Dutch animal and aquaculture feed specialist Nutreco announced it has made an undisclosed investment in Israel-based ViAqua, producer of the first orally-administered treatment for shrimp that strengthen their resistance to viral diseases. Through this investment, Nutreco will acquire a “meaningful minority share” in the company. Israel’s Trendlines and Haifa’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, both existing […]
Seattle-based bioagtech startup Phytelligence has raised an additional $9.85 million from undisclosed investors toward its Series B announced in July of last year. This funding now brings the company’s Series B to $16.8 million, and total funding raised to date to $22.5 million. Founded in 2012 when it was launched out of Washington State University […]
Arable Capital Partners has acquired its second irrigation company in three months. The firm announced that it has partnered with company principle Steve Borra Jr. to acquire California-based Lodi Pump and Irrigation (LPI) for an undisclosed amount. In business for 30 years, family-owned LPI has set the standard for drip and sprinkler irrigation design and […]
Seattle-based Otto Robotics has raised $4.9 million through a funding round led by Vulcan Capital, and including 18 additional unnamed investors. With the fresh funding comes a new name for the company – Vivid Robotics – which will now focus its technologies on food. “We’re going to be creating products for food, and we’re also […]
Leading commercial drone platform DroneDeploy announced it has successfully raised a $25 million Series C led by venture capital fund Invenergy Future Fund, and including Australian venture capital firm, AirTree, as well as existing investors Scale Venture Partners, Uncork Capital, Emergence Capital, and AngelPad. This round brings total funding to date for the company to $56 […]
Oakland, California-based Ceres Imaging, an ag-focused aerial spectral imaging and analytics startup, announced it has raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Insight Venture Partners and including Romulus Capital. This round not only brings total funding-to-date for the company to $35 million, but represents the largest single investment in the agricultural spectral imaging […]
U.S.-based Crop One Holdings, a global-leading vertical farmer and owner of the FreshBox Farms brand, and Emirates Flight Catering, a subsidiary of the Emirates Group, have announced a $40 million joint venture to build the largest vertical farming operation in the world in Dubai. Construction of the 130,000 square-foot facility is scheduled to begin in […]
In a move undertaken to foster more large-scale organic farming operations, Farmers Business Network (FBN) — the company behind the independent farmer-to-farmer network built to connect farmers and allow for the sharing of data, insights, and information critical to agronomic decision making — and AgriSecure, a Nebraska-based turnkey organic platform, have announced a strategic partnership […]
Finless Foods CEO and co-founder Mike Selden announced a successful $3.5 million Seed Round for the company led by Draper Associates, and including Softmatter VC, Blue Horizon, Hemisphere Ventures, Yakumi Investment, Starlight, Babel Ventures, Olive Tree Capital, Breakoff Capital, and the U-Start Club. “As a year-old company founded by two biochemists with a history of […]
Export Development Canada (EDC) is making an investment of $7 million in Quebec-based precision irrigation management systems company, Hortau. Since its founding in 2002 in San Luis Obispo, California, Hortau has become a leader in web-based irrigation management systems that help farmers reduce plant stress, reduce water and energy use and costs, and lessen the […]
