Oishii to Drive Growth of Vertically Farmed Strawberries With $134M Series B
Photo credit: Oishii By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The aptly named vertical farming leader Oishii (meaning "delicious" in Japanese) announced the successful closing of a $134 million Series B led by Japanese telecommunications company NTT, bringing total funding to-date to $189 million. "While many in the industry
Read moreHippo Harvest Secures $21M Series B for First-of-Its-Kind Modular Greenhouse Design
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) startup Hippo Harvest announced it has secured $21 million in Series B funding led by Standard Investments and including Congruent Ventures, Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund, Hawthorne Food Ventures, and Energy Impact Partners to advance its first-of-its-
Read moreSimple Planet Closes on Oversubscribed $6M Pre-Series A Funding
Photo credit: Simple Planet By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Biotech startup Simple Planet has closed on an oversubscribed $6 million pre-Series A round to fund its development of functional future food ingredients through its cell culture platform. Global protein consumption is expected to climb at a compounded
Read moreCargill Joins Growth Funding Round for ENOUGH, Agrees to Use and Market its Mycoprotein
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cargill is expanding its partnership with food tech company ENOUGH by joining its most recent growth funding round, and by signing a commercial agreement to use and market ABUNDA, ENOUGH’s signature sustainable and vegan protein created by fermenting fungi fed by renewable feedstocks. F
Read moreReflections on 2023 Food and Agriculture Supply Chain Trends
By S2G Ventures This is the second installment of a series looking back on our report, "Trends Shaping the Future of Food in 2023." Read Part 1 of this series, Reflections on 2023 AgTech Trends. In March of 2023, we published a white paper entitled “Trends Shaping the Future of Food in 2023.” Almost a year later, we explore the
Read moreWeedOUT Raises $8.1M Series A to Combat Weed Resistance
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media WeedOUT’s approach is inspired by sterility techniques successfully used since the 1940s for controlling pest populations like flies and mosquitos. Since the inception of these sterility techniques 80 years ago, insect control using these methods has not encountered any issues of resistanc
Read moreClean Growth Fund Backs HutanBio to Advance Algae-Based Biofuel
photo credit: HutanBio By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded by scientists from Cambridge University and in Malaysia, biotech company HutanBio has a mission to disrupt the biofuels industry through the commercialization of HBx, its carbon-negative biofuel designed to serve the transition to net zero in the marine and
Read moreFA Bio Closes on £5.3M to Discover Microbes for Game-Changing Bioproducts
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media British biotech company FA Bio announced it has closed on £5.3 million (US$6.68 million) to continue its work discovering superior microbes for bioproducts that will improve soil health, increase crop yields, protect biodiversity, and replace chemical inputs to reduce greenhouse gas emissio
Read moreFOTONIQ Closes on Investment Round to Make Greenhouses More Efficient
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As arable land suitable for agricultural production is in finite supply, FOTONIQ views greenhouses as the future of agriculture. And as high-tech greenhouse production continues to gain ground, the company sees the need for greater sustainability and efficiency to help growers increase produ
Read moreSyngenta Group Ventures Leads $38M Series D to Improve Global Fresh Produce Supply Chain
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Syngenta Group Ventures has led a $38 million Series D for ProducePay, recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies and the World Economic Forum’s newest Unicorn Innovators for its work transforming and strengthening fresh produce supply chains. Joining Syngenta Gro
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