By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Agrobiomics, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based agtech startup, has raised €4 million (U$4.3 million) from NOON Ventures, a local deep-tech venture fund, in its latest funding round. The agtech company, which according to Crunchbase has raised a total of €6 million (U$6.5 million) since inception, plans to direct the proceeds toward […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media San Francisco-based farming startup Plenty Unlimited has formed a joint venture with Mawarid Holding Investment, an Alpha Dhabi Holding subsidiary, in the UAE for fresh strawberry production using its vertical farming technology. The companies have committed to investing a total of $680 million over the next half decade to […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media The Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) has announced an investment into the Seviora Future of Food and Farming (T3F) Feeder Fund LP, the first of its kind for Asia-based investment manager Seviora Capital, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings. The strategy, which was originally launched in early […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media One agtech startup has just moved closer to its vision of improving the lives of coconut growers around the world. Permia Sensing, a London-based company whose agriculture and monitoring solutions detect Red Palm Weevil (RPW) larvae growing in coconut palm trees, has raised £150,000 (US$195,041) from the British Design […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Cultivation Capital, a St. Louis-based venture capital firm, is feeling optimistic about market conditions for agtech deals. According to a U.S. SEC filing, the firm has introduced the Cultivation Capital AgTech Fund IV for a total offering amount of $20 million, with a minimum allocation from outside investors of […]
photo credit: DAIZ By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Japanese plant-based meat company DAIZ has closed on a ¥7.1billion ($47 million) Series C through a combination of loan agreements with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and equity financing from a range of backers. The completion […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Since 2019, The Radicle Challenge has recognized the best and brightest entrepreneurs looking to disrupt existing business models or provide solutions in the world of food and ag. Through the years, Radicle has partnered with global ag industry leaders – such as Syngenta, Corteva, World Agri-Tech, and this […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media, and Ever After Foods Photo courtesy of Ever After Foods In this segment of our “Three Questions With…”, which introduces agtech companies to our audience, GAI News heard from Eyal Rosenthal, CEO of Ever After Foods (EAF), which is a cultivated meat innovator working to reinvent meat production […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media In this segment of our “Three Questions With…”, which introduces agtech companies to our audience, GAI News reached out to Beewise Technologies, a company that has produced the world’s first robotic beehive – the solar-powered BeeHome. Founded in 2018 by Saar Safra, Hallel Schreier, Eliya Radzyner, Yossi Sorin, […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media The latest in our “speed dating” series that introduces agtech companies to our audience is this feature on Clicrtechnologies. Based in Florida, the mission of Clicrtechnologies is to develop proprietary technology to enhance the lives of its users by providing the most advanced vision software for a multitude of applications, […]
