Boston-based Spoiler Alert, a tech platform that aids large-scale food manufacturers and wholesale distributors manage and control unsold inventory, announced it has secured a strategic investment from international logistics company, Maersk. Spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2015, Spoiler Alert is changing the way that unsold and wasted food is handled. […]
Anterra Capital has led a $14 million Series B for Los Angeles-based agricultural fintech company ProducePay. Additional participants in the round include Rabo Frontier Ventures, Coventure, Social Leverage, FJ Labs, Greenhouse Capital, Moonshots Capital, and Tribeca Angels. “By receiving financial support from Anterra Capital, the leading Food & AgTech VC, and Rabobank, the world’s premier […]
S2G Ventures and Bunge Ventures, the venture capital arm of Bunge Limited, have led a $10 million equity financing round for SafeTraces, Inc. Also participating in the round were UL Ventures and Spero Ventures. Founded in Pleasanton, California, in 2015, SafeTraces is the only provider of on-food safety solutions using FDA-approved, food grade DNA technology […]
Overstock.com’s blockchain accelerator and investment platform Medici Ventures has made a strategic investment in VinX, a blockchain technology designed to reduce fraud and to ensure provenance within the wine supply chain. Founded and advised in Israel last September by a team of winery owners and tech entrepreneurs, VinX is using the “secure and immutable aspects […]
Victoria-based agtech startup Provenir is aiming to establish full integration in the beef supply chain through on-farm livestock processing. Toward this goal the company announced it has successfully secured $1.4 million in funding to support the development of Australia’s first commercial mobile abattoir. Formerly known as FarmGateMSU, Provenir was founded by Merissa Martinez, Christopher Howe, […]
Front Range Biosciences (FRB), a leading agricultural biotech firm specializing in tissue culture propagation of high value crops including cannabis, announced it has closed on $10 million Series A funding. The round was backed by a field of investors including Phyto Partners, WelCan Capital, Salveo Capital, Cornerstone Opportunity Partners, Sand Hill Angels, Harvard Business School Alumni […]
Dutch cell-based meat startup Meatable announced it has closed on $3.5 million in funding led by BlueYard Capital, with participation from Atlantic Food Labs, Future Positive Capital, Backed VC, and angel investors including Charles Songhurst and Jörg Mohaupt. Usually, producers of lab-grown or cell-based meats have based their production methods on using the cell tissues […]
Pivot Bio announced the close of a $70 million Series B led by the billion dollar clean energy fund Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and including Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek. Founded in California by Karsten Temme and Alvin Tamsir, Pivot Bio’s goal from the beginning has been to develop more sustainable and safer replacements for synthetic […]
Danish biotechnology company BioPhero ApS announced the completion of a $3 million Seed Round backed by Syngenta Ventures, Novo Seeds, and Syddansk Innovation. Founded by Dr. Irina Borodina, BioPhero was spun out from the Technical University of Denmark in 2016 with the purpose to commercialize proprietary technology for the production of insect pheromones to be […]
Australia’s agtech biofilm company OneCrop has secured a multimillion dollar investment from the Kahlbetzer family’s Twynam Group. OneCrop is a research-based developer of biodegradable, pre-emergence agricultural film for use with horticultural, row crop, and broadacre operations. With the goal of making products that will change standard farming methods, OneCrop makes cost-effective degradable films made from […]
