Vertical Harvest Secures $59.5M in Public-Private Financing for Hydroponic Vertical Farm with a Mission
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Indoor farming company Vertical Harvest Farms announced that it has secured $59.5 million in financing for the development and operation of a 51,000-square-foot hydroponic vertical farm in Westbrook, Maine. This funding was led by Madison One, and was supported by Waterside Commerci
Read moreVitalFluid Raises €5M for Plasma Activated Water Applications
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media VitalFluid, a leader in the production of Plasma Activated Water (PAW) applications, announced it has raised €5 million in Seed funding from Future Food Fund, Graduate Entrepreneur, Horticoop, and Innovation Industries to accelerate its market introduction strategy. “We have been fo
Read moreGreeneye Technology Gains $20M to Scale U.S. AI Precision Spraying Operation
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Israeli investment company Deep Insight, and existing investors Syngenta Group Ventures, JVP, Orbia Ventures, and Eyal Waldman, the founder and former CEO of Mellanox, have invested $20 million in Greeneye Technology ("Greeneye") in support of the company’s mission to significantly reduce
Read moreMosa Meat Closes on $40M in Funding to Scale Cultivated Meat for Market Entry
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Listed cellular agriculture leader Agronomics announced that its portfolio company Mosa Meat has raised $40 million in new funding to scale production of its cultivated beef in preparation for market entry. This oversubscribed round was co-led by Lowercarbon Capital and M Ventures, a pa
Read moreNature’s Miracle, Agrify Merge to Form CEA Products and Solutions Leader
photo credit: Nature's Miracle By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Major vertical farming tech and infrastructure company Nature’s Miracle Holding has agreed to acquire 100 percent of Agrify Corporation, a leading provider of innovative cultivation and cannabis extraction solutions, to create the leader of CEA products an
Read moreInverness Graham-Backed Custom Agronomics Acquires BioTek Ag
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Custom Agronomics ("Custom Ag"), the second of three active portfolio companies of Inverness Graham Green Light, the environmental sustainability-focused, lower-middle market buyout strategy of Inverness Graham, announced it has acquired BioTek Ag, a Florida-based provider of solutions that
Read moreGinkgo Bioworks Acquires AgBiome’s Platform Assets
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ginkgo Bioworks announced its acquisition of AgBiome’s platform assets including more than 115,000 sequenced and isolated strains, more than 500 million unique gene sequences, associated functional data and metadata, and AgBiome’s development pipeline. These newly held assets wi
Read moreWindfall Bio Raises $28M for Methane-Eating Microbes
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Methane-to-value solutions startup Windfall Bio has raised $28 million in Series A funding led by Prelude Ventures with participation from Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, Global Brain (through its Norinchukin Innovation Fund L.P.), Incite Ventures, Positive Ventures, and existing investor B3
Read moreCeres Launches Portfolio Insights for AI-Enabled Ag Asset Management
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ceres Imaging, the first and only agtech company on the market that states it has a track record of developing data and analytics that benefit both growers and financial services, announced the launch of Portfolio Insights (PI) - a new AI-enabled platform to simplify agricultural asset manag
Read moreTerraClear Raises $15M to Integrate AI in End-to-End Rock Management Platform
Photo credit: TerraClear By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Robotic tech startup TerraClear announced it has raised $15 million in new funding from its existing investors to better position the company to dominate the $2.7 billion rock management market. As long as there’s been agriculture, there’s been a rock
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