| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.12.2022 | BREAKING: Sound Agriculture lands $75m to expand nitrogen enhancing product overseas | US-based Sound Agriculture has raised a $75 million Series D to expand its crop nutrient and plant breeding businesses. New investors BMO Impact Investment Fund and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative led the round. FootPrint Coalition and returning... |
| 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 a Series C-extension round led by Bayer‘s investment arm Leaps by Bayer. Life sciences investor Northpond Ventures also joined the round as ... |
| 19.08.2021 | BREAKING: Sound Agriculture closes $45m late stage round led by Leaps by Bayer | Sound Agriculture, the self-described “bio-inspired” crop inputs company, has raised $45 million in a Series D round led by Bayer‘s investment arm Leaps by Bayer. Life sciences investor Northpond Ventures also joined the round as a new back... |
| 19.08.2021 | Sound Agriculture closes $45m late stage round led by Leaps by Bayer | Sound Agriculture, the self-described “bio-inspired” crop inputs company, has raised $45 million in a Series C-extension round led by Bayer‘s investment arm Leaps by Bayer. Life sciences investor Northpond Ventures also joined the round as ... |
| 02.07.2021 | This year’s biggest agrifoodtech IPO will probably involve a company you’ve definitely heard of | When it comes to companies going public, agrifood seems to be reaching its inflexion point.
The SPAC craze continues, with everything from indoor farms to gluten-free biltong merging with listed vehicles. Others, like Oatly, Sweetgreen, and... |
| 15.03.2021 | Cargill restructures corporate venture group into newly-centralized unit | US agrifood giant Cargill has recreated Cargill Ventures, a dedicated VC unit to lead its startup investment activities.
A few years ago, Cargill decided to change the way it interacted with startups and invested in them, preferring a decen... |
| 09.03.2021 | Pest pheromone startup BioPhero nets $17m in DCVC-led Series A | BioPhero, a Danish startup that’s fermenting insect pheromones for crop protection purposes, has just raised $17 million in Series A funding.
The round was led by DCVC Bio, the life sciences-focused fund under Silicon Valley-based DCVC. FMC... |
| 09.03.2021 | BREAKING: Pest pheromone startup BioPhero nets $17m in DCVC-led Series A | BioPhero, a Danish startup that’s fermenting insect pheromones for crop protection purposes, has just raised $17 million in Series A funding.
The round was led by DCVC Bio, the life sciences-focused fund under Silicon Valley-based DCVC. FMC... |
| 22.02.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: SP Ventures adds World Bank in third close, exits fintech startup Brain Ag | It’s a big week for LatAm’s agrifoodtech fund, SP Ventures. The Brazil-based outfit has closed its third fund, AgVentures II, led by the International Finance Corporation, which is a member of the World Bank. The fund will close on around $... |
| 12.01.2021 | Agtech CVC: Syngenta Ventures on ChemChina, business model innovation & ‘agri-fintech’ | This interview is part of a series on agrifoodtech corporate VC investment strategies and insights. The series is produced in collaboration with the OnRamp Agriculture Conference, which brings together the agriculture and food industries’ l... |
| 22.12.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: SP Ventures gets bullish on livestock tech with second close of LatAm fund | Brazilian VC firm SP Ventures has announced the second close of its AgVentures II fund, which now exceeds 130 million reals ($25 million).
French animal nutrition company Adisseo and Florida’s Mosaic, one of the largest miners of phosphate ... |
| 11.12.2020 | Syngenta partners with Sound Ag to launch ‘bio-inspired’ crop input in China | Swiss agro-chemical giant Syngenta is hoping to tackle nitrogen use in China while maintaining productivity through a new partnership with one of its portfolio companies: Emeryville, California-based molecular biology startup Sound Agricult... |
| 17.11.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: WeedOUT closes Series A at $4.2m; appoints former Monsanto M&A chief | Israeli bio-herbicide maker WeedOUT has completed the final close of its Series A round, raising $4.22 million in total across two tranches.
Syngenta Ventures led the round, joining the first close of $3 million in February this year. Other... |
| 10.11.2020 | Brazil & US fintech startup Traive raises $2.5m pre-Series A from SP Ventures | Ag fintech startup Traive Finance has raised $2.5 million in a round led by Brazil-based SP Ventures. Bread & Butter Ventures and Techstars also participated in the financing.
This is the third investment out of the new 90 million real ... |
| 06.10.2020 | Syngenta acquires biologicals company Valagro | Syngenta Group has agreed to acquire Italian biotech company Valagro for an undisclosed sum.
Atessa-based Valagro produces biostimulants and specialty nutrients that are used in agriculture, as well as gardening and manufacturing. It also m... |
| 25.09.2020 | Turkish delight as Tarfin raises $5m Series A for its smallholder lending app | Tarfin, an Istanbul-based provider of agricultural inputs to farmers with extended payment terms, has completed a $5 million Series A investment round.
Led by Quona Capital, a venture firm focused on fintech in emerging markets, the round a... |
| 27.08.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: SP Ventures announces first close of Syngenta Ventures, BASF-backed LatAm Fund | Brazil-based SP Ventures has announced the first close of a $50 million fund targeting agrifoodtech in Latin America. The firm raised $17.2 million in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The fund will focus on seed and Series A-stage deals ... |
| 18.06.2020 | Syngenta restructures, rebrands, and relaunches after taking $5.6bn Chinese biz on board | Switzerland’s Syngenta has relaunched and rebranded following its merger with the agricultural businesses of Chinese chemicals giant Sinochem, in preparation for an expected IPO in China.
The new entity, named Syngenta Group, also incorpora... |
| 05.03.2019 | Stable Raises $6m Seed Round to Help Farmers, Traders and Insurers Manage Food Price Risk with FinTech | London-based fintech startup Stable has launched a platform to help buyers and sellers of food mitigate price volatility. The platform is backed by $6 million in seed funding from fintech investor Anthemis, Syngenta Ventures, Swiss insurer ... |
| 14.12.2018 | Why Syngenta Ventures Invested in India’s Ninjacart | Ninjacart, an Indian agtech platform that connects farmers to retailers, closed a Rs. 250 crores ($35m) Series B funding round from Syngenta Ventures, Accel US, South Korean fund Neoplux, ZIGxN founder Jo Hirao, Russian fund HR Capital, and... |
| 25.09.2018 | As Ag Corporates Survey the Territory, Latin American Startups Have the High Ground | Latin America has burst onto the venture capital scene in the last year or so with a bang. Some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names are operating in the region now, with 25 new international investors entering the region in 2017, according to... |
| 06.03.2018 | Syngenta and Bunge Ventures Back South American Agribusiness Marketplace Agrofy | Argentinian agribusiness marketplace Agrofy has raised an oversubscribed $6 million Series A round led by Sao Paulo Ventures (SP), along with corporate VCs Bunge Ventures, Syngenta Ventures, and Endeavor Catalyst, a pan-Latin American techn... |
| 30.01.2018 | The New Face at Syngenta Ventures: Colin Steen Moves from Seeds to Startups | Syngenta Ventures has a new managing director in Colin Steen, a Syngenta-veteran with venture experience from the early, early days of venture-backed agtech. Steen takes over from Gabriel Wilmoth, who left the company after a four-year tenu... |
| 24.01.2018 | PrecisionHawk Raises $75m Series D from Big Tech and Big Ag | Drone-enabled aerial data and safety platform provider PrecisionHawk has raised a $75 million Series D round from a laundry list of major tech and agriculture players.
The round was led by New York-based Third Point Ventures with tech strat... |
| 05.12.2017 | Reflections of an Agtech VC: Gabriel Wilmoth Leaves Syngenta Ventures to Join Ag Startup | Gabriel Wilmoth has left Syngenta Ventures, where he was investment director, to join ag startup Growers, an on-farm service that helps farmers use technology to simplify their business, as the chief operating officer.
Wilmoth joined Syngen... |
| 05.12.2017 | Asilomar Bio Raises $12m Series B for Chemical Yield Enhancer | Asilomar Bio, a San Francisco-based maker of chemical crop inputs has raised a $12.25 million Series B Round to bring it’s first chemical yield enhancement product to market.
This announcement comes on the heels of a licensing agreement wit... |
| 17.08.2017 | Agtech Accelerator’s John Dombrosky is Looking to Pharma as a Model For the Agtech Ecosystem | Research Triangle Park, North Carolina’s Agtech Accelerator launched in May of last year with a new model for developing agtech startups.
AgTech Accelerator is more of a venture development organization than an accelerator according to our ... |
| 26.07.2017 | Syngenta Ventures Invests in Premier Crop Systems After Months of Trials with Software | Syngenta Ventures has acquired a minority stake in Premier Crop Systems (PCS), a Des Moines, Iowa based agronomic software tool in a growth equity investment round. The investment comes after months of Syngenta using the tool in multiple fi... |
| 09.03.2017 | Agtech Funding (& Exit) Sheet: $84m Raised in 2 Weeks (+$400m Instacart Series D), Origin Acquires AgSpace | AgSpace, a UK ag big data startup, has been acquired by Origin Enterprises, the ag retailer and agronomy company for £11.4 million ($13.9m). A further payment of £4.8m ($5.9m) will be made if the company reaches its profit targets. AgSpace ... |
| 02.03.2017 | AgTech Accelerator Launches First Startup Bringing Gates Foundation to Boragen $10m Series A | AgTech Accelerator, the venture development organization, has launched its first startup, Boragen, leading a $10 million Series A for the ag biotech startup.
AgTech Accelerator invested $3 million of its current $20 million capital pool and... |
| 26.01.2017 | ICYMI: 3 Things You Missed at the Rothamsted Open Innovation Forum for Agritech | Last week, the UK’s leading crop science facility Rothamsted Research hosted the first Rothamsted Open Innovation Forum (ROIF 2017). The aim of the event was to foster collaboration between industry, research, and the agritech startup commu... |
| 05.01.2017 | AgriMetis Raises $23.5m Series B for Natural Products-Derived Crop Protection Research – exclusive | AgriMetis, the crop protection spin-off from healthcare innovation firm Acidophil, has raised $23.5 million in Series B funding in an oversubscribed round led by Anterra Capital.
Joining the round and making a crossover investment from the ... |
| 06.12.2016 | Tyson Joins List of Food Companies with Venture Capital Funds | This week, Tyson Foods joined the growing list of food companies with venture capital funds investing in food and agritech startups.
The company, which earlier this year shocked the sector by making an investment in plant-based meat alterna... |
