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| 26.08.2026 | - | Together, the companies connect intelligence across the agricultural lifecycle from soil and crop development to harvest, quality analysis and post-harvest operations. SCIO adds laboratory-grade measurement of crop quality and composition, ... |
| 10.04.2024 | OJ… with 30% less sugar? Blue Tree Technologies scales up with leading juice co, secures self-affirmed GRAS | Blue Tree Technologies—an Israeli startup using a patented process to selectively remove sugars from juice, milk, and beer—has secured self-GRAS status for its approach and has successfully scaled its solution with Israeli juice manufacture... |
| 28.09.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Paine Schwartz launches $1.7bn agrifood fund, Cricket One unveils new plant, Infarm ‘declared bankrupt’ | Agrifood’s biggest news this week is PE firm Paine Schwartz closing its $1.7 billion food- and agribusiness-focused fund. Fund VI is “exclusively focused on sustainable investments” in food and agribusiness, and the firm has already deploye... |
| 27.09.2023 | Scentian Bio raises $2.1m seed round to build biosensors inspired by bugs | Scentian Bio—a New Zealand-based startup making biosensors with potential applications in everything from food quality control to rapid testing for diseases such as tuberculosis—has raised a $2.1 million seed round.
The round, led by Finist... |
| 15.09.2023 | Meet the founders: Israel’s Fresh Start incubator on what makes a great pitch, red flags, and ‘coachable’ entrepreneurs | In many respects, foodtech is not an obvious target for venture capital, which is not the most patient kind of cash. The ‘tech’ part notwithstanding, you’ve still got to secure regulatory approvals and get physical products into the marketp... |
| 13.02.2023 | ‘It’s a way to augment our organic growth’: Inside CropX M&A strategy that’s eyeing Latin America next | To build or to buy. That’s the question agtech startups continually face when developing their technology offerings. Usually it’s a little of both, and that’s certainly the case for Israel-based farm management startup CropX.
The company ha... |
| 20.01.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Consumer foodtech players Flipdish, Yumi & La Vie raise large rounds | One of this week’s biggest fundings went to Flipdish — a US startup providing software that powers payments, online ordering, and delivery for foodservice enterprises — which netted a massive $100 million in a round led by Chinese tech gian... |
| 17.11.2021 | The good times keep rolling for small, e-commerce business owners | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| 17.11.2021 | The good times keep rolling for small, e-commerce business owners | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| 27.09.2021 | Nuance fund receives $17m NZGCP commitment | New Zealand Growth Capital Partners (NZGCP) today announced a $17 million commitment by its Elevate Fund to Nuance Connected Capital, a new Auckland and Tauranga-based venture capital fund manager. |
| 31.05.2021 | Sprout’s new CEO on what drew him to New Zealand – and why startups should follow him there | Holstein Friesian dairy cattle grazing in New Zealand. Image credit: pelooyen / iStock
When Israeli venture investor Gil Meron told colleagues that he was considering a career move to New Zealand, people thought he was mad.
“They said: ‘It’... |
| 21.05.2021 | UPDATED: ProducePay scores $43m Series C funding from VCs, development banks | Editor’s note: This article was updated on May 21, 2021, to provide comment from ProducePay founder Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck.
Online ag marketplace ProducePay has raised $43 million in a Series C round co-led by Silicon Valley-based firm G... |
| 20.05.2021 | BREAKING: ProducePay scores $43m Series C funding from VCs, development banks | Online ag marketplace ProducePay has raised $43 million in a Series C round co-led by Silicon Valley-based firm G2VP, the World Bank‘s International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the Inter-American Development Bank‘s IDB Invest.
Existing i... |
| 13.04.2021 | Elevate invests $14 million into Finistere Aotearoa Fund | Elevate NZ Venture Fund is committing $14 million into the Finistere Aotearoa Fund which will target agri-tech companies needing Series A and B investment.
The Finistere Aotearoa Fund - a subsidiary of Silicon Valley venture capital fund ma... |
| 09.04.2021 | Sprout Agritech’s first-ever venture investment was 400m years (+19) in the making | Andrew Králíček spent 19 years at New Zealand R&D institute Plant & Food Research (PFR), on an idea to use the olfactory receptors of insects to make a biosensor that can smell and taste, before he and his team took the plunge and l... |
| 09.04.2021 | Sprout Agritech’s first-ever venture investment was 400 million years (plus 19) in the making | Andrew Králíček spent 19 years at New Zealand R&D institute Plant & Food Research (PFR), on an idea to use the olfactory receptors of insects to make a biosensor that can smell and taste, before he and his team took the plunge and l... |
| 04.02.2021 | Last we heard from Good Eggs, it was in a multi-city retreat. Now it’s expanding with $100m in funding | Grocery delivery seemed like it was on a meteoric trajectory when it erupted a few years ago. But it soon ran into more than a few roadblocks: customer churn, high margins, and complicated delivery logistics.
Consumers were also slow to ado... |
| 09.12.2020 | Investing in the Future of Food: Ag-tech attracts record funding in 2020 for supply chain, production challenges exposed, intensified by pandemic | The influx of funds comes as innovators – and investors – look for solutions to many long-standing food production and supply chain challenges revealed and intensified by the pandemic as well as growing awareness of the impact on the indust... |
| 17.11.2020 | Israel’s most active venture investor partners New Zealand’s Sprout on agrifoodtech | New Zealand’s Sprout Accelerator and Israel-based venture investing platform OurCrowd were selected last year by Kiwi government agency Callaghan Innovation to run a new agrifoodtech acceleration program in the Land of the Long White Cloud.... |
| 17.11.2020 | Israel’s most active venture investor partners New Zealand’s Sprout on agrifoodtech | New Zealand’s Sprout Agritech and Israel-based venture investing platform OurCrowd were selected last year by Kiwi government agency Callaghan Innovation to run a new agrifoodtech acceleration program in the Land of the Long White Cloud.
Th... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 21.10.2020 | Meet Arama Kukutai, co-founder and partner at Finistere Ventures | Finistere Ventures invests in startups in the food and agriculture spaces
Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed!
While there are more startups ... |
| 17.09.2020 | AgTech NEXT 2020: Impossible’s Pat Brown in his own words, corporate partnerships, and the new realities of “risk” after Covid | This post is part of a collaboration with the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. The research institute is hosting its first AgTech NEXT conference—virtually—from September 22 to November 10.
When the pandemic started, venture capital fi... |
| 10.09.2020 | CropX acquires New Zealand precision effluent and smart irrigation decision startup | Israeli soil sensing and data analytics startup CropX has acquired New Zealand-based Regen, a cloud-based, precision effluent and irrigation decision support tool company.
The acquisition marks CropX’s foray into the New Zealand market. It ... |
| 24.03.2020 | Report: Agtech and Foodtech Markets Mature | Finistere Ventures, a Palo Alto, CA-based agrifood venture capital firm, released its “2019 AgriFood Tech Investment Review.”
Developed in collaboration with PitchBook, the report provides in-depth analysis of global financing activity acro... |
| 28.01.2020 |
Finistere Ventures Raises $65M In First Investment In New Fund
| San Diego-based venture investor Finistere Ventures has just raised the first $65M in a funding round, which looks to be the first funds as part of an effort to raise $250M in total for the company's third fund, Finistere Ventures III, acco... |
| 22.10.2019 | The present and future of food tech investment opportunity | Ingrid Fung Contributor
Ingrid Fung is an associate at Finistere Ventures.
There is no bigger industry on our planet than food and agriculture, with a consistent, loyal customer base of 7 billion. In fact, the World Bank estimates that food... |
| 21.09.2019 | The agtech investment imperative | Can we feed the world without burning it down? The world’s agri-food greenhouse gas footprint has reached unprecedented levels. And with the global population set to surge to 10 billion by 2050, that footprint is on track to more than tripl... |
| 21.09.2019 | The agtech investment imperative | 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!
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| 10.09.2019 | ZeaKal clinches $15 million Series C funding, hires veteran DuPont exec | ZeaKal, a San-Diego biotech startup that neatly tweaks genetic crop traits to improve their rates of photosynthesis, has just publicly revealed it closed a Series C financing round.
Totaling $15 million, the round includes the $10 million s... |
| 21.06.2019 | How BioLumic switches on the growing power of ultraviolet light for cannabis producers | Growers around the world face mounting pressure to produce more cannabis. But increasing yield isn’t easy. Cannabis seed companies and farmers must confront escalating operational costs, climate variability, ongoing regulatory changes, and ... |
| 29.05.2019 | Finistere Ventures, OurCrowd join $100m food tech funding initiative in Israel | Premium
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| 02.05.2019 | Inspection robots are climbing the walls to monitor safety conditions in hazardous locations | Down in Christchurch, New Zealand a team of roboticists at Invert Robotics has commercialized an inspection robot that uses tiny suction cups on a series of treads and a specialty chemical to create a technology that has robots literally cl... |
| 20.11.2018 | ApisProtect Raises $1.8m Seed Funding to Monitor Bees with IoT | ApisProtect, an Irish startup using Internet-of-Things technology to monitor beehives, has raised $1.8 million in seed funding.
The startup measures data from beehives — including temperature, humidity, CO2, sound, and movement data — and a... |
| 18.05.2018 | VC-Backed Crop Insurance Startup Cancels Nearly 200 Policies in First Growing Season | Venture-backed crop insurance startup Crop Pro Insurance has canceled nearly 200 crop hail insurance policies just a few weeks into the company’s first planting season in operation. Hail insurance is additional insurance that farmers purcha... |
| 17.05.2018 | Taranis Acquires Aerial Imagery Platform Mavrx | Israeli precision agriculture intelligence platform Taranis is acquiring the assets of Mavrx, the San Francisco-based aerial imagery platform.
Taranis will integrate Mavrx’s aircraft-based ultra-high resolution (UHR) imagery product into it... |
| 14.03.2018 | BioLumic Raises $5m Series A to Commercialize UV-based Crop Enhancement Tech | New Zealand agtech statup BioLumic has raised a $5 million Series A round to commercialize its ultraviolet light-based seed and seedling treatments. The round was led by agtech VC Finistere Ventures And Radicle Growth Acceleration Fund.
Als... |
| 14.03.2018 | BioLumic raises $5 million to harness ultraviolet light to improve crop yields | Scientists once thought that ultraviolet light was damaging to all kinds of life, including plants. But BioLumic is turning that notion on its head and has raised $5 million in funding to use UV to improve crop yields.
BioLumic said it can ... |
| 14.03.2018 | BioLumic raises $5 million to harness ultraviolet light to improve crop yields | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 08.03.2018 | Major trends in agtech for 2018 | Arama Kukutai Contributor
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| 21.12.2017 | The Top 10 Farm Tech Deals of 2017 (How Many Can You Name Without Clicking?) | It was an exciting year in farm technology involving a few high profile venture capital exits and some of the largest deals on record.
In fact, funding records for this category and the subcategories within were broken more than once during... |
| 11.12.2017 | Eight Agtech Startups Venturing Into Fintech | Just as startups are starting to address the entire food supply chain (hence the term agrifood tech), agtech companies are learning through experience that the financial realities on farms present both challenges and opportunities for innov... |
| 29.09.2017 | Q&A: Finistere’s Ireland Agtech Fund Sets Up Shop in Dublin | Earlier this month, California-based Finistere Ventures announced the launch of The Ireland AgTech Fund (IAF), a€20 million ($) investment vehicle backed by state-backed Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF).
We caught up with the new he... |
| 07.09.2017 | Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and Finistere Ventures Launch €20M AgTech Fund | The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD, has today announced the launch of the €20m Ireland AgTech Fund (IAF).
A partnership between the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) and California-based Finistere Ven... |
| 07.09.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, September 7 | SPORTS TALK
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| 06.09.2017 | New €20m Fund Launched For Agtech Innovation | A new €20m fund has been launched to invest in Irish startup and early stage companies developing technology in agriculture. The Ireland AgTech Fund (IAF) comes via a partnership between the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) and Cali... |
| 06.09.2017 | Finistere Plants Investment Seed in Ireland With $24M Agtech Fund | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Ireland’s top agricultural exports are beef and dairy products. Arama Kukutai believes that in coming years, Ireland will send the United States and the rest of the world some... |
| 06.09.2017 | Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Invests €40m in Agtech with Finistere | The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) has invested €40 million into two agtech funds, including launching a €20 million Ireland-focused agtech fund to be managed by Finistere Ventures.
At the same time, ISIF has invested €20 million ... |
| 14.08.2017 | Beyond the Megafarms: 4 Alternative Models For Indoor Agriculture | Indoor agriculture has grabbed several headlines in the mainstream media recently. Not only does the idea of growing produce indoors, in an automated high-tech environment capture the imagination of many consumers and readers, but just last... |
| 08.08.2017 | Disruptive Crop Insurance Startup Crop Pro Raises $8m from Agtech VCs | If you’re looking for disruptive agtech, this could be it and it’s not what you think.
Crop Pro Insurance has raised an $8 million Series A round led by ag-focused venture firms Finistere Ventures and S2G Ventures. Crop Pro Insurance, which... |
| 21.07.2017 | Finistere Ventures Adds David Duncan as Venture Partner | Palo Alto, CA-based AgTech venture capital firm Finistere Ventures has added seasoned entrepreneur Dr. David Duncan to its team.
With a four-decade career in agricultural productivity, plant biotechnology and plant health and nutrition and ... |
| 20.07.2017 | Crop Protection: Biologicals vs Chemicals? | Editor’s Note: Spencer Maughan is a partner and Kieran Furlong is the entrepreneur in residence at agtech venture capital firm Finistere Ventures. Here they write about the growth of biological alternatives to synthetic, chemical crop prote... |
| 19.07.2017 | SoftBank Invests in Largest Ever Agtech Deal, a $200m Series B for Indoor Ag Startup Plenty | **UPDATE: Added comments from S2G Ventures managing director Sanjeev Krishnan, AeroFarms CEO David Rosenberg***
**UPDATE: Added comments from Plenty CEO Matt Barnard, and AgFunder CEO Rob Leclerc**
Indoor vertical farming company Plenty has... |
| 19.07.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, July 19 | SCREWING UP THE CAP TABLE, THE SISTERHOOD, IPO POPS
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| 19.07.2017 | Plenty raises $200M lead by local SD friends Finistere Ventures | - |
| 13.06.2017 | Vertical Farming Startup Plenty Acquires Bright Agrotech to Scale | California-based vertical farming company Plenty, previously See Jane Farm, has acquired Bright Agrotech in an effort to reach “field-scale.”
Bright Agrotech is an indoor ag hardware company that’s focused on building indoor growing systems... |
| 13.06.2017 | Vertical farming startup Plenty acquires Bright Agrotech to reach ‘field scale’ | California-based vertical farming company Plenty, previously See Jane Farm, has acquired Bright Agrotech in an effort to reach “field-scale.”
Bright Agrotech is an indoor ag hardware company that’s focused on building indoor growing systems... |
| 11.05.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Startups Raise Nearly $130m in 2 Weeks | Soylent, the meal replacement drink, has raised $50 million in Series B funding in a round led by GV (Google Ventures) and joined by another new investor, family office Tao Capital Partners. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Lerer ... |
| 05.05.2017 | Singapore: Vertex backs Israeli ag-tech firm Taranis in $7.5m Series A round | Premium
Israeli precision agriculture intelligence platform Taranis has closed a $7.5 million Series A round of financing led by Finistere Ventures, an AgTech venture pioneer, and Vertex Ventures.
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| 04.05.2017 | Taranis Raises $7.5m Series A for Pest and Crop Disease Prediction Tool | Taranis, an Israeli precision agriculture intelligence platform, completed a $7.5 million Series A round led by Finistere Ventures, an agtech and life sciences-focused venture firm, and Vertex Ventures, an Israeli early-stage IT and healthc... |
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This the third-largest ever “ed tech” deal, aside from German publishing giant Bertelsmann’s $230 million stake in HotChalk and a $200 million fundraising by TutorGroup, an Alibaba-backed English tutoring startup.
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| 26.04.2017 | Finistere Ventures Adds Gil Meron and Eyal Rosenthal in Israel | California-based AgTech venture capital firm Finistere Ventures has added investment executives in Israel.
The firm has appointed Gil Meron (Meirovich) and Eyal Rosenthal as venture partners to explore and strengthen its AgTech investments ... |
| 21.02.2017 | Agtech Accelerator Radicle Recruits Industry Vets to Mentor Startups | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Former Sapphire Energy CEO Jason Pyle is one of four agricultural technology veterans who have agreed to advise the startups taking root at Radicle, the San Diego-based accele... |
| 17.02.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Land O’Lakes Drone Challenge, Ag Innovation Showcase Expands to UC Davis, Almond Board Invests $5m in Innovation, Broad Wins CRISPR Fight, more | Land O’Lakes Announces New Drone Challenge
Land O’Lakes, the major US dairy cooperative, is calling on innovators from the tech industry to enter the Land O’Lakes Prize: Drone Challenge, a crowdsourcing competition designed to develop propo... |
| 06.10.2016 | A Guide to the Investors Funding the Next Agricultural Revolution | As the next agricultural revolution unfolds, an increasing number of investors are stepping up to fund it. As recently as six years ago, only three investment funds were dedicated to investing in agriculture technology innovation. Today, th... |
| 24.08.2016 | How Sustainable Is Agritech Investment? | Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Forbes.com, entitled How Sustainable Is The Agritech Venture Ecosystem?
There’s no doubt that agriculture technology, as a sector of innovation, is having a moment. Agritech investment has surge... |
| 08.08.2016 | Driving new revenue sources through a digital ag revolution | Arama Kukutai Contributor
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Ever since the acquisition of the first “Ag Unicorn” (Climate Corp. by Monsanto), a fl... |
| 28.07.2016 | Agrium Invests in Finistere Fund II Ahead of Final Close Mooted for End of Year | Agriculture products company Agrium has invested in Finistere Ventures‘ second agriculture technology fund (FVII).
Agrium is the latest large agribusiness to tap into the agtech venture capital scene and joins the likes of Bayer, DuPont, Mo... |
| 28.07.2016 | Finistere Ventures Holds First Close of Second Fund, at $139.3M | Finistere Ventures, a Palo Alto and San Diego-based California-based agricultural technology and life sciences venture capital investor, held the first close of its second fund.
According to a regulatory filing with the SEC, Finistere Ventu... |
| 27.04.2016 | Finistere Ventures and International Farming Corporation Team up to Launch Willow Hill Ventures | Agritech venture capital firm Finistere Ventures and institutional farmland owner International Farming Corporation (IFC) have partnered to launch Willow Hill Ventures.
Willow Hill Ventures is an agtech fund with a captive farmland base and... |
| 26.04.2016 | Willow Hill Ventures will fund and connect agriculture tech startups with farmers | International Farming Corp. and Finistere Ventures have agreed to partner under the moniker Willow Hill Ventures to invest in growth-stage agricultural tech startups.
International Farming Corp. owns and manages land that it, essentially, l... |
| 12.04.2016 | CropX Closes Out Series A Round on $10m with New Strategic Investors | CropX, the Israeli irrigation and sensor technology company, has raised a further $1 million towards its Series A round from strategic investors. This takes the startup’s Series A to an oversubscribed $10 million.
Robert Bosch Venture Capit... |
| 12.04.2016 | Bosch, Flextronics back CropX to help farmers grow more food without wasting water | A Tel Aviv startup that wants to help farmers produce more food with fewer resources, CropX, has attracted sensor manufacturers Robert Bosch and Flextronics International as strategic backers.
Specifically, Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH... |
| 18.02.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Monsanto Leads $7.5m Series A for Understory, Symbiota Re-Brands to Raise $56m, more | Symbiota Re-Brands to Indigo and Raises $56m from Flagship Ventures
Microbial stimulant company Symbiota has re-branded to Indigo to mark a new phase in the company’s development. The re-branding coincides with a $56 million capital raise l... |
| 18.02.2016 | ZeaKal Raises $5.3m Series B for ‘Blockbuster’ GM Seeds | ZeaKal, a biotechnology startup producing genetically-modified seeds, has raised $5.3 million from agtech VC heavyweights Finistere Ventures and Middleland Capital. A group of family offices also joined the Series B round.
With the funding,... |
| 14.10.2015 | Finistere Ventures Breaks Norm to Invest in a Nutritional Food Discovery App | A nutrition-driven food discovery app has caught the attention of established agriculture technology investor Finistere Ventures in what could be described as a break away from the venture capital firm’s usual stomping ground.
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| - | Blue White Robotics converts tractors into autonomous vehicles to help farmers save cash. See the pitch deck it used to raise $37 million. | Blue White Robotics cofounders Ben Alfi, Yair Shahar, and Aviram Shmueli. Blue White Robotics This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| - | Covid and 'peak cow' created a boom for food and agriculture tech in 2020 | Food and agriculture start-ups attracted a record $22.3 billion in venture funding last year — twice as much as these segments raised in 2019, according to a new study by Finistere Ventures.
With people stuck at home during the Covid pandem... |
| - | Startups revolutionizing farming raised $5 billion in 2020. These are 15 disruptive firms European investors expect to blow up. | Indoor vertical farming. Lianoland Wimons, Sgverticalfarming1, CC BY-SA 4.0 This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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