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| 21.03.2024 | Biological progress or bathtub brews? The state of US crop biologicals in 2024 | Bathtub brew. Snake oil. Bugs in a jug. For years, companies developing biologicals — a form of crop protection derived from naturally occurring substances like microbes, peptides, and plants — have labored under the shadow of these labels,... |
| 10.01.2024 | "AgBiome closes $116m Series d round led by blue horizon, novalis lifesciences" | - |
| 26.10.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: URB-E pivots to last-mile delivery, GoodBytz bags $12m, a new fund for regen ag | This week, URB-E, a company best known for developing e-scooters, took a sharp left turn with both its business and its brand. And while funding rounds are low and slow of late, they nonetheless trickle in despite the tough economic times. ... |
| 04.07.2023 | AgBiome Leverages Ginkgo Strain Optimization Services to Optimize Agricultural Biological Pipeline | By leveraging Ginkgo’s ultra high throughput encapsulated screening capabilities, AgBiome aims to unlock even higher performance of its microbial strain pipeline |
| 29.06.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Everytable lands $25m, eFishery reels in $20m, Joyful Ventures’ alt-protein fund | This week, prepared meals service Everytable raised new funding along with cultivated fish startup Bluu Seafood and aquatech company eFishery. Outside of funding, Nextbite is facing a lawsuit over its May layoffs and Joyful Ventures launche... |
| 16.02.2022 | Data Snapshot: As agrochemical prices skyrocket, so does funding for biological alternatives | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| 22.09.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Cargill, Heineken & Nestlé unveil regenerative ag programs | In the past seven days, a trio of major agrifood corporates doubled-down on sustainability by announcing new regenerative ag schemes.
Meanwhile, Ford and Walmart said they are partnering on autonomous food delivery tech; and Indigo made the... |
| 14.09.2021 | AgBiome Raises $116 Million Led By Blue Horizon and Novalis LifeSciences | - |
| 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 lands $116M for safer crop protection technology | AgBiome, developing products from microbial communities, brought in a $116 million Series D round as the company prepares to pad its pipeline with new products.
The company, based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., was co-founded in 2012 by a... |
| 14.09.2021 | AgBiome : Raises $116 Million Led By Blue Horizon and Novalis LifeSciences | RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- AgBiome, the leader in developing innovative products from the Earth's microbial communities, announced it has raised $116 million in an oversubscribed Series D round of funding, ... |
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| 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... |
| 14.09.2021 | AgBiome Receives $116M Series D Round |
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., AgBiome announced it has raised $116 million in an oversubscribed Series D round of funding.
>> Click here for more funding data on AgBiome
>> To export AgBiome funding data to PDF and Excel, cl... |
| 14.09.2021 | Biotech Innovator AgBiome Raises $116M in Blue Horizon Led Funding to Revolutionize Crop Agriculture | AgBiome – the biotech developer harnessing microbes to reduce pesticides and boost productivity – has announced the completion of a $116 million oversubscribed Series D funding round. Co-led by alt protein impact investor Blue Horizon, as w... |
| 03.06.2021 | Future Food 🎙️: Why Bayer’s former CEO joined a startup working on microbial crop protection | The pressure is on to find new ways for farmers to protect their crops from disease, pests, and weeds. Synthetic chemicals used to be the name of the game; but there are only so many that can be made – and their impact on the environment is... |
| 07.04.2021 | AgBiome Innovations International AG Announces Partnership with South Korea's FarmHannong to Expand Howler® Product Usage | |
| 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,... |
| 01.09.2020 | AgBiome's Howler Receives State Registration in California | |
| 12.09.2019 | How AgBiome develops microbial tech to help African farmers combat sweet potato weevil | Not all startup funding comes from flashy VCs and blockbuster IPOs.
“We are an agricultural biotech company and our core purpose is really to feed the world responsibly,” Chad Keyser, insect pathologist and entomologist at AgBiome told AFN.... |
| 19.07.2018 | AgBiome Raises $65m Series C | AgBiome, the plant microbiome research and products company which counts the Gates Foundation as an investor, has raised $65 million in Series C funding. The round brought Fidelity Management and Research Company on as a new investor.
Exist... |
| 17.07.2018 | AgBiome Raises $65M | An agriculture biotech company based in Research Triangle Park has raised $65 million in a private equity offering, according to a filing Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
AgBiome LLC raised the money from 17 investors.
T... |
| 17.07.2018 | AgBiome Secures $65M Series C Funding | AgBiome LLC, a Research Triangle Park, NC-based company leveraging the plant microbiome for novel agricultural pest solutions, secured $65m in Series C financing.
The investment group included:
– The University of Texas Investment Managemen... |
| 17.07.2018 | AgBiome Raises $65M | An agriculture biotech company based in Research Triangle Park has raised $65 million in a private equity offering, according to a filing Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
AgBiome LLC raised the money from 17 investors.
T... |
| 15.01.2018 | EXCLUSIVE: Biotech Dominates THRIVE Top 50 in AgTech List | Biotech and predictive analytics startups dominate the Salinas, CA-based THRIVE AgTech’s Top 50 list of agtech companies shaping the future of agriculture for 2018.
The largest technology category on last year’s list, “big data analytics,” ... |
| 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.
... |
| 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 ... |
| 19.01.2017 | AgFunder Innovation Awards 2016 Winners Announced | Today we are excited to release the winners of the inaugural AgFunder Innovation Awards.
Startup activity in food and agriculture technology is growing dramatically; at AgFunder we’ve come across over 5k companies since 2014. At the same ti... |
| 05.10.2016 | How Does Agtech Fit an Impact Investing Thesis? | Editor’s Note: I recently attended SOCAP, the largest conference for the impact investing community, and was excited to note a growing enthusiasm on the potential for food and agriculture technology to promote positive change in the world. ... |
| 05.10.2016 | Connecting the Dots: Trends in Crop Protection and Animal Health | Editor’s Note: Kevin Zussman is an agtech investor with Cultivian Sandbox, a venture capital firm that invests in food & agriculture technology startups. Cultivian Sandbox is a joint venture between Cultivian Ventures and Sandbox Ventur... |
| 31.08.2016 | Where Are They Now? AgBiome, One-Year On From Series B, Nears First Product Launch | ‘Microbiome’ has been a hot topic in the life sciences sector for several years now as scientists continue to research the interaction between humans and plants, and the environment of microbes in and around them.
While research on the huma... |
| 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... |
| 08.03.2016 | 3 Entrepreneurs Discuss What it Takes to Be a Woman Working in Agtech | Today is International Women’s Day, a day designed to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women while also recognizing that there is still substantial progress to be made in the standing of women globally... |
| 20.08.2015 | AgBiome Raises $34.5M Series B Round |
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., AgBiome LLC today announced that it has secured $34.5 million in Series B financing.
>> Click here for more funding data on AgBiome
>> To export AgBiome funding data to PDF and Excel, click here... |
| 20.08.2015 | AgBiome Raises $34.5M in Series B Financing | AgBiome, a Research Triangle Park, NC-based agricultural research firm, raised $34.5m in Series B round of financing.
The round was led by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with participation from The University of Texas Investment Mana... |
| 20.08.2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 20, 2015 | ZocDoc nabbed $130M; Carbon3D closed $100M; Grand Rounds bagged $55M
Chicago-based Kitchfix, which has a healthy food-delivery business in Chicago already by delivering 500 meals a week, just raised a seed round of $450,000 to open up a 1,4... |
| 20.08.2015 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Makes First Agtech Investment in AgBiome’s $34.5m Series B | Biological crop protection company AgBiome has attracted the attention of the world’s largest foundation and arguably a leader in venture philanthropy in its recent Series B round of funding.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation contribu... |
| 18.11.2014 | AgBiome announces heavyweight investors in big Series A | The world of microbial solutions is getting lively. Not to be outdone by Symbiota, which just announced a $7.5M Series A backed by Flagship Ventures, AgBiome disclosed the participation of Syngenta, Monsanto, and Novozymes alongside Polaris... |
| 13.11.2014 | AgBiome Raises additional $3M in Series A Financing | AgBiome LLC, a Research Triangle Park, North Carolina-based developer of microbes for agriculture, raised an additional $3m in Series A financing.
Syngenta, Monsanto, and Novozymes have taken equity ownership positions in AgBiome, alongside... |
| 11.04.2013 | AgBiome Secures $14.5M in Series A Financing | AgBiome LLC, a Research Triangle Park, NC-based developer of novel agricultural products to improve crop productivity, secured $14.5m in Series A financing.
The round was led by Polaris Partners, with participation from ARCH Venture Partner... |
| 11.04.2013 | AgBiome Secures $14.5M Series A |
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, Private company developing novel agricultural products to improve crop productivity, today announced that it has secured $14.5 million in Series A financing.
>> Click here for more funding data on AgBiom... |
| - | AGBIOME INNOVATIONS ADDS LEKTIVAR 40SC TO GROWING PRODUCT PORTFOLIO | |
| - | Наиболее важные инвестиционные сделки в сфере ИИ за последнюю неделю | С 11 по 17 сентября 2021 года стартапы в области искусственного интеллекта привлекли более $700 млн. Приводим наиболее интересные сделки.
AgBiome привлекла $116 млн на расширение платформы для обнаружения микробов в сельскохозяйственных цел... |
| - | "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. |
| - | AgBiome Granted Award to Discover Biological Solutions to Diseases Affecting African Crops | |
