Iowa’s AcreShield Raises $2.5M to Help Farmers Close Yield Gap, Expands Round
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media AcreShield, a Des Moines, Iowa-based company behind the YieldOptimizer technology, has raised over $2.5 million in a Series A fundraising round. The company's Yield Optimizer is a hybrid artificial intelligence (AI) solution designed to solve a yield-gap problem, helping to deliver smarter seed se
Read moreSwiss Agtech xFarm Technologies Raises €36M to Digitize the Agribusiness Sector
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media In what's shaping up to be a massive year of growth, xFarm Technologies, a Manno, Switzerland-based technology company focused on digitizing the agribusiness sector, has raised an impressive €36 million (US$39.4 million) in a Series C funding round. Led by technology investment firm Partech thro
Read moreCanadian Indoor Farming Startup Vision Greens Raises C$8M in Equity and Debt Capital
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media In its second capital raising event, Vision Greens, a Welland, Ontario-based tech-advanced indoor-farming company, has attracted C$18 million (US$13.11 million) in debt and equity to its coffers. The fundraising, the second of its kind for the company, includes C$10 million (US$7.2 million) in equ
Read moreMicropep Secures a Combined $40M in Series B Round for ‘Needle in Haystack’ Tech
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Venture capitalists have been flocking to the crop protection space of late, and apparently there's plenty to go around. North Carolina-based Micropep Technologies has clinched a $40 million Series B round, propped up by its latest pair of backers. Micropep's latest commitments, worth a combined $
Read moreTotal Acre Integrates Precision Planting API to Improve Crop Data Delivery
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media With U.S. farmers busy harvesting their fields while also setting the wheels in motion for next season, Total Acre, a Kentucky-based program that fosters growth among a community of U.S. farmers, is doing its part to make things better for them. Through a partnership with agtech innovator Precisio
Read moreQ&A: FarmWise Thrusts AI Into Spotlight With Mechanical Weed Management
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media FarmWise, a U.S.-based smart-farming company behind an AI-driven weeding solution, has partnered with RDO Equipment, a dealer of intelligently connected ag equipment from brands like John Deere. The collaboration is designed to expand FarmWise’s precision weeding and cultivation footprint to veg
Read moreQ&A: Silicon Valley’s SVG Ventures Partners With Japan’s Kagome for $50M Sunrise Fund
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media SVG Ventures has partnered with Tokyo-based Kagome, a global fruit and vegetable company specializing in all things tomatoes, to launch the $50 million Sunrise Agrifood Tech Fund. With a vision to catapult innovation in agri-food tech, the fund will back cutting-edge technologies around the world
Read moreBig Tech’s Meta Makes Long-Term Climate Bet With BTG Pactual Timberland Strategy
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media As Climate Week unfolds in New York, carbon credits are swirling. Big Tech play Meta Platforms, parent company of Facebook, has joined the fray, betting big on BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group for the delivery of 1.3 million nature-based carbon removal credits over the next decade-plus and
Read moreMandalay Venture Partners Extends AI Streak With Investment to Reduce Food Waste
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Australian agtech and food-tech venture capital firm Mandalay Venture Partners is extending its winning streak with artificial intelligence (AI) across the food value chain. Representing its maiden downstream investment in the agri-food tech sector, Mandalay Venture Partners is backing Restoke.ai,
Read moreSolasta Bio Eyes Commercialization After Securing $14M Series A Round
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media U.K.-based ag-biotech startup Solasta Bio, which helps growers protect crops with nature and peptide-based insecticides, has secured $14 million in an oversubscribed Series A fundraising round. Led by Forbion through its BioEconomy fund strategy, the round also included an investment from sustaina
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