Revolutionary Sustainable Agriculture
Location: United States, Wisconsin, North Bay
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $15M
Investors 6
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Baukunst | baukunst.c... |
| - | Bolt | portfolio.... |
| 02.09.2020 | City Light... | citylight.... |
| - | Refactor C... | refactor.c... |
| - | First Star... | firststar.... |
| 09.08.2022 | GV | gv.com |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 07.07.2022 | Series A | $15M | - |
Mentions in press and media 16
| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.03.2024 | Meet the founder: FYTO’s Jason Prapas on ‘turning a nitrogen problem into high-grade protein’ for dairy farmers | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in FYTO.] Fast-growing aquatic plants such as lemna present an intriguing new sustainable protein source for humans and animals, provided you can find ways to grow and proces... |
| 20.02.2024 | Day 8 emerges from stealth with plans to extract ‘holy grail of proteins’ from ag waste | Israeli startup Day 8 has emerged from stealth armed with $750,000 pre-seed funding from The Kitchen FoodTech Hub to develop an approach it claims could change the economics of RuBisCO protein by extracting it from discarded crop leaves. On... |
| 01.12.2023 | Lemna/duckweed processor Lemnature AquaFarms files for bankruptcy, asset sale set for Dec 12 | Florida-based foodtech firm Lemnature AquaFarms—which produced proteins and fibers from fast-growing aquatic plant lemna (a.k.a. duckweed)—has filed for bankruptcy. An online auction for the assets will be held on December 12, with bidding ... |
| 10.10.2023 | Meet the Startups Working with the Climate-Positive Alt-Protein Superfood That Grows Everywhere | 8 Mins Read In a world increasingly ravaged by the climate crisis and food insecurity, one crop could be a solution to meeting our future nutritional, environmental and health needs. Find out more about the startups growing duckweed, the fu... |
| 06.09.2023 | Data snapshot: Fish, flies and algae outshine crop CEA in the $600m+ of novel farming systems funding so far in 2023 | Data Snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts ab... |
| 16.09.2022 | Deep tech VC First Star plots a $40M third fund | First Star, backer of deep tech startups like Plus One and Fyto, aims to raise as much as $40 million for its third venture fund, TechCrunch has learned. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, First Star typically backs robotics, blockchain, AI... |
| 08.07.2022 | All the good news dealmakers need this weekend | 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. Who’s tired of it? Doom and gloom. Doom and gloom. And—just for good measure—a little more doom a... |
| 08.07.2022 | Fyto Raises $15 Million Led by GV to Unlock Power of Aquatic Superplants Through Automation | Investors back Fyto’s mission to power an optimized global food system Fyto, the company leveraging automation to unlock the power of specialized aquatic plants, announced it has raised $15 million in Series A funding. The round was led by ... |
| 07.07.2022 | Fyto combines automation, robotics so aquatic ‘superplants’ can grow almost anywhere | Fyto wants our plants to work smarter, not harder. The Petaluma, California–based company is developing both hardware and software to automate and scale the production of aquatic plants, or what founder and CEO Jason Prapas calls “superplan... |
| 07.07.2022 | Fyto Raises $15M in Series A Funding | Fyto, a Petaluma, CA-based company leveraging automation to unlock the power of specialized aquatic plants, raised $15M in Series A funding. The round was led by GV with participation from AgFunder, Refactor Capital, First Star Ventures, an... |
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