| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.06.2026 | SWARM Engineering Secures $10M: AI Transforms Agrifood, Manufacturing Operations | SWARM Engineering secured $10M in Series A funding. S2G Investments and AgRogue Growth Partners led the round. The company develops AI-driven decision intelligence for agrifood and manufacturing. Funds will expand its operational AI roadmap... |
| 10.06.2026 | SWARM Engineering Raises $10M in Series A Funding | SWARM Engineering, an Irvine, CA-based decision intelligence company for agrifood and manufacturing, raised $10M in Series A funding.
The round was led by S2G Investments and AgRogue Growth Partners, with participation from Radicle Growth, ... |
| 10.06.2026 | SWARM Engineering Raises $10 Million Series A To Transform Operational Decisions With AI | SWARM Engineering announced that it has raised $10 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round led by S2G Investments and AgRogue Growth Partners. Additional investors participating in the round included Radicle Growth, Grit Road Pa... |
| 13.01.2026 | Radicle Growth Launches The Radicle Corn Challenge Sponsored by US Corn Farmers to Drive New Demand for Corn | $1.75M Challenge Invites Global Startups to Develop New Uses for Corn Across Materials, Chemicals, Fuels, and Emerging Value Chains
Through the Radicle Corn Challenge, we’re looking to support companies that can translate innovation into re... |
| 06.06.2025 | Companies Receive Investment Through the Radicle Corn Value Chain Challenge | As a farmer, it’s exciting to see companies like New Iridium and Låkril tapping into corn’s potential as a feedstock, unlocking its many benefits and helping to drive its demand.”
— Iowa Corn Growers Association Vice President, Mark Mueller... |
| 23.10.2024 | Radicle Growth Announces Winners For The Radicle Corn Value Chain Challenge Sponsored By Us Corn Farmers | As a farmer, it’s exciting to see companies like me Energy and Låkril tapping into corn’s potential as a feedstock, unlocking its many benefits and helping to drive its demand.”
— Iowa Corn Growers Association Vice President, Mark MuellerSA... |
| 17.09.2024 | Radicle Growth Announces Finalists For The Radicle Corn Value Chain Challenge Sponsored By US Corn Farmers | Through the Corn Challenge, innovative ideas for new demand opportunities for corn have been surfaced.”
— Mark Mueller, Iowa Corn Growers Association Vice PresidentSAN DIEGO, CA, UNITED STATES, September 17, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Radic... |
| 03.09.2024 | Radicle Growth Announces Partnership With ABLC For The Radicle Corn Value Chain Challenge Sponsored By US Corn Farmers | Radicle Growth to host “The Radicle Corn Value Chain Challenge” finalists’ pitch day event Oct. 22, 2024 in San Francisco with ABLC NEXT Conference.
ABLC NEXT is a natural partner for the Radicle Corn Value Chain Challenge, because they hav... |
| 19.03.2024 | WINNERS ANNOUNCED: UPL CORP LEADS US$1.75M INVESTMENT IN BIOLOGICAL AG-TECH INNOVATORS | Martha Schlicher (CEO at Impetus Ag) on the left and Shireen Davies (CEO at SOLASTA Bio) on the right
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SOLASTA Bio & Impetus Ag announced as winners of "Radicle NPP Challenge by UPL". Winners identified fro... |
| 29.02.2024 | RADICLE GROWTH LAUNCHES THE RADICLE CORN VALUE CHAIN CHALLENGE SPONSORED BY US CORN FARMERS | The search is on for Agtech & Growth Companies whose innovative technologies & business models create new uses for corn & sustainable demand for corn production SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, February 29, 2024 /EINPresswi... |
| 14.02.2024 | 'THE RADICLE NPP CHALLENGE BY UPL’ REVEALS FINALISTS COMPETING FOR US$1.75M INVESTMENT | The Radicle Natural Plant Protection Challenge by UPL LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, February 14, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- • The Challenge seeks to advance natural and biological solutions to protect crops from biotic stresses and saw applicatio... |
| 17.07.2023 | Investing in ag biologicals: “We are looking for reasons to say no” | The word “efficacy” gets thrown around a lot when talking about naturally-derived crop production and protection tools, commonly known as biologicals.
In biologicals, efficacy is about whether or not a crop solution does what its creators s... |
| 01.06.2023 | UPL AND RADICLE GROWTH LAUNCH THE RADICLE NPP CHALLENGE | The search is on for AgTech Start-ups Advancing Natural and Biological Control Solutions for Sustainable Food Systems LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, June 1, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- UPL (NSE: UPL, BSE: 512070, LSE GDR: UPLL), a global provider of... |
| 01.06.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Neat Burger raises $18m, Debut bags $34m to expand cell-free biomanufacturing platform | This week, Neat Burger raised $18m to take its plant-based restaurant chain into new markets, synthetic biology startup Debut raised $34 million to expand its cell-free biomanufacturing platform, and biofertilizer startup Anuvia Plant Nutri... |
| 17.11.2022 | Supply Chains And Soil Microbes: How 2 Startups Represent The Evolving Faces Of Agriculture | One startup develops algorithms to calculate a billion transactions per second, helping farmers and commodity buyers understand how scores of factors can affect their contracts and future emissions. The other creates patented technology to ... |
| 30.10.2022 | Our portfolio company FA Bio win The Radicle Inclusion Challenge presented by Nutrien | The Challenge which looked for food and Agtech entrepreneurs who are committed to diversity and inclusion, took place on 18th October 2022 in Iowa. Having made it to the final pitch presentation, from over 130 applicants, FA Bio was announc... |
| 19.10.2022 | Winners Announced for The Radicle Inclusion Challenge Presented by Nutrien | The Radicle Challenge by Nutrien Logo
AgTools & FA Bio are the winners of the Challenge! Nutrien invests USD $250,000 in each of these ag tech innovators that are advancing D&I in agriculture. SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, USA, October 19,... |
| 20.09.2022 | Finalists Announced for The Radicle Inclusion Challenge Presented by Nutrien | Four finalists were selected from over 130 applicants in 40 countries to compete for investment at a Pitch Day event at The World Food Prize on October 18th SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, USA, September 20, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Radicle Growth... |
| 28.07.2022 | Radicle Growth announces The Radicle Farm, a global farm-access platform to accelerate Agtech start-ups | Radicle Growth announces The Radicle Farm, a global farm-access platform to accelerate the development of early-stage agtech companies SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, USA, July 28, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Radicle Growth, a company-building platfo... |
| 24.05.2022 | The Radicle Inclusion Challenge Presented by Nutrien:for global AgTech entrepreneurs committed to innovation & inclusion | The Radicle Challenge by Nutrien Logo
Looking for global AgTech entrepreneurs from groups that have historically been underrepresented in agriculture or startups committed to innovation & inclusion. SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, USA, May 24, 2... |
| 10.05.2022 | The Radicle Inclusion Challenge Presented by Nutrien for Food & AgTech entrepreneurs committed to diversity & inclusion | Radicle & Nutrien launch The Radicle Inclusion Challenge Presented by Nutrien to invest in startups committed to D&I while advancing a sustainable food system SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, USA, May 10, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- SAN DIEGO,... |
| 17.01.2022 | How surplus food marketplace Full Harvest will spend its $23m Series B funding | For years, general consensus agreed the bulk of food waste in developed countries happened at the consumer-facing end of the value chain: in restaurants, retail outlets, and inside people’s homes. More recent data suggests otherwise. Accord... |
| 29.09.2021 | This Week in Agrifoodtech: Gorillas raises $950m, New Age Meats nets $25m & more | The past seven days saw major funding hauls for German food delivery startup Gorillas, US cultivated meat maker New Age Meats, and Canadian precision ag platform Semios. Elsewhere, AFN examined data that suggests that agriculture is far fro... |
| 28.09.2021 | Botmaker Burro banks $11m Series A funding in Toyota, S2G-led round | US ag robotics startup Burro has raised $10.9 million in Series A funding, it announced today. The round was led by US agrifoodtech VC S2G Ventures and Toyota Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC arm of Japanese conglomerate Toyota.
F-Prime C... |
| 01.09.2021 |
Radicle Growth Teams With UPL On $1.25M Startup Challenge
| San Diego-based Radicle Growth, which focuses on incubating early stage agriculture and food technology, and agriculture giant UPL said today that the two are in a new partnership, which will invest $1.25M in two startups that can "pos... |
| 22.01.2021 | BlueNalu sets sights on Asia after raising cultured seafood’s biggest round yet | San Diego-based BlueNalu just raised $60 million in a convertible note financing, which the startup claims is the biggest funding round yet in the ‘lab-grown’ seafood space.
Rage Capital led the funding, with a host of new and existing inve... |
| 20.11.2020 | Alt Protein Startups MycoTechnology & BlueNalu Take Home Top Prizes In Radicle Protein Challenge | 1
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MycoTechnology and BlueNalu have been named winner and runner-up of the Radicle Protein Challenge by Syngenta, bagging home US$1 million and US$250,000 in investment respectively. The challenge was launched by Californ... |
| 06.11.2020 | MycoTechnology and BlueNalu Announced Winners of Radicle Protein Challenge, Receive $1.25M Investment | Radicle Growth has announced MycoTechnology and BlueNalu as the winners of Syngenta’s Radicle Protein Challenge. The Challenge was initiated to uncover innovation and invest a total of $1.25 million in two leading players in the transformat... |
| 06.11.2020 | MycoTechnology and BlueNalu Announced Winners of Radicle Protein Challenge, Receive $1.25M Investment | BlueNalu's whole-muscle, cell-based yellowtail fish tacos, image supplied
Radicle Growth has announced MycoTechnology and BlueNalu as the winners of Syngenta’s Radicle Protein Challenge. The Challenge was initiated to uncover innovation and... |
| 03.11.2020 | Syngenta Group invests $1.25m in new protein technologies | |
| 13.10.2020 | Protein innovators to convene at virtual competition to pitch for $1.25m in the Radicle Protein Challenge by Syngenta | |
| 22.09.2020 | Leaf raises $2m seed round to expand API offering for agrifoodtech startups | Tech permeates pretty much everything we do today, though most of us only experience the user-facing side of it. And while every app or program is hoping to tackle some major pain point or another, there are countless digital nuts and bolts... |
| 28.04.2020 | Radicle Growth and Syngenta launch the Radicle Protein Challenge by Syngenta to invest $1.25m in technologies to support the future of protein | |
| 24.10.2019 |
Radicle Growth Invests $250K In WeedOUT
| San Diego-based Radicle Growth, a startup investor which invests in innovative agtech and food tech startups, says it has awarded $250,000 to WeedOUT, an Israeli startup focused on the resistance of weeds to existing chemical herbicides. Ac... |
| 21.06.2019 | How BioLumic switches on the growing power of ultraviolet light for cannabis producers | Growers around the world face mounting pressure to produce more cannabis. But increasing yield isn’t easy. Cannabis seed companies and farmers must confront escalating operational costs, climate variability, ongoing regulatory changes, and ... |
| 15.01.2019 | Startup competitions seeking agtech companies | They include AgSharks Competition, IoT.ATL AgTech Challenge and Future Agro Challenge
If you're a startup seeking opportunities to get funded, educated or connected, startup competitions are a great resource.
Vator has been holding its own ... |
| 20.11.2018 | ApisProtect Raises $1.8m Seed Funding to Monitor Bees with IoT | ApisProtect, an Irish startup using Internet-of-Things technology to monitor beehives, has raised $1.8 million in seed funding.
The startup measures data from beehives — including temperature, humidity, CO2, sound, and movement data — and a... |
| 21.05.2018 | Desjardins Invests in AI Startup Motorleaf | Motorleaf Motorleaf
Founded: 2015
Headquarters: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Total Funding: $2.93M
See full company profile "> , a Montreal-based AI and machine learning startup in the field of indoor agriculture, has raised $2.85M in a... |
| 22.03.2018 | Head of R&D at Bayer Crop Science Explains Startup Strategy As New Incubation Space Opens in Sacramento | Today Bayer marked the formal start of a collaboration with the Greater Sacramento Economic Council (GSEC) to help identify promising startups across the agtech space and offer them a space to develop at Bayer’s biologicals research facilit... |
| 14.03.2018 | BioLumic raises $5 million to harness ultraviolet light to improve crop yields | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Scientists once thought that ultraviolet light wa... |
| 14.03.2018 | BioLumic Raises $5m Series A to Commercialize UV-based Crop Enhancement Tech | New Zealand agtech statup BioLumic has raised a $5 million Series A round to commercialize its ultraviolet light-based seed and seedling treatments. The round was led by agtech VC Finistere Ventures And Radicle Growth Acceleration Fund.
Als... |
| 14.03.2018 | BioLumic raises $5 million to harness ultraviolet light to improve crop yields | Scientists once thought that ultraviolet light was damaging to all kinds of life, including plants. But BioLumic is turning that notion on its head and has raised $5 million in funding to use UV to improve crop yields.
BioLumic said it can ... |
| 09.07.2017 | Radicle Appoints James Levine and Mary Shelman to Venture Partner Network | Radicle, a San Diego, CA-based acceleration fund dedicated to growing early stage agricultural and food technology startups, appointed James Levine and Mary Shelman to its venture partner network.
Levine and Shelman joined a team of ag-indu... |
| 02.06.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Climate Corp Integrates 3 Aerial Imagery Startups into FieldView, more | Climate Corporation Integrates 3 Aerial Imagery Startups into FieldView
The Climate Corporation is integrated of imagery from aerial imagery startups Ceres Imaging, TerrAvion and Agribotix, to deliver high-resolution imagery to farmers thro... |
| 13.04.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: SEC Filing Reveals Freight Farms Has Raised $5.7m Towards Larger Series B | Freight Farms, the startup growing lettuce inside shipping containers, has raised $5.7 million in an $8 million round, according to a SEC filing. Since the startup raised $3.7 million in Series A funding in 2014, this could be its Series B ... |
| 13.04.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, April 13 | FEELING TOPPY
Today Yext will go public on NYSE under the symbol YEXT. It’s a small IPO, valuing the company at around $940 million. Last night the company boosted pricing by $1 a share to $11 a share, for a total raise of $115.5 million.
P... |
| 12.04.2017 | Full Harvest raises $2 million to stop farmers from tossing ‘ugly’ fruit and veggies | Full Harvest, a San Francisco-based startup, has raised $2 million in seed funding to reduce food waste at the farm level. Founded by Christine Moseley, formerly the head of business development for cold-pressed juice makers Organic Avenue,... |
| 12.04.2017 | Full Harvest Raises $2m Seed Round for Food Waste Reduction Platform | Full Harvest, an online platform selling food seconds to businesses, has closed a $2 million seed round led by Wireframe Ventures. BBG Ventures, Early Impact Ventures, Impact Engine, early stage agtech VC Radicle, and a collection of angel ... |
| 25.02.2017 | Why are there no unicorns in AgTech? | Major changes are coming to the ag and food sector. The market demands it. 7.5 billion people need to eat, after all. We are seeing two core areas of innovation in the ag sector:
1. Technology is changing the way growers access and dissemin... |
| 17.02.2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, February 17 | IT’s TIME TO TAKE AI SERIOUSLY
The following is from the latest print edition of Fortune, where I write a regular column about technology and startups called “💥Boom with a View💥.”
Paid Content You can't secure what you can't see From ExtraH... |
| 17.02.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Land O’Lakes Drone Challenge, Ag Innovation Showcase Expands to UC Davis, Almond Board Invests $5m in Innovation, Broad Wins CRISPR Fight, more | Land O’Lakes Announces New Drone Challenge
Land O’Lakes, the major US dairy cooperative, is calling on innovators from the tech industry to enter the Land O’Lakes Prize: Drone Challenge, a crowdsourcing competition designed to develop propo... |
