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| 19.05.2026 | Oishii Leads Vertical Farm Revolution with Major Funding | Oishii, the vertical strawberry farm innovator, secured $150 million in Series C funding. This capital fuels aggressive expansion. It advances robotics and automation across its Smart Farm model. Oishii blends Japanese farming with modern e... |
| 15.05.2026 | On the heels of fresh funding, Oishii has ‘crossed the chasm’ of unit economics in vertical farming | Vertical farming company Oishii this week announced the first close of a $150 million Series C round, which founder and CEO Hiroki Koga says was made possible by the firm’s continued focus on proving unit economics instead of chasing revenu... |
| 14.05.2026 | AgriFood Signals: S2G Investments bags $1bn, Oishii makes first close of Series C, Corteva picks crop protection HQ | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
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| 13.05.2026 | Oishii Raises $150M in Series C First Close | Oishii, the Jersey City, NJ-based company behind the indoor vertical strawberry farm, raised $150M in first close of its Series C funding.
The round was led by SPARX Asset Management Co., Ltd., with participation from Nomura Real Estate Dev... |
| 13.05.2026 | Oishii Announces First Closing Of $150 Million Series C As It Scales Its Indoor Smart Farm Model | Oishii has closed the first $150 million tranche of its Series C financing, marking a major new phase of scale for the company behind the world’s largest indoor vertical strawberry farm. The round was led by SPARX Asset Management with part... |
| 11.01.2026 | Sustainable Future: Innovating With Nature and Advanced Tech | The world demands sustainable innovation. Cutting-edge solutions, both nature-based and high-tech, redefine our future across industries. Pioneers now deploy bio-fungicides derived from amoebas, protecting crops naturally. Mycelium, from fu... |
| 09.01.2026 | CNN's Innovate explores cutting-edge solutions that work with nature, not against it | HONG KONG, Jan. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The world is changing fast, and emerging technologies are driving the transformation. Artificial intelligence, blockchain, and IoT (the Internet of Things) are just a few of the game-changing innovati... |
| 07.10.2025 | "In The Sauce" Returns: Alison Cayne and Naturally New York Team Up for New Season | Beloved CPG Podcast To Bring Back Insightful Conversations & Lessons From Industry Leaders
NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- In the Sauce, the widely respected podcast hosted by Alison Cayne, Founder of Haven's Kitchen, is of... |
| 23.01.2025 | 2025 Food Megatrends Point to Growth and Innovation for Plant-Based Food | The plant-based and vegan sectors are at the heart of a food revolution driven by sustainability, health, and technological innovation. DigitalFoodLab’s Trends Shaping the Future of Food – 2025 report outlines six megatrends, three of which... |
| 25.11.2024 | Oishii nabs another $16M as it prepares to take its luxury strawberries worldwide | Listen to the article 3 min
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Oishii has secured an additional $16 million in investor financing, expanding the indoor strawberry farm's total fundraising to $... |
| 21.11.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Traveling APAC’s road to recovery with SarvaGram, TurtleTree, Vow & more | Investment in Asia-Pacific (APAC) agrifoodtech has bounced back, a point well-illustrated by this week’s headlines: India-based rural fintech platform SarvaGram and Malaysian farm-to-restaurant platform Secai Marche both closed rounds, whil... |
| 20.11.2024 | Brief: Oishii raises additional funding to close Series B at $150m, preps first international expansion | Vertical farming company Oishii has raised additional Series B funding and closed the round at $150 million.
Climate tech fund Resilience Reserve and Japanese venture firm Miyako Capital joined the round right before closing, alongside exis... |
| 04.11.2024 | Phytoform says its gene-edited tomato could produce ‘up to 400% more fruit’ in a vertical farm | In what could be a boon for local tomato production around the world, trait development company Phytoform just unveiled a mini version of the popular Ailsa Craig tomato variety that’s one-sixth the size of a conventional tomato plant and pr... |
| 18.10.2024 | Restaurants Food and Drink | Are Oishii strawberries worth it? | Koga said Oishii unveiled a new vertical farm space in June, and the company was able to achieve the right conditions by coupling technology and the precision of centuries-old Japanese farming techniques.
The Amatelas Farm, named after the ... |
| 04.06.2024 | Oishii Farm operates a next-generation plant factory “Mega Farm” pursuing sustainability and automation | - |
| 04.06.2024 | Brief: Vertical farming company Oishii opens solar-powered facility to grow ’20x’ more strawberries to meet market demand | Vertical farming company Oishii has officially opened the doors on its 237,000-square-foot strawberry-farming facility first announced earlier this year year.
Dubbed the Amatelas Farm (for the Japanese Goddess of the Sun), the Phillipsburg,... |
| 04.06.2024 | Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd. We aim to contribute to sustainable agriculture and solving global food problems by promoting the industrialization of agriculture (Newsletter) | Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd.
We aim to contribute to sustainable agriculture and solving global food problems by promoting the industrialization of agriculture (Newsletter)
Daiwa House Group invests in Oishii Farm, which operates a plant ... |
| 04.06.2024 | Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd. We aim to contribute to sustainable agriculture and solving global food problems by promoting the industrialization of agriculture (Newsletter) | - |
| 04.06.2024 | Oishii Farm operates a next-generation plant factory “Mega Farm” pursuing sustainability and automation | Oishii Farm operates a next-generation plant factory “Mega Farm” pursuing sustainability and automation
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| 28.02.2024 | Oishii Farm raises 20 billion yen in Series B funding | - |
| 28.02.2024 | Oishii Farm raises 20 billion yen in Series B funding | Oishii Farm raises 20 billion yen in Series B funding
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| 27.02.2024 | ‘Prioritizing taste over timelines’: amidst ongoing market correction, vertical farming company Oishii raises $134m Series B | US-based vertical farming company Oishii has raised $134 million in Series B funding.
Japanese telecomm giant NTT led the round with participation from Bloom8, McWin Capital Partners, Mizuho Bank, Mitsubishi Shokuhin Co., Ltd., the Japan Gr... |
| 06.12.2023 | BREAKING: Oishii adds ultra-premium tomatoes to its vertical farming lineup with launch of The Rubī | Vertical farming company Oishii has launched its latest product, the Rubī Tomato, in select Whole Foods stores in the US.
The company is growing the tomatoes, which are from a Japanese varietal known as a “fruit tomato,” at its indoor verti... |
| 17.08.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: BP invests in green hydrogen, Toyota funds carbon measurement, Bushel gleans $26m | This week, BP and Toyota got involved with climate tech for green hydrogen and measuring soil carbon, respectively. Bushel, a platform for grain trade management, raised additional Series C funding. Elsewhere, food robots and restaurant tec... |
| 15.08.2023 | Oishii’s newest executive says she’s ‘never been more confident about the future of vertical farming’ | Vertical farming company Oishii has appointed CPG veteran Rita Hudetz to its executive team as chief commercial officer.
Hudetz will lead Oishii’s strategies around scaling and expanding the company’s retail footprint and driving new produc... |
| 25.02.2023 | Oishii Launches New Strawberry, The Koyo Berry | Oishii's Koyo berryJennelle Fong |
| 23.02.2023 | Learning from Japan’s mistakes, Oishii CEO “hasn’t spent a dime” on leafy greens as ultra-premium strawberries thrive | “I knew the exact same thing was going to happen. People were going to get really excited about the technology because it’s sustainable and it’s very futuristic. But then people would struggle to prove that it’s a viable business model.”
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| 26.05.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Stable raises $60m, Galley gets $14m, World Bank’s $30bn food crisis response | Multiple restaurant tech companies made headlines this week, from Galley Solutions’ sizeable Series A fundraise to TRAY’s multi-year deal with IHOP. Meanwhile, a carbon initiative in Africa nabbed its first tranche of funding to restore lan... |
| 10.11.2021 | Data Snapshot: Bowery’s $300m round tops H1 2021 Novel Farming Systems deals | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
AgFunder data confirms that US vertical farming startup Bowery bagged the biggest investment deal in th... |
| 10.06.2021 | Move over leafy greens: Seedo Corp is cultivating saffron indoors | Often said to be more valuable than gold, saffron is one of the most expensive spices in the world. Comprising the dried stigma and styles of the Crocus sativus flower, it can sell at over $500 per ounce at times – while the global saffron ... |
| 25.05.2021 | Bowery bags ‘biggest-ever’ vertical farming raise with $300m Series C | Bowery has closed a $300 million Series C round, marking what it claims is “the largest private fundraise to date for an indoor farming company.” New investor Fidelity Management & Research led the round. Amplo and Gaingels also came on... |
| 04.05.2021 | Winners Announced for the 2021 CEA Awards | NEW YORK (PRWEB) May 04, 2021
Artemis today announced the winners of the 2021 CEA Awards. The awards were established to recognize distinguished individuals and organizations in the Controlled Environment Agriculture industry across North A... |
| 31.03.2021 | Oishii sees itself as ‘the Tesla of vertical farming.’ Here’s how it’s cracking CEA strawberries | Indoor farming is best known for leafy greens and micro-herbs. But New York’s Oishii is hoping to blaze a new trail and sweeten up the segment.
“A lot of people call strawberries the holy grail of vertical farming,” Oishii founder Hiroki Ko... |
| 11.03.2021 | Who knew high-tech farming of high-priced Japanese strawberries could be worth $50 million to investors? | With prices ranging from $15 to $50, the strawberries grown by the vertical farming startup Oishii aren’t going to be found in just any grocery store.
Instead, the nearly five year-old startup is taking what its co-founder Hiroki Koga calle... |
| 11.03.2021 | Vertical farming startup Oishii raises $50m for bee-assisted, carbon-neutral strawberry cultivation | US vertical farming startup Oishii has raised a $50 million Series A round led by Mirai Creation Fund, part of Tokyo-based SPARX Group. Additional investors in the round include Sony Innovation Fund — the corporate venture arm of Japanese t... |
| 11.03.2021 | Oishii closes $50m Series A funding, sees itself as the ‘Tesla’ of strawberry vertical farming | The $50m investment from SPARX Group’s Mirai Creation Fund II – a fund established by Toyota Motor Corporation, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and SPARX – will be put towards expanding Oishii’s proprietary vertical farming technology ... |
| - | The Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Food and Drink | Photo by Marisa Morton on Unsplash
‘Tis the season to be shopping – that frantic time each year when we endeavor to find the perfect, unique gifts for all the perfect, unique people in our lives.
Let us help you reduce that stress. Our di... |
| - | Climate Change is Core to Health and Happiness | Photo by Lewis Parsons on Unsplash
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report a few weeks ago announcing that we are past the point of preventing climate change and are now officially in the era of working to minimize ... |
| - | Oishii Farm Corporation announced that it has received $50 million in funding from SPARX Group Co., Ltd, Sony Innovation Fund, Social Starts, PKSHA Technology Inc. and other investors | Oishii Farm Corporation announced that it has received $50 million in a round of funding led by new investor Mirai Creation Fund II, a fund managed by SPARX Group Co., Ltd. (TSE:8739) on March 10, 2021. The transaction also included partici... |
| - | Oishii Farm | “Grown in the world's first and largest indoor vertical strawberry farm, The Omakase Berry is like none you've had before.” |
