| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.01.2024 | Pontifax AgTech Closes Second Fund at $302 million - Wall Street Journal | - |
| 10.01.2024 | Pontifax AgTech Fund I raises $105M | - |
| 10.01.2024 | Pontifax AgTech Closes Fund I on $105m | - |
| 11.05.2022 | How Anuvia aims to spend $66m advancing biofertilizer for large-scale agriculture | US biofertilizer company Anuvia Plant Nutrients has packed a lot of milestones into a short period of time, its latest being a $65.5 million Series D fundraise co-led by Riverstone Holdings and Piva Capital.
Morgan Stanley Investment Manage... |
| 14.09.2021 | BREAKING: AgBiome closes $116m Series D round led by Blue Horizon, Novalis LifeSciences | US-based crop protection products company AgBiome has raised $116 million in a Series D funding round co-led by Blue Horizon Ventures and Novalis LifeSciences.
Additional participants included new and incumbent investors such as Bayer, Fide... |
| 14.09.2021 | AgBiome closes $116m Series D round led by Blue Horizon, Novalis LifeSciences | US-based crop protection products company AgBiome has raised $116 million in a Series D funding round co-led by Blue Horizon Ventures and Novalis LifeSciences.
Additional participants included new and incumbent investors such as Bayer, Fide... |
| 13.04.2021 | BREAKING: Hazel Technologies raises $70m in Pontifax, Temasek-led Series C round | Food waste reduction startup Hazel Technologies has closed a $70 million Series C round co-led by US private equity firm Pontifax AgTech and Singapore sovereign fund Temasek.
New and existing investors including S2G Ventures, Pangea Venture... |
| 13.04.2021 | Food waste startup Hazel Technologies raises $70m in Pontifax, Temasek-led Series C round | Food waste reduction startup Hazel Technologies has closed a $70 million Series C round co-led by US private equity firm Pontifax AgTech and Singapore sovereign fund Temasek.
New and existing investors including S2G Ventures, Pangaea Ventur... |
| 24.02.2021 | Provivi raises $10m from Gates Foundation to bring insect pheromone tech to smallholder farmers | The fall armyworm is considered by many to be the most destructive and costly pest that farmers battle around the globe, especially for smallholder farmers. With limited access to inputs or a lack of financial means to purchase the right pr... |
| 23.02.2021 | Bio-fertilizer startup Anuvia raises $103m Series C to expand its GHG-reducing crop input | Fertilizer is one of the most commonly used crop inputs around the world, but it comes with a heavy price tag in the form of environmental harm and detriments to soil health. Bio-fertilizer startup Anuvia is hoping to address this issue by ... |
| 23.02.2021 | Anuvia raises $103 million to commercialize its novel fertilizer | Anuvia Plant Nutrients has raised $103 million to commercialize its novel fertilizer technology.
The company, backed by investors like TPG ART, Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund, Generate Capital and Piva Capital, is now ... |
| 23.02.2021 | Bio-fertilizer startup Anuvia raises $103m Series C funding | Fertilizer is one of the most commonly used crop inputs around the world, but it comes with a heavy price tag in the form of environmental harm and detriments to soil health. Bio-fertilizer startup Anuvia is hoping to address this issue by ... |
| 09.02.2021 | Pairwise raises $90m to sell nutrient-dense gene-edited salad leaf | Apples that don’t brown. Lettuce that never wilts. Strawberries that burst with flavor.
Gene editing, it is hoped, could turn all of these appealing notions into realities.
Durham, North Carolina-based Pairwise is aiming to be among the fir... |
| 15.01.2021 | LA Venture Podcast: Gil Demeter of Pontifax AgTech on the Next Generation of Robotics and Bioscience | On this week's episode of LA Venture, hear from Gil Demeter, the vice president at Pontifax AgTech. We had a great discussion about next generation robotics and bioscience. Pontifax AgTech has over $465 million in assets under management, a... |
| 09.10.2020 | Pontifax AgTech Closes $302M Food and Agriculture Technology Fund | Pontifax AgTech Management, a Santa Monica, CA-based global growth capital investor in the global food and agriculture sector, closed its second fund, Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund II, with commitments totaling $302m.... |
| 09.10.2020 | Pontifax AgTech closes latest fund at $302m | Pontifax AgTech has closed its newest fund with $302 million raised, making it one of the world’s largest agrifood-dedicated investment vehicles to date.
The Los Angeles-based VC firm had initially targeted $250 million for its second fund,... |
| 03.06.2020 | Tropic Biosciences banks $28.5m in Temasek-led Series B for gene-editing, RNAi approach | Losing a crop to a pest or disease is a devastating outcome for a farmer. If that farmer is based in a developing country without the promise of subsidies or crop insurance, it’s even direr. And in a pandemic world where food supply chains ... |
| 03.12.2019 | Is Los Angeles a natural hub for agricultural innovation? | The digital agricultural revolution can be directly traced to Los Angeles. This historical but also growing bond with agriculture, technology, and food uniquely positions it to be a leader in the industry’s transformations, writes Liron Bri... |
| 15.10.2019 | EXCLUSIVE: Provivi raises $85m Series C to combat field pests with pheromones | Provivi, a Santa Monica-based agtech company, has raised $85 million in Series C funding co-led by Pontifax Agtech and Singapore state fund Temasek. New investor Tybourne Capital Management and existing investors Kairos Ventures, Spruce Cap... |
| 14.10.2019 | EXCLUSIVE: Pontifax AgTech holds first close of Fund II on $140m with $170m committed | Pontifax AgTech has held a first close of its second fund on $140 million. The fund is targeting $250 million overall and the team already has commitments of $170 million.
Pontifax is a growth equity fund focused on foodtech and agtech. It ... |
| 28.03.2019 | Pontifax AgTech Achieves 2nd Exit as Precision Biosciences IPOs with $870m Valuation | Precision Biosciences, the gene-editing startup, started trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange today after raising a $126.4 million IPO, valuing the company at $870 million.
The IPO will achieve an exit for growth stage agrifood tech investo... |
| 20.03.2019 | New Report: Israel AgriFood Tech Startups Raise $759m in Five Years | AgFunder and Start–Up Nation Central have released the Israel AgriFood Tech Investing Report 2014-2018. The report reveals $759 million of venture capital investments into Israel’s AgriFood tech sector over five years — an ecosystem that in... |
| 13.02.2019 | 60 AgriFood Tech Startups Nominated for 2019 AgFunder Innovation Awards – Vote Now! | *VOTING EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 1, 9AM ET!*
We’re very excited to open our Third Annual AgFunder AgriFood Tech Innovation Awards, where we recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward.
Our nomination comm... |
| 13.06.2018 | Tropic Biosciences Raises $10m Series A for Tropical CRISPR Tech | Tropic Biosciences, the UK-based startup using gene-editing technology including CRISPR to optimize coffee and banana crops, has raised $10 million in Series A funding from a global group of ag and biotech investors.
The oversubscribed roun... |
| 19.04.2018 | Inocucor Makes ‘First of Many’ Acquisitions, Closes Series B on $54.4m | Agriculture biologicals startup Inocucor has acquired ATP Nutrition in the opening salvo of a plan to become a “selective consolidator” in the premium crop inputs space.
The company acquired ATP, a Manitoba-based chemical crop nutrition com... |
| 02.04.2018 | What is the Prototypical Agtech Exit? | The headline-making agtech exits of 2017 generated cautious optimism among investors and stakeholders, but as industry thinking moves along, a new conversation is emerging around what the acquisitions of Blue River Technology by John Deere,... |
| 29.03.2018 | Food Traceability and Safety Software FoodLogiQ Raises $19.5m from Pontifax, Tyson | FoodLogiQ, a software platform aimed at mitigating food safety and traceability issues has raised a $19.5 million Series A round from a diverse group of investors.
The round was led by sustainability-focused investors Renewal Funds with par... |
| 08.01.2018 | Inocucor Brings in Pontifax to Close $38.5m Series B | *** OOPS! Looking for the latest Inocucor news? CLICK HERE ***
Biological crop input company Inocucor has closed its Series B round at $38.5 million, bringing in Pontifax Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifax AgTech) as investors.
... |
| 11.10.2017 |
Pontifax AgTech Launches $105M Venture Investment Fund
| In the latest fund in an unprecedented boom in local investment funds, Los Angeles-based Pontifax AgTech Management announced this morning that it has closed on its first fund, a $105M fund calld the Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Tec... |
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| 10.10.2017 | Pontifax AgTech Closes Fund I on $105m | Pontifax Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifax AgTech) has closed its first fund on $105 million, raising capital predominantly from institutional investors including university endowments, funds of funds, insurance companies, and ... |
| 28.07.2017 | Gene Editing Gets Public Market Approval as Calyxt Raises $64m IPO | Gene editing has caused a lot of excitement in agriculture technology circles for its potential to produce crops, and even animals, with improved characteristics. The technique, which enables undesirable traits — such as intolerance to heat... |
| 09.03.2016 | PE Magnates Take Pontifax to First Close on New Breed of Agtech Fund – exclusive | A new breed of agtech fund is born. Pontifax Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifax AgTech), which just held a first close on a private equity vehicle which is targeting $200 million, differs from many of its peers in its approach t... |
| 16.12.2015 | Daily funding roundup - December 16, 2015 | Slack revealed $80M fund; Digital Guardian bagged $66M; Springboard raised $1.7M
Education technology company Springboard (formerly known as SlideRule) today announced that it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding from a long list of inve... |
| - | Inocucor Raises $9.5M in Series B 2nd Close Led by Pontifax AgTech, Raising Total Financing to $38.5 | |
| - | Pontifax AgTech Closes Second Fund at $302 million - Wall Street Journal | WSJ Pro Private Equity |
| - | Pontifax AgTech Closes Fund I on $105m | Pontifax Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifax AgTech) has closed its first fund on $105 million, raising capital predominantly from institutional investors including university endowments, funds of funds, insurance companies, and ... |
| - | Inocucor Raises $9.5M in Series B 2nd Close Led by Pontifax AgTech, Raising Total Financing to $38.5 | - |
| - | Hazel Technologies' Raises $70 Million in Series C Round Led by Pontifax AgTech and Temasek | - |
| - | Pontifax AgTech Fund I raises $105M | |
| - | Pontifax AgTech Leads $90M Series B for Crispr Technology to be Used in Better Fruits & Vegetables | By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media |
| - | FoodLogiQ Raises $19.5 Million in Funding from Tyson Ventures, Pontifax AgTech and other VCs | - |
| - | FoodLogiQ Raises $19.5 Million in Funding from Tyson Ventures, Pontifax AgTech and other VCs | |
| - | Pontifax AgTech Leads $90M Series B for Crispr Technology to be Used in Better Fruits & Vegetables | - |
| - | Hazel Technologies' Raises $70 Million in Series C Round Led by Pontifax AgTech and Temasek | "Can a little sachet the size of a sugar packet make a dent in the world’s crushing food waste problem? Aidan Mouat, CEO of Chicago-based Hazel Technologies— which makes products that can as much as triple the shelf life of fruits and ... |
