| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.06.2020 | Crop Enhancement Appoints Industry Veteran Jean Pougnier to CEO | SAN JOSE, Calif.— Jun 17, 2020: Crop Enhancement Inc., an innovator of sustainable plant-based crop-protection products that protect or enhance crop yields, announced the appointment of Jean Pougnier to CEO from his former role as chief bus... |
| 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... |
| 10.06.2020 | CONSUMER PHYSICS UNVEILS SCiO FOR CORN – THE WORLD’S FIRST AND FASTEST IN-FIELD CORN MOISTURE ANALYSIS SOLUTION | CLOUD, MINNESOTA, June 10th, 2020 – Ag-tech startup Consumer Physics is unveiling the world’s first corn moisture analysis solution that provides results in seconds, in the field, directly on the cob, without shelling. The solution is based... |
| 12.05.2020 | $17M Raised for COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing | GreenLight Biosciences today announced it has closed an oversubscribed $17M special purpose funding round from new and existing investors to build out its scalable mRNA production capability targeting the production of billions of doses of ... |
| 30.04.2020 | Pivot Bio Raises $100 Million To Transform Agriculture Economics | BERKELEY, CA – APRIL 30, 2020 – Pivot Bio announced today the close of its $100 million Series C funding round co-led by return investors Breakthrough Energy Ventures and global investment company Temasek. Seed and Series A lead and Series ... |
| 14.04.2020 | Crop Enhancement Raises $8M Series B to Help Growers Protect Crops with Safe Coatings | Additional funding enables agtech innovator to capitalize on near-term opportunities to bring much-needed sustainable solutions to market; investors include Spruce Capital Partners/MLS, 1955 Capital, Phoenix Venture Partners, Cavallo Ventur... |
| 10.12.2019 | Inscripta Raises $125M in Series D Financing to Accelerate Commercialization of Revolutionary Digital Genome Engineering Platform | BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Inscripta, Inc., today announced the company has raised $125 million in a Series D financing with support from the company’s existing investors and new investors JS Capital Management LLC and Oak HC/FT. Pala... |
| 05.12.2019 | Rabobank Presents 2019 Food and Agribusiness Industry Leadership Awards | The Rabobank Award for Emerging Leadership in Innovation is given to a fast-growing young company that is addressing challenges and market gaps in F&A with a novel and disruptive business model. The 2019 award is presented to Berkeley, ... |
| 15.10.2019 | Provivi® Raises $85M to Fight Pests With Pheromones | SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Provivi, Inc., an emerging crop protection company, today announced it has completed an $85 million Series C financing. The round was co-led by Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Fund (&... |
| 01.10.2019 | Inscripta Launches the World’s First Benchtop Platform for Digital Genome Engineering | The Onyx™ platform enables scientists to create libraries of millions of precisely engineered single cells in one experiment through a fully automated workflow.
Inscripta, Inc., today announced the launch of the Onyx™ Digital Genome Engi... |
| 04.04.2019 | Inscripta Expands Series C Financing Round to $105.5M | NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Gene editing technology company Inscripta said today that it that its existing investors have agreed to contribute an additional $20 million to its previously announced Series C funding round, bringing the total raise... |
| 26.03.2019 | We should discuss soil as much as we talk about coal | I’ve written about them several times over the last six months, and I bring them up in polite conversation more than I should. In my defense, I have a legitimate reason: cows, with their burps and farts, are a good example of something that... |
| 22.01.2019 | Cavallo Ventures Makes Strategic Investment in Crop Enhancement to Advance Sustainable Agriculture | Cavallo Ventures, the venture capital arm of Wilbur-Ellis, has invested in Crop Enhancement Inc., an innovator of sustainable agrochemical products for enhancing crop yields. With its investment, Cavallo Ventures aims to accelerate the deve... |
| 19.12.2018 | In the First Year of Release, Inscripta’s MAD7 CRISPR Enzyme is Widely Adopted by the Gene-Editing Community | Existing investors contribute an additional $30 million to accelerate tools that will revolutionize genomic research
Boulder, CO – December 19, 2018 – Inscripta™, a leading gene-editing technology company, today announced that MAD7, its ... |
| 27.11.2018 | Provivi™ Announces Expanded Series B Financing Round | Santa Monica, California, November 27, 2018 – Provivi™, an emerging company using pheromones to protect crops from major damaging insects, today announced a $5 million expansion to a $31.5 million Series B, bringing the round total to $36.5... |
| 03.10.2018 | Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires are betting on a bacteria that could change the way we grow food | Nitrogen-fixing bacteria may not sound like the most alluring topic, but it's capturing the attention of the world's most influential billionaires, who see it as a concrete way to help save the planet...In its latest round of funding, Calif... |
| 02.10.2018 | Pivot Bio Closes $70 Million Series B Financing to Deliver First and Only Clean Alternative to Synthetic Nitrogen Fertilizer for U.S. Corn Farmers | SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- 4:30 a.m. PT – Pivot Bio announced today $70 million in a Series B funding round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and includes Singapore-headquartered investment company, Temasek. This funding... |
| 10.09.2018 | Cargill Boosts Cocoa Productivity and Quality Using Crop Enhancement’s Sustainable Crop Production Technology | WSAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Crop Enhancement Inc., an innovator of sustainable agrochemical products for enhancing crop yields, has successfully completed an initial field demonstration pilot with Cargill to validate the effectivene... |
| 31.07.2018 | Marcus Meadows-Smith Named Independent Director at Crop Enhancement | SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Crop Enhancement Inc., an innovator of sustainable agrochemical products for enhancing crop yields, has appointed Marcus Meadows-Smith to its board of directors. As a proven, successful, and recognized exe... |
| 28.06.2018 | Amfora Unveils Broad Initiative to Develop Crops with Enhanced Protein Content for Food and Feed | Amfora’s Hi-Pro program will apply proven the patented technology to increase the protein content in food and feed crops. Amfora’s technology has increased the protein content of large-acre food and feed crops by up to 60 percent. Protein i... |
| 13.06.2018 | Evolve BioSystems Announces $40 Million Series C Financing to Expand its Flagship Infant Probiotic Product Evivo | DAVIS, Calif., June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Evolve BioSystems, Inc., the leading infant gut microbiome company, today announced that it has completed a $40 million Series C round of funding co-led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation... |
| 01.05.2018 | Following Positive Agricultural Field Trials, Crop Enhancement Expands Go-To-Market Team | SAN JOSE, Calif.—May 1, 2018: Crop Enhancement Inc., an innovator of sustainable agrochemicals for enhancing crop yields, has strengthened its go-to-market team with the appointment of two experienced agricultural business development execu... |
| 14.03.2018 | Chr. Hansen selects Consumer Physics to introduce cutting edge real-time feed analysis | Chr. Hansen joins forces with Consumer Physics to use and distribute SCiO™ - a revolutionary feed analysis solution based on the smallest available pocket size NIR spectrometer. The solution will be rolled out first in the U.S. – with the i... |
| 14.03.2018 | The SCiO Food Analyzer is On the Job—In the Barn | Last March, I went to Whole Foods with Consumer Physics founder Dror Sharon to test SCiO, a tiny handheld device that, used with a smartphone, can evaluate the quality and nutritional content of food. We checked out the sweetness of a few f... |
| 28.02.2018 | Inscripta Raises $55.5 Million to Advance Gene-Editing Technology | Inscripta, a leading gene-editing technology company, today announced that it has closed a $55.5 million Series C funding round led by Mérieux Développement and Paladin Capital Group. Additional participants include all existing Inscripta i... |
| 13.12.2017 | Inscripta Makes New CRISPR Enzyme Free for Researchers | NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Gene-editing technology company Inscripta announced today that it is releasing a new CRISPR enzyme it has developed free of charge to the research community.
The enzyme, called MAD7, is part of the so-called Madagasc... |
| 07.11.2017 | Provivi, Inc. Announces $31.5 Million Series B Financing Round | Santa Monica, California, November 3, 2017 – Provivi, Inc., an emerging company using natural processes to create safer, more effective, and more environmentally benign products for crop protection, announced its first closing of $21 millio... |
| 13.09.2017 | GreenLight Biosciences Announces Series D Financing, Unveils RNA Strategy | GreenLight Biosciences, Inc. announced today the completion of its $18 million Series D round of financing led by Fall Line Capital. S2G Ventures, Lewis and Clark Ventures, and Macro Capital Investments participated in the round, along with... |
| 24.07.2017 | Connected to Origin: Technology’s role in a sustainable supply chain | “The prevalence of specialty coffee continues to drive consumer interest in both bean quality and ethical sourcing. Many coffee drinkers associate higher-priced beans and upscale retail experiences with greater social and environmental resp... |
| 01.07.2017 | CARGILL JOINS FORCES WITH CONSUMER PHYSICS TO LAUNCH ADVANCED DIGITAL NUTRITION OFFERING | WHOPKINS, Minn. – Cargill Animal Nutrition has selected Consumer Physics to collaborate and introduce Reveal® to U.S. dairy producers. Reveal is a real-time forage analysis service that puts the power of a Cargill forage lab analysis in the... |
| 27.06.2017 | Crop Enhancement Appoints VP R&D, Builds Go-to-Market Team as AgTech Materials Science Pioneer Expands Industry Focus | Crop Enhancement Inc., an innovator of sustainable agrochemical formulations for agriculture applications, has appointed Damian A. Hajduk, Ph.D., VP of research and development. Dr. Hajduk will lead efforts to expand the range of applicatio... |
| 08.06.2017 | From bioengineered crops to crowdsourced farm info, ag-bio startups seed the Bay Area | In a world where arable land and potable water are becoming more scarce and harsh climate changes more common, many investors are looking to the emerging field of ag-bio to feed a growing global population.
That’s especially true in the Ba... |
| 30.05.2017 | Evolve BioSystems Completes $20 Million Series B Financing | DAVIS, CA--(Marketwired - May 30, 2017) - Evolve BioSystems, Inc., a microbiome company committed to developing novel solutions to restore and maintain a healthy newborn gut microbiome, today announced that it has completed a $20 million Se... |
| 12.04.2017 | Amfora Raises $5 Million in Series A Venture Round | Amfora Inc., a biotech start-up focused on developing crops with enhanced nutritional content, today announced the closing of a Series A financing. San Francisco-based Spruce Capital, co-manager of the MLS Fund II, led the round, which incl... |
| 03.04.2017 | AGERpoint™ Announces Development of Cost Effective Mobile LiDAR Sensor | AGERpoint, Inc.™ is proud to announce the development of its new LiDAR sensor, the GML100. The GML100 is the first Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode LiDAR unit on the market to offer multiple returns per flash per detector and a form factor ... |
| 28.02.2017 | Muse bio secures $23M Series B financing led by Venrock | Genome engineering company assembles world-class investor syndicate to advance development of its gene editing and single-cell writing technology... |
| 16.02.2017 | The Fountain of Youth, in convenient powder form: Evolva launches Veri-te | In Switzerland, news arrived that Evolva has at long last launched Veri-te — which is the brand for its high-purity, sustainably produced resveratrol. |
| 25.01.2017 | Power Lunch: The Path Toward Sustainable and Pesticide-Free Cacao | By Kevin Chen of Crop Enhancement |
| 07.12.2016 | Muse bio appoints proven biotech industry executive and innovator, Kevin Ness, as CEO | Boulder CO - December 7, 2016 - Muse bio, a privately-held company leading the development of next-generation genome engineering technologies, today announced that Dr. Kevin Ness has been appointed Chief Executive Officer and member of the ... |
| 27.10.2016 | Jane Goodall Endorses Provivi | Santa Monica, California, October 26, 2016 – Jane Goodall has endorsed Provivi, Inc., an emerging company developing pheromone products as the foundation for agricultural pest control. |
| 13.09.2016 | Crop Enhancement Secures $8.5M in Series B Funding to Help Farmers Sustainably Increase Crop Yield While Minimizing or Eliminating Pesticide Use | Crop Enhancement Inc., an innovator of sustainable chemistry formulations for agriculture applications, has closed $8.5 million in a Series B financing. MLS Capital Fund II (co-managed by Spruce Capital Partners and Xeraya Capital) and 1955... |
| 11.07.2016 | AGERpoint: Going Global with Precision Ag Product for Permanent Crops as Entrepreneurs Play Catch Up | Permanent crops — the collective name for the fruits and nuts that are grown on trees or vines — are grown on 380 million acres globally and are worth several billions of dollars annually. But this segment of the agriculture sector has been... |
| 30.05.2016 | Big Data, robotics and synth bio: Driving “The New Agriculture” | The MLS Capital II fund closed its capital raise around a year ago, and The Digest stopped by the Limited Partners meeting last week to check on the latest in the BioGreenTech space from what is shaping up as the most interesting and dynami... |
| 20.04.2016 | BIO Presents Dr. Ganesh Kishore New Award for Leadership and Legacy in Industrial Biotechnology | “BIO is pleased to announce Dr. Ganesh Kishore as winner of the first annual BIO Leadership and Legacy Award in Industrial Biotechnology,” said Brent Erickson, executive vice president for BIO’s Industrial & Environmental Section. “The ... |
| 04.01.2016 | Spruce Capital Partners and MLS Capital Fund II Name Industry Veteran Jonathan Burbaum as Entrepreneur-in-Residence | - |
| 17.07.2015 | Spruce Capital Partners' Ganesh Kishore and Roger Wyse to Address 12th Annual BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology | - |
| 15.07.2015 | MLS Capital Fund II Initiates Investment Activity With Funding of Two Transformative Biotechnology Companies | - |
| 24.06.2015 | Spruce Capital Partner's Ganesh Kishore Named to Scientific American List of Most Influential People in Biotech | - |
| 07.01.2015 | Spruce Capital and Xeraya Capital Announce First Close of $150 Million Biogreentech Venture Fund | - |