| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.07.2024 | VDS: Steve Chen, Randi Zuckerberg, and Juan Antonio Samaranch Lead Lineup of Top Speakers at Valencia’s Premier Tech Event | VDS, one of Southern Europe's most prominent international tech events, will take place on October 23-24, at the iconic City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia. Featuring a lineup of stellar business leaders from major companies and top ventu... |
| 04.04.2024 | Sparxell Revolutionizes Colorants with $3.2M Funding | Sparxell, a UK-based developer of sustainable, plant-based pigments, has secured $3.2M in funding to disrupt the colorants market. Led by Dr. Benjamin Droguet and Professor Silvia Vignolini, Sparxell's innovative pigments are toxin-free, fu... |
| 02.04.2024 | Sparxell Raises $3.2m to Advance Development of Sustainable Pigments | CAMBRIDGE, U.K.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 2, 2024–
Sparxell, the UK-based developer of high-performance, sustainable, plant-based pigments, has completed a $3.2m funding round (comprising seed investments, grants, and awards) to accelerate deve... |
| 13.11.2023 | WSense levanta una ronda liderada por SWEN Blue Ocean, con la participación de Axon Partners Group y CDP | 13/11/2023
Nota de prensa
WSENSE LEVANTA UNA RONDA LIDERADA POR SWEN BLUE OCEAN, CON LA PARTICIPACIÓN DE AXON PARTNERS GROUP Y CDP
La empresa tecnológica italiana Wsense ha cerrado recientemente una ronda de inversión Serie A con el obje... |
| 11.10.2023 | Climate investor Katapult shows off its 23 new investments | Katapult, the Oslo-based global investment firm with a penchant for fostering early-stage, high-impact, climate-focused tech startups, is doubling down on its ocean and climate investments. From 2,500 applications, it picked 23 startups fro... |
| 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... |
| 23.03.2023 | Startup says the seaweed blobbing toward Florida has a silver lining | A brown macroalgae native to the Atlantic’s Sargasso Sea is increasingly a menace to coastal ecosystems and communities across the Gulf of Mexico, ever since mats of the normally beneficial seaweed (known as sargassum) exploded in numbers i... |
| 02.03.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Shef cooks up $75m, Futura Gaïa lands $11m, Asuene closes $22.8m | This week, US-based Shef, which runs an online marketplace for home-cooked meals, announced new funding, as did France’s Futura Gaïa, for its soil-based vertical farms. Climate tech startup Asuene closed a $22 million round and several comp... |
| 27.02.2023 | Serbian startup Mily Tech raises €1M in a pre-seed round | Serbian startup Mily Tech raises €1M in a pre-seed round
27 February, 2023, 13:09
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Serbia-founded delivery analytics platform... |
| 20.02.2023 | Ittinsect raises €625,000 to commercialise sustainable fish feed, made using insects | Rome-based insect aquaculture feed developer Ittinsect has raised €625,000 in pre-seed funds.
The round was backed by CDP Venture Capital's Accelerators Fund, Katapult Ocean, Indico Capital Partners, LVenture Group and two unnamed angel inv... |
| 20.01.2023 | Looking at worn down rocks to capture more CO2, InPlanet closes out €1.2 million pre-seed | Germany/Brazil-HQed InPlanet is looking at the use of enhanced rock weathering, a chemical reaction that could enable large-scale CO2 removal from the atmosphere.
Rock weathering has accounted for the removal of most of Earth's carbon dioxi... |
| 11.01.2023 | Maine seaweed company Ocean’s Balance establishes alliance with Japanese food manufacturer and raises investment round | Farming kelp in Maine
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Ocean’s Balance, the rapidly growing Maine based vertically integrated seaweed company, raised a Seed Plus equity round from 3 prominent investors.
We’re thrilled to form a business allianc... |
| 01.12.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: BeeHero nabs $42m for precision pollination, Wildtype reels in $7m for cultivated fish | This week, precision pollination company BeeHero landed Series B funding and US-based cultivated seafood company Wildtype caught new funding for its forthcoming alt-salmon product. Elsewhere, collaborative investment platform FoodShot Globa... |
| 31.10.2022 | Импакт, который имеет значение. Социальное предпринимательство — новый мейнстрим на венчурном рынке | Далеко не все стартапы преследуют исключительно коммерческие цели. Такие проекты получили название импакт-стартапов (также их называют социальными или impact-driven, от англ. impact — влиять на что-либо). Они, конечно, ориентированы на рыно... |
| 26.10.2022 | Finnish startup Hyperion Robotics raises €3M to 3D print concrete | Finnish startup Hyperion Robotics raises €3M to 3D print concrete
26 October, 2022, 16:39
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Hyperion Robotics, a Finnish techn... |
| 21.07.2022 | Crop2Cash is giving Nigerian farmers a pathway to financial inclusion | Software developer Michael Ogundare witnessed a stark mismatch in his home country of Nigeria: the majority of local food production depended on smallholder farmers, but those farmers were unable to access financing to support food producti... |
| 29.04.2022 | Accelerator Panel at this year’s EU-Startups Summit: Meet Katapult, Startup Wise Guys, Rockstart and Startupbootcamp! | On May 12-13 we’ll be hosting this year’s EU-Startups Summit in beautiful Barcelona! At the in-person comeback of one of Europe’s hottest startup events, you will have the chance to connect and network with about 1,600 founders, startup ent... |
| 13.04.2022 | An insight into how Katapult VC invests in African startups | Share this article:
As of 2020, 282 million Africans went hungry because of insecurity, inadequate agricultural infrastructure, and drought. In addition to public sector initiatives, startups have been built to solve some of the sector’s pr... |
| 24.03.2022 | Katapult partners with Tony Blair Institute for Global Change to develop an African accelerator | The Katapult Africa Accelerator Programme, which will aim to accelerate and invest in agri-tech and climate-tech firms, has been launched in collaboration with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Norrsken, and Smart Africa.
The Kata... |
| 04.02.2022 | Norway’s Katapult VC gains two impact unicorns in one week | With Chilean insurance tech startup Betterfly now sharing prestigious unicorn status with fellow portfolio company, Esusu, Norwegian VC Katapult has gained its second accelerator-bred impact unicorn in one week.
Katapult first discovered a... |
| 04.02.2022 | Norwegian VC insights: How to win in venture when the rules-and geography- of the game is chaning? | In this blog post, Katapult Group CEO, Fredrik Winther assesses the fast-changing landscape of venture, and why venture investors need to re-think strategy.
By Frederik Winther
The venture capital industry broke all records in 2021, and i... |
| 03.02.2022 | Swiss climate tech startup raises $1 million to monitor water, snow and other renewable energy sources | With Net Zero commitments in place, more countries, investors and businesses are working closely together to speed up affordable clean tech adoption worldwide. Driven by a rejuvenated focus on ESG in private markets, emerging regulations (s... |
| 02.02.2022 | One million USD to fast-track WeGaw Climate Tech | |
| 20.10.2021 | South African clean-tech start up secures investment | Johannesburg-based clean-tech startup Brayfoil Technologies has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from Katapult Ocean. In addition, the innovative tech startup has been selected to participate in the Katapult ocean accelerator progra... |
| 20.10.2021 | South African clean-tech start up secures investment | Johannesburg-based clean-tech startup Brayfoil Technologies has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from Katapult Ocean. In addition, the innovative tech startup has been selected to participate in the Katapult ocean accelerator progra... |
| 26.08.2021 | Startup’s Nutshell Cooler Uses Coconut Husks As Insulation | A peek inside the Nutshell CoolerZach Doleac/Fortuna Cools |
| - | Swiss climate tech startup raises $1 million to monitor water, snow and other renewable energy sources | With Net Zero commitments in place, more countries, investors and businesses are working closely together to speed up affordable clean tech adoption worldwide. Driven by a rejuvenated focus on ESG in private markets, emerging regulations (s... |
