| Date | Title | Description |
| 02.12.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Mr Yum, FJDynamics & Back to the Roots bag big fundings | This week, Aussie startup Mr Yum, which makes QR code-based ordering and payments software for hospitality companies, raised one of the Lucky Country’s biggest Series A rounds ever; while farm robotics company FJDynamics scored big money fr... |
| 22.01.2021 | BRIEF: Verdesian Life Sciences acquired by AEA Investors in exit for Paine Schwartz | Plant health and nutrition startup Verdesian Life Sciences has been acquired by New York-based AEA Investors, AFN has learned. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Verdesian was launched in 2012 by agrifood-focused private equi... |
| 22.06.2020 | RNAissance Ag Completes Acquisition of RNAgri | TechAccel LLC, the private technology and equity development company in agriculture and animal health, announced that its subsidiary RNAissance Ag LLC has completed an asset acquisition of RNAgri Inc., a Saint Louis-based ag biotech startup... |
| 18.06.2020 | TechAccel subsidiary RNAissance Ag acquires RNAgri to boost manufacturing capacity | The biopesticide market will reach an estimated $10 billion by 2025 and this doesn’t just include the new wave of microbial-based inputs.
“Relative to many other spaces in the biologic or input space, it’s not particularly crowded,” Brett M... |
| 26.03.2019 | Animal AgTech, The Sector’s Awkward Uncle, Proudly Struts Its Stuff In San Fran | This year’s Rethink AgriFood Innovation Week in San Francisco saw an awkward uncle stride proudly into the week’s agenda for the first time with last Monday’s inaugural Animal AgTech Innovation Summit.
Animal agritech often struggles to evi... |
| 24.01.2019 | TechAccel and Donald Danforth Center Launch RNAissance to Create Environmentally-Friendly Pesticides | TechAccel, the venture development organization, and Donald Danforth Center for Life Sciences, the leading plant science research institute, have created a new startup called RNAissance.
RNAissance plans to use RNAi technology to create pes... |
| 24.01.2019 | TechAccel Launches RNAissance Ag; Invests in GreenLight Biosciences | TechAccel, a Kansas City-based technology and venture development company, has launched RNAissance Ag LLC, a new company that holds the exclusive license to RNA-interference technology in partnership with the Donald Danforth Plant Science C... |
| 24.01.2019 | Top startup news for today, Thursday, January 24, 2019 | Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Thursday, January 24.
TechAccel launches RNAissance Ag; Invests in biotech startup GreenLight Biosciences. TechAccel, a Kansas City-based venture and technol... |
| 18.09.2018 | The Opportunity for External Innovation and Science Advancement in Animal Health | Editor’s Note: Michael Helmstetter is co-founder, president, and CEO of Technology Acceleration Partners (TechAccel), the venture development organization focused on the agriculture industry. The organization focuses on accelerating tech, b... |
| 06.08.2018 | Startup Technologies Making GMO Less Controversial | In the last 10 years, the GMO (genetically modified organism) debate hasn’t changed much. Despite a robust chorus of mainstream publications breaking down GMO myths and at least one former anti-GMO activist making a very public reversal, no... |
| 16.03.2018 | Ag Industry Brief: More Exec Churn at Chipotle, EU Changes Protocol on GMOs, TechAccel Funds New Grants, more | Top Marketing Executive at Chipotle Steps Down
In the latest in a series of executive transitions at Chipotle Mexican Grill, the company’s chief marketing officer Mark Crumpacker announced he would step down. Chipotle has long struggled to ... |
| 23.02.2018 | Ag Industry Brief: Tyson Partners with Accelerators, CRISPR 3.0 Gets a Patent, Unilever Moves Toward Transparency, more | Tyson Foods Partners With Incubators Plug and Play and 1871
Tyson Foods is partnering with two incubators: Plug and Play, based in Silicon Valley, and Chicago’s 1871. Whether Tyson is eyeing the next disruptor in animal protein or seeking t... |
| 08.02.2018 | Plastomics Receives Science Advancement Investment from TechAccel | Plastomics Inc., a St. Louis-based biotechnology startup making better crops through chloroplast engineering, received a science advancement investment from TechAccel.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The company intends to use the... |
| 08.02.2018 | TechAccel invests in biotechnology startup Plastomics to accelerate the development of better crops using chloroplast engineering | Technology and venture development company, Technology Acceleration Partners (TechAccel), has invested in biotechnology startup Plastomics to accelerate the development of better crops using chloroplast engineering. The St Louis-based TechA... |
| 08.02.2018 | TechAccel Backs Chloroplast Engineering Startup Plastomics | Kansas-based agtech venture development organization TechAccel has backed ag biotech startup Plastomics.
The St. Louis-based startup is working to shorten the pipeline for developing new seeds with multiple transgenic traits, increasing the... |
| 28.12.2017 | Best of 2017: AgFunder’s Top 7 Guest Articles | Our evergrowing global subscriber base of agrifood tech entrepreneurs, venture capital investors, agrifood corporates, governments, and enthusiasts means that we have an incredible amount of expertise in our 45,000-strong network. And lucki... |
| 26.12.2017 | Best of 2017: AgFunder’s 10 Most Read Stories in 2017 | Twenty Seventeen has been quite the year for the agrifood technology startup scene, with some of the largest funding announcements on record. And we’ve been pretty busy at AgFunderNews too, nearly doubling our member and subscriber base to ... |
| 22.11.2017 | Ag Biotech Market Map: 245 Startups Using Biology & Chemistry to Revolutionize Agriculture | Editor’s Note: Brett Morris is a principal at Kansas-based venture development organization TechAccel. Here he lays out the nuances within 245 ag biotech startups and how TechAccel thinks about investments in this fundamental agrifood tech ... |
| 02.11.2017 | Is St. Louis the Silicon Valley of Agtech? | St. Louis has worked hard to be a magnet for Fortune 500 companies. Nine members of this elite class call the city home, not the least of which is multinational agricultural giant Monsanto.
Walmart has more than 20,000 employees in St. Loui... |
| 15.09.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Israel, China in $300m Agtech Deal, Mistletoe CEO Launches Indian Agtech Accelerator, Protix Acquires Insect Breeder, more | Israel and China Strike $300m Deal to Bring Agtech East
Israel and China have signed a $300-million trade agreement to facilitate the export of environmentally-friendly Israeli technology to China. A statement from Israel’s finance ministry... |
| 23.06.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Food & Agtech Business Competitions and Accelerators Gather Pace, more | It’s Time for the 2017 Census of Agriculture!
Hey, farmers: make sure your voice is heard and your operation counted in the USDA’s 2017 Census of Agriculture. This includes unconventional and urban farmers. Why take the time to fill out the... |
| 02.04.2017 | Dear Midwest: Stop trying to compete with Silicon Valley | When it comes to launching the next on-demand, social, consumer-focused app — your Facebooks, Instagrams, and Snapchats of the world — Silicon Valley has no equal. But mankind cannot live on social media alone, and no one is more familiar w... |
| 02.04.2017 | Dear Midwest: Stop trying to compete with Silicon Valley | 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!
When it comes to launching the next on-demand, so... |
| 09.02.2017 | Agtech Funding (& Exit) Sheet: Observant Acquired by Jain, Winnow Solutions Raises Convertible, more | Observant, the Australian manufacturer of in-field hardware and cloud-based applications for precision farm water management, has been acquired by Jain Irrigations, the global irrigations business. Observant was founded in 2003 by Simon Hol... |
| 08.02.2017 | TechAccel Invests in Agrivida Solidifying its Unique Agritech Acceleration Platform | Agriculture venture development organization TechAccel has made a strategic investment in animal feed additive startup Agrivida alongside the Iowa Corn Growers Association‘s equity investment fund Iowa Corn Opportunities.
The undisclosed in... |
| 26.12.2016 | Dreaming of an Agritech New Year: Industry Wishes for 2017 | As the year draws to a close and we’ve reflected on the year past, it’s time to think about what we hope to see in the agritech sector in 2017.
Is more venture capital investment on your wish list? Or are you hoping to see more robotics sta... |
| 08.04.2016 | Industry-in-Brief: Farmobile Launches Data Store, Sam Kass Joins Innit and Acre Venture Partners, more | Farmobile Launches Data Store
Farmobile, a farm data service selling hardware and offering farmers a neutral place to house their ag data, has launched the Farmobile Data Store. The Data Store offers farmers a way to sell their agronomic an... |