGIT Deal Roundup column, featuring some of the top investment... | digit.fyi/... |
11.04.2023 | Scottish Agritech Secures £4M for Eco-Friendly Insecticides | Scottish agritech, SOLASTA Bio, who specialises in the next generation of green insecticides has sec... | digit.fyi/... |
07.12.2022 | BREAKING: Sound Agriculture lands $75m to expand nitrogen en... | US-based Sound Agriculture has raised a $75 million Series D to expand its crop nutrient and plant b... | agfunderne... |
29.11.2022 | Verdant Robotics lands $46.5m in fresh funding from Clevelan... | US-based Verdant Robotics has closed a $46.5 million Series A for its “Robotics as a Service” techno... | agfunderne... |
14.11.2022 | Brief: Vow lands $49.2m ahead of its cultivated quail launch... | Australian cultivated meat company Vow has secured $49.2 million in Series A funding to bring cultiv... | agfunderne... |
01.06.2022 | BREAKING: FarmWise’s weeding robots haul in $45m Series B fu... | US ag automation startup FarmWise Labs, which builds weeding robot Titan, has raised $45 million in ... | agfunderne... |
19.05.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Downey Jr’s Footprint backs Motif;... | One of India’s leading food and restaurant delivery services made another big-ticket acquisition thi... | agfunderne... |
16.05.2022 | BREAKING: Vestaron banks $82m Series C funding for its crop-... | US biotech startup Vestaron, which is devleoping biological alternatives to chemical-based crop cont... | agfunderne... |
31.03.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Beewise closes $80m round, Arzeda ... | This week, Israeli bee tech company Beewise raised funds to save the world’s apine population with r... | agfunderne... |
22.02.2022 | Verdant Robotics unveils ‘multi-action’ tech for specialty c... | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Verdant Robotics.
Verdant Robotics has... | agfunderne... |
16.11.2021 | BREAKING: Chinese VC Bits x Bites hits $100m final close wit... | Chinese agrifoodtech VC firm Bits x Bites has closed its latest fund on $100 million with a string o... | agfunderne... |
16.11.2021 | Chinese VC Bits x Bites hits $100m final close with capital ... | Chinese agrifoodtech VC firm Bits x Bites has closed its latest fund on $100 million with a string o... | agfunderne... |
22.09.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Cargill, Heineken & Nestlé unv... | In the past seven days, a trio of major agrifood corporates doubled-down on sustainability by announ... | agfunderne... |
14.09.2021 | BREAKING: Nitrogen fixer Andes scores $15m from Bayer, Wilbu... | Andes, a Chilean-founded, US-based ag biotech startup, has raised $15 million in Series A funding. T... | agfunderne... |
14.09.2021 | Nitrogen fixer Andes scores $15m from Bayer, Wilbur-Ellis to... | Andes, a Chilean-founded, US-based ag biotech startup, has raised $15 million in Series A funding. T... | agfunderne... |
25.08.2021 | Agrifoodtech Digest: Cargill, Microsoft & Rabobank get i... | Two of the past week’s biggest stories were AFN exclusives from the ag carbon market, both involving... | agfunderne... |
19.08.2021 | BREAKING: Sound Agriculture closes $45m late stage round led... | Sound Agriculture, the self-described “bio-inspired” crop inputs company, has raised $45 million in ... | agfunderne... |
19.08.2021 | Sound Agriculture closes $45m late stage round | Sound Agriculture, the self-described “bio-inspired” crop inputs company, has raised $45 million in ... | syngentagr... |
19.08.2021 | Sound Agriculture closes $45m late stage round led by Leaps ... | Sound Agriculture, the self-described “bio-inspired” crop inputs company, has raised $45 million in ... | agfunderne... |
02.03.2021 | BREAKING: Anti-mastitis startup SomaDetect raises $6m Series... | Dairy farmers would save a lot of money — and tears over spilled milk — if they had a way to detect ... | agfunderne... |
02.03.2021 | Anti-mastitis startup SomaDetect raises $6m Series A from Ag... | Dairy farmers would save a lot of money — and tears over spilled milk — if they had a way to detect ... | agfunderne... |
11.12.2020 | Syngenta partners with Sound Ag to launch ‘bio-inspired’ cro... | Swiss agro-chemical giant Syngenta is hoping to tackle nitrogen use in China while maintaining produ... | agfunderne... |
10.12.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Beta Hatch banks $9.3m Series A, breaks ground on... | Mealworms may be the last critter that comes to mind when you hear the word ‘ranch,’ but Beta Hatch ... | agfunderne... |
08.06.2020 | Temasek leads $46m Series B for Ascus Bio’s microbe-based an... | The US animal health market generates around $10 billion in sales each year, according to the Animal... | agfunderne... |
22.05.2020 | Insects for animal feed startup Beta Hatch raises $3m Series... | Since insect protein became a buzzworthy segment a few years ago, the space has seen a number of sta... | agfunderne... |
28.04.2020 | Zoetis’ acquisition of Performance Livestock Analytics is ma... | Monsanto’s acquisition of The Climate Corporation in 2013 marked a major turning point for the then-... | agfunderne... |
17.09.2019 | FarmWise raises $14.5m Series A to expand its weeding robot ... | There are a number of robotics startups in the ag space targeting a variety of pain points throughou... | agfunderne... |
05.09.2019 | Why Fieldin stood out in crowded farm management software sp... | Editor’s Note: Michael Dean led AgFunder’s investment in Israel’s Fieldin — a $12 million Series A l... | agfunderne... |