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| 21.10.2024 | Revealed: The Taxpayer-Funded Campaign to Discredit Pesticides’ Climate Risks | 7 Mins Read A new investigation led by Lighthouse Reports has uncovered a covert campaign partly funded by American taxpayers to downplay the risk of pesticides and discredit climate experts in Africa, Europe and North America. Food and cli... |
| 27.08.2024 | US says genetically modified wheat safe to grow, pending trials | CommoditiesUS says genetically modified wheat safe to grow, pending trials
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| 20.08.2024 | Bayer's Legal Battles: A Double-Edged Sword | Bayer AG is embroiled in a complex web of legal challenges surrounding its controversial herbicide, Roundup. The recent victory in a Pennsylvania case highlights the ongoing struggle between corporate interests and public health concerns. T... |
| 18.08.2024 | Eglet Adams Eglet Ham Henriod Attorneys Joel Henriod And Erica Entsminger Secure Reversal In Far-Reaching Case Involving Toxic Exposure | The Nevada Supreme Court has reversed the dismissal of the case Adkins, et al. vs. Union Pacific Railroad Company, et al., allowing the plaintiffs, represented by Joel Henriod and Erica Entsminger of Eglet Adams Eglet Ham Henriod, to procee... |
| 15.08.2024 | Bayer wins victory in US legal battle against Roundup cancer claims | LitigationProduct Liability
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| 11.06.2024 | Bayer and Perdue share learnings from three-year regenerative agriculture partnership: ‘Change is hard’ | If the benefits of regenerative agriculture are so clear, why isn’t everyone doing it?
It’s a fair question, say execs at Bayer Crop Science and Perdue Agribusiness, who will be speaking at a webinar hosted by Reuters Events on June 27 to s... |
| 31.05.2024 | Agri GVA growth slowest in 5 years after poor rains last monsoon | - |
| 30.05.2024 | Innovation Meets Tradition To Shape India's Agricultural Future Technology has made headways into the agri sector and the country has been nothing short of innovations and new ideas trying to unlock n... | - |
| 16.05.2024 | Минсельхоз оценил ущерб майских заморозков для посевов | - |
| 06.05.2024 | Every rupee invested in agri research yields Rs 13.85, says study | - |
| 16.04.2024 | Roundup manufacturer seeks legal assistance amid cancer allegations | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Containers of Roundup are displayed on a store shelf in San Francisco, in February 2019. Thousands of legal claims against drug and chemicals company Bayer assert Roundup causes a cancer called non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which... |
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| 18.03.2024 | National Politics | Who is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and why is he running for president? | By JONATHAN J. COOPER (Associated Press)
The lack of excitement many Americans feel about a presidential rematch has heightened interest in alternatives to the major-party candidates, none more so than Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose famous na... |
| 14.03.2024 | Cereno Scientific's nomination committee proposes Dr. Gunnar Olsson and CEO Sten R. Sörensen as new members of the Board of Directors | Cereno Scientific's nomination committee proposes Dr. Gunnar Olsson and CEO Sten R. Sörensen as new members of the Board of Directors
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| 12.03.2024 | Top 7 Markets In Agriculture Industry – By The Business Research Company | - |
| 04.05.2021 | Tera Ventures Receives Additional EUR 43M from New International Partners | Tallinn-based VC Tera Ventures attracts new partners and an additional EUR 43M of funds. New international partners are excited to be present in the promising and rapidly developing region of the Baltics. Tera will be able to invest more ac... |
| 18.09.2019 | Corporate-startup partnerships aren’t an easy win-win. Here’s why. | Corporate-startup partnerships are on the rise. Since 2013, the number of corporate investments in startups has nearly tripled to 2,795 in 2018 from 980, increasing nearly 10 times in value to $180 billion from $19 billion. That’s according... |
| 23.01.2019 | 5 things you need to know in SA business today and what some of the world's most popular brand names really mean | 1. The Public Investment Corporation - which manages civil servant pensions - has suspended its head of listed investments, Fidelis Madavo, after a probe into the corporation's controversial investment in AYO Technology Solutions. The PIC g... |
| 29.10.2018 | Bayer Growth Ventures: What We Don’t Know Yet | **UPDATED October 31, 13:51 ET: Adds Board Seat representation details that Bayer had not disclosed when AgFunderNews first went to press.
If you talk to new Bayer employees, the relief that the long journey to the acquisition of Monsanto i... |
| 13.06.2018 | Tropic Biosciences Raises $10m Series A for Tropical CRISPR Tech | Tropic Biosciences, the UK-based startup using gene-editing technology including CRISPR to optimize coffee and banana crops, has raised $10 million in Series A funding from a global group of ag and biotech investors.
The oversubscribed roun... |
| 23.05.2018 | Brazilian Ag Marketplace Raises $630k Seed Round from Monsanto Growth Ventures and Others | Grão Direto, a digital commodities trading platform based in Brazil, has raised R$ 2.3 million ($633k) in seed funding from Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), Canary, and OpenVC. Grão Direto plans to use the funds to expand its operations acro... |
| 10.05.2018 | Should You Be Using CRISPR for Your Ag Business? | *Updated reference to Pairwise with correction regarding agreement with Monsanto*
Editor’s Note: Vonnie Estes was the 2017 recipient of Rosalind Franklin award for leadership in Biotechnology. She is an agtech innovation consultant with a p... |
| 26.04.2018 | Monsanto’s Venture Arm Could Be Winding Down, Sources Suggest, As Company Looks for New Talent | *Updated April 27, 2018, 15:35 to add more context around future of MGV.*
Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), the venture arm of Monsanto, has lost all of its dedicated staff after former managing director John Hamer, former investment director... |
| 20.04.2018 | DCVC To Raise $250 Million For Bio-Focused Fund, Incorporating Monsanto Leadership | 31 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Many large, historically tech-focused venture capital firms have expanded into life sciences investing, often by raising bio-focused funds.
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| 30.03.2018 | Ag Industry Brief: Drones and Ag Inputs See M&A, Indoor Growers Form Safety Working Group, Corporate VC Staff Shift, more | Ryan Rakestraw Joins Temasek From MGV
A venture principal at Monsanto Growth Ventures since early 2015, Ryan Rakestraw has joined Singapore state fund Temasek. Rakestraw will focus on agriculture and food-related venture capital investments... |
| 23.03.2018 | Ag Industry Brief: Y Combinator Sweet On Cultured Meat, Granular Partners with Planet, Another Startup Pays for Data, more | Granular Partners with Analytics Company Planet
Granular, the digital arm of DowDuPont’s agriculture vision has partnered with Planet, an integrated aerospace and data analytics company to incorporate its global satellite imagery data into ... |
| 20.03.2018 | Monsanto Invests in $25m Series A for Pairwise after Cofounding CRISPR Startup | Pairwise Plants has raised a $25 million Series A round co-led by Monsanto Growth Ventures and healthcare investment firm Deerfield Management.
Pairwise is a gene-editing company that has licensed programmable base editing technology from H... |
| 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... |
| 02.11.2017 | Is St. Louis the Silicon Valley of Agtech? | St. Louis has worked hard to be a magnet for Fortune 500 companies. Nine members of this elite class call the city home, not the least of which is multinational agricultural giant Monsanto.
Walmart has more than 20,000 employees in St. Loui... |
| 04.10.2017 | Microsoft, Monsanto-backed Brazilian Fund Makes First Investment in Tbit | Brazilian automated inspection technology platform with agriculture applications Tbit has raised a BRL $1 million ($320k) in seed funding from the BR Startup Fund, a Brazilian early-stage technology fund backed by Monsanto, Microsoft, and o... |
| 11.09.2017 | Term Sheet — Monday, September 11 | THREE THINGS
Good morning, Term Sheet readers. Here are some things to keep an eye on today:
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| 18.08.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: $2m Cannabis Tech Raise, Organic Hydroponics, NAFTA, more | Cannabis POS System Raises $2.2 million
Green Bits, a point of sale (POS) software provider for the cannabis industry has raised $2.2 million from Casa Verde Capital, a cannabis-focused VC firm. Green Bits claims to have processed $1.5 bill... |
| 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 ... |
| 03.07.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: California Puts Roundup on Cancer List, Hampton Creek to be Selling Cultured Meat Next Year? More | California Puts Monsanto’s Glyphosate/Roundup on Cancer List
Monsanto’s herbicide Glyphosate, sold under the retail name Roundup, is officially part of California’s Prop 65 list of chemicals with carcinogenic properties despite Monsanto’s v... |
| 16.06.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Amazon Buys Whole Foods, Monsanto & Atomwise Partner to Use AI for Discovery, MidWest Accelerators Announce Investments, more | Amazon is Buying Whole Foods for $13.4bn
Amazon has agreed to buy the upscale grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.4 billion, as the online retailer looks to conquer new territory in the supermarket aisle and bolster its own food delivery serv... |
| 09.04.2017 | Glyphosate to join Proposition 65 list | The effective date of the listing will depend on whether Monsanto - which uses glyphosate in its RoundUp herbicides - is able to block the Prop 65 listing while it awaits the outcome of a legal challenge. (Monsanto sued the OEHHA in 2016 - ... |
| 30.03.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Latin American Startups, Ag Marketplaces, Bio-Inputs, Sensors, more | Arvegenix, an ag biotech company creating genetically improved field pennycress for oil, raised a $2.4 million venture round with a long list of investors, including some agtech-focused funders like agtech accelerator The Yield Lab, Cultivi... |
| 10.03.2017 | We Don’t Need Pesticides to Feed the World, According to UN | If a mounting pile of scientific evidence are to be believed, pesticides are wreaking havoc on our planet and bodies.
From fucking up human sperm to contributing to the impending "Beepocalypse" to making farmers suicidally depress... |
| 01.02.2017 | How real investors separate AI hype from reality | 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!
Artificial intelligence has captured public imagi... |
| 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... |
| 21.11.2016 | Monsanto acquires Estonian farm management software startup VitalFields | Monsanto Co. has agreed to acquire VitalFields, an Estonian farm management software company, for an undisclosed amount. The startup will become part of The Climate Company, a Monsanto subsidiary that helps farmers maximize harvests through... |
| 24.05.2016 | Monsanto gets Bayer’s $62 billion buy deal | -->
German chemicals and pesticides giant Bayer has made a $122 per share all-cash hostile bid offer for another giant competitor Monsanto valuing the US-based Monsanto at $62 billion. |
| 02.05.2016 | Amphasys expands to China | |
| 26.02.2016 | Monsanto Takes Hyper-Local Weather Data Startup in New Direction with $7.5m Series A | Last week hyper-local weather data service Understory raised $7.5 million in Series A funding in a round led by Monsanto Growth Ventures, and early stage venture firm 4490 Ventures.
The investment from Monsanto is set to take Understory in ... |
| 25.02.2016 | Ag Innovation Showcase Open for Startup Applications | The Larta Institute is now accepting applications for the 2016 Ag Innovation Showcase. Applications are due by May 15 and the selected presenters will be announced in early June.
Launched in 2009, the showcase features pitches from up-to 20... |
| 28.01.2016 | The Climate Corp co-founder Siraj Khaliq joins Atomico, adding deep tech clout to its investment team | Atomico, the global investment firm established by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström (also Tech.eu's 'Person of the Year' for 2015), is in the middle of a big expansion phase.
Earlier this month, the London-based VC firm announced a number ... |
| 05.01.2016 | Monsanto Growth Ventures to Close First Portfolio of Agtech Investments – exclusive | For many in the agtech sector, the news that Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), the corporate venture arm of the agribusiness giant, has made about 12 investments since quietly making its first investment in early 2013, will come as no surpris... |
| 04.12.2015 | Monsanto Commits to Carbon Neutral Footprint by 2021 as Environmental Coalition Puts Agribusiness on Trial | Agribusiness giant Monsanto has outlined plans this week to make its operations carbon neutral by 2021. In a statement coinciding with the beginning of COP21, the Paris Climate Change Conference, the agribusiness detailed plans to focus on ... |
| 25.11.2015 | PlantResponse Biotech raises 5.7 Million € in Series A funding | PlantResponse Biotech, an agrobiotechnology company, closed a Series A round of 5.7 Million €. The financing round was lead by Monsanto Growth Ventures and included a mix of institutional and strategic investors including, Caixa Capital Ris... |
| 25.11.2015 | PlantResponse Biotech cierra una ronda de €5,7M liderada por Monsanto Growth, acuden CaixaCR, Middleland y Novozymes | 25/11/2015
PLANTRESPONSE BIOTECH CIERRA UNA RONDA DE €5,7 MILLONES LIDERADA POR MONSANTO GROWTH PARTNERS, ACUDEN CAIXA CAPITAL RISC, MIDDLELAND Y NOVOZYMES.
La compañía de agrobiotecnología PlantResponse Biotech, ha cerrado una ronda A de... |
| 10.11.2015 | Syngenta and DSM Enter into Ag Biologicals Partnership | Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta and DSM, a global science-based company active in health, nutrition, and materials are partnering up to develop biological solutions for agriculture with an eye toward commercialization.
The partnership pla... |
| 24.07.2015 | How Monsanto & The Climate Corporation See the Future of Tech in Farming | “These are exciting times, these are challenging times, but the breakthroughs are incredible,” says Erik Andrejko, VP of Science at Climate Corp. When it comes to finding ways to feed our ever-increasing population while combating the effec... |
| 08.07.2014 | Cleantech’s ‘Agriculture Gets Smart’ AgTech report in 600 words | A recent report from the Cleantech Group paints a broad picture of the corporate arms race for big data investments, the ever-evolving data technology, and the challenges involved in harnessing sophisticated data trends. To give you the gis... |
| 24.02.2014 | Granular Raises $4.2M; Sells Soil Science Business to Monsanto | Granular Inc. (formerly known as Solum Inc.), a San Francisco, CA-based provider of cloud business software and analytics offering for farmers, raised $4.2m in funding and sold its soil science business to Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON).
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| 14.12.2013 | As Software Eats The World, Non-Tech Corporations Are Eating Startups | Netscape founder and VC titan Marc Andreessen famously wrote back in 2011 that software is steadily eating the world, disrupting industries like music, retail and more. Now large corporations in these industries are starting to eat startups... |
| 02.10.2013 | Monsanto Buys Weather Big Data Company Climate Corporation For Around $1.1B | Today’s big acquisition is a huge agritech exit: Biotech company Monsanto has bought Climate Corporation for approximately $1.1 billion. While the Monsanto press release says $930 million, we’re hearing from investors that the actual price ... |
| 02.10.2013 | ‘World’s most evil corporation’ Monsanto buys weather big data company for $930M | It turns out Monsanto needs a little help with its mission to create genetically modified, chemically enhanced supercrops that are resistant to everything the planet could throw at them.
The Big Ag giant is purchasing big data company The C... |
| 02.10.2013 | ‘World’s most evil corporation’ Monsanto buys weather big data company for $930M | 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!
It turns out Monsanto needs a little help with it... |
| 20.06.2013 | Young VC firm Cultivation Capital jumps right into early stage life sciences funding with $30M | It’s just begun raising the life sciences fund, but Cultivation Capital says it will invest in health IT and related mobile health platforms, medical devices, compound and drug discovery, and plant/seed or biosciences technology. Investment... |
| 18.01.2012 | RaNA Therapeutics Closes $20.7M Series A Financing | RaNA Therapeutics, a Cambridge, Mass.-based company that is developing drugs by modulating disease-associated long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) and restoring normal expression of individual targeted genes, has completed a $20.7m Series A financi... |
| 18.08.2010 | Manage and Support Employee Owned Smart Phones with Zenprise | Zenprise, a mobile device management software vendor, has released some new features in its flagship MobileManage product that aim to be of particular value to the growing number of enterprises supporting employee owned devices. MobileManag... |
| 24.08.2009 | Complete Genomics seals $45M for cheaper gene sequencing | Complete Genomics, provider of supposedly cheaper and faster DNA sequencing services, has raised $45 million in a fourth round of funding — a huge amount for a biotech company in today’s economic environment. Based in Mountain View, Calif.,... |
| 24.08.2009 | Complete Genomics seals $45M for cheaper gene sequencing | 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!
Complete Genomics, provider of supposedly cheaper... |
| 13.08.2009 | Pacific Biosciences takes $68M as genome sequencing becomes more competitive | Pacific Biosciences, one of the companies working to advance DNA sequencing technology, just brought in $68 million in new financing — bringing its total raised over the last year to a staggering $188 million. The Menlo Park, Calif., firm s... |
| 13.08.2009 | Pacific Biosciences takes $68M as genome sequencing becomes more competitive | 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!
Pacific Biosciences, one of the companies working... |
| 16.10.2007 | Life sciences briefing: Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007 | Featured companies: Altair Therapeutics, ICyt Visionary Biosciences, Linkage Biosciences, Mendel Biotechnology, Rules-Based Medicine
Mendel Biotechnology raises funds for cellulosic-energy production — Hayward, Calif.-based Mendel Biotechno... |
| 26.06.2007 | Mendel Biotech raises fourth round for biofuels | Hayward, Calif.’s Mendel Biotechnology, an agricultural biotech, raised an undisclosed sum in a fourth round of funding, VentureWire reports (subscription required). The funding accompanied a development deal with the U.K. energy giant BP; ... |
| 29.03.2005 | Seed success ups Monsanto's earnings | The company said that solid year-to-date performance globally, higher revenues from corn and soybean traits in the US, increased corn seed sales in the Europe-Africa region, and higher revenues for Roundup and non-branded glyphosate-based h... |
| - | Hacking Weather | In weather, data is king. $485 billion of the U.S. economy fluctuates with weather events, and the data provided by weather sensors informs huge industries like insurance, agriculture, broadcast, risk mitigation, consumer and utilities.
Th... |
| - | Monsanto enters plea agreement, accepts $12M fine in Hawaii pesticide case | The Monsanto Company pleaded guilty in federal court this morning to two felonies, 30 misdemeanors and agreed to pay a $12 million fine for environmental crimes related to the use of a pesticide on corn fields in Hawaii and illegal storage ... |
| - | Young VC firm Cultivation Capital jumps right into early stage life sciences funding with $30M | The emerging tech town of St. Louis has also become fertile ground for a community of life sciences companies that are ready to bloom — if they can find early stage funding.
“We’ve got a lot of engineers here who have been working for compa... |