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| 02.10.2026 | Blackstone's new defense tech company and more capital markets action to highlight | Falcata
This new defense technology company has taken flight with the backing of Blackstone, which formed it through the acquisition and combination of TSC and Applied Systems Engineering.
Falcata describes its tech portfolio as including s... |
| 30.09.2026 | Tangent Robotics Completes $4.5M Pre-Seed Funding |
NEW YORK, NY, Tangent Robotics announced its pre-seed funding round led by Fly Ventures and Toyota Ventures.
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| 29.09.2026 | Efficient Computer Lands $97M Series B |
PITTSBURGH, PA, Efficient Computer today announced it entered into agreements for more than $97 million in Series B financing at a $650 million valuation.
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| 03.11.2025 | +++ Konvo +++ The Icon League +++ Mario Götze +++ Toyota Invention Partners +++ Woven Capital +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Montag, 3. November). #STARTUPLAND (Nur noch 2 Tage)
FOMO? Absolutely. This is where it all happens – Startu... |
| 18.06.2025 | Future Fields raises $8m Series A to expand fruit fly biomanufacturing platform: ‘Clients come to us because they’ve struggled to make proteins in legacy platforms’ | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Future Fields.]
Canadian startup Future Fields has raised an $8 million Series A round to expand its biomanufacturing platform harnessing genetically engineered fruit flie... |
| 28.05.2025 | Joby Aviation shares pop nearly 29% as electric air taxi maker closes $250 million Toyota investment | Joby shares jumped about 29% after the maker of electric air taxis said it received $250 million from Toyota.
The payment is part of a previously announced deal from the carmaker to invest $500 million in Joby to support certification and c... |
| 19.03.2025 | The Future of Mental Modeling: brain.space's $11M Leap into Generative AI | In a world where technology meets the intricacies of the human mind, brain.space is carving a new path. The Tel Aviv-based company recently secured $11 million in Series A funding, a significant step towards revolutionizing how we understan... |
| 18.03.2025 | brain.space Secures $11M to Pioneer Generative AI Mental Modeling | What You Should Know:
– brain.space, the innovator behind the first-ever Brain-Data-as-a-Service Ecosystem for Generative AI Mental Modeling secures $11M in Series A funding round led by Toyota Ventures.
– The round also included with stron... |
| 06.10.2024 | The Sky's the Limit: Joby Aviation's Bold Leap into Air Mobility | In a world where traffic jams choke city streets, the dream of flying taxis is taking flight. Joby Aviation, a pioneer in electric air mobility, has just secured a staggering $500 million from Toyota. This funding marks a significant milest... |
| 05.10.2024 | Joby Aviation Raises $500 Million from Toyota for Flying Taxis: Startup Funding Roundup | Joby Aviation just closed the largest single round of funding for a flying taxi startup in years.
The $500 million came from Toyota, which is among multiple major transport companies that want to see flying taxis — essentially modern helico... |
| 02.10.2024 | Toyota invests another $500M in electric air taxi startup Joby Aviation | Just four years after making its first big bet on electric air taxis with $394 million in the California-based startup Joby Aviation, Toyota is ramping up its commitment with an additional $500 million investment.
Toyota announced on Wednes... |
| 02.10.2024 | Toyota to invest $500 million in electric air taxi company Joby Aviation | :Toyota Motor said Wednesday it will invest another $500 million in Joby Aviation to support certification and commercial production of Joby’s electric air taxi.
The Japanese automaker's new funding is on top of $394 million in prior invest... |
| 16.01.2024 | With a fresh $24m, Burro grows from ‘people to pallet scale’ with autonomous harvest-assist robots | With no end in sight for US farm labor shortages, more agricultural sectors are turning to automation as a possible aid.
That’s certainly true for specialty and permanent crops like fruits, vegetables and nursery plants. Roughly 70% of such... |
| 19.12.2023 | Momenta Invests in Agtonomy Series A |
Momenta, the leading Industrial Impact venture capital firm, announced today that they have led the Series A funding round for Agtonomy, a leading software and services company specializing in advanced autonomous and AI solutions for agric... |
| 28.09.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Paine Schwartz launches $1.7bn agrifood fund, Cricket One unveils new plant, Infarm ‘declared bankrupt’ | Agrifood’s biggest news this week is PE firm Paine Schwartz closing its $1.7 billion food- and agribusiness-focused fund. Fund VI is “exclusively focused on sustainable investments” in food and agribusiness, and the firm has already deploye... |
| 27.09.2023 | Scentian Bio raises $2.1m seed round to build biosensors inspired by bugs | Scentian Bio—a New Zealand-based startup making biosensors with potential applications in everything from food quality control to rapid testing for diseases such as tuberculosis—has raised a $2.1 million seed round.
The round, led by Finist... |
| 06.09.2023 | ALORA reactivates dormant genes to unlock ‘best performing salt-tolerant rice plant in the world’ | Rice is a staple crop for more than half the world’s population. It’s also highly sensitive to soil salinity, a growing problem driven by multiple factors from overuse of fertilizers to sea water intrusion into coastal aquifers, prompting a... |
| 17.08.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: BP invests in green hydrogen, Toyota funds carbon measurement, Bushel gleans $26m | This week, BP and Toyota got involved with climate tech for green hydrogen and measuring soil carbon, respectively. Bushel, a platform for grain trade management, raised additional Series C funding. Elsewhere, food robots and restaurant tec... |
| 07.06.2023 | US-Ukrainian startup Haiqu secures €3.7M to speed up adoption of quantum computing | US and Ukrainian-based Haiqu, a startup building software to enhance the performance of quantum processors, announced on Tuesday, June 6, that it has raised $4M (approximately €3.74M) in a pre-seed round of funding.
The round was led by MaC... |
| 06.06.2023 | Carbon removal startup Nori raises $6.25M from Toyota and others; names new CEO | Buyers of Nori’s carbon removal offsets can see images of the farmland that’s pulling carbon from the air. (Image via Nori website)
New cash: Carbon removal startup Nori announced $6.25 million in new funding. Current investors M13, Toyota ... |
| 23.02.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pure Salmon nabs $507m, FreshToHome bags $104m, more layoffs for agrifood | This week, Amazon backs India’s FreshToHome and Pure Salmon inked a whopping $507 million deal with Saudi Arabia’s government. Layoffs continue, while regulators in Finland approve the use of “burger patty” in marketing plant-based meat pro... |
| 22.02.2023 | Brief: Future Fields raises $11.2m to scale up fruit flies for recombinant protein production | [Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Future Fields via the 2019 GROW impact accelerator and its 2022 Alt Protein Fund.]
Canadian startup Future Fields has raised $11.2 million in a seed extension round to scale up ... |
| 17.01.2023 | Temasek, Lowercarbon Capital, Toyota, Felicis invest in $21m Series A for Living Carbon’s ‘super trees’ | Climate biotech startup Living Carbon has secured a $21 million Series A raise for its “photosynthesis-enhanced trees” that the company claims can grow faster and capture more carbon. This brings the company’s total funding to $36 million.
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| 17.11.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Muncher grabs $27m for ghost kitchens, Freight Farms lands $17.5m | Besides a major milestone for cultivated meat, this week’s news also includes new fundraising for Colombian ghost kitchen startup Muncher and a Series B round for vertical farming startup Freight Farms. Meanwhile, it’s more bad news for foo... |
| 14.11.2022 | Brief: Vow lands $49.2m ahead of its cultivated quail launch in Singapore restaurants | Australian cultivated meat company Vow has secured $49.2 million in Series A funding to bring cultivated quail to Singapore.
PeakBridge participated in the round alongside Blackbird, Prosperity7 Ventures, Toyota Ventures, Square Peg, Grok V... |
| 20.09.2022 | Berlin-based Extantia unveils €300 million platform to advance net zero transition | As Europe enters a critical phase for energy, and the world urgently confronts a warming planet, brave solutions are required. Recently Climentum raised €150 million in funding to back founders and be an attractive option to investors as we... |
| 03.05.2022 | London-based SLAMcore raises $16 million to enable robots read the room | London-headquartered vision-based location and mapping platform for robots, SLAMcore has raised $16 million in funding. The Series A round was led by ROBO Global Ventures and Presidio Ventures who invested alongside Amadeus Capital, Global ... |
| 21.04.2022 | The Top 40 Investors In Industrial Tech: How Investments In Transformative Solutions Using AI, Cloud, And Edge Act Like Probiotics For Manufacturing | Traditionally, few venture capitalists would touch industrial startup companies. Time cycles were too long and clunky hardware complicated things. However, deep digitalization is taking hold, the expectations are that the industrial sector ... |
| 06.04.2022 | Brilliant Planet | Co-authored by John Buttrick
Of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies, at least 21% now have net-zero commitments. For most of these companies, even with significant emissions reduction, carbon offsetting will be essential to achievin... |
| 24.02.2022 | Immune to irony, Nori puts a carbon market on the blockchain | The Ethereum blockchain isn’t exactly the first thing that springs to mind when you’re thinking of solutions to climate problems, but that’s what Nori has built as an engine to encourage farmers to use carbon-negative farming methods to pul... |
| 03.02.2022 | Near Space Labs Brings Highest Resolution Geospatial Imagery Down to Lowest Cost - New 10-Centimeter Resolution Now Accessible with Stratospheric Balloons | We all know knowledge is power, but for years, Earth imagery at the 10 cm level has been limited to a select few who can afford to task a plane or satellite. Without improving our options and expanding access to this information, we’re coll... |
| 20.01.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Consumer foodtech players Flipdish, Yumi & La Vie raise large rounds | One of this week’s biggest fundings went to Flipdish — a US startup providing software that powers payments, online ordering, and delivery for foodservice enterprises — which netted a massive $100 million in a round led by Chinese tech gian... |
| 11.10.2021 | Investor Q&A: Why Toyota Ventures invested in Burro’s farm robots | At the tail-end of last month, US-based startup Burro, which makes farm robots that aid human workers, announced a $10.9 million series A round of funding co-led by VC firm S2G Ventures and Toyota Ventures.
For the latter, ag tech is new te... |
| 11.10.2021 | Q&A: Why Toyota Ventures invested in Burro’s farm robots | At the tail-end of last month, US-based startup Burro, which makes farm robots that aid human workers, announced a $10.9 million series A round of funding co-led by VC firm S2G Ventures and Toyota Ventures.
For the latter, ag tech is new te... |
| 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... |
| 14.06.2021 | Toyota AI Ventures Rebrands as Toyota Ventures; Adds $300M | Toyota’s first early-stage venture capital firm, Toyota AI Ventures, is to rebrand as Toyota Ventures.
The San Francisco Bay Area-based venture capital firm has also grown its total assets under management to more than $500m with the additi... |
| 10.06.2021 | Toyota Ventures gets $300 million infusion for more investments | - |
| - | Toyota Ventures pune la bătaie 300 milioane dolari pentru antreprenori tech | Antreprenorii din toată lumea, cu startup-uri early stage de tehnologie, pot obține finanțări de capital de risc din două noi fonduri, de 300 de milioane de dolari în total, lansate de Toyota Ventures, companie de investiții susținută de co... |
| - | London-based SLAMcore raises $16 million to enable robots read the room | London-headquartered vision-based location and mapping platform for robots, SLAMcore has raised $16 million in funding. The Series A round was led by ROBO Global Ventures and Presidio Ventures who invested alongside Amadeus Capital, Global ... |
