| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.06.2026 | After Meati’s collapse, Chunk Foods pitches capex-light path to whole-cut alt meat, eyes profitability in 2027 | Chunk Foods—an Israeli startup making whole cuts of plant-based meat using solid state fermentation—is on track to become profitable late next year aided by rapid growth in foodservice, new US retail contracts, and a capex-light business mo... |
| 02.10.2024 | Fresh off a funding round, Micropep discusses the promise of peptides for crop protection products | Finding crop protection products that have the efficacy of traditional chemicals with the environmental footprint of a fully natural solution is no easy task.
In recent years, peptides and micropeptides have emerged as one promising option ... |
| 26.03.2024 | ‘Incremental’ innovation, a warning on the push for profitability and investors ‘scared shitless’ about portfolios: overheard at World Agri-Tech | Hours after an upbeat conversation on agri-tech investing featuring Vinod Khosla and Dave Friedberg on stage at the World Agri-Tech summit in San Francisco last Tuesday, delegates were brought back down to earth by investors on a later pane... |
| 22.06.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Cosucra raises $49m, Carbon marketplace Supercritical raises $13m, Cox launches $300m fund, Getir exits France | This week plant-based ingredients specialist Cosucra raised €45 million ($49 million); Los Angeles-based Omeat emerged from stealth armed with $40 million to expand its ‘simple and elegant’ solution to scaling cultivated meat; and Berkeley-... |
| 20.06.2023 | 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... |
| 20.06.2023 | Exclusive: Ag Drone Builder Guardian Agriculture Reaps $20 Million In New Funding | Guardian Agriculture SC1 autonomous electric vertical takeoff and landing drone. Guardian Agriculture |
| 27.04.2023 | BREAKING: Chunk Foods gears up for US launch of plant-based whole cuts following $15m seed round | Israeli startup Chunk Foods is gearing up to launch whole cuts of plant-based meat in the US foodservice market this summer after raising a sizeable seed round ($15 million) late last year to expand its fermentation-based platform.
The inve... |
| 22.03.2023 | ‘It will be a year of bust-ups, roll-ups and M&A’: VC predictions for agrifoodtech investment | [Disclosure: AFN’s parent company is AgFunder.]
At the recent World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco, Cascadia Capital managing director Scott Porter asked a panel of VCs if they thought agrifoodtech investment would improve in ... |
| 21.02.2023 | BREAKING: Wild Microbes raises $3.3m in pre-seed round to generate next generation microbial hosts | Cambridge, Mass-based startup Wild Microbes has raised $3.3 million in a pre-seed round to help unlock the potential of precision fermentation through the use of a gene-editing approach it claims can create superior production hosts.
The ro... |
| 07.12.2022 | BREAKING: Sound Agriculture lands $75m to expand nitrogen enhancing product overseas | US-based Sound Agriculture has raised a $75 million Series D to expand its crop nutrient and plant breeding businesses. New investors BMO Impact Investment Fund and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative led the round. FootPrint Coalition and returning... |
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| 02.06.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Synthesis Capital closes $300m foodtech fund, e-grocer Astro bags $60m | Though many “instant” grocery delivery startups are in the midst of layoffs, one company in Indonesia bagged a healthy Series B round this week.
Elsewhere, US ag robotics specialist FarmWise teased a new weeding implement along with its lat... |
| 01.06.2022 | 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... |
| 26.05.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Stable raises $60m, Galley gets $14m, World Bank’s $30bn food crisis response | Multiple restaurant tech companies made headlines this week, from Galley Solutions’ sizeable Series A fundraise to TRAY’s multi-year deal with IHOP. Meanwhile, a carbon initiative in Africa nabbed its first tranche of funding to restore lan... |
| 05.05.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Zepto bags $200m, Stanford launches climate change school | This week, Indian “instant delivery” e-grocer Zepto got closer to unicorn status with its Series D fundraise, while Colombia’s RobinFood raised funds to expand its ghost kitchen network across Latin America. Elsewhere, cultivated leather st... |
| 16.12.2021 | Agrofy adds $30m to grow ‘agfintech’ services | Argentine farmer marketplace Agrofy has raised $30 million in Series C funding. The deal takes its total funding to date to $66 million across four rounds. |
| 16.12.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Agrofy adds $30m in Yara-led Series C round to grow ‘agfintech’ services | Argentine farmer marketplace Agrofy has raised $30 million in Series C funding. The deal takes its total funding to date to $66 million across four rounds.
Yara Growth Ventures, the VC arm of Norwegian agrochemicals giant Yara International... |
| 19.08.2021 | Sound Agriculture closes $45m late stage round led by Leaps by Bayer | Sound Agriculture, the self-described “bio-inspired” crop inputs company, has raised $45 million in a Series C-extension round led by Bayer‘s investment arm Leaps by Bayer. Life sciences investor Northpond Ventures also joined the round as ... |
| 19.08.2021 | BREAKING: Sound Agriculture closes $45m late stage round led by Leaps by Bayer | Sound Agriculture, the self-described “bio-inspired” crop inputs company, has raised $45 million in a Series D round led by Bayer‘s investment arm Leaps by Bayer. Life sciences investor Northpond Ventures also joined the round as a new back... |
| 19.08.2021 | Sound Agriculture closes $45m late stage round | Sound Agriculture, the self-described “bio-inspired” crop inputs company, has raised $45 million in a Series C-extension round led by Bayer‘s investment arm Leaps by Bayer. Life sciences investor Northpond Ventures also joined the round as ... |
| 11.03.2021 | Brazil’s SP Ventures looks north to back Canadian machinery manager Verge Ag | One of a farmer’s biggest assets is their machinery and equipment. During busy seasons, it can be hard to keep track of which piece is where, whether it is functioning at optimum levels, and who needs to use it and when.
Canada’s Verge Ag i... |
| 27.01.2021 | Anti-allergy startup Ukko scores $40m in Bayer-led Series B | Israeli biotech startup Ukko has raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Bayer‘s corporate venture unit, Leaps by Bayer.
Joining the funding were US agrifood conglomerate Continental Grain Company, Malta-based PeakBridge Ventures, Swi... |
| 27.01.2021 | BREAKING: Anti-allergy startup Ukko scores $40m in Bayer-led Series B | Israeli biotech startup Ukko has raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Bayer‘s corporate venture unit, Leaps by Bayer.
Joining the funding were US agrifood conglomerate Continental Grain Company, Malta-based PeakBridge Ventures, Swi... |
| 11.12.2020 | Syngenta partners with Sound Ag to launch ‘bio-inspired’ crop input in China | Swiss agro-chemical giant Syngenta is hoping to tackle nitrogen use in China while maintaining productivity through a new partnership with one of its portfolio companies: Emeryville, California-based molecular biology startup Sound Agricult... |
| 02.12.2020 | Bayer backs drone spraying platform Rantizo in $7.5m Series A round | The ag drone hype may have dwindled a few years ago. But that didn’t stop Iowa City-based startup Rantizo, which uses the vehicles to spray crops, from going full steam ahead.
“There was a lot of enthusiasm about what drones could do and th... |
| 16.07.2020 | Стартапы в форме B-Corp: для кого и зачем | В этой заметке разберемся, почему все больше компаний в США учреждается в форме B-Corp, а инвесторы несут в них все больше денег.
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| 10.07.2020 | Q&A: MoFo partners talk agrifoodtech exits, regenerative tech, and Covid-19 | Back in 2015, AFN spoke with Mitchell Presser, then head of US M&A for law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, about the relationship between the private equity investment and growth in agrifoodtech. A lot has changed since then, inclu... |
| 17.06.2020 | How the Colorado potato beetle inspired a $102 million fundraise – and could yet inspire a Covid-19 vaccine | UPDATE: Wednesday June 17, 4:55pm ET to add comments from GreenLight investor S2G.
Switching sharply to developing a vaccine for Covid-19 appears to have proved a boon for GreenLight Biosciences, a company that previously focused on develop... |
| 16.06.2020 | GreenLight Supercharges Efforts with $102M in Funding | BOSTON, June 16, 2020 – GreenLight Biosciences today announced it has raised an oversubscribed $102 million round of funding from new and existing investors to rapidly expand production of its RNA products for agricultural and life sciences... |
| 16.01.2020 | Amazon for ag? Agrofy closes $23m Series B in LatAm’s largest-ever agtech deal | Argentina’s Agrofy has raised $23 million in Series B funding in the largest fundraising effort for a Latin American agtech startup on record. Agrofy is an online agribusiness marketplace matching buyers and sellers of a wide range of agric... |
| 02.01.2020 | 2020 predictions from agrifoodtech’s leading VCs | Happy New Year!
What a decade it’s been for the advancement of the food and agriculture industries! It was a decade spent catching up with other industries in the technological revolution. In many respects the industry is still in catch-up ... |
| 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... |
| 05.12.2017 | Asilomar Bio Raises $12m Series B for Chemical Yield Enhancer | Asilomar Bio, a San Francisco-based maker of chemical crop inputs has raised a $12.25 million Series B Round to bring it’s first chemical yield enhancement product to market.
This announcement comes on the heels of a licensing agreement wit... |
| 13.09.2017 | 10+ Questions Facing Agriculture and Where to Find the Answers | The agriculture industry is facing a series of intertwined, complex issues over the next several decades. Conventional wisdom suggests that we face a critical supply shortage driven by four key questions:
Can we produce enough food? The wor... |
| 04.04.2017 | Pluto AI raises $2.1 million to bring intelligence to water treatment | Former 500 Startups accelerator company Pluto AI is announcing $2.1 million in fundraising today from Fall Line Capital, Refactor Capital, Unshackled Ventures, Comet Labs and additional angels. Pluto is taking advantage of the sensorificati... |
| 26.10.2016 | Institutional Farmland Investors are Interested in Investing in Agtech | Large institutional investors such as pension funds, endowments and foundations are interested in investing in agriculture technology (agtech), according to a new report from data service Prequin.
The report on the company’s 100-strong agri... |
| 14.07.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Ripple Foods Raises $30m from Google, Khosla, S2G, Tao, Soil Disease Testing Kit Raises $4m, more | Ripple Foods Raises $30m from Google Ventures, Khosla, S2G, Tao Capital
Ripple Foods, which makes non-dairy milk products with eight times the protein as almond milk and half the sugar of dairy milk, has closed a $30 million Series B round ... |
| 13.07.2016 | Trace Genomics launches a 23andMe for farms, raises $4 million to improve the world’s food supply | A San Francisco startup called Trace Genomics wants to help farmers diagnose and improve the health of the soil where they want to raise crops before it’s harvest time and too late to change course.
So the startup has developed a soil testi... |
| 18.12.2015 | Cultivian’s Ziolkowski on the Synergies of Farmland and Agtech Investing | Last month AgFunderNews caught up with Andy Ziolkowski, managing director at Chicago-based agtech VC Cultivian Sandbox, to discuss one of the topics emerging from the World Agri-Tech Investment Summit in London; investing in farmland and ag... |
| 17.06.2015 | Crop Protection Product Developer Asilomar Bio Announces $3M Series A Round | “Farmers everywhere will tell you that weather and water are the biggest issues,” Travis Bayer, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Asilomar Bio. The company recently closed a $3 million Series A round co-lead by Cultivian Sandbox Ve... |