| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.06.2018 | Redmond-based WISErg, which turns food scraps to fertilizer, raises $19.2 million to fund California plant [Read Article] | - |
| 18.01.2018 | WISErg Brings Funding Total to $57m for Food Waste Tech with Series C | Food waste-to-fertilizer technology startup WISErg has raised a $19.2 million Series C round, bringing the company’s total fundraising to $56.6 million.
The round was led by family office Laird Norton Company, with Seattle-based Second Aven... |
| 03.01.2018 | Former Microsoft and Amazon exec Brian Valentine takes helm of Wiserg, raises $19.2M for startup that turns food scraps into fertilizer | Wiserg CEO Brian Valentine.
Wiserg is making a big bet on a big problem for the U.S. — food waste.
The startup has built a device that turns food scraps into a nutrient-rich liquid that can then be re-used as fertilizer, and Wednesday it to... |
| 05.04.2017 | VCs Poured $300M into Seattle Area Companies in Q1, Up 33 Percent | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-area companies collected some $300 million in investment during the first quarter, with biotech and medical devices companies claiming four of the 10 largest deals.
Th... |
| 29.06.2016 | Food waste-to-fertilizer startup gets WISE(rg) on scaling with $50m funding | Food waste is a hot topic these days. A simple Google search for the term will reveal countless programs, initiatives, and websites dedicated to helping us send less food to the trash and make better use of the scraps and discarded food ite... |
| 02.06.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Livestock Sex Sorting Tech Raises $4.5m, Inocucor Extends Series A, Food Waste Tech Gets $16m, more | Engender Technologies Raises $4.5m for Sperm Gender Identification Tech
A New Zealand startup using laser technology to sort dairy bull sperm by sex has raised $4.5 million in funding after its initial $2.5 million target was oversubscribed... |
| 31.05.2016 | WISErg raises more cash for machine that turns food scraps into fertilizer | The WISErg “Harvester.” Photo via WISErg.
WISErg has raised an additional $4 million to fuel growth of its device that turns excess food scraps at grocery stores and restaurants into a nutrient-rich liquid.
The Redmond startup last raised m... |
| 02.05.2016 | Green Entrepreneurship: Trends and Startups To Watch | The evolving social entrepreneurship field has given a major boost to another massive trend on the scene – green entrepreneurship. Startups aimed at solving the world’s greatest environmental problems are blossoming worldwide with the activ... |
| 14.04.2016 | Food Waste Startups Grab More Attention as WISErg Raises $12.3m | Food waste is starting to get the attention it deserves. It remains one of the biggest problems affecting the global food system and is particularly troublesome in the United States.
Last week, AgFunderNews reported on a new study conducted... |
| 14.04.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Israeli Seed Breeding Startup Raises $1.25m, Alibaba Invests $2.3bn in Ele.me, more | Israeli Seed Breeding Startup EQUInom Raises $1.25m
EQUInom, an Israeli seed breeding startup, has raised a $1.25 million round led by Hazera, a field crops and seed production specialist group. The startup uses computational breeding techn... |
| 11.04.2016 | WISErg raises another $12.3M as part of larger round to help turn food scraps into fertilizer | The WISErg “Harvester.” Photo via WISErg.
WISErg is raising more money to support demand for its device that turns excess food scraps at grocery stores into a nutrient-rich liquid.
The Redmond startup just reeled in $12.3 million of a large... |
| 07.03.2016 | Green angels: Clean tech investment leader predicts resurgence as group pumps $3.3M into startups in 2015 | Eric Berman, co-chair of Element 8.
Angel investors of the Pacific Northwest collective Element 8, which focuses exclusively on early-stage clean tech companies, put nearly $3.3 million into 17 startups this past year.
That’s the smallest i... |
| 27.03.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 3/27/15 | Accel Partners, Falcon Social, Augmented Pixels, Socratic, iAngels, Realm, Hedvig, ZipMatch, Skycure
(Come mingle with hundreds of top venture capitalists representing $10B-plus in capital under management, including Khosla Ventures, Greylo... |
| 27.03.2015 | Seattle Roundup: Ignition Fund, Lighter Capital, WISErg, HBO, and More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The big news this week is that Ignition Partners, an active investor in business-focused startups, is gearing up for another venture fund that could come in at $200 million. W... |
| 27.03.2015 | WISErg Brings in Additional $11 Million | Back in June of last year we dropped a line about a composting company named WISErg out of Washington who had secured a Series B run to the tune of $5 million. The story continued in November with an additional 900k raised and in January wi... |
| 24.03.2015 | WISErg Raises $11M in Series B Funding | WISErg Corporation, a Redmond, Washington-based bio-clean technology company, raised $11m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Second Avenue Partners with participation from other investors. In conjunction with the funding, Second Aven... |
| 14.01.2015 | WISErg raises another $700K for machine that turns food scraps into fertilizer | WISErg co-founder and CEO Larry LeSueur.
WISErg continues to reel in the dough.
The Redmond-based startup has raised another $700,000 from a group of angel investors. The funding is part of a Series B round that GeekWire reported on this pa... |
| 04.12.2014 | The Seattle 10: Innovative startups sketch business plans on massive napkins | Seattle’s up-and-coming startups have some serious artistic skills.
That much was clear when the Seattle 10 — a group of groundbreaking startups attempting to change the world — debuted their giant six-foot by six-foot cocktail napkins at t... |
| 26.11.2014 | Top 11 Thanksgiving Food Services and Apps | Brace yourself:
The Thanksgiving dinner is a center point of the holiday for a lot of people, and this year I want to help you and yours find a happy balance at the intersection of food and technology. There are countless apps and services ... |
| 04.11.2014 | Meet the Seattle 10: These innovative startups are looking to change the world | Education. Big data. Health. Telecommunications. Clean tech.
Seattle is producing groundbreaking startups in a host of industries, generating a crop of impressive entrepreneurs who are truly attempting to change the world. SNUPI’s creative ... |
| 04.11.2014 | WISErg raises another $900k to convert grocer’s waste to fertilizer | John Cook over at GeekWire has reported that WISErg has added another $900,000 to the $5 million Series B they raised earlier this year for their “Harvester” device which turns food waste into fertilizer and “making it easier for restaurant... |
| 03.11.2014 | Bringing big data to food waste: WISErg raises cash to help grocers, restaurants measure what’s being thrown away | Visit any commercial kitchen, restaurant or grocery store and you’ll be struck by the amount of food scraps headed to the waste bins each day.
Larry LeSueur, a former Microsoft manager, looks at that food waste as opportunity. The co-founde... |
| 04.08.2014 | The Food Waste Epidemic And How One Barcelona Startup Aims to Solve It | Keeping a close eye on how our society becomes more conscientious about food waste and taking a look at the various solutions startups work out to hack the flawed system gives us an early glimpse into how positive shifts happen in the world... |
| 27.06.2014 | Seattle Roundup: UW Commercialization, WISErg, Element 8, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Big news for the state’s innovation economy this week was the change of leadership in the University of Washington’s commercialization efforts. We also saw funding for WISErg,... |
| 27.06.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 6/27/14 | RelayRides, Couchbase, Deliveroo, One Month, First Round Capital, Vessel, mCube, Parko, Meet You
Seed stage
AnyPerk, a platform that provides employee perks and discounts to companies, raised $3 million in funding from Tony Hsieh, Tien Tzuo... |
| 26.06.2014 | WISErg, Food-Waste Composter, Raises $5M Series B | West coast composting is soon to get bigger (but not smellier) after a recent round of funding.
WISErg Corporation, a Redmond, Washington-based bio-clean technology company converting food scraps into organic fertilizer, announced it is has... |
| 25.06.2014 | WISErg Secures $5M in Series B Funding | WISErg Corporation, a Redmond, Washington-based bio-clean technology company that converts food scraps into organic fertilizer for sale to farmers and consumers, secured $5m in Series B funding.
The funding will enable WISErg for continued ... |
| 25.06.2014 | Bio-Tech Startup WISErg Raises $5M To Brings Its Food Waste Recycler To California | WISErg, a bio-tech company that recycles discarded food into organic fertilizer while harvesting data from the scraps, announced today that it has raised a Series B round of $5 million from private investors.
This brings the total WISErg ha... |
| 24.06.2014 | WISErg raises $5M to help grocers turn overripe produce into fertilizer | WISErg co-founder and CEO Larry LeSueur.
It took four years, but WISErg’s geeky machine that turns old produce into fertilizer is attracting investor attention.
The Redmond-based startup has raised $5 million of a $7 million Series B round ... |
| 01.12.2013 | Startup Spotlight: Former Microsofties help grocers, restaurants turn food scraps into fertilizer with WISErg | ‘The Harvester’ turns food scraps into organic fertilizer.
Americans aren’t exactly good at recycling food they don’t eat — in fact, 36 million tons of food waste was generated in 2011 alone.
Now, two former Microsofties want to reduce that... |
| 22.02.2012 | Meet the 9 startups bankrolled by the Northwest Energy Angels | The Northwest Energy Angels, a 50-person angel investment group, said today that its members invested more than $880,000 in nine clean tech startups last year. Of course, that’s a drop in the bucket, especially in the capital-intensive aren... |
| 13.01.2012 | Fundraising Notes: Walk Score, Demand Energy, Mad Fiber, Rover, WISErg | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based Walk Score, an online service that ranks rental properties, cities, and neighborhoods by how pedestrian-friendly they are, has raised $2 million in a Series A ro... |
