By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Five months after Treetoscope announced $7 million in Seed funding, the company returns to announce the extension of the round with additional investments from Stray Dog Capital (US), ECG (Thailand), and The Food Tech Lab (Spain), alongside other strategic investors Leon Recanati, GlenRock fund, SeedIL, YYM-Ventures, Agrovision, NEOME, GN-Z11, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Elevated Signals announced a new collaboration with mission-driven Vertical Harvest to drive the digital transformation of its vertical farming operations and to act in support of its impending expansion. Using food as a medium for meaningful change, Vertical Harvest is a hydroponic, vertical farming company that not only is […]
Photo credit: ProteinDistillery By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Berlin-based impact food tech venture fund Green Generation Fund has led a Seed round exceeding €15 million (US$16.39 million) for ProteinDistillery, a food tech company looking to redefine protein ingredients by leveraging the powers of nature and cutting-edge technology. Joining Green Generation Fund was the Startup […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Southwest Airlines is investing $30 million into a partnership with LanzaJet, a top sustainable fuels technology company and sustainable fuels producer, for the development of a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production facility and to advance the operations of SAFFiRE Renewables, a corn stover-to-ethanol tech company in which Southwest is invested. […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting As the company evolves from the R&D stage to market entry, Swiss food tech startup Cultivated Bioscience announced it has closed on $5 million in Seed funding to boost the development of its yeast-derived cream in collaboration with the food industry, and to position the company for a U.S. market […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media After patenting their saltwater aquaponics technology and successfully operating a pilot farm, pioneering French sustainable aquaculture company Agriloops announced a second capital increase supplemented by debt and grants, for a total of EUR 13 million. This new round included participation from a new banking consortium and various return investors […]
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 prioritize short crop cycles and unrelenting expansion, […]
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-kind modular greenhouse design platform. The intersection of greenhouse production […]
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 annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.7 percent, […]
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. Founded in 2015 under its original […]
