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| 23.07.2025 | Company revives Indiana fish farm previously used for genetically engineered salmon | Please subscribe to IBJ to decode this article.
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| 19.12.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Rebel Foods raises $210m, Terradot bags $58m, Plenty shutters Compton farm | This week, India-based Rebel Foods raised a whopping $210 million for its cloud kitchen business and Brazilian climate tech Terradot, now headquarterd in San Francisco, closed a $58 million Series A round.
Outside of funding, vertical farmi... |
| 26.05.2024 | The success story of fish farming | - |
| 05.01.2023 | Vertical farm fail, a unique agtech SPAC: AFN’s best read of 2022 | As we reflect on the year just gone, we wanted to have a look back at the articles reported by AFN‘s team of journalists that were the most popular among our readers as a potential signal for trends as we enter 2023.
The top five articles o... |
| 27.10.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Trigo’s $100m, Dutch gov’t backs cultivated meat, Bill Gates wants to decarbonize rice | This week, foodtech startup Trigo landed funds for its automated checkout system that lets shoppers purchase goods without waiting for a cashier. The Dutch government is allocating new funds to cultivated meat initiatives, and Bill Gates an... |
| 25.10.2022 | BREAKING: AquaBounty in murky water after accusations of safety violations at GM salmon plant | A former employee of genetically engineered (GE) salmon producer AquaBounty has alleged that the company has committed numerous worker and consumer safety violations at its Indiana production facility. Braydon Humphrey shared photos and vid... |
| 19.11.2021 | AquaBounty announces USD 23.5 million public offering | Maynard, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-based AquaBounty Technologies announced an underwritten public offering on Thursday, 18 November, with a plan to sell 11.2 million shares of common stock by certain selling stockholders at a price of USD 2.10 ... |
| 13.05.2021 | Brief: AquaBounty’s first commercial harvest of its GE salmon will happen this month | US genetically engineered (GE) salmon farmer AquaBounty will harvest its first commercial genetically engineered salmon this month from its Indiana facility. The first harvest, which totals five metric tons, has already been sold, according... |
| 09.02.2021 | AquaBounty nets USD 127.1 million in latest public stock offering | AquaBounty announced on Tuessday, 9 February, that the closure of its latest public stock offering netted the company approximately USD 127.1 million ( EUR 110 million) in new funding ...
Photo courtesy of AquaBounty Technologies |
| 15.12.2020 | AquaBounty nets USD 65.2 million in public stock offering | AquaBounty Technologies announced this week that the company has grossed approximately USD 65.2 million (EUR 53.6 million) from an underwritten public stock offering last week ...
Photo courtesy of AquaBounty Technologies |
| 09.09.2020 | Synthetic Biology Startups Raised $3 Billion In The First Half Of 2020 | (Getty Images/Luis Alvarez) |
| 25.08.2020 | Big-name investor joins in as AquaBounty raises USD 30 million | U.S. land-based salmon producer AquaBounty Technologies has raised USD 31.6 million (EUR 26.8 million) following the completion of its latest common stock offering, before including expenses …
Photo courtesy of AquaBounty |
| 20.07.2020 | AquaBounty’s GE salmon is coming to menus in the US Midwest – for real this time | Massachusetts-based AquaBounty obtained approval for its genetically engineered (GE) salmon back in 2015. But things came to a screeching halt soon after.
Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski and a number of other outspoken opponents began a vocal... |
| 19.02.2020 | AquaBounty raises USD 15.5 million from stock offering | AquaBounty has raised about USD 15.5 million (EUR 14.4 million) following the completion of a public stock offering last week, not including expenses ... |
| 14.09.2017 | Farm Technology Startups Raise $1.13bn in H1-2017, a 56% YoY Increase | Farm technology startups, a subset of the broader AgriFood Tech market, raised $1.13 billion in early stage funding in the first half of 2017, representing a 56% increase year-over-year, according to the upcoming AgFunder AgriFood Tech repo... |
| 25.04.2017 | Can You Innovate Your Way to Better Beef, Chicken, or Fish? | Americans love protein. Each year they eat an average of 210 pounds of meat per capita, more than double the global average. It’s a figure that many believe is unsustainable if the agricultural industry is to feed a growing planet on less l... |
| 23.05.2016 | Industry-in-Brief: Freight Farms Receives NASA Grant, White House Launches Microbiome Initiative, more | Freight Farms Receives NASA Grant
Freight Farms, a containerized farming company, has received a NASA Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant to fund work alongside Clemson University in exploring growing food to extreme climates. T... |
| 03.12.2015 | DJI Launches Agriculture Drone, COP21 Encourages Agricultural Commitments, FDA Approves GMO Salmon, Arlon Leads Sugar M&A, more | Welcome to the first December edition of AgFundersNews’ weekly digest.
Drones for agriculture took a new turn this week after Chinese drone company DJI, which is arguably the world’s largest, unveiled its first drone targeting the agricultu... |
| 20.11.2015 | Experts weigh in on consumption of genetically modified salmon | After a 20-year review, the FDA just approved the first genetically modified animal for Americans to eat. But don’t expect to see the AquAdvantage salmon, created by AquaBounty Technologies of Waltham, Mass., in grocery stores or restaurant... |
| 08.12.2014 | Sunesis Presents Positive Updated Results from Ongoing Vosaroxin Trial at ASH Annual Meeting | South San Francisco, CA — Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNSS) today announced the presentation of updated results from an ongoing Phase 1b/2 University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center-sponsored trial of vosaroxin in combination w... |
| 08.04.2014 | Sunesis Announces Presentation of Positive Results From Ongoing MD Anderson-Sponsored Trial of Vosaroxin in AML and High-Risk MDS | South San Francisco, CA — Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNSS) today announced the presentation of results from an ongoing Phase 1b/2 University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center-sponsored trial of vosaroxin in combination with deci... |
| 03.04.2014 | Environment Canada Thinks Genetically Modified Salmon Eggs Are A-OK | Photo via PixiBay user tpsdave.
Last November, Environment Canada set what some see as a rather unsettling global precedent by allowing genetically modified, all-female salmon eggs to be manufactured on a commercial scale in Canada—at a tim... |
| 21.03.2014 | AquaBounty posts $4.7m loss, but has funds to take its GE salmon to market if approval is granted | However, the firm - which has been stuck in regulatory limbo for years as the FDA mulls over its technology - says it has enough cash to keep funding its operations after majority shareholder Intrexon Corporation agreed to undertake a subsc... |
| 22.04.2013 | AquaBounty posts $4.4m loss, but says it has the funds to begin ‘initial commercialization’ of GE salmon if approval is granted | The firm, which has been stuck in regulatory limbo for years as the FDA mulls over its technology, posted net losses of $4.4m in the year to the end of December, up from $2.7m last year.
However, it has also raised $6m via a placing of shar... |
