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| 31.08.2026 | TerraBlaster Secures $12.5M: Real-Time Soil Intelligence Redefines Precision Ag | TerraBlaster, a Redwood City agtech firm, secured $12.5 million in seed funding. This crucial capital pushes total investment to $16.5 million. The company's advanced IoT soil-nutrition monitoring system utilizes Mars rover-derived Laser-In... |
| 25.08.2026 | TerraBlaster raises $12.5m for real time NPK soil mapping at tractor speed | TerraBlaster—a startup using tech first deployed on the Mars rover to determine levels of key nutrients in the soil—has raised a $12.5 million seed round as it gears up for commercial operations in 2027.
The round, which takes the firm’s cu... |
| 07.08.2026 | BioScout raises $4.8m for early warning system for fungal pathogens | BioScout—an Australian startup behind an AI-powered early warning system alerting farmers to fungal pathogens—has raised an A$6.75 million ($4.8 million) seed round co-led by Demea Sustainable Investment and Astanor.
The round—which was als... |
| 29.07.2026 | Moa Technology Secures $29.6M, Redefines Global Weed Control | Moa Technology, a UK innovator, secured a $29.6 million Series C round. This funding targets urgent global agricultural challenges. Herbicide-resistant weeds plague farms worldwide. Moa develops revolutionary solutions. It discovers novel m... |
| 23.07.2026 | Moa Technology raises Series C round co-led by Oxford Science Enterprises and Supernova Invest | OXFORD, England, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Moa Technology ("Moa"), an agricultural biotechnology company focused on discovering novel mode of action herbicides, announces a £22.2 million Series C financing round, co-led by Oxf... |
| 17.07.2026 | Juno Bio Raises $3.8M in Funding | Juno Bio, an Oakland, California-based developer of precision multi-omics and vaginal microbiome testing platforms, raised $3.8m in funding.
Backers included Ada Ventures, Artesian, Entrepreneur First, and Illumina Accelerator.
The company ... |
| 16.07.2026 | Juno Bio secures $3.8M and opens first sequencing lab dedicated to women's health | Juno Bio, a UK-founded women’s health company dedicated to closing the gender health gap through precision vaginal microbiome testing and multi-omics, today announced the opening of its first sequencing lab built entirely for women’s health... |
| 16.07.2026 | Juno Bio Raises $3.8 Million And Opens First CLIA-Certified Sequencing Lab Dedicated Entirely To Women’s Health | Juno Bio, a women’s health company dedicated to closing the gender health gap through precision vaginal microbiome testing and multi-omics, announced the opening of its first sequencing lab built entirely for women’s health. The new facilit... |
| 05.02.2025 | Bags… from bacteria? Modern Synthesis raises $5.5m to expand biomaterials platform | [Disclosure: AgFunder—the parent company of AgFunderNews—is an investor in Modern Synthesis.]
Modern Synthesis—a London-based startup developing biomaterials for high-end fashion brands—has closed a $5.5 million round led by Extantia Capita... |
| 26.09.2024 | Australians look to World Agri-Tech to fill horticulture, grains investment pipeline | This sponsored post has been published in partnership with AgriFutures Australia. The author is Casey Dunn, a writer and corporate affairs consultant based in Orange, New South Wales.
For more than 30 years, Australia’s rural R&D corpor... |
| 06.09.2024 | GALY Raises $33M From Bill Gates’ BEV, H&M, and Inditex to Advance Climate-Resilient Cultivated Cotton | GALY, a plant-cell culture startup based in Brazil and Boston, USA, has raised $33 million in an oversubscribed Series B financing round to advance its proprietary platform for cultivated cotton from lab to pre-industrial scale.
Additionall... |
| 08.02.2024 | How GrainInnovate and growAG are building connections down under to solve global food challenges | The grain industry is a vital part of Australia’s economy, supplying 25% of the country’s agricultural gross value of production.
Nigel Hart, managing director of Australia’s Grain Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), says that give... |
| 27.07.2023 | ZoomAgri lands $6m from GrainCorp and others to expand AI-powered grain inspection system | ZoomAgri has raised a $6 million series A round for its hardware-software system that digitizes the inspection and traceability process for agricultural commodities. The round brings ZoomAgri’s total funding to date to $11 million.
Australi... |
| 06.09.2022 | Five Aussie startups and firms receiving major cash injections despite the tech downfall | Zipr co-founder Amber Linz presenting her pitch. Source: SmartCompany.
It’s been a tough road for tech startups, with the financial boosts of the pandemic now wearing thin. Many have had to cut stuff, scale back operations and even close co... |
| 16.06.2022 | Digital ski coach zips in $5.1 million to let you have more fun in the mountains | London-based digital ski coach Carv has raised $5.1 million in funding. The round was led by European games industry-focused VC firm Hiro Capital, with follow-on investment from Artesian VC and SOSV. This brings the total funding raised to ... |
| 04.06.2022 | German startup MotionsCloud raises $2M with a time and resource-saving AI solution for insurance claims | German startup MotionsCloud and its AI insurance claim solution that saves time, resources and improves customer experience raised $2 million, backed by investors including SOSV (US), Net Insurance (IT), and AI Startup Incubator (CZ)
Motio... |
| 11.05.2022 | GRDC’s new Tekfarm program seeks global agtech solutions for Australia’s grains sector | Grain is a thriving industry in Australia. It’s the country’s second-largest agricultural subsector by value, accounting for 27% of total gross value of ag production. In 2020-2021, there were 22,500 Australian grains farmers, who propelled... |
| 28.04.2022 | Munich’s MotionsCloud minimises insurance claims migraines, manifests $2 million | Munich-based MotionsCloud has raised $2 million in a new funding round. Operating in the same space as industry-standard unicorn Tractable (who's stocked with a warchest of close to $120 million), MotionsCloud uses AR and AI technologies to... |
| 07.12.2021 | Fleet Space develops next-gen 3D printed satellites to bolster IoT connectivity | Australian satellite developer Fleet Space has revealed plans to launch a new generation of 3D printed small satellites in the next 12 months, called Alpha.
Claimed to be the world’s first entirely 3D printed satellite, the Alpha will integ... |
| 03.12.2021 | Weekly Wrap #77: Tis the season for talent wars, awards & name changes | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| 09.11.2021 | South Australian startup Oxamii launches distributed energy trading platform | Oxamii co-founder and chief executive Aaron Yew. Source: supplied.
Adelaide-based startup Oxamii has developed a smart grid software platform that enables residents, community organisations, and businesses to buy and sell energy from renewa... |
| 25.08.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: ZoomAgri raises $3.3m for ‘vision-as-a-service’ food inspection tech | ZoomAgri has raised $3.3 million in a “pre-Series A” round from SP Ventures, Artesian, GrainInnovate, and Glocal, AFN can reveal. This round brings the business’s total funding to $4.75 million.
Headquartered in Spain but mainly operating i... |
| 12.08.2021 | Sicona raises $3.7m to scale battery materials technology globally | SYDNEY, Aug. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Sicona Battery Technologies Pty Ltd ("Sicona"), a groundbreaking battery materials technology company, has successfully raised AU$3.7 million in a pre-Series A funding round.
The funding round... |
| 11.08.2021 | Sicona raises $3.7m to scale battery materials technology globally | |
| 21.05.2021 | Weekly Wrap #49: Purposeful exits & pesky perils of being public | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| 22.04.2021 | Ignatica Closes $7 million Pre-Series A Round Led by Lingfeng Capital | Ignatica lets insurers adapt to changing markets and create new products, policies and businesses while keeping costs down and moving quickly to market.
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Ignatica, the insurance policy administration platform... |
| 09.03.2021 | The Nature Conservancy invests in 5 soil health startups | US-headquartered environmental nonprofit The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has invested in five agrifoodtech startups, it announced today.
“We’ve been working around initiatives to rebuild soil health in North America aggressively since 2016 and... |
| 17.12.2020 | ‘Mammal-free milk’ startup TurtleTree Labs raises $6.2m pre-Series A funding | TurtleTree Labs, a Singaporean startup producing ‘lab-grown’ milk, has raised $6.2 million in a pre-Series A funding round.
Existing investors participating in the round included Green Monday Ventures — part of Hong Kong’s alt-protein focus... |
| 14.12.2020 | WA disruptor Space Industries joins $150k CleanTech Accelerator program | // Brinc, who have established an accelerator program supporting the next generation of Australian CleanTech startups, has chosen a Perth-based space startup as their first Aussie entrant into the program …
As we have reported before, Space... |
| 22.10.2020 | Grain monitoring startup TeleSense closes $10.2m Series B to ramp up sales | US grain storage startup TeleSense has closed a $10.2 million Series B round led by existing investor Finistere Ventures.
New investors in the startup included Fulcrum Global Capital, UPL, Artesian Venture Partners, and Mindset Ventures. Ex... |
| 08.10.2020 | SwarmFarm raises $3.2m to grow its open platform for ag robotics | Australia’s SwarmFarm Robotics has raised A$4.5 million ($3.22 million) in a funding round led by local VCs Tenacious Ventures and Artesian. The Queensland Business Development Fund also supported the round.
The startup was founded in 2012 ... |
| 29.06.2020 | Lever VC & Brinc Launch China Alternative Protein Joint Investment Fund & Accelerator To Fund Domestic Startups | 1
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| 25.06.2020 | Singapore FoodTech Raises US$3.2M Seed To Scale Lab-Grown Breast Milk, Green Monday Backs Startup | 527 1
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Singapore-based biotechnology startup TurtleTree Labs has just announced fresh funding from global investors, including Hong Kong’s Green Monday Ventures, the investment arm of plant-based disruptor Green Monday... |
| 24.06.2020 | Singapore cell-based breastmilk startup TurtleTree Labs raises $3.2m seed funding | TurtleTree Labs has raised $3.2 million in seed funding from investors including Hong Kong alt-protein and sustainability specialists Green Monday Ventures, House of Saud-linked KBW Ventures, and Australia’s Artesian. US-based New Luna Vent... |
| 24.04.2020 | Brinc & Artesian Bring Clean Energy Accelerator Program To Australia | 7 1
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Brinc, the Hong Kong-based impact venture capital and accelerator firm, and Sydney-based alternative investment management company Artesian has partnered to launch a new Clean Energy Accelerator Program in Australia... |
| 25.06.2015 | How good government policy with minimum financial outlay can boost the startup ecosystem | Early-stage venture capital limited partnerships (ESVCLP) are a great example of policy that can support startups with little investment from government, Artesian Venture Partners managing partner Jeremy Colless says.
ESVCLP status is award... |
| 08.12.2014 | Financial System Inquiry crowdfunding recommendation draws support from startup industry figures | The Financial System Inquiry’s recommendation that the government should implement fundraising regulation to facilitate crowdfunding for debt and equity, and eventually other forms of financing, has been welcomed by a number of startup indu... |
| 18.11.2014 | Startups are the new corporates, corporates are the new startups | Everybody wants to be startup. Recently, The Guardian claimed they were one, along with Westpac and a number of other large and well-established companies. And if they’re not claiming to be one, they certainly want to get in on the startup ... |
| 07.11.2014 | ESVCLP: “Elegant and farsighted” but is it effective? | The capital required for a venture capital fund to become a registered early stage venture capital limited partnership (ESVCLP) should be reduced from $10 million to $5 million in order to improve early stage funding in Australia, according... |
| 06.11.2014 | ESVCLP: “Elegant and farsighted” but is it effective? | The capital required for a venture capital fund to become a registered early stage venture capital limited partnership (ESVCLP) should be reduced from $10 million to $5 million in order to improve early stage funding in Australia, according... |
| 30.09.2014 | Taxi app Ingogo raises $9.1 million, with $1.2 million through crowd equity | Australian transportation network and mobile payments startup Ingogo has raised $9.1 million, as it increases its focus on mobile payments, ahead of a planned ASX listing next year.
The investment round was led by UBS and Canaccord Genuity,... |
| 14.03.2013 | Why large Aussie investors are failing our nation’s start-ups | Jeremy Colless, managing partner of Artesian – which is behind the Sydney Angels Sidecar Fund and the new Slingshot program – explains why Australia’s start-up and investment culture needs to be rebuilt “from the bottom up”.
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| - | Munich’s MotionsCloud minimises insurance claims migraines, manifests $2 million | Munich-based MotionsCloud has raised $2 million in a new funding round. Operating in the same space as industry-standard unicorn Tractable (who's stocked with a warchest of close to $120 million), MotionsCloud uses AR and AI technologies to... |
| - | Digital ski coach zips in $5.1 million to let you have more fun in the mountains | London-based digital ski coach Carv has raised $5.1 million in funding. The round was led by European games industry-focused VC firm Hiro Capital, with follow-on investment from Artesian VC and SOSV. This brings the total funding raised to ... |
| - | Monitoring, controlling, and containing diseases worldwide via blood typing, Criam raises $2.1 million | Braga-Portugal-based medtech Criam has raised $2.1 million in seed funding in order to further the development of its in-situ blood test analysis technology. The startup produces a patented portable in vitro diagnostic device that provides ... |
