| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.10.2025 | Farmers Business Network the latest to announce spin off company, following Corteva, Kraft Heinz | Farmers Business Network (FBN) has spun off its global crop solutions business into a wholly separate entity as the company pursues a “pure technology platform” strategy.
The company will continue to operate its digital marketplace that off... |
| 25.08.2025 | ‘We are very well positioned to lead the deployment of AI in ag’: in conversation with Farmers Business Network | A few weeks ago, Farmers Business Network (FBN) raised $50 million in new capital to, among other things, invest in new products and more AI for its customers.
“Artificial Intelligence is enabling us to provide our farmer members with more ... |
| 01.08.2025 | FBN Fuels Agri-Tech Revolution: $50M Ignites AI, Digital Farm Growth | Farmers Business Network (FBN) secured a significant capital infusion. The company announced $50 million in new funding. This investment targets rapid expansion. It will accelerate new product lines. It will also deepen AI deployment. Major... |
| 31.07.2025 | Farmers Business Network: $50 Million Secured For AI-Based Agricultural Transformation | Farmers Business Network (FBN), a leading agricultural marketplace, has secured $50 million in new funding to expand its platform and enhance its product offerings, particularly in the area of AI. This investment comes from notable backers ... |
| 28.07.2025 | Top Startup and Tech Funding News – July 28, 2025 | It’s Monday, July 28, 2025. We’re back with a fresh wave of startup and tech funding news from around the world. Today’s funding spree reveals where capital is flowing — and it’s clear: AI agents, cybersecurity, automation, and climate-tech... |
| 28.07.2025 | Farmers Business Network Raises $50M in Funding | Farmers Business Network, a San Mateo, CA-based provider of a collaborative peer-to-peer farmer network, raised $50M in funding.
Backers included GV (Google Ventures), Temasek, Arteqin, Colle Capital and T Rowe Price.
The company intends to... |
| 20.03.2025 | Popfly Soars with $2 Million Seed Funding | In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, Popfly has emerged as a beacon of innovation. The Costa Mesa-based platform recently secured $2 million in seed financing, a move that promises to reshape the way brands and creators coll... |
| 18.03.2025 | Popfly Raises $2M in Seed Financing | Popfly, a Costa Mesa, CA-based provider of a platform helping brands and creators work together, raised $2M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Rand Currier with participation from TikTok leaders and founders of Meridian Link, Right Side ... |
| 05.02.2025 | New FBN pilot offers land loan rewards to farmers switching to regen ag practices | Farmers Business Network (FBN) has launched a pilot, the Regenerative Agriculture Financing (RAF) Land Loan program, to reward farmers financially for implementing regenerative agriculture practices.
Select farmers that employ water and soi... |
| 22.08.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Climate tech co Root Global lands $8.8m, Innovafeed does pet food, Regrow does layoffs | This week, funding rounds went to Germany-based climate tech startup Root Global, high-protein foods maker David, and a hand full of others in food and agriculture.
Elsewhere, insect protein maker Innovafeed launched some high-profile partn... |
| 14.08.2024 | Leading AgTech Company, TerraClear, Appoints Devin Lammers as New CEO | New TerraClear Chief Executive Officer, Devin
TerraClear, a leading AgTech company, announced the appointment of Devin Lammers as its new Chief Executive Officer today. Mr. Lammers brings a wealth of experience in AgTech, Go-to-Market strat... |
| 18.07.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Biotech co Digestiva closes $18m round, Syntetica bags $4.5m for nylon recycling | The week was dotted by a handful of early-stage rounds for the likes of food biotech Digestiva, nylon recycling company Syntetica, personalized supplements maker Bioniq, and several others. Funds-wise, ag and food investor Tiverton closed i... |
| 18.04.2024 | Greeneye Technologies Revolutionizes Precision Spraying with $20M Funding Boost | Greeneye Technologies, an Israeli agtech company, secures $20 million in funding to expand its AI-enabled precision spraying technology across the US. Led by Deep Insight, the investment aims to revolutionize crop protection practices and i... |
| 17.04.2024 | BREAKING: Israel’s Greeneye Technology raises $20m to expand precision-spray tech across the US | Israel-based precision agtech company Greeneye Technology has raised $20 million to scale up operations in the US, bringing its total funding to date to $45 million.
Deep Insight, an Israeli investment company, led the round with participat... |
| 14.03.2024 | With $1bn in farm operating lines, FBN sees ‘a greater need for financing’ on the near horizon | “This year is probably going to be a tougher year than last year,” says Dan English, general manager of financing at Farmers Business Network (FBN) when asked about the financial outlook for farmers in 2024. “Farmers are going to have to be... |
| 18.12.2023 | 10 years of Farmers Business Network, from ‘tremendous fear and uncertainty’ to a ‘tremendously exciting future’ | In 2014, Charles Baron and Amol Deshpande were concocting an idea that was practically unheard of in agriculture.
“The goal was to put the world of agriculture at the farmers’ fingertips and empower them through information, technology and ... |
| 14.11.2023 | ‘Real dollars’ for farmers: FBN on how its ADM partnership can bring sustainability ‘at scale’ to US commodities | Recently, Farmers Business Network (FBN) announced it had “significantly expanded” its partnership with agriculture giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) that supports farmers working with or transitioning to regenerative agriculture practices... |
| 19.10.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Japan’s DAIZ lands $47m, Zordi emerges from stealth in US, FBN & ADM team up | Agtech’s big news this week was the emergence of US-based Zordi, which came out of stealth with its autonomous greenhouse tech. Over in foodtech, funding went to DAIZ for Japan’s ‘largest’ plant-based meat factory and a couple new developme... |
| 26.09.2023 | AI harvest: Transforming agriculture through technological evolution | Rebecca Aguiar is an associate and Ana Luiza Soffiatti is an analyst at SP Ventures, an early-stage fund investing in agrifoodtech across Latin America.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not necessaril... |
| 04.05.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Maple Hill Creamery lands $20m, Michelle Obama’s new food brand, Agrii & Drone Ag team up | This week, organic, regenerative dairy company Maple Hill Creamery announced new funding, as did low-carb bread brand Hero Bread and others. Former First Lady Michelle Obama launched a food and bev brand for children. Agronomy service provi... |
| 20.04.2023 | Daily AI Roundup: Biggest Machine Learning, Robotic And Automation Updates 20th April 2023 | This is our AI Daily Roundup . We are covering the top updates from around the world. The updates will feature state-of-the-art capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, Fintech, and human-s... |
| 19.04.2023 | Farmers Business Network Releases Industry First Artificial Intelligence Ag Advisor | The AI Agronomic Advisor, Norm, is powered by ChatGPT
Farmers Business Network (FBN), the global AgTech platform and farmer-to-farmer network, announced the launch of an industry-first artificial intelligence (AI) powered agronomic advisor,... |
| 16.02.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: GrainChain raises $29m, Brigad bags $30m, AeroFarms & iFarm head to MENA | This week, US-based GrainChain announced a $29 million raise for its ag supply chain platform, and hospitality tech startup Brigad landed $30 million. More vertical farming startups are headed to the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, ... |
| 16.02.2023 | BREAKING: FBN appoints Temasek’s John Vaske as new CEO, co-founder Amol Deshpande steps down | Farmers Business Network (FBN) co-founder Amol Deshpande is stepping down as CEO “to pursue other interests,” according to FBN.
John Vaske of Temasek will assume the new CEO of FBN. Vaske has served on FBN’s board of directors since 2017.
F... |
| 14.02.2023 | BREAKING: With $1bn deployed, FBN Finance now offers bridge loans for farmers to expedite farmland financing | Farmers Business Network (FBN) has added the Bridge Loan offering to its FBN Finance platform to expedite farmland financing small- and medium-sized farms. A bridge loan helps farmers compete against cash offers and larger ag companies and ... |
| 02.02.2023 | The week in agrifoodtech: Plant-based salmon reels in $12m, new funding for ag robots, Impossible layoffs | This week, Canada’s New School Foods snagged seed funding for its whole-cut plant-based salmon. In agtech, BloomX secured funding for its pollination tech and E-Terry for its farm robot. Meanwhile, KFC struck a deal to put robots in its kit... |
| 26.01.2023 | The week in agrifoodtech: Drive-thru grocery Addie’s bags $10m, Bill Gates invests $12m into methane reduction | The US state of Massachusetts got its first drive-thru grocery store with the launch of Adie’s, which also raised $10 million. In agtech, Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures pumped $12 million into methane-reduction tech and AgFunder l... |
| 25.01.2023 | FBN invests in and partners with Greeneye herbicide reduction tech in “ironic” deal | US-based inputs and financing marketplace Farmers Business Network (FBN) and Israel-based precision spraying company Greeneye Technology have launched a multi-year partnership.
FBN is also leading an undisclosed investment into Greeneye.
Th... |
| 20.09.2022 | Robo-Farmers: Solinftec's Solar-Powered Robots Will be Offered to US Farmers Soon | Joaquin Victor Tacla, Tech Times 20 September 2022, 07:09 am
With the help of the e-commerce platform Farmers Business Network, a business with the financial support of a wealthy Brazilian family will provide US farmers with robots that spr... |
| 27.01.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Swiggy, Deliverect & Calii raise funds for food delivery | Three of the biggest rounds announced in the last week came from on-demand food delivery startups. India’s Swiggy raised another $700 million, with both the UK’s Deliverect and Mexico’s Calii announcing substantial rounds.
In agtech, Plenty... |
| 20.01.2022 | South Korea’s agtech startup Greenlabs raises $140M Series C to accelerate global expansion | Greenlabs, a South Korean agtech startup, announced this week it has closed a $140 million Series C led by BRV Capital Management, with participation from Skylake Incuvest and SK Square.
The startup plans to use the Series C, which brings i... |
| 13.01.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Remilk raises $120m; ‘world’s first plant-based salmon fillet’ unveiled | There were multiple fundings above or near the $100 million mark this week in agrifoodtech, led by Estonian ride-hailing and food delivery app Bolt with its $709 million round.
Elsewhere, alt-dairy startup ReMilk raised $120 million, while ... |
| 11.01.2022 | FBN launches $25m regenerative ag pilot fund | Online ag marketplace Farmers Business Network (FBN) and nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have teamed up to launch a new credit facility to reward growers who implement sustainable farming practices.
The FBN Regenerative Agricultu... |
| 11.01.2022 | BREAKING: FBN & Environmental Defense Fund launch $25m regen ag pilot fund | Online ag marketplace Farmers Business Network (FBN) and nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have teamed up to launch a new credit facility to reward growers who implement sustainable farming practices.
The FBN Regenerative Agricultu... |
| 19.11.2021 | Neo-bank Dave’s CEO thinks traditional banks are ‘in a pickle’ | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Good morning—this is Fortune reporter Rey Mashayekhi, filling in for Lucinda.
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| 19.11.2021 | Neo-bank Dave’s CEO thinks traditional banks are ‘in a pickle’ | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| 19.11.2021 | Farmers Business Network Raises $300M in Series G Funding | Farmers Business Network, a San Carlos, CA and Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based global farmer-to-farmer network and ag tech company, closed a $300m Series G funding round.
The round was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company with ... |
| 18.11.2021 | FBN’s $300m Series G with Fidelity, ADM brings ‘validation’ to oft-controversial company | Californian agtech startup Farmers Business Network (FBN) has raised $300 million in Series G funding at a valuation just shy of $4 billion.
That’s more than double its valuation in August 2020 when FBN, which is both a fintech marketplace ... |
| 04.08.2021 | Farm tech investing is accelerating faster than ever – new report | Editor’s note: A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.
We’ve been watching the surge of investor interest in upstream, close-to-the-farm technologies since the Covid-19 pandemic started. We now have numbers that show just h... |
| 29.07.2021 | Farm Tech Investing Is Accelerating Faster Than Food Tech And General VC - New Report | As devastating as the pandemic has been, some good has emerged from the global health and economic crisis: investment to shore up global food systems has soared. Back in February we confirmed the extent of the boost investors gave entrepren... |
| 13.07.2021 | Dishing the dirt on ag carbon credits | Dan Blaustein-Rejto is director of food and agriculture at the Breakthrough Institute, an environmental research organization based in Oakland, US. The views expressed in this guest article are the author’s own and do not necessarily repres... |
| 06.07.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Agrando raises $14m in Europe’s biggest farmer marketplace Series A to date | Germany’s Agrando has raised €12 million ($14.3 million) in Series A funding, which it claims is the largest round on record at that stage for an online agribusiness marketplace startup.
Yabeo Impact led the round, with new investors Sony I... |
| 05.04.2021 | FBN launches 17 own-brand biological inputs for growers | Farmers Business Network (FBN) is getting into the biological inputs game with 17 new products including soil prebiotics, soil probiotics, photosynthetic enhancers, carbon sources, and advanced micronutrients. The range is available through... |
| 09.03.2021 | FBN gets into the livestock game with animal health, feed acquisitions | Farmers Business Network (FBN) is hoping to provide livestock producers with some of the same support services that it has offered its row crop-producing members after acquiring two companies in the animal feed and health space.
Today it un... |
| 24.02.2021 | Where does FBN’s Gradable Carbon fit into the growing carbon credit ecosystem? | Ag carbon credit markets are becoming a widely discussed topic, even at the White House. President Biden’s climate plan includes a carbon bank that would offer credits for farmers who adopt regenerative practices. Microsoft recently purchas... |
| 17.02.2021 | Argentine ag blockchain platform ucrop.it raises seed funding | Traceability continues to be an area of interest for various stakeholders in the agrifood supply chain, particularly after Covid-19 raised questions about the safety of our food system.
“We are solving a verification problem, which is to un... |
| 30.12.2020 | The 20 highest-funded agrifoodtech startups of 2020 | It safe to say that 2020 has been a difficult year for many of us – to say the very least. But as the global Covid-19 pandemic has rumbled on, agrifoodtech startups have continued to attract capital from investors.
They’ve had to work even ... |
| 24.12.2020 | 5 trends that shaped agrifoodtech in 2020 | 2020 has been a year like no other in living memory for the vast majority of us. The Covid-19 pandemic, which began in China at the tail end of last year and gradually engulfed to entire world by the second quarter of this one, has brought ... |
| 16.12.2020 | Delivering the goods: Food supply chain tech market map & predictions for 2021 | Editor’s note: Seana Day and Brita Rosenheim are partners at Culterra Capital and venture partners at Better Food Ventures, each with 20-plus years of investment, M&A, and strategy experience in agrifoodtech. Their analyses on the agrif... |
| 21.10.2020 | TOP 10 AgTech Startups in the USA | AgTech or Agricultural Technology means using technology in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture with the goal of improving yield, productivity, profit and beneficialness. |
| 19.10.2020 | FBN launches on-farm R&D network for biologics to perform real-world trials | The biologics space offers a lot of promise but for some, it’s riddled with doubt and skepticism. US agribusiness marketplace Farmers Business Network (FBN) is hoping to move the needle toward faster development and wider adoption of these ... |
| 15.10.2020 | Carbon harvest: Indigo Ag, Nori announce first corporate carbon credit buyers | Indigo Ag has revealed a long list of corporate buyers for its carbon credits, including finance giants Barclays and JPMorgan Chase, e-commerce enabler Shopify, and tech veteran IBM.
Boston Consulting Group, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Give... |
| 09.10.2020 | Farmers Edge partners with Radicle to launch ‘data-fueled’ carbon credit program | Carbon credit markets are fast becoming the accessory du jour for agtech companies.
Joining the list are Farmers Edge and Radicle. The Canadian duo recently announced a partnership to create what they describe as a new high-tech carbon cred... |
| 21.09.2020 | FBN launches free membership – and its answer to ag carbon credit markets | US, Canadian, and Australian farmers can now join Farmers Business Network’s agribusiness marketplace and network for free. Existing members will receive a prorated credit for the value of their paid membership, which can be used in the onl... |
| 03.08.2020 | AgTech startup Farmers Business Network secures $250M in Series F funding to expand direct-to-farm services and connect farmers to share knowledge | Farmers Business Network (FBN), a San Francisco-based agtech startup and an independent and unbiased, farmer-to-farmer agronomic information network, today announced it has closed $250 million in Series F funding to expand its Farmers First... |
| 03.08.2020 | Farmers Business Network Raises $250M in Series F Funding | Farmer’s Business Network, Inc., a San Carlos, CA and Sioux Falls, S.D.-based -to-farm ag tech platform and farmer network, closed a $250m Series F funding.
The round was led by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock Inc., with participati... |
| 21.07.2020 | Farmers Business Network expands to Australia with Farmsave acquisition | US-based Farmers Business Network (FBN) is expanding to Australia after announcing the acquisition of local startup Farmsave.
Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, though FBN co-founder Charles Baron confirmed to AFN that the Fa... |
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| 29.01.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Acre VP holds first close of Fund II, brings on Greylock’s Bill Helman as partner & LP | Acre Venture Partners (Acre VP), the agri-foodtech investment firm, has reached a first close on its second fund, a multi-LP fund targeting around $125 million, the same size it reached for Fund I. The firm was founded in 2016 when it launc... |
| 01.10.2019 | Checking in with Aerobotics | Rob Leclerc is founding partner at AgFunder, which is AFN’s parent company and an investor in Aerobotics.
Last year we invested in Aerobotics’ Series A, a South African imagery analytics startup focused on decision support in tree crops. Ae... |
| 21.05.2019 | New Collaborative Looks to Make Market-Rate Investments with Conservation Impact | Impact Capital Managers (ICM), a network of impact-focused venture capital and private equity funds, is out to disprove the notion that investing for impact requires sacrificing financial return. On the contrary, ICM member... |
| 25.04.2019 | Forget Silicon Valley, for Farmer’s Business Network, the Real Proving Grounds for Machine Learning are Out in the Fields | If you live at a distance from farm country, agriculture might seem like an unchanging industry, built around traditional methods and relatively low-tech tools. Even a Google Image search primarily brings up pictures of tra... |
| 11.04.2019 | How Agtech Solutions Can Leverage ‘Full Stack Thinking’ to Disrupt Agriculture | Editor’s Note: Amit Sridharan is director of Investments at Mahindra Partners US, the corporate venture capital arm of India-headquartered conglomerate Mahindra Group. His investment focus is around digital-physical intersections, autonomou... |
| 17.01.2019 | Tyson Partners with EDF to Reduce GHG Emissions on 2M Acres Using Ag Data Platforms FBN, MyFarms | Tyson Foods, one of the world’s largest food companies known for its meat business, has partnered with non-profit Environmental Defense Fund to develop and deploy a set of initiatives that will help Tyson achieve its goal of reducing greenh... |
| 20.12.2018 | FBN Announces Winners of Farmer2Farmer Startup Pitch Contest: Augean Robotics & Rogo | Augean Robotics, a startup building autonomous farm equipment, and Rogo, an automated soil testing startup, both won awards at Farmers Business Network‘s (FBN) first startup pitch contest last week.
Both companies will be featured on FBN Di... |
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