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| Aug 8, 2025 | Study: Precision Fermentation-Derived Chicken Protein Has Beneficial Digestive Effects for Dogs | In a new study, scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign partnered with Bond Pet Foods to examine the effects of chicken protein produced using precision fermentation on the digestive health of dogs.
First, Bond’s R&D t... |
| Jan 7, 2025 | Baden Capital Acquires OrCal, Inc., Expanding Its Presence in Agricultural Solutions | ORCAL Logo
The acquisition aligns with Baden Capital's strategy of investing in companies that provide essential services and products to the agriculture sector.
JUNCTION CITY, Ore., Jan. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Baden Capital, a ... |
| Sep 11, 2024 | Solasta Bio: A Green Revolution in Crop Protection | In a world grappling with the dual challenges of food security and environmental sustainability, Solasta Bio emerges as a beacon of hope. This Glasgow-based agri-biotech company has recently secured $14 million in Series A funding, a signif... |
| Sep 11, 2024 | Glasgow-based Solasta Bio raises $14M Series A for green insecticides | Solasta Bio, an agri-biotech company providing green insecticides, has completed a $14M Series A funding round to accelerate the development of its peptide-based, nature-inspired bioinsecticides – the first of their kind to be developed wor... |
| May 15, 2024 | Women in the Pet Industry: Meet Dr. Danielle Bernal of Wellness Pet Company | BOSTON — Dr. Danielle Bernal’s pet industry career has taken her all over the world, from Australia to the United States and South Africa to Russia. As global director of veterinary nutrition for Wellness Pet Company, she has helped lead th... |
| Apr 24, 2024 | Wilbur-Ellis Nutrition shakes on strategic partnership with Bond Pet Foods | ST. JOSEPH, MO. and BOULDER, COLO. — Following a major milestone in its partnership with Hill’s Pet Nutrition earlier this year, Bond Pet Foods announced April 23 it has teamed up with Wilbur-Ellis Nutrition, LLC, to develop sustainable pet... |
| Jun 20, 2023 | Exclusive: Ag Drone Builder Guardian Agriculture Reaps $20 Million In New Funding | Guardian Agriculture SC1 autonomous electric vertical takeoff and landing drone. Guardian Agriculture |
| Jun 20, 2023 | Brief: Guardian Agriculture nets $20m in series A to expand precision crop protection drone technology | Guardian Agriculture has raised a $20 million Series A round led by Fall Line Capital to expand its autonomous drone technology to farms across the US and ramp-up manufacturing of its SC1 aircraft. The raise brings Guardian’s cumulative fun... |
| Jun 1, 2022 | BREAKING: FarmWise’s weeding robots haul in $45m Series B funding from Taylor Farms, others | US ag automation startup FarmWise Labs, which builds weeding robot Titan, has raised $45 million in Series B funding, it announced today.
Fall Line Capital and Middleland Capital co-led the round.
Taylor Farms, one of the top producers of l... |
| May 19, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Downey Jr’s Footprint backs Motif; Unilever joins $1bn regen ag fund | One of India’s leading food and restaurant delivery services made another big-ticket acquisition this week, while alt-protein producers raised several early-stage rounds. Upstream, Unilever joined a new $1.06 billion fund to accelerate adop... |
| May 16, 2022 | BREAKING: Vestaron banks $82m Series C funding for its crop-protecting peptides | US biotech startup Vestaron, which is devleoping biological alternatives to chemical-based crop controls using peptides, has raised $82 million in its Series C funding round.
Private investment officer Ordway Selections and Cavallo Ventures... |
| Nov 16, 2021 | Chinese VC Bits x Bites hits $100m final close with capital from Syngenta, Wilbur-Ellis | Chinese agrifoodtech VC firm Bits x Bites has closed its latest fund on $100 million with a string of food and ag corporates as well as investment players signing up as LPs.
Among those participating in the fund’s final close were Syngenta ... |
| Nov 16, 2021 | BREAKING: Chinese VC Bits x Bites hits $100m final close with capital from Syngenta, Wilbur-Ellis | Chinese agrifoodtech VC firm Bits x Bites has closed its latest fund on $100 million with a string of food and ag corporates as well as investment players signing up as LPs.
Among those participating in the fund’s final close were Syngenta ... |
| Sep 22, 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... |
| Sep 14, 2021 | BREAKING: Nitrogen fixer Andes scores $15m from Bayer, Wilbur-Ellis to move into carbon capture | Andes, a Chilean-founded, US-based ag biotech startup, has raised $15 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by the VC arms of Bayer and Wilbur-Ellis – Leaps by Bayer and Cavallo Ventures.
Existing investors Endurance and KdT Ven... |
| Sep 14, 2021 | Nitrogen fixer Andes scores $15m from Bayer, Wilbur-Ellis to move into carbon capture | Andes, a Chilean-founded, US-based ag biotech startup, has raised $15 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by the VC arms of Bayer and Wilbur-Ellis – Leaps by Bayer and Cavallo Ventures.
Existing investors Endurance and KdT Ven... |
| Aug 25, 2021 | Agrifoodtech Digest: Cargill, Microsoft & Rabobank get in on the ag carbon game | Two of the past week’s biggest stories were AFN exclusives from the ag carbon market, both involving Microsoft: verification platform Regrow’s $17 million Series A round, and agroforestry startup reNature’s successful ‘harvest’ in Brazil. I... |
| Mar 18, 2021 | To Lead Commercialization Efforts, Renowned Agriculture Commodities Trader Rob Jones is Named President of Christina Lake Cannabis | With 35 years of experience in trading agriculture commodities globally, CLC’s Executive VP of Business Development and Sales Rob Jones has been named President of the Company. Having played a significant role in the growth of Wilbur-Ellis ... |
| Mar 2, 2021 | BREAKING: Anti-mastitis startup SomaDetect raises $6m Series A from Ag Capital Canada, Merck | Dairy farmers would save a lot of money — and tears over spilled milk — if they had a way to detect mastitis early.
The bacterial infection of the udders leads to a loss of roughly $200 per cow, per year for US dairy farmers, according to t... |
| Mar 2, 2021 | Anti-mastitis startup SomaDetect raises $6m Series A from Ag Capital Canada, Merck | Dairy farmers would save a lot of money — and tears over spilled milk — if they had a way to detect mastitis early.
The bacterial infection of the udders leads to a loss of roughly $200 per cow, per year for US dairy farmers, according to t... |
| Dec 10, 2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Beta Hatch banks $9.3m Series A, breaks ground on US’s largest insect farm | Mealworms may be the last critter that comes to mind when you hear the word ‘ranch,’ but Beta Hatch is hoping to change that perception – and a global pandemic presents the perfect opportunity.
“Some of our customers have reported as much a... |
| Dec 4, 2020 | Wilbur-Ellis Agribusiness Acquires Probe Schedule | |
| Oct 9, 2019 | Why Dan Vradenburg joining Trace Genomics as CEO is a big deal | Editor’s Note: Rob Leclerc is a founding partner at venture capital firm AgFunder an investor in Trace Genomics.
On Monday morning, I got an email from our friend Daniel Vradenburg, former president of Wilbur-Ellis, and board chair of Caval... |
| Apr 16, 2019 | It’s Beef’s Turn for a Digital Renaissance, says ex-Climate Employee & Founder of Digital Tool PLA | The livestock industry is gearing up for its turn in the innovation saddle as more startups like Performance Livestock Analytics tap corporate partners like Wilbur-Ellis to pick up the pace
Innovation is changing virtually every segment of ... |
| Nov 23, 2018 | Forget software bugs, this startup is focused on insects that could change the agriculture industry | Beta Hatch founder Virginia Emery stands among the stacked trays full of mealworms in a grow room at the company’s facility in SeaTac, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)
Some of the most intriguing farming in Washington is taking place... |
| Nov 6, 2018 | Taranis Lands $20m Series B to Expand Imagery Analytics Platform for Farmers | Israeli imagery analytics for ag platform Taranis has closed a $20 million Series B round of funding led by Viola Ventures, an Israeli venture firm making its first investment into agtech.
The round also attracted investment from three majo... |
| Apr 5, 2018 | Wilbur-Ellis Backed Insect Startup Beta Hatch Closes $2.1m Seed Round | *First Published Jan 31, 2018. Updated April 5, 2018 to reflect close of round and new partnerships.*
Seattle-based insect farming startup Beta Hatch has closed an oversubscribed $2.1 million seed round. Beta Hatch cultivates mealworms for ... |
| Feb 2, 2018 | Beta Hatch Receives Investment from Cavallo Ventures | Beta Hatch, a Seattle, Washington-based company industrializing the production of insects as a sustainable protein for animal feed, received an investment from Cavallo Ventures, the venture capital arm of Wilbur-Ellis.
The amount of the fun... |
| Dec 10, 2017 | Asilomar Bio Raises $12M Series B Funding Round | Asilomar Bio, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based company developing technologies that improve harvest yields for growers, closed a $12m Series B funding.
The round was led by Syngenta Ventures and Cavallo Ventures, the venture capital arm of W... |
| Mar 9, 2017 | Wilbur-Ellis Launched Cavallo Ventures to ‘Remain Innovative’ and Sell New Tech to Customers | Wilbur-Ellis, the agriculture retailer, is joining the venture capital game after launching Cavallo Ventures late last year.
Cavallo Ventures has already struck three deals, most recently investing in AgCode, the vineyard management softwar... |
| Nov 30, 2016 | Wilbur Ross’ private equity fund raised $500M from the Chinese government | see also
Trump selects treasury, commerce secretaries
A China syndrome has cropped up among the Trump administration’s potential conflicts of interest.
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday picked Wilbur Ross to become US commerce secre... |
| Aug 18, 2016 | How Tinder for Tractors is Shaking Up the Agriculture Industry | We thought that might get your attention! No, it’s not quite what you think. But it’s close.
HarvestPort, a Californian startup, is matchmaking farmers to farm equipment that they don’t own and they don’t want to buy. And, like Tinder, it’s... |
| Jul 23, 2015 | Planet Labs Adds to Arsenal But Ag Application Remains Hazy | Satellite imagery technology was back in the news last week after San Francisco’s Planet Labs – recently the recipient of $118 million in Series C equity capital – acquired BlackBridge, the German geospatial value chain business.
Planet Lab... |
| Wilbur-Ellis | “Wilbur-Ellis serves customers at the start of the North American agriculture and food system.” |
