| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.01.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Colossal Biosciences raises $200m, Chipotle invests in methane reduction | This week, Colossal Biosciences, the company trying to bring back the woolly mammoth, raised a whopping $200 million while NatureMetrics, a British startup in nature intelligence and biodiversity monitoring, closed a Series B round.
Outside... |
| 09.01.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: India’s Botanic Healthcare bags $29m, Fermata secures $10m, Plenty facing value cut | The new year started with new fundraises from India-based nutraceutical startup Botanic Healthcare and agriculture-focused data science company Fermata.
Meanwhile, Ohalo teamed up with farmers in Florida to develop a “disease-resistant stra... |
| 09.01.2025 | Idemitsu to begin trial of non-edible oilseed crop for aviation fuel | TOKYO: Idemitsu Kosan will begin a trial plantation of the non-edible oilseed tree crop Pongamia in Australia from mid-January to assess its potential as a feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), Japan's No 2 crude oil refiner said o... |
| 20.10.2024 | The Rise of AgriFoodTech: A New Era of Sustainable Innovation | The world of AgriFoodTech is buzzing. It’s a landscape ripe with innovation, where sustainability meets technology. Companies are racing to transform how we produce and consume food. This week, the headlines overflowed with exciting develop... |
| 18.10.2024 | Mitsubishi and Terviva: Strategic Moves in Fintech and Biofuels | In the world of business, alliances can shape industries. Two recent deals highlight this dynamic: Mitsubishi's acquisition of a stake in Mynt and Terviva's partnership with Chevron. Both ventures showcase the intersection of technology, su... |
| 17.10.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Blue Stripes, Nukoko land rounds for alt chocolate, OroraTech snags deal for wildfire detection | Foodtech headlines this week contained more chocolate than a jumbo bag of Ghiradelli Squares. Blue Stripes and Nukoko both announced fundraises, while Voyage Foods announced a massive new manufacturing facility.
Elsewhere, climate-focused c... |
| 15.10.2024 | Terviva pushes into biofuels after investment from Chevron Renewable Energy Group | Terviva, a California-based firm making food, feed and fuel from pongamia trees, has bagged an undisclosed investment from Chevron Renewable Energy Group, one of the largest biodiesel producers in the US.
Together, the two companies plan to... |
| 26.09.2024 | Green Investments and Industrial Innovation: A New Era for Climate Solutions | In a world grappling with climate change, innovation is the lifeblood of progress. Two recent developments highlight this truth: Elemental Impact's new funding initiative and AG&P Industrial's historic shipment to Europe. Both initiativ... |
| 25.09.2024 | Elemental Impact: $100 Million Funding Program Raised From EPA | Elemental Impact, a leading nonprofit climate technology investor formerly known as Elemental Excelerator, announced that it is opening applications for projects to receive investments via a $100 million funding program from the US Environm... |
| 28.03.2024 | 🎥Terviva’s strategic pivot: ‘The development cycles of our tech are longer than the economic cycles in which we operate’ | The ultimate ‘climate-smart’ crop, nitrogen-fixing Pongamia trees produce significantly more biomass per acre than soybeans with a fraction of the inputs. But scaling and commercializing products from a completely new crop takes time and pa... |
| 20.12.2023 | Festive agrifoodtech vox pop part 1: From fundraising to hiring challenges, what keeps startups awake at night as we head into 2024? | As we approach 2024, what is keeping agrifoodtech startups awake at night? To find out, foodtech editor Elaine Watson fired off a few emails to companies she’s covered on AgFunderNews this year (apologies if you weren’t contacted, next year... |
| 11.05.2023 | Global startups: here’s how to connect with potential investors and customers at the 2023 IFT FIRST event | Tightened budgets have led many startups to bypass larger events in favor of more specialized gatherings that provide inspiration and education in addition to building connections. Equally important, these more niche events make it possible... |
| 08.04.2022 | Four emerging plant proteins to watch: Pongamia, hemp, barley, and chickpea | “The Holy Grail [for food formulators] is often to have a neutral, clean flavor and color, and I think that is on the horizon for all of these [emerging] proteins, including duckweed," said Dr Justin Shimek, CEO at innovation and pr... |
| 08.04.2022 | Four emerging plant proteins to watch: Pongamia, hemp, barley, and chickpea | “The Holy Grail [for food formulators] is often to have a neutral, clean flavor and color, and I think that is on the horizon for all of these [emerging] proteins, including duckweed," Dr Justin Shimek, CEO at innovation and product... |
| 22.06.2021 | Equinom raises $20m Series C funding from BASF, others for ‘improved’ alt-protein seeds | As plant-based protein continues to take the foodtech limelight, a number of startups are trying to tackle some of the less-obvious challenges that the segment faces. For Israel’s Equinom, developing the perfect seed to grow plant-based pro... |
| 22.06.2021 | BREAKING: Equinom raises $20m Series C funding from BASF, others for ‘improved’ alt-protein seeds | As plant-based protein continues to take the foodtech limelight, a number of startups are trying to tackle some of the less-obvious challenges that the segment faces. For Israel’s Equinom, developing the perfect seed to grow plant-based pro... |
| 24.05.2021 | Terviva Raises US$45M To Bring Regenerative Pongamia Tree Protein To Market With Danone | 3 Mins Read
Sustainable food and agriculture firm Terviva has raised US$45 million in financing to commercialise its novel culinary oil and plant protein ingredients derived from the pongamia tree. It has also forged a partnership with food... |
| 21.05.2021 | Terviva Raises $78M in Funding | Terviva, an Alameda CA-based food and agriculture company, raised $78M in funding.
The round was led by Astera Institute (led by Jed McCaleb), Evans Properties, Trustbridge Partners, The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust, Ro... |
| 20.05.2021 | Terviva Closes $54M in Financing to Commercialize Sustainable Food Ingredients, Launches Collaboration with Danone | ALAMEDA, Calif., May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Terviva, a food and agriculture company, announced today it has raised $54 million in equity capital to commercialize its highly-sustainable, new-to-market culinary oil and plant protein. Terviv... |
| 20.05.2021 | Terviva raises $54m, partners with Danone on regenerative pongamia plant proteins | Terviva, a Californian company that produces pongamia trees for their high-quality protein and oil-rich seeds on degraded land, has raised $54 million in equity funding to commercialize its “highly-sustainable, new-to-market culinary oil an... |
| 20.05.2021 | Terviva Closes $54M in Financing to Commercialize Sustainable Food Ingredients, Launches Collaboration with Danone | |
| 20.05.2021 | Plant-based innovation: Terviva raises $54m, collaborates with Danone on foods using oils, proteins, from Pongamia trees | Terviva – which aims to have commercial quantities of 'golden buttery' oil available by mid-2022, with ‘highly soluble’ protein isolates to follow in 2023 – will work with Danone and San Francisco based innovation platform MISTA to develop ... |
| 20.05.2021 | BREAKING: Terviva raises $54m and partners with Danone on regenerative plant proteins from pongamia | Terviva, a Californian company that produces pongamia trees for their high-quality protein and oil-rich seeds on degraded land, has raised $54 million in equity funding to commercialize its “highly-sustainable, new-to-market culinary oil an... |
| 29.04.2021 | New kid on the plant-based block? TerViva to commercialize oils (2022) and proteins (2023) from Pongamia trees | Founded in 2010 by Naveen Sikka, Maggie Kavalaris, Anne Slaughter, and Joe Andrew, TerViva is on a mission to shift Pongamia from a niche source of ingredients used in Ayurvedic medicine to a major food crop competing with the likes of so... |
| 02.11.2020 | What 2020 has taught the agrifood sector: resilience | If there is anything the world has learned from the pandemic about the future of food it’s that food chains need to be more resilient. Ireland is a case study in how to achieve it.
The small European island country was reeling after the glo... |
| 29.09.2020 | Farmer Mac & TerViva want to help farmers finance pongamia cultivation in Florida | Most people love the ideas around regenerative agriculture and more sustainable food production. But one of the biggest hurdles to making these ideas realities is the steep upfront costs that come with adopting a new crop or production prac... |
| 21.05.2020 | Terviva secures $54m to commercialise ‘sustainable’ pongamia-based food ingredients [Read Article] | - |
| 02.04.2019 | TerViva raises $20m to fuel plant-based protein ambitions with ‘vertical soy’ | Pongamia trees – which are sometimes referred to as ‘vertical soy’ as they produce seeds that contain high levels of protein and high-oleic oils – have not historically been used as a food crop owing to anti-nutritional factors.
However, Te... |
| 27.03.2019 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, March 27 | IN GOLDMAN WE TRUST
Apple announced on Monday that it would release a flashy new credit card to consumers. Dubbed “Apple Card,” it lives in the iPhone’s Wallet app where purchases are automatically totaled and organized by color-coded categ... |
| 27.03.2019 | Daily funding roundup - March 27th, 2019 | ChargeWheel raised $1M; MaintainX landed $3.8M; Proxy received $13.6M; Qupital secured $15M
ChargeWheel: ChargeWheel offers fleet charging all over California for e-bikes, e-scooters and all EVs including commercial electric vehicles. Charg... |
| 26.03.2019 | TerViva Raises $20M in Series D Funding | TerViva, a Oakland, Calif.-based agriculture technology company, raised an additional $20m in the first close of its Series D funding.
The round was led by a diversified agricultural family office, Evans Properties, The Jeremy and Hannelore... |
| 26.03.2019 | EXCLUSIVE: A Company Growing Protein On Trees Raises $20m Series D | As with money, protein is not known for growing on trees. But only if you haven’t heard of TerViva — a California-based agribusiness planting tens of thousands of pongamia trees in Florida and Hawaii.
According to TerViva, the pongamia tree... |
| 06.12.2017 | AgTech Startups Offer Hope in Brutal Citrus Greening Fight | Citrus season is just getting started and the special varieties only available for a few months out of the year have begun showing up at grocery stores. But US citrus growers, along with their counterparts all over the world, are facing a s... |
| 01.02.2017 | The Yield Lab Invests $300k in Latest Agritech Cohort Taking Total to $1.8m | The Yield Lab, the accelerator program based in St Louis, Missouri, has made three new investments of $100k each in agritech startups joining its 2017 cohort. This takes The Yield Lab’s total investment in agtech startups to $1.8 million ac... |
| 27.08.2015 | TerViva Raises $2m in Series B to Grow Soybean Alternative on Degraded Land | TerViva, a Californian agribusiness growing pongamia, a perennial legume tree, and processing it for vegetable oil and protein-rich animal feed, has raised $2 million in Series B funding.
A Florida-based family office and established citrus... |
| 22.01.2015 | Yield Lab accelerator announces first class of agtech startups | Yield Lab, a new St.Louis-based ag tech accelerator program launched in September, announced its first class of five startups. More than 100 companies applied to the program from around the world, and the first batch includes one company fr... |
| 07.11.2013 | Hawaii’s Energy Excelerator pours $5M into innovative cleantech startups (exclusive) | Hawaii is on a mission to achieve a 70 percent clean energy goal in 2030, making it the ideal testing-ground for green tech startups.
A new startup program, called Energy Exceletor, recently raised $30 million from the U.S. Department of De... |
