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03.10.2024 | A*STAR and Flagship Pioneering Announce Partnership to Spur Biotech Innovation in Singapore | Organizations Plan to Jointly Advance Breakthrough Solutions in Human Health and Sustainability, Drive Research Collaboration, Entrepreneurship and Accelerate Talent Development
SINGAPORE, Oct. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Agency for Science... |
28.08.2024 | Flagship Pioneering and Quotient Therapeutics Announce Agreement to Identify Potential Novel Targets for the Treatment of Cardiovascular and Renal Diseases under Strategic Partnership with Pfizer | Collaboration leverages Quotient's platform to identify somatic mutations in genes that modify the progression of cardiovascular and renal diseases
Quotient and Pioneering Medicines, Flagship's in-house drug development unit, will jointly c... |
08.08.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: VSParticle raises funds for green hydrogen, Veganz secures raise for 2D-printed alt milk | Between August holidays and a challenging fundraising environment, new rounds were few and far between this week. A notable raise came from Netherlands-based VSParticle, which aims to accelerate green hydrogen production.
Elsewhere, restaur... |
06.08.2024 | Flagship Pioneering Announces Appointment of Raj Panjabi as Senior Partner | Former White House Top Health Security Official to Lead Flagship's Preemptive Health and Medicine Initiative
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Flagship Pioneering, the bioplatform innovation company, today announced that global... |
10.07.2024 | Flagship Pioneering Raises $3.6 Billion to Fuel Breakthrough Innovations that Transform Human Health and Sustainability | Record Year with Key Partnerships, Global Expansion and Expanded Top Talent
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Flagship Pioneering, the bioplatform innovation company, today announced it has expanded its capital base by $3.6 bi... |
20.06.2024 | Indigo Ag's Carbon Program to deliver record carbon credits to Microsoft | Microsoft purchased 40,000 carbon credits verified and issued in accordance with requirements of the Climate Action Reserve's Soil Enrichment Protocol
Largest ever single delivery of credits from Indigo Ag to an individual buyer
BOSTON, Jun... |
02.05.2024 | Indigo Ag Sets Out Plan for Renewal in Accelerated Drive to Profitability and Growth | BOSTON, May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Indigo Ag today announced the establishment of two new business units focused on Sustainability Solutions and Biological Products as part of a renewal and reorganization of the company following the appoi... |
23.04.2024 | Indigo Ag and Red Trail Energy Collaborate on Sustainable Biofuels to Maximize Benefits From Clean Fuel Tax Credit Programs | Companies will leverage Indigo Ag's proven measurement, verification and reporting capabilities to calculate field level carbon intensity and unlock new opportunities for fuel and agricultural decarbonization
BOSTON, April 23, 2024 /PRNewsw... |
10.01.2024 | Former Tyson CEO to helm carbon farming startup Indigo Ag | Indigo Ag said Tuesday it appointed former Tyson Foods President and CEO Dean Banks to lead the sustainable farming and carbon credit startup.
Banks, who takes over effective Feb. 1, will also join Indigo's parent company Flagship Pioneerin... |
06.10.2023 | Accelerating regenerative agriculture: meeting corporate commitments by 2030 | This sponsored post has been published in partnership with Chonex, an agtech company making StrongSoil, a dry microbial concentrate proven to boost soil health.
The year is 2030 and large corporations have stayed true to their regenerative ... |
21.09.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: MycoWorks opens mycelium plant, Flagship et al pump $250m into Indigo Ag, Pure Harvest bags $150m | After a pretty dry spell, agrifood investors were throwing around the big bucks this week, with the launch of two sizeable funds ($384m from Astanor Ventures and $312m from Humble Growth), while Flagship led a $250m round into Indigo Ag and... |
21.09.2023 | Indigo Ag: Sustainable Agriculture Partner Company Secures $250 Million | Indigo Ag – a premier sustainability partner of the agriculture industry – recently announced that it has raised over $250 million to drive innovation and growth in its sustainable agriculture programs and better serve its customers and par... |
18.09.2023 | Indigo Ag Raises $250M in Funding | Indigo Ag, a Boston, MA-based agtech company focused on sustainability, raised $250M in funding.
Backers included Flagship Pioneering, State of Michigan Retirement System, and Lingotto Investment Management.
The company intends to use the f... |
31.08.2023 | ‘No comment’ from Indigo Ag on valuation nose-dive report | Indigo Ag would not comment on reports that its valuation has plummeted 94% from $3.5 billion two years ago to just $200 million today.
Israeli publication CTech cited reports from Israel-based Unic-Tech partnership, which invests in tech u... |
27.07.2023 | Four Modes Of Agricultural Value Creation In The Carbon Age | Plants have always been involved in carbon capture and cycling through their "super power" of ... [+] phytosynthesis. This is the basis for for old and new categories of value creation for the agricultural sectorgetty |
22.12.2022 | The week in agrifoodtech: BigBasket bags $200m, Kodama’s forestry funding, more restaurant tech layoffs | Amid a slew of smaller funding announcements, India-based eGrocer BigBasket secured a $200 million mega-round this week. In agtech, deals from Grow Indigo and others were all about insect farming, forestry and capturing more carbon. Foodtec... |
06.10.2022 | Corteva Agriscience Delivers Initial Round of Carbon Payments to U.S. Farmers, Signals Scalability of Agricultural Carbon Markets | In partnership with our strategic collaborators, Corteva Agriscience is moving the needle when it comes to delivering carbon solutions at scale in agriculture.
INDIANAPOLIS (PRWEB) October 06, 2022
Corteva, Inc. (NYSE: CTVA) today announced... |
05.08.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Vertical farmer Spread raises $30m, McWin launches $500m restaurant fund | Kyoto-based Spread set a record for foodtech funding in Japan this week with a Series A raise for its vertical farming operation. Investment firm McWin has launched a fund for restaurants, while Source Global bagged a late-stage round for i... |
19.07.2022 | BREAKING: ProducePay & ALLCOT announce a carbon offset program for produce growers | Online ag marketplace ProducePay has teamed up with climate strategies provider ALLCOT to launch what the companies say is “the first-of-its-kind” carbon-offset program for produce growers. Through the program, ProducePay hopes to help grow... |
14.07.2022 | Can We Talk About How Exhausted Our Soils Are? These Tech Entrepreneurs From the Balkans Know How to Revive Our Lands | Bulgaria ~
Company:
“The Agricultural Revolution was history’s biggest fraud. Who was responsible? Neither kings, nor priests, nor merchants. The culprits were a handful of plant species, including wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants dom... |
29.06.2022 | Indigo Ag Unlocks Farmer Access to Multi-Billion Dollar Voluntary Carbon Market | Industry leading carbon farming program provides new global revenue stream for farmers and an immediately accessible, scalable nature-based solution to climate change;
Latest buyer purchase commitments at $40/credit demonstrate upward price... |
05.05.2022 | Ag Carbon Market Map: Meet the 58 companies helping to harness the benefits of regenerative farming | Matthew Guinness is vice president, sustainability at Hummingbird Technologies, a farm management software platform based in London, UK.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent thos... |
31.03.2022 | Designing carbon markets for agriculture: World Agri-Tech 2022 takeaways | Sarah Nolet is managing partner at Tenacious Ventures, a VC firm investing at the intersection of digitally native agriculture and climate solutions. She is based in Sydney, Australia.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the au... |
09.02.2022 | Corteva : Carbon Initiative Expands to More States and Crops for 2022 | The Initiative has also expanded its list of eligible crops to include peanuts and sugar beets, two key crops for farmer eligibility in multiple states.
"Farmers need proven solutions to support decision making and improve their bottom... |
09.02.2022 | Corteva Carbon Initiative Expands to More States and Crops for 2022 | We continue to expand and improve our carbon offerings with science-backed programs that provide the greatest positive impact for farmers and their advisors.
JOHNSTON, Iowa (PRWEB) February 09, 2022
Corteva Agriscience announced today an ex... |
31.01.2022 | Carbon Farming Could Make Agriculture More Climate Positive But Only If There Are Defined Terms | 5 Mins Read
As the effects of climate change intensify and paths for limiting global warming narrow, politicians, media and environmental advocates have rallied behind “carbon farming” as a mutually beneficial strategy for society, the envi... |
20.01.2022 | South Korea’s agtech startup Greenlabs raises $140M Series C to accelerate global expansion | Greenlabs, a South Korean agtech startup, announced this week it has closed a $140 million Series C led by BRV Capital Management, with participation from Skylake Incuvest and SK Square.
The startup plans to use the Series C, which brings i... |
13.01.2022 | Collaboration & innovation key to developing farmer-focused carbon markets | This sponsored article has been published in partnership with America’s Cultivation Corridor.
Carbon markets in agriculture have been at the top of industry headlines, generating buzz about the potential for revenue opportunities for farmer... |
06.12.2021 | Cellular agriculture & emerging markets: Just because we can, does it mean we should? | Saron Berhane is an agrifoodtech entrepreneur based in Sydney, Australia.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of AFN.
Alt-protein is taking the food world by storm. Plant-ba... |
17.11.2021 | CHS & Growmark launch $50m VC fund to invest in ‘breakthrough’ agtech | US agricultural cooperatives CHS and Growmark have combined forces to establish a VC fund that will invest in “breakthrough technologies” that can advance the farming industry, they announced today.
Both companies will be equal partners in ... |
17.11.2021 | BREAKING: CHS & Growmark launch $50m VC fund to invest in ‘breakthrough’ agtech | US agricultural cooperatives CHS and Growmark have combined forces to establish a VC fund that will invest in “breakthrough technologies” that can advance the farming industry, they announced today.
Both companies will be equal partners in ... |
26.10.2021 | BREAKING: Indigo Ag acquires Soil Metrics to boost carbon MRV capabilities | Indigo Ag has acquired Soil Metrics, a firm which carries out assessments of soil carbon sequestration, for an undisclosed sum.
The pair had already partnered on the acquirer’s Carbon by Indigo program, which works with farmers to generate ... |
21.10.2021 | CIBO Technologies raises $30m Series C funding for carbon trading tools | US carbon trading platform CIBO Technologies has raised $30 million in Series C funding, it said in a statement.
The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company indicated that the funds will be used to boost the commercialization of its monitori... |
21.10.2021 | BREAKING: CIBO Technologies raises $30m Series C funding for carbon trading tools | US carbon trading platform CIBO Technologies has raised $30 million in Series C funding, it said in a statement.
The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company indicated that the funds will be used to boost the commercialization of its monitori... |
14.10.2021 | Agreena, a regenerative farming carbon market, raises $4.7M seed from Giant Ventures | Farming accounts for 24% of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions, and this is largely due to the intensive, “industrial” farming methods employed in the last few decades, together with the rise in the consumption of meat. However, a new approa... |
30.09.2021 | Brief: Farm data company Ag-Analytics acquires land research platform AcreValue | US farm data company Ag-Analytics has acquired land research and evaluation platform AcreValue from Granular, a subsidiary of Corteva Agriscience. The acquisition includes the AcreValue’s product, tech, and team, according to a statement se... |
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22.09.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Cargill, Heineken & Nestlé unveil regenerative ag programs | In the past seven days, a trio of major agrifood corporates doubled-down on sustainability by announcing new regenerative ag schemes.
Meanwhile, Ford and Walmart said they are partnering on autonomous food delivery tech; and Indigo made the... |
09.09.2021 | Indigo Pays 267 Farmers In Milestone Progress For First Ever Scalable Ag Carbon Farming Program | |
26.08.2021 | UPDATE: Growmark & Corteva partner with Indigo on carbon | Updated August 26, 3:00 pm EST. Adds details about Indigo’s partnership with Corteva, which was announced after its partnership with Growmark.
Indigo Agriculture’s carbon initiative — Carbon by Indigo — got a boost this week after US farmer... |
26.08.2021 | Corteva : Announces Expansion of Corteva Carbon Initiative for 2022 Crop Year | Wilmington, Del. - August 26, 2021 - Corteva, Inc. (NYSE: CTVA) today announced the expansion of its Carbon Initiative for the 2022 crop year, supported by a strategic collaboration with Indigo Ag. Corteva's program continues to provide a s... |
17.08.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Cargill, Microsoft join $17m raise for carbon verification platform Regrow | Ag software startup Regrow has raised $17 million in Series A funding as it proceeds with the US rollout of its monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) tool for carbon sequestration and monetization.
New investors participating in the... |
04.08.2021 | Farm tech investing is accelerating faster than ever – new report | Editor’s note: A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.
We’ve been watching the surge of investor interest in upstream, close-to-the-farm technologies since the Covid-19 pandemic started. We now have numbers that show just h... |
29.07.2021 | Farm Tech Investing Is Accelerating Faster Than Food Tech And General VC - New Report | As devastating as the pandemic has been, some good has emerged from the global health and economic crisis: investment to shore up global food systems has soared. Back in February we confirmed the extent of the boost investors gave entrepren... |
06.07.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Agrando raises $14m in Europe’s biggest farmer marketplace Series A to date | Germany’s Agrando has raised €12 million ($14.3 million) in Series A funding, which it claims is the largest round on record at that stage for an online agribusiness marketplace startup.
Yabeo Impact led the round, with new investors Sony I... |
25.06.2021 | These farming techniques can help trap carbon dioxide in the soil and make farmers an extra buck | For the last five years, farmer Trey Hill has planted year-round cover crops and refrained from tilling the soil.
The plants that blanket his fields all year long help to draw in carbon dioxide and lock it into the soil. Hill doesn’t turn o... |
14.06.2021 | Brief: Flagship closes $3.4bn fund to build ‘bioplatform’ companies in ag, nutrition & health | Flagship Pioneering, the fund manager and company formation group, has closed its seventh fund on $3.4 billion after re-opening it to existing investors and a “select” group of new backers.
The close takes Flagship’s total assets under mana... |
25.05.2021 | Invaio raises $89m to accelerate commercialization of its injectable bio-inputs | Invaio Sciences has raised $88.9 million in a Series C round led by venture builder Flagship Pioneering, which launched the startup in 2018. Other investors joining the round include Stage 1 Ventures, Bluwave Capital, and Alexandria Venture... |
25.05.2021 | BREAKING: Invaio raises $89m to accelerate commercialization of its injectable bio-inputs | Invaio Sciences has raised $88.9 million in a Series C round led by venture builder Flagship Pioneering, which launched the startup in 2018. Other investors joining the round include Stage 1 Ventures, Bluwave Capital, and Alexandria Venture... |
20.04.2021 | BREAKING: Bushel bags $47m Series C funding as it scales up & eyes new fintech offering | US grain trading platform Bushel has raised $47 million in a Series C round led by Continental Grain Company and Lewis & Clark AgriFood, with additional investment from Germin8 Ventures as well as agribusiness firms Cargill, Scoular, an... |
20.04.2021 | Bushel bags $47m Series C funding as it scales up & eyes new fintech offering | US grain trading platform Bushel has raised $47 million in a Series C round led by Continental Grain Company and Lewis & Clark AgriFood, with additional investment from Germin8 Ventures as well as agribusiness firms Cargill, Scoular, an... |
14.04.2021 | HEIDRICK & STRUGGLES INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Heidrick & Struggles : Announces Launch of Inaugural 2020 ESG Report | CHICAGO, April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII), a premier provider of global leadership advisory and on-demand talent solutions, launched its inaugural 2020 ESG Report to outline its efforts and discl... |
24.03.2021 | Amfora gets $6m Series B injection from Bayer, Spruce Capital to increase protein in crops | US foodtech startup Amfora has raised $6 million in Series B funding from San Francisco VC firm Spruce Capital Partners and Leaps by Bayer, the corporate venture arm of German life sciences giant Bayer.
The San Francisco-based startup is de... |
17.02.2021 | Brief: Biden’s climate plan includes ‘carbon bank’ for farmers who adopt regen practices | US President Joe Biden’s climate change plan, the Climate 21 Project, calls for the establishment of a ‘carbon bank’ that would pay farmers, ranchers, and foresters to store carbon using regenerative agriculture practices.
The government-ow... |
09.02.2021 | Raising The Sustainability Bar With Generation R: The Re: Generation | The Nature Wrap by One Golden Thread is handcrafted, artisan-dyed tree fiber. Every Nature Wrap ... [+] sold replenishes nature by planting trees in biodiversities around the world where it’s needed most.Katarina Benzova | One Golden Thread... |
09.02.2021 | Brief: Indigo Ag cuts more jobs; signs new carbon credit buyers | Indigo Ag is cutting 80 jobs across the US. The layoffs affect 25 roles in Indigo’s Boston headquarters, 29 in Memphis, and 26 remote employees, it told the Boston Business Journal.
The agritech unicorn said the job cuts – which leave its h... |
26.01.2021 | Ex-Uber team raises $6M seed for geospatial analytics platform Unfolded.ai | Years ago, Uber had a problem. With millions of users and tens of thousands of drivers scattered across a widening expanse of the globe, the fast-growing mobility startup wanted to display more accurate maps to users about where their ride ... |
24.12.2020 | 5 trends that shaped agrifoodtech in 2020 | 2020 has been a year like no other in living memory for the vast majority of us. The Covid-19 pandemic, which began in China at the tail end of last year and gradually engulfed to entire world by the second quarter of this one, has brought ... |
16.12.2020 | Delivering the goods: Food supply chain tech market map & predictions for 2021 | Editor’s note: Seana Day and Brita Rosenheim are partners at Culterra Capital and venture partners at Better Food Ventures, each with 20-plus years of investment, M&A, and strategy experience in agrifoodtech. Their analyses on the agrif... |
01.12.2020 | Startup Spotlight: Cloud Ag seeks to replace soil sampling by measuring carbon from the air | The agriculture industry is slowly but steadily switching on to carbon sequestration, its potential environmental impact, and the opportunity for it to provide additional income streams for farmers.
But when it comes to adoption of carbon-s... |
28.10.2020 | Transforming Commerce: Leveraging Social Impact As A Powerful Sales Tool | Givewith is a Business Reporter client. |
15.10.2020 | Carbon harvest: Indigo Ag, Nori announce first corporate carbon credit buyers | Indigo Ag has revealed a long list of corporate buyers for its carbon credits, including finance giants Barclays and JPMorgan Chase, e-commerce enabler Shopify, and tech veteran IBM.
Boston Consulting Group, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Give... |
09.10.2020 | Farmers Edge partners with Radicle to launch ‘data-fueled’ carbon credit program | Carbon credit markets are fast becoming the accessory du jour for agtech companies.
Joining the list are Farmers Edge and Radicle. The Canadian duo recently announced a partnership to create what they describe as a new high-tech carbon cred... |
03.09.2020 | Indigo CEO Perry steps down, replaced by investor board member | Indigo Ag CEO David Perry has left the company, it said in a statement.
Acting chief operating officer (COO) Ron Hovsepian will take over Perry’s role with immediate effect.
The Boston-based agritech firm didn’t give any further details on ... |
05.08.2020 | Here’s how ‘five startups in one’ Indigo Ag plans to use its $360m Series F add-on | Indigo Ag has raised an additional $360 million in Series F financing on top of the $200 million injection it announced in January.
New and existing investors participated in the round including the Alaska Permanent Fund and Indigo’s first ... |
24.07.2020 | Aquaponics startup Seed & Roe snags $15m, rebrands to Upward Farms | Fish and leafy greens may appear to be unlikely bedfellows. Not so much for Upward Farms.
“The tech we use is a combo of aquaculture and hydroponics,” Jason Green, founder and CEO of the New York-based startup, told AFN. “By cultivating com... |
14.07.2020 | The biggest mistakes you can make when selling grain in volatile markets – and how to avoid them | Editor’s note: Gabe Sheets-Poling is senior vice president and head of pricing and global markets at Indigo Agriculture, in Boston, US. This article represents the views of the author and not necessarily those of AFN.
Understanding the chal... |
05.05.2020 | These Boston startups and tech firms are hiring in May | We know things haven't been easy lately in the land of Boston startups.
In the last two months alone, we've catalogued 25 startups and tech firms that have laid off workers locally, and we don't discount the possibility of that number growi... |
18.04.2020 | Стартапы недели: рекламная сеть для стримеров, устройство для добавления товаров на «Google Карты» и другие сервисы... | А также судьба проектов из обзоров прошлых лет.
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На этой неделе в #стартапдня были четыре стартапа.
Ирландский Pointy продаёт устройство, которое встаёт между сканером штрих-кодов и кассой магазина у дома. В т... |
06.01.2020 | Indigo Ag Closes $200M Financing, Plans to Expand Initiatives | Indigo Ag, the Cambridge-based agtech startup that uses microbiology research to help farmers replace chemicals and fertilizers and increase crop yield, closed a $200 million funding round on Monday.
The round consists of $175 million in co... |
06.01.2020 | Indigo Ag closes $200m debt round with FedEx, a potential buyer of its carbon credits | Indigo Agriculture, the Boston-based agtech startup, has raised $200 million in convertible equity and debt from new and existing investors. The new investors are FedEx and Pacific Western Bank. The bridge round takes the company’s total fu... |
06.01.2020 | Indigo Ag closes $200m convertible & debt round with FedEx, a potential buyer of its carbon credits | Updated Jan 6, 2020 to include comment from Indigo regarding FedEx participation.
Indigo Agriculture, the Boston-based agtech startup, has raised $200 million in convertible equity and debt from new and existing investors. The new investors... |
19.09.2019 | The Terraton Challenge seeks solutions to help make farmers “the heroes of climate change” | “When I came back to the farm, I knew that there was something wrong.”
Tom Cannon is referring to the time, 25 years ago, when he returned from school to help manage the family farm in Oklahoma. The farm, which had been in his family since ... |
30.08.2019 | Do you have a technology relevant to regenerative agriculture? Join us! | We’re partnering with Food+Tech Connect and WeWork FoodLabs on a Regenerative AgTech Meetup in New York City next month!
Our soil is in crisis. The UN estimates we only have 60 years left of topsoil left if we continue current farming pract... |
22.08.2019 | Consumers demand sustainability but are they realistic about the timeline? | A recent report dubbed Cargill ‘The Worst Company in the World’ on the basis that it failed to live up to its sustainability promises particularly around deforestation. But is vilification really the best way for consumers to support change... |
23.07.2019 | Indigo launches Terraton Challenge for innovators to accelerate, quantify & reward soil carbon sequestration – apply now! | Applications are open for innovators and entrepreneurs across disciplines to apply to the Terraton Challenge, part of Indigo Agriculture’s Terraton Initiative that aims to sequester one trillion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in... |
04.07.2019 | Future Food: Jennifer Betka on How Consumer Signals Influence Her Work as CMO of Indigo Agriculture | In this episode of Future Food, I speak to Jennifer Betka, the chief marketing officer of Indigo Agriculture, the Boston-based agtech startup that’s one of the highest valued in the industry today.
Jennifer is an expert marketer with a care... |
12.06.2019 | Indigo Launches Carbon Market to Incentivize Farmers to Transition to Regenerative Agriculture | Indigo Agriculture has unveiled its latest initiative, and it’s the most ambitious yet; the Boston-based agtech startup wants to reverse climate change.
Indigo first came onto the scene with a microbe-treated seed product and soon surprised... |
20.04.2019 | Стартап дня год спустя: доставка еды по почте для гурманов, сервис для срочного поиска работы и другие проекты... | Ревизия прошлогодних стартапов рубрики.
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Как обычно по субботам — обзор стартапов дня прошлых лет. Почти без новостей в этот раз всего два проекта Mytashmobile и Everipedia, про остальные есть что написать.
G... |
11.04.2019 | How Agtech Solutions Can Leverage ‘Full Stack Thinking’ to Disrupt Agriculture | Editor’s Note: Amit Sridharan is director of Investments at Mahindra Partners US, the corporate venture capital arm of India-headquartered conglomerate Mahindra Group. His investment focus is around digital-physical intersections, autonomou... |
26.02.2019 | With $90 million in funding, the Ginkgo spinoff Motif joins the fight for the future of food | Continuing its quest to become the Amazon Web Services for biomanufacturing, Ginkgo Bioworks has launched a new spinoff called Motif Ingredients with $90 million in funding to develop proteins that can serve as meat and dairy replacements.
... |
13.02.2019 | 60 AgriFood Tech Startups Nominated for 2019 AgFunder Innovation Awards – Vote Now! | *VOTING EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 1, 9AM ET!*
We’re very excited to open our Third Annual AgFunder AgriFood Tech Innovation Awards, where we recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward.
Our nomination comm... |
08.01.2019 | A List of Food Tech Startups That Defined 2018 Trends and What to Expect in 2019 | As the sun sets on food tech in 2018 and the dawn of a new year arrives, what can we say about 2018 and what can be expected of 2019? A diverse number of food tech innovations were developed and used by an equally diverse set of generations... |
13.12.2018 | Indigo Acquires Satellite Imagery Startup TellusLabs for ‘Living Map of World’s Food Supply’ | *UPDATED DEC 13 2018, 5:58PM ET: Adds quotes from Geoffrey von Maltzahn at Indigo and David Potere at TellusLabs.
Indigo Agriculture, the microbial ag products startup-cum-agribusiness marketplace has acquired TellusLabs, a startup using sa... |
18.09.2018 | Indigo raises $250M, launches marketplace to help farmers get paid for quality grain | Indigo, the startup bringing algorithms and machine learning to the agricultural industry, has raised a $250 million Series E, bringing its total raised to $650 million.
The funding values the company at $3.5 billion, according to a source ... |
18.09.2018 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, September 18 | A NEW UNICORN
Good morning, Term Sheet reader. Lots of funding news today:
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18.09.2018 | Indigo Agriculture Raises $250M in Series E Financing | Indigo Ag, Inc., a Boston, MA-based food production company, closed a $250M Series E funding round.
Backers included Baillie Gifford, Investment Corporation of Dubai, the Alaska Permanent Fund, and the company’s founder, Flagship Pioneering... |
18.09.2018 | Indigo Agriculture Raises an Additional $250M and Launches Digital Grain Marketplace | BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Indigo Ag, Inc., a company dedicated to harnessing nature to help farmers sustainably feed the planet, announces the launch of Indigo Marketplace™, along with the close of a $250M Series E funding round. Indigo Mark... |
05.09.2018 | The Top Boston Tech Hires, Promotions (and Departures) in August | Summer, and August in particular, may be a slow time for news—but hiring updates in Boston tech never go on vacation.
In August, no real "big one" emerged in local hiring news as it did in July; we tracked down 26 moves, only one ... |
09.08.2018 | Flagship’s latest venture Inari raises $40m Series B to ‘transform plant breeding’ | Inari, the latest venture from venture development organization Flagship Pioneering, has raised $40 million in Series B funding.
The company describes itself as a plant breeding technology company aiming to “transform plant breeding to sign... |
09.08.2018 | Flagship’s Latest Venture Inari Raises $40m Series B to “Transform Plant Breeding” | Inari, the latest venture from venture development organization Flagship Pioneering, has raised $40 million in Series B funding.
The company describes itself as a plant breeding technology company aiming to “transform plant breeding to sign... |
19.06.2018 | 15 Boston Microbiome Startups to Watch | “Bacteria, it’s the only culture some people have!”
If you spot someone wearing a tee shirt with that saying, there is some chance they work at a microbiome startup. If they don’t, it’s probably worth looking into.
The human microbiome is a... |
13.06.2018 | Indigo Ag Makes Bid to Become Agtech Marketplace, Launches Ag Data Platform | Indigo Agriculture, the agtech startup best known for plant microbiome technology — and raising a cool $403 million in four years — is making a bid to become an agtech product distributor and digital platform.
Indigo manufactures cotton, co... |
21.05.2018 | Blockchain is Coming for Agriculture and You Might Not Even Notice | Editor’s Note: Remi Schmaltz is CEO of Decisive Farming, a Canadian software program for farms offering precision agronomics, data management, crop marketing, and telematics services. He has extensive agriculture knowledge after taking over... |
08.03.2018 | AgriFood Tech Investment Surges to $10.1bn Bringing in a New Normal | Editor’s Note: This week we released the new AgFunder AgriFood Tech Investing Report 2017, continuing to expand the scope of our previous AgTech Investing Reports. You can download the report here. For more information about our research, r... |
07.02.2018 | DEADLINE APPROACHING: Cast Your Vote in the AgFunder Innovation Awards | ***VOTING CLOSED***
It’s that time of year again to recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward with the AgFunder Innovation Awards. These are peer-selected awards based on votes placed by you, our 45... |
21.12.2017 | The Top 10 Farm Tech Deals of 2017 (How Many Can You Name Without Clicking?) | It was an exciting year in farm technology involving a few high profile venture capital exits and some of the largest deals on record.
In fact, funding records for this category and the subcategories within were broken more than once during... |
14.12.2017 | Ginkgo Bioworks Raises $275m Series D for Robotic Microbe Factory Expansion | **Update: Added comments from Ginkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly**
Ginkgo Bioworks, a Boston startup genetically engineering microbes for partner companies in the flavor, fragrance, agriculture, and food industries, has raised $275 million in ... |
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), agtech companies are learning through experience that the financial realities on farms present both challenges and opportunities for innov... |