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21.03.2024 | Leonsis-backed food and beverage AI startup nets $2.3M fundi... | - | bizjournal... |
19.01.2023 | Letter from 2023: a vintage year to invest in foodtech and a... | 2023 could be the best year yet to invest in foodtech and agtech.
Sure, we’ve all said this before; ... | agfunderne... |
17.01.2022 | How surplus food marketplace Full Harvest will spend its $23... | For years, general consensus agreed the bulk of food waste in developed countries happened at the co... | agfunderne... |
11.11.2021 | Nuritas raises $45m to scale its plant-based peptides discov... | Irish biotech company Nuritas has closed a $45 million Series B round led by Chicago-based Cleveland... | agfunderne... |
17.09.2021 | Debut Biotech is creating next-gen ingredients through ‘cell... | With climate change and its environmental consequences upon us, many companies are turning to more ‘... | agfunderne... |
12.08.2021 | Debut Biotech Raises $22.6M Series A to Commercialize High-V... | By overcoming the limitations of cell-based fermentation, Debut Biotech produces high-value ingredie... | prweb.com/... |
07.06.2021 | Ginkgo Bioworks partners Asian chemicals giant Sumitomo | US synthetic biology startup Ginkgo Bioworks has signed an R&D collaboration agreement with Japa... | 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 | 51 VCs Who Want To Invest In Women, Black And Latinx, And LG... | Erica Chidi, co-founder and chief executive officer of Loom, speaks during the 2020 Makers ... [+] C... | forbes.com... |
22.09.2020 | Leaf raises $2m seed round to expand API offering for agrifo... | Tech permeates pretty much everything we do today, though most of us only experience the user-facing... | agfunderne... |
18.06.2020 | Three AgFunder portfolio companies selected as World Economi... | We’re proud to announce that The World Economic Forum has named three AgFunder portfolio companies t... | agfunderne... |
02.04.2020 | Agri-foodtech VCs assess Covid-19’s impact on the sector and... | As we all “shelter in place” and “socially distance” ourselves, we are learning a lot about what we ... | agfunderne... |
26.03.2020 | Raising capital in a pandemic: ‘There is plenty of dry powde... | “These are choppy waters and everything is a little uncertain, but we think that food and agricultur... | foodnaviga... |
04.03.2020 | How Culture Biosciences is helping biomanufacture agrifood, ... | You may have heard a growing number of agri-foodtech startups talk about how they’re “harnessing nat... | agfunderne... |
02.01.2020 | 2020 predictions from agrifoodtech’s leading VCs | Happy New Year!
What a decade it’s been for the advancement of the food and agriculture industries! ... | agfunderne... |
05.12.2019 | FarmlandFinder raises $3m seed round led by Cultivian to mak... | Des Moines-based startup FarmlandFinder has raised a $3 million seed round led by Chicago-based agte... | agfunderne... |
23.05.2019 | Who Are the Most Active AgriFood Tech Investors? | While still a niche corner of the overall venture capital industry, investment in AgriFood Tech star... | agfunderne... |
24.04.2019 | Cultivian Sandbox Ventures Closes Third Venture Capital Fund... | Chicago, IL-based AgriFood tech venture capital firm Cultivian Sandbox Ventures closed its third fun... | finsmes.co... |
23.04.2019 | Cultivian Sandbox closes third fund on $135m with bevy of fo... | Cultivian Sandbox Ventures has raised $135 million in its third fund. Founded in 2008, the firm was ... | agfunderne... |
23.04.2019 | Cultivian Sandbox Closes 3rd Fund on $135m with Bevy of Food... | Cultivian Sandbox Ventures, the most established agrifood tech venture capital firm, has raised $135... | agfunderne... |
21.04.2019 | How Chicago Fuels Food-Focused Innovation | Today, Chicago’s newest food business accelerator, The Hatchery, will celebrate its grand opening. A... | hpa.vc/how... |
26.03.2019 | Animal AgTech, The Sector’s Awkward Uncle, Proudly Struts It... | This year’s Rethink AgriFood Innovation Week in San Francisco saw an awkward uncle stride proudly in... | agfunderne... |
14.02.2019 | Thiel-Backed Breakout Ventures Invests in Phylagen $14m Seri... | Microbiome data analytics company Phylagen has raised a $14 million Series A round led by Peter Thie... | agfunderne... |
13.02.2019 | 60 AgriFood Tech Startups Nominated for 2019 AgFunder Innova... | *VOTING EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 1, 9AM ET!*
We’re very excited to open our Third Annual AgFunder AgriFo... | agfunderne... |
15.08.2018 | Full Harvest Raises $8.5m Series A for Food Waste Marketplac... | Full Harvest, a B2B marketplace focused on reducing food waste, has raised $8.5 million in Series A ... | agfunderne... |
18.04.2018 | HarvestPort Moves Into Crop Inputs As E-Commerce for Farmers... | HarvestPort, a San Francisco-based agtech startup, launched a new way for growers to get unique deal... | agfunderne... |
02.04.2018 | What is the Prototypical Agtech Exit? | The headline-making agtech exits of 2017 generated cautious optimism among investors and stakeholder... | agfunderne... |
20.02.2018 | Nine Dairy Farm Tech Startups Seeking to Bolster a Troubled ... | Whether it be single-cow farms in India or massive commercial dairies in the US, the dairy industry ... | agfunderne... |
20.12.2017 | Nuritas Raises $20m Series A for AI Ingredient Discovery Pla... | Nuritas, an Irish biotech startup has raised a $20 million Series A round led by agtech VC Cultivian... | agfunderne... |
05.12.2017 | Asilomar Bio Raises $12m Series B for Chemical Yield Enhance... | Asilomar Bio, a San Francisco-based maker of chemical crop inputs has raised a $12.25 million Series... | agfunderne... |
21.11.2017 | Women in Agtech: Joy Parr Drach of Advanced Animal Diagnosti... | Joy Parr Drach is CEO of Advanced Animal Diagnostics (AAD), a company developing tools to diagnose l... | agfunderne... |
01.11.2017 | Ceres Imaging Raises Additional $2.5m to Support Crop Expans... | Ceres Imaging has raised an additional $2.5 million in Series A funding from existing investor Romul... | agfunderne... |
10.10.2017 | Cultured Meat Will Cost Startups $150m-$370m (and Take At Le... | There is a reason that high profile investors and entrepreneurs — and therefore media outlets global... | agfunderne... |
24.08.2017 | Cargill Invests in Predictive Ag ‘Data Refinery’ Descartes L... | **UPDATE: Added comments from Cultivian Sandbox Managing Partner Andy Ziolkowski**
Big data analysis... | agfunderne... |
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. T... | agfunderne... |
09.03.2017 | HarvestPort Closes $2.5m Series A with Cultivian and Taylor ... | HarvestPort, the online farm equipment and services marketplace, has raised $2.5 million in Series A... | agfunderne... |
13.02.2017 | How Purdue Foundry is Supporting Agtech Innovation | Universities in the US are integrating agriculture technology and innovation with the traditional ST... | agfunderne... |
16.12.2016 | What Happened in Ag and Foodtech in 2016? Experts Reflect | Feeling reflective as we approach the holiday season and the end of 2016? In this week’s podcast, we... | agfunderne... |
05.12.2016 | Tyson Foods launches new venture fund to back food and agric... | Tyson Foods Inc., one of the world’s largest makers and marketers of meat products, has announced th... | techcrunch... |
06.10.2016 | A Guide to the Investors Funding the Next Agricultural Revol... | As the next agricultural revolution unfolds, an increasing number of investors are stepping up to fu... | agfunderne... |
05.10.2016 | Connecting the Dots: Trends in Crop Protection and Animal He... | Editor’s Note: Kevin Zussman is an agtech investor with Cultivian Sandbox, a venture capital firm th... | agfunderne... |
25.08.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: FarmShots Raises Seed Round – exclusiv... | FarmShots Raises Seed Round
After just completing the Y Combinator accelerator program, North Caroli... | agfunderne... |
24.08.2016 | How Sustainable Is Agritech Investment? | Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Forbes.com, entitled How Sustainable Is The Agritech V... | agfunderne... |
18.08.2016 | What do Monsanto’s Plans to Open Up its Digital Platform Mea... | Monsanto has made the first move towards building a centralized and open digital platform for farmer... | agfunderne... |
11.08.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Startup Manufacturing Wine without Grapes... | Alternative Wine Startup Ava Winery Raises $2.7m Seed Round with Horizon Ventures
Ava Winery, a star... | agfunderne... |
12.04.2016 | How Technologies Developed for Other Sectors are Revolutioni... | Editor’s Note: Kevin Zussman is an agtech investor with Cultivian Sandbox, a venture capital firm th... | agfunderne... |
19.11.2015 | Descartes Labs Raises $5m Series A for A.I. Analysis of Ag I... | Descartes Labs, a software startup using artificial intelligence to process satellite imagery, has r... | agfunderne... |
20.08.2015 | Agtech Veteran Cultivian Sandbox Leads Agrivida’s $23M Serie... | Animal nutrition biotech company Agrivida has raised $23 million in Series D funding from a range of... | agfunderne... |
17.06.2015 | Crop Protection Product Developer Asilomar Bio Announces $3M... | “Farmers everywhere will tell you that weather and water are the biggest issues,” Travis Bayer, co-f... | agfunderne... |
08.09.2014 | Conservis Closes $10M Series A Financing | Conservis Corporation, a Minneapolis-based provider of cloud-based farm management software solution... | finsmes.co... |
26.08.2014 | Bioinsecticide Company, Vestaron, Raises $10M Series C from ... | As it turns out, some VC’s don’t like bugs, either.
Kalamazoo-based bioinsecticide company, Vestaron... | agfunderne... |
08.05.2014 | AbCelex Raises $2M Series A from Cultivian Sandbox Ventures | The CDC says that in the US, about 1 in 6 people getting sick from food-borne illnesses, causing 128... | agfunderne... |
28.04.2014 | AbCelex Technologies Closes on $2.0M in Series A VC Financin... | AbCelex Technologies Inc., a Canadian biotechnology company, closed on $2.0m in Series A venture cap... | finsmes.co... |
13.03.2014 | EnEvolv Completes $1.7M Series A Financing | EnEvolv, Inc., a Boston, MA-based genome engineering company, completed its $1.7m Series A financing... | finsmes.co... |