| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 10.04.2024 | OJ… with 30% less sugar? Blue Tree Technologies scales up wi... | Blue Tree Technologies—an Israeli startup using a patented process to selectively remove sugars from... | agfunderne... |
| 28.09.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Paine Schwartz launches $1.7bn agr... | Agrifood’s biggest news this week is PE firm Paine Schwartz closing its $1.7 billion food- and agrib... | agfunderne... |
| 27.09.2023 | Scentian Bio raises $2.1m seed round to build biosensors ins... | Scentian Bio—a New Zealand-based startup making biosensors with potential applications in everything... | agfunderne... |
| 15.09.2023 | Meet the founders: Israel’s Fresh Start incubator on what ma... | In many respects, foodtech is not an obvious target for venture capital, which is not the most patie... | agfunderne... |
| 13.02.2023 | ‘It’s a way to augment our organic growth’: Inside CropX M&a... | To build or to buy. That’s the question agtech startups continually face when developing their techn... | agfunderne... |
| 20.01.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Consumer foodtech players Flipdish... | One of this week’s biggest fundings went to Flipdish — a US startup providing software that powers p... | agfunderne... |
| 17.11.2021 | The good times keep rolling for small, e-commerce business o... | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign ... | fortune.co... |
| 17.11.2021 | The good times keep rolling for small, e-commerce business o... | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign ... | fortune.co... |
| 27.09.2021 | Nuance fund receives $17m NZGCP commitment | New Zealand Growth Capital Partners (NZGCP) today announced a $17 million commitment by its Elevate ... | nzgcp.co.n... |
| 31.05.2021 | Sprout’s new CEO on what drew him to New Zealand – and why s... | Holstein Friesian dairy cattle grazing in New Zealand. Image credit: pelooyen / iStock
When Israeli ... | agfunderne... |
| 21.05.2021 | UPDATED: ProducePay scores $43m Series C funding from VCs, d... | Editor’s note: This article was updated on May 21, 2021, to provide comment from ProducePay founder ... | agfunderne... |
| 20.05.2021 | BREAKING: ProducePay scores $43m Series C funding from VCs, ... | Online ag marketplace ProducePay has raised $43 million in a Series C round co-led by Silicon Valley... | agfunderne... |
| 13.04.2021 | Elevate invests $14 million into Finistere Aotearoa Fund | Elevate NZ Venture Fund is committing $14 million into the Finistere Aotearoa Fund which will target... | nzgcp.co.n... |
| 09.04.2021 | Sprout Agritech’s first-ever venture investment was 400m yea... | Andrew Králíček spent 19 years at New Zealand R&D institute Plant & Food Research (PFR), on ... | agfunderne... |
| 09.04.2021 | Sprout Agritech’s first-ever venture investment was 400 mill... | Andrew Králíček spent 19 years at New Zealand R&D institute Plant & Food Research (PFR), on ... | agfunderne... |
| 04.02.2021 | Last we heard from Good Eggs, it was in a multi-city retreat... | Grocery delivery seemed like it was on a meteoric trajectory when it erupted a few years ago. But it... | agfunderne... |
| 09.12.2020 | Investing in the Future of Food: Ag-tech attracts record fun... | The influx of funds comes as innovators – and investors – look for solutions to many long-standing f... | foodnaviga... |
| 17.11.2020 | Israel’s most active venture investor partners New Zealand’s... | New Zealand’s Sprout Agritech and Israel-based venture investing platform OurCrowd were selected las... | agfunderne... |
| 17.11.2020 | Israel’s most active venture investor partners New Zealand’s... | New Zealand’s Sprout Accelerator and Israel-based venture investing platform OurCrowd were selected ... | agfunderne... |
| 02.11.2020 | What 2020 has taught the agrifood sector: resilience | If there is anything the world has learned from the pandemic about the future of food it’s that food... | agfunderne... |
| 22.10.2020 | Grain monitoring startup TeleSense closes $10.2m Series B to... | US grain storage startup TeleSense has closed a $10.2 million Series B round led by existing investo... | agfunderne... |
| 21.10.2020 | Meet Arama Kukutai, co-founder and partner at Finistere Vent... | Finistere Ventures invests in startups in the food and agriculture spaces
Venture capital used to be... | vator.tv/n... |
| 17.09.2020 | AgTech NEXT 2020: Impossible’s Pat Brown in his own words, c... | This post is part of a collaboration with the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. The research ins... | agfunderne... |
| 10.09.2020 | CropX acquires New Zealand precision effluent and smart irri... | Israeli soil sensing and data analytics startup CropX has acquired New Zealand-based Regen, a cloud-... | agfunderne... |
| 24.03.2020 | Report: Agtech and Foodtech Markets Mature | Finistere Ventures, a Palo Alto, CA-based agrifood venture capital firm, released its “2019 AgriFood... | finsmes.co... |
| 28.01.2020 |
Finistere Ventures Raises $65M In First Investment In Ne... | San Diego-based venture investor Finistere Ventures has just raised the first $65M in a funding roun... | socaltech.... |
| 22.10.2019 | The present and future of food tech investment opportunity | Ingrid Fung Contributor
Ingrid Fung is an associate at Finistere Ventures.
There is no bigger indust... | techcrunch... |
| 21.09.2019 | The agtech investment imperative | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
| 21.09.2019 | The agtech investment imperative | Can we feed the world without burning it down? The world’s agri-food greenhouse gas footprint has re... | venturebea... |
| 10.09.2019 | ZeaKal clinches $15 million Series C funding, hires veteran ... | ZeaKal, a San-Diego biotech startup that neatly tweaks genetic crop traits to improve their rates of... | agfunderne... |
| 21.06.2019 | How BioLumic switches on the growing power of ultraviolet li... | Growers around the world face mounting pressure to produce more cannabis. But increasing yield isn’t... | rivcapital... |
| 29.05.2019 | Finistere Ventures, OurCrowd join $100m food tech funding in... | Premium
For venture capital investors in Asia Pacific, a low tech penetration yet fastest growing sm... | dealstreet... |
| 02.05.2019 | Inspection robots are climbing the walls to monitor safety c... | Down in Christchurch, New Zealand a team of roboticists at Invert Robotics has commercialized an ins... | techcrunch... |
| 20.11.2018 | ApisProtect Raises $1.8m Seed Funding to Monitor Bees with I... | ApisProtect, an Irish startup using Internet-of-Things technology to monitor beehives, has raised $1... | agfunderne... |
| 18.05.2018 | VC-Backed Crop Insurance Startup Cancels Nearly 200 Policies... | Venture-backed crop insurance startup Crop Pro Insurance has canceled nearly 200 crop hail insurance... | agfunderne... |
| 17.05.2018 | Taranis Acquires Aerial Imagery Platform Mavrx | Israeli precision agriculture intelligence platform Taranis is acquiring the assets of Mavrx, the Sa... | agfunderne... |
| 14.03.2018 | BioLumic raises $5 million to harness ultraviolet light to i... | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
| 14.03.2018 | BioLumic Raises $5m Series A to Commercialize UV-based Crop ... | New Zealand agtech statup BioLumic has raised a $5 million Series A round to commercialize its ultra... | agfunderne... |
| 14.03.2018 | BioLumic raises $5 million to harness ultraviolet light to i... | Scientists once thought that ultraviolet light was damaging to all kinds of life, including plants. ... | venturebea... |
| 08.03.2018 | Major trends in agtech for 2018 | Arama Kukutai Contributor
Arama Kukutai is a co-founder and partner of Finistere Ventures.
More post... | techcrunch... |
| 21.12.2017 | The Top 10 Farm Tech Deals of 2017 (How Many Can You Name Wi... | It was an exciting year in farm technology involving a few high profile venture capital exits and so... | agfunderne... |
| 11.12.2017 | Eight Agtech Startups Venturing Into Fintech | Just as startups are starting to address the entire food supply chain (hence the term agrifood tech)... | agfunderne... |
| 29.09.2017 | Q&A: Finistere’s Ireland Agtech Fund Sets Up Shop in Dub... | Earlier this month, California-based Finistere Ventures announced the launch of The Ireland AgTech F... | agfunderne... |
| 07.09.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, September 7 | SPORTS TALK
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| 07.09.2017 | Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and Finistere Ventures Lau... | The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD, has today announced the launch ... | finsmes.co... |
| 06.09.2017 | Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Invests €40m in Agtech wit... | The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) has invested €40 million into two agtech funds, includi... | agfunderne... |
| 06.09.2017 | Finistere Plants Investment Seed in Ireland With $24M Agtech... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Ireland’s top agricultural exports ... | xconomy.co... |
| 06.09.2017 | New €20m Fund Launched For Agtech Innovation | A new €20m fund has been launched to invest in Irish startup and early stage companies developing te... | businesspl... |
| 14.08.2017 | Beyond the Megafarms: 4 Alternative Models For Indoor Agricu... | Indoor agriculture has grabbed several headlines in the mainstream media recently. Not only does the... | agfunderne... |
| 08.08.2017 | Disruptive Crop Insurance Startup Crop Pro Raises $8m from A... | If you’re looking for disruptive agtech, this could be it and it’s not what you think.
Crop Pro Insu... | agfunderne... |
| 21.07.2017 | Finistere Ventures Adds David Duncan as Venture Partner | Palo Alto, CA-based AgTech venture capital firm Finistere Ventures has added seasoned entrepreneur D... | finsmes.co... |
| 20.07.2017 | Crop Protection: Biologicals vs Chemicals? | Editor’s Note: Spencer Maughan is a partner and Kieran Furlong is the entrepreneur in residence at a... | agfunderne... |
| 19.07.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, July 19 | SCREWING UP THE CAP TABLE, THE SISTERHOOD, IPO POPS
Hello from day three of Brainstorm Tech. I’m run... | fortune.co... |
| 19.07.2017 | SoftBank Invests in Largest Ever Agtech Deal, a $200m Series... | **UPDATE: Added comments from S2G Ventures managing director Sanjeev Krishnan, AeroFarms CEO David R... | agfunderne... |
| 19.07.2017 | Plenty raises $200M lead by local SD friends Finistere Ventu... | - | connect.or... |
| 13.06.2017 | Vertical farming startup Plenty acquires Bright Agrotech to ... | California-based vertical farming company Plenty, previously See Jane Farm, has acquired Bright Agro... | agfunderne... |
| 13.06.2017 | Vertical Farming Startup Plenty Acquires Bright Agrotech to ... | California-based vertical farming company Plenty, previously See Jane Farm, has acquired Bright Agro... | agfunderne... |
| 11.05.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Startups Raise Nearly $130m in 2 Weeks | Soylent, the meal replacement drink, has raised $50 million in Series B funding in a round led by GV... | agfunderne... |
| 05.05.2017 | Singapore: Vertex backs Israeli ag-tech firm Taranis in $7.5... | Premium
Israeli precision agriculture intelligence platform Taranis has closed a $7.5 million Series... | dealstreet... |
| 04.05.2017 | Taranis Raises $7.5m Series A for Pest and Crop Disease Pred... | Taranis, an Israeli precision agriculture intelligence platform, completed a $7.5 million Series A r... | agfunderne... |
| 26.04.2017 | Finistere Ventures Adds Gil Meron and Eyal Rosenthal in Isra... | California-based AgTech venture capital firm Finistere Ventures has added investment executives in I... | finsmes.co... |
| 26.04.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, April 26 | ET CETERA
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This the third-largest ever “ed tech” deal, aside from German publishing gia... | fortune.co... |
| 21.02.2017 | Agtech Accelerator Radicle Recruits Industry Vets to Mentor ... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Former Sapphire Energy CEO Jason Py... | xconomy.co... |
| 17.02.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Land O’Lakes Drone Challenge, Ag Innovati... | Land O’Lakes Announces New Drone Challenge
Land O’Lakes, the major US dairy cooperative, is calling ... | agfunderne... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 08.08.2016 | Driving new revenue sources through a digital ag revolution | Arama Kukutai Contributor
Arama Kukutai is a co-founder and partner of Finistere Ventures.
More post... | techcrunch... |
| 28.07.2016 | Finistere Ventures Holds First Close of Second Fund, at $139... | Finistere Ventures, a Palo Alto and San Diego-based California-based agricultural technology and lif... | finsmes.co... |
| 28.07.2016 | Agrium Invests in Finistere Fund II Ahead of Final Close Moo... | Agriculture products company Agrium has invested in Finistere Ventures‘ second agriculture technolog... | agfunderne... |
| 27.04.2016 | Finistere Ventures and International Farming Corporation Tea... | Agritech venture capital firm Finistere Ventures and institutional farmland owner International Farm... | finsmes.co... |
| 26.04.2016 | Willow Hill Ventures will fund and connect agriculture tech ... | International Farming Corp. and Finistere Ventures have agreed to partner under the moniker Willow H... | techcrunch... |
| 12.04.2016 | Bosch, Flextronics back CropX to help farmers grow more food... | A Tel Aviv startup that wants to help farmers produce more food with fewer resources, CropX, has att... | techcrunch... |
| 12.04.2016 | CropX Closes Out Series A Round on $10m with New Strategic I... | CropX, the Israeli irrigation and sensor technology company, has raised a further $1 million towards... | agfunderne... |
| 18.02.2016 | ZeaKal Raises $5.3m Series B for ‘Blockbuster’ GM Seeds | ZeaKal, a biotechnology startup producing genetically-modified seeds, has raised $5.3 million from a... | agfunderne... |
| 18.02.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Monsanto Leads $7.5m Series A for Underst... | Symbiota Re-Brands to Indigo and Raises $56m from Flagship Ventures
Microbial stimulant company Symb... | agfunderne... |
| 14.10.2015 | Finistere Ventures Breaks Norm to Invest in a Nutritional Fo... | A nutrition-driven food discovery app has caught the attention of established agriculture technology... | agfunderne... |
| - | Blue White Robotics converts tractors into autonomous vehicl... | Blue White Robotics cofounders Ben Alfi, Yair Shahar, and Aviram Shmueli. Blue White Robotics This s... | businessin... |
| - | Covid and 'peak cow' created a boom for food and agriculture... | Food and agriculture start-ups attracted a record $22.3 billion in venture funding last year — twice... | cnbc.com/2... |
| - | Startups revolutionizing farming raised $5 billion in 2020. ... | Indoor vertical farming. Lianoland Wimons, Sgverticalfarming1, CC BY-SA 4.0 This story is available ... | businessin... |