| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.09.2024 | Catalera BioSolutions: Pioneering the Future of Biopesticides | Catalera BioSolutions is making waves in the agricultural sector. This Vancouver-based company recently secured an initial close of $8 million in Series A funding. The investment is a significant step for a company that spun out from Terram... |
| 11.09.2024 | Brief: Catalera BioSciences makes first close of Series A to speed up development of biopesticide products | Vancouver, Canada-based Catalera BioSolutions has made the first close of its $8 million Series A.
The company launched earlier in 2024 as a spinout of Canadian biologicals firm Terramera and currently focuses on biopesticides.
The found wa... |
| 29.12.2023 | Top 10 AgTech Startups in Canada | Canada is one of the largest agricultural producers and exporters globally. It is also considered among the most pioneering and technologically advanced countries in the world when one talks about agriculture. In 2016, the agriculture and a... |
| 15.03.2023 | Tech Moves: Microsoft names lead independent director; startup vet Rebecca Lovell joins Greater Seattle Partners | Rebecca Lovell. (Greater Seattle Partners Photo)
— Rebecca Lovell was named chief operating officer of Greater Seattle Partners, a public-private sector initiative that seeks to attract investment, companies and quality jobs in the Seattle ... |
| 13.01.2023 | Terramera Creates enrichAg to Commercialize Transformative Soil Analysis Platform with $6 Million from At One Ventures | Terramera announces the formation of its new majority-owned subsidiary, enrichAg, which will focus on commercializing its soil enrichment platform. The seed round is led with a $6 Million USD investment from At One Ventures (AOV), a climate... |
| 12.01.2023 | Terramera raises USD $6M in seed funding and grows executive team | enrichSoil, the subsidiary's first product, is featured as a mobile application. Photo: Terramera
Today Terramera announced enrichAg, its subsidiary company focused on building tools to support soil health and corresponding funding. Terrame... |
| 12.01.2023 | Terramera Raised $6M in USD Funding | Terramera, a Vancouver, Canada-based agtech company, raised $6M in USD funding.
The round was led by At One Ventures. Follow-ons to complete the round to a maximum of $15M USD are available with planned close in early 2023.
Led by Founder &... |
| 12.01.2023 | BREAKING: Terramera spinout enrichAg officially launches with $6m from At One Ventures | Canadian crop protection startup Terramera has launched a new subsidiary, enrichAg, which uses novel sensing technology to make soil analysis faster and easier for farmers. At One Ventures has led a $6 million seed round to commercialize en... |
| 02.12.2022 | Foresight announces Canada’s 50 most investable cleantech companies | Last night, a packed house at the Shangri-La was host to Canada’s future cleantech leaders and investors. Nearly 50 ventures from across the country were selected as the country’s most investable cleantech companies for 2022, as chosen by a... |
| 30.11.2022 | Why Farmers Are Our Most Important Advisors In The Next Phase Of Agriculture | Founder and CEO of Terramera. Focused on redefining what’s possible and using technology to grow affordable, clean food for everyone. |
| 03.10.2022 | Innovate BC invests $2.3M into projects spanning cleantech, mining and forestry | All Ignite award recipients on September 29, 2022 at Science World
Crown agency Innovate BC has awarded $2.3 million to eight B.C.-based research and development projects as part of its Ignite program.
The funding was announced last week du... |
| 10.08.2022 | Vancouver tech layoffs, talent, and hiring companies | As the innovation economy comes under pressure, a number of local tech companies have been forced to lay off employees. Here we’re sharing details on who has let go of staff, how to reach newly-available tech talent, and which companies are... |
| 25.05.2022 | Terramera project highlights latest Agricultural Clean Technology Program funding | Agtech is having one heck of a week, and it's only Wednesday. On the heels of Invest Vancouver’s agtech report and a new partnership between the Province of B.C. and the Netherlands to develop new agri-technologies, the Government of Canada... |
| 02.05.2022 | Innovate BC now accepting applications for $300,000 R&D grant | Applications are open for the Innovate BC Ignite program for up to $300,000 to fund B.C.-based innovation projects that could help benefit people in the areas of natural resources, engineering and applied science.
The funding is awarded to ... |
| 14.04.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: eGrocer BigBasket bags $131m, Choco lands $111m to fight food waste | This week, India’s BigBasket raised more than $100 million for online grocery delivery, as did Germany’s Choco to curb food waste by connecting restaurants to suppliers. New Zealand’s Leaft closed funding to make alt-protein from leaves. In... |
| 14.04.2022 | B.C. technology improves soil health information | CANADA, April 13 - Advanced soil-sensing technology and software is being developed and refined in British Columbia to give farmers, investors and others accurate measurements of soil carbon and a more detailed understanding of soil health.... |
| 17.02.2022 | Carbon is not a dirty word: the case for recarbonizing our soils | Karn Manhas is CEO and founder at Terramera, based in Vancouver, Canada.
I spent much of last year speaking to global leaders about agriculture’s role in turning back the clock on climate change, and two things were consistent throughout: g... |
| 30.01.2022 | Crypto, politics and gangsta rap | Good morning everyone. It’s NFL Conference Championships Day. The games: Bengals vs. Chiefs. 49ers vs. Rams. Nathan, our new senior editor, predicted Chiefs and Rams wins, and in response, staff writer James said, “Ooooooooh I dunno man. Bi... |
| 30.08.2021 | Canadian Cleantech Innovation: Confronting the Climate Crisis | If you look up the term “Canadian Cleantech” on any search engine, you’ll quickly notice that there’s no shortage of daily news content covering the advancements, projects, and funding being funneled into cleantech innovation efforts curren... |
| 01.08.2021 | 38 stories you may have missed | Your Sunday Briefing | Hello, happy BC Day weekend and welcome to the new subscribers reading this Sunday. I invite you to stay connected with us all week on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. Better yet, join us for coffee (in person) to chat all things Vancouver ... |
| 29.07.2021 | Igniting innovation in real estate | The Morning Report | The Morning Report, a clear and concise digest of Vancouver tech news, is still in beta. If someone sent you this, and you’d like to be added to our ongoing pilot, join the waitlist here. If you’d like to be removed, just let us know. As al... |
| 29.06.2021 | SDTC Awards $44.3M to 11 Canadian Cleantech Companies for Environmental Innovation | To ensure a more sustainable future for Canadians and help join the global fight against the imminent climate crisis, the Government of Canada has announced an investment of $44.3M from the SD Tech Fund towards 11 innovative clean technolog... |
| 07.06.2021 | Ginkgo Bioworks partners Asian chemicals giant Sumitomo | US synthetic biology startup Ginkgo Bioworks has signed an R&D collaboration agreement with Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical, one of the world’s largest producers of agrochemicals.
In a statement announcing their partnership, the pair said tha... |
| 27.05.2021 | SDTC invests $17.2M into BC's Axine Water Technologies, Ecoation and Terramera | The federal government, through the Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) agency, announced investments of $44.3 million in 11 Canadian cleantech companies including $17.2 million for three BC technology firms.
Terramera Inc. in ... |
| 16.05.2021 | Which Vancouver firm grew Q1 revenue 40x? | The Sunday Briefing | Good morning and welcome to the new Vancouver Tech Journal subscribers reading this Sunday. Make sure to stay engaged all week by connecting with us on Twitter, LinkedIn and the Vancouver Tech club on the Clubhouse iOS app.
If you’re not al... |
| 10.02.2021 | 4 innovative technologies helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions | FuelGems
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In 2020, US greenhouse gas emissions fell 10.3%, primarily due to self-isolation during COVID-19. This has bee... |
| 28.12.2020 | AFN’s top 20 guest articles in 2020 | As we count down the final few days until 2021, we on the AFN editorial team have been taking some time to look back at what has been a momentous year in agrifoodtech.
Our coverage of this cutting-edge industry wouldn’t be complete if not f... |
| 29.10.2020 | Our Food Is At Risk: How Simple Farming Practices And Technology Can Help Combat A 'Plant Pandemic' | Founder and CEO of Terramera. Focused on redefining what’s possible and using technology to grow affordable, clean food for everyone. |
| 29.10.2020 | Arable raises $20m Series B funding for global expansion, starting with Brazil | San Francisco-based crop management platform Arable has raised $20 million in a Series B round led by local VC firm Prelude Ventures.
The round also included participation from new investors such as M20 and Nassau Street Ventures, as well a... |
| 27.10.2020 | Top 10 AgTech Startups in Canada | Canada is one of the largest agricultural producers and exporters globally. It is also considered among the most pioneering and technologically advanced countries in the world when one talks about agriculture. In 2016, the agriculture and a... |
| 24.08.2020 | Qu Biologics is pleased to announce the appointment of Karn Manhas to Qu's Board of Directors | VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Qu Biologics Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing Site Specific Immunomodulators (SSIs), a novel platform of immunotherapies designed to restore innate immune function, ... |
| 26.06.2020 | Terramera leading project to predict future strains of COVID-19 with AI | Vancouver-based agricultural technology company Terramera is leading a new research project that hopes to use machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to get ahead of COVID-19.
The collaborative project hopes to avoid future pandem... |
| 21.04.2020 | On the Cutting-Edge of the Fight Against the Pandemic | Variational AI Receives Support from the Digital Technology Supercluster for Repurposing of Drugs for COVID-19
Vancouver, British Columbia – Variational AI Inc. is pleased to announce a new project using their novel artificial intelligence ... |
| 26.02.2020 | The role of impact investors in early stage agtech investing | Humans have deployed technology to defy nature’s limitations on the cultivation of food – often to nature’s detriment. Now, a growing number of venture capitalists are doubling down on technology to harmonize agriculture and nature.
Mission... |
| 28.01.2020 | BRIEF: Terramera increases Series B to $48.5m with Canada’s ArcTern | Canadian cleantech fund ArcTern has contributed to a $3.5 million increase in the Series B round of funding for Canadian agtech startup Terramera. Terramera is a crop protection products manufacturer that aims to reduce chemical use in agri... |
| 28.01.2020 | Terramera raises $4.6 million CAD Series B extension to reduce global pesticide use | Terramera, the Vancouver Agtech startup on a mission to reduce synthetic pesticides globally, has raised an additional $4.6 million CAD ($3.5 million USD) for its Series B funding round.
Terramera originally closed the round in September, w... |
| 25.12.2019 | Best of 2019: AFN’s top 5 guest articles | The AgFunder Network grew to over 75,000 in 2019 as a combination of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, multinational corporate executives, government officials, institutional investors and more get involved in the foodtech and agtech indu... |
| 10.09.2019 | Cleantech Company Terramera Raises $45 Million | Rapidly growing cleantech company Terramera announced it raised $45 million in equity funding to advance its Actigate Targeted Performance technology
Terramera — a rapidly growing cleantech company with technologies that transform how it gr... |
| 09.09.2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #74 | In this week’s Sunday Briefing: 8 global tech giants in Vancouver, including Salesforce and Oracle, that we should be talking about; B.C.’s top CTOs; the largest venture-capital investment for a Canadian company since 2000; a CEO’s entrepre... |
| 05.09.2019 | Terramera raises $59.5 million CAD Series B for crop protection technology | Vancouver-based cleantech startup Terramera has raised a $59.5 million CAD Series B round, led by Ospraie Ag Science and Seed2Growth Ventures.
The new investment will be used to scale Terramera’s Actigate technology, which was designed to i... |
| 05.09.2019 | Terramera raises $45 million for its technology to reduce the use of chemicals in agriculture | Terramera, a Canadian company selling bio-pesticides and seed treatments to reduce the use of chemicals in agriculture, has raised $45 million in its latest round of financing.
The round was led by strategic investor Ospraie Ag Science and ... |
| 05.09.2019 | Terramera raises $45m Series B on mission to reduce chemical use in ag by 80% | Terramera has closed a $45m Series B round, led by new investor Ospraie Ag Science and returning investor S2G Ventures. The Vancouver-based startup said the funding will go towards advancing Actigate, its targeted crop protection technology... |
| 05.09.2019 | Terramera Raises US$45 Million to Reduce Synthetic Chemicals in Agriculture... | - |
| 05.09.2019 | Terramera Raises US$45M in Series B Equity Funding | Terramera, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based cleantech company, raised US$45m in Series B equity funding.
The close of this round was led by new investor Ospraie Ag Science and previous investor Seed2Growth Ventures.
The company intends t... |
| 26.08.2019 | Farming is the world’s most important career — that’s why it needs a new image | Editor’s Note: Karn Manhas is founder and CEO of Terramera, an agbiotech startup focused on improving the sustainability of farming. Here he writes about the importance of promoting the farming industry as an appealing and impactful career ... |
| 30.06.2019 | Is agriculture ripe for a Tesla moment? | 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’s hard to believe electric vehicles were still... |
| 30.06.2019 | Is agriculture ripe for a Tesla moment? | It’s hard to believe electric vehicles were still considered the stuff of science fiction as little as 13 years ago.
As documented in the 2006 film Who Killed The Electric Car, the tech needed for battery-powered electric cars has been arou... |
| 02.05.2019 | Canada AgriFood Tech Market Map: 166 Startups Growing Canada’s Agricultural Sector | Just as it has for most of its history, the ample and multi-leveled agricultural and agri-food sector of Canada continues to play a fundamental role in the country’s economy.
Experts predict that all agricultural and agri-food exports from ... |
| 21.02.2019 | Terramera secures $13 million CAD investment from BDC | Technology for clean food company Terramera announced Thursday that it has received $13 million CAD in growth capital financing from BDC.
“Our goal is to help increase agriculture yields by 20 percent while reducing the synthetic chemical l... |
| 15.01.2018 | EXCLUSIVE: Biotech Dominates THRIVE Top 50 in AgTech List | Biotech and predictive analytics startups dominate the Salinas, CA-based THRIVE AgTech’s Top 50 list of agtech companies shaping the future of agriculture for 2018.
The largest technology category on last year’s list, “big data analytics,” ... |
| 07.09.2017 | What is Agriculture Biotechnology? | Agriculture biotechnology (ag biotech) applies to all technologies used on the farm involving biological or chemical processes. It is a broad category involving many different types of technology and science, including breeding, genetics, m... |
| 08.03.2017 | Terramera Recognized as a BC CleanTech Revenue Growth Leader | Vancouver-based cleantech innovator, Terramera, is listed on Ready to Rocket’s CleanTech list for 2017. Terramera, a Renewal3 portfolio company, creates technologies that harness the power of natural materials to build sustainable biopestic... |
| 03.03.2017 | Terramera Wins Innovation Award | Renewal3 portfolio company, Terramera was recently recognized for their innovative, organic, agriculture technologies. |
| 05.10.2016 | How Does Agtech Fit an Impact Investing Thesis? | Editor’s Note: I recently attended SOCAP, the largest conference for the impact investing community, and was excited to note a growing enthusiasm on the potential for food and agriculture technology to promote positive change in the world. ... |
| 22.09.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: IKEA Invests in Terramera, AST (AgFunder Alum), Brightfarms, Farmers Edge, Cool Planet, more | Brightfarms, the greenhouse operator, closed a $30.1 million Series C led by growth equity firm Catalyst Investors and joined by existing investors WP Global Partners and NGEN Partners. According to the company, this funding is the largest ... |
| 16.09.2016 | Terramera Raises Venture Capital Funding | Terramera Inc., a Vancouver, Canada-based company with a technology for pest and disease control, raised a venture capital funding round.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The company intends to use the capital to get products to ma... |
| 21.05.2016 | Ag-Bio Cleantech Startup Terramera Raises Venture Capital Funding Round | Terramera, a Vancouver, Canada-based developer of proprietary platforms that stabilize and deliver complex plant biochemicals, raised a funding round of undisclosed amount.
The round was led by Chicago-based Seed 2 Growth Ventures (S2G), wi... |
| 20.05.2016 | S2G leads $10m round with Sumitomo for Terramera’s biopesticide application technology | Terramera, a startup that’s on a mission to change the fate of many biological ag products, has raised $10 million in venture capital.
The Vancouver, Canada-based startup uses a molecular delivery system to enhance the efficacy of bio-pesti... |
| 20.05.2016 | S2G Leads $10m Venture Round with Sumitomo for Biopesticide Application Technology Terramera | Terramera, a startup that’s on a mission to change the fate of many biological ag products, has raised $10 million in venture capital.
The Vancouver, Canada-based startup uses a molecular delivery system to enhance the efficacy of bio-pesti... |
| - | SD Tech Fund Awards $58.6M in Clean Technology Grants to 14 Companies | The Government of Canada has awarded 14 innovative companies government funding for clean technology development projects. These cleantech projects will create jobs, provide solutions for a variety of environmental challenges, and help Cana... |
