AFN - FoodTech, Agtech, Startups, Venture Capital
WEBExclusive: Boston-based foodtech startup Motif FoodWorks is closing down. September 6, 2024. Elaine Watson. The firm, which raised a $226m series B round in 2021 when money was cheap and interest in alt proteins was sky-high, has since struggled to navigate a more challenging environment, with investor sentiment souring on meat alternatives ...
Brief: Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon Capital raises $800m - AFN
WEBAug 16, 2021 · Lowercarbon Capital, the climate change-focused VC firm launched by early Twitter and Uber investor and Shark Tank star Chris Sacca, has raised $800 million in capital.; In an announcement, Sacca said that the firm was able to “wrap up fundraising just a few days after starting” the process.“It turns out that raising for a climate fund in the …
80 Acres Farms Raises $40m to Complete ‘First Fully
WEBJanuary 17, 2019. Louisa Burwood-Taylor. 80 Acres Farms, an Ohio-based vertical farming startup, has raised private equity funding from Virgo Investment Group, a private equity firm from San Francisco for the construction of what it says will be the first fully automated indoor farm. AgFunderNews can reveal that the deal was worth more than $40 ...
Bill Gates tells Reddit why he’s bought so much farmland
WEBMar 22, 2021 · Why are you buying so much farmland?” posed by one Reddit user, Gates indicated that seed science and biofuel development were major drivers of the acquisitions. “My investment group chose to do this. It is not connected to climate,” he wrote. “The agriculture sector is important. With more productive seeds we can avoid deforestation ...
Agrolend raises $1.6m seed funding for Brazilian farmer fintech …
WEBApr 21, 2021 · Brazil’s Agrolend is one of those startups, and it just raised $1.6 million in a seed round involving 30 investors. SP Ventures, one of Brazil’s most active VCs, participated in the round along with fellow Brazilian fund Barn Invest, local family office Provence Capital, and US agribusiness giant Continental Grain Company.
AFN (Europe) - FoodTech, AgTech, Startups, Venture Capital
WEBExclusive: Boston-based foodtech startup Motif FoodWorks is closing down. September 6, 2024. Elaine Watson. The firm, which raised a $226m series B round in 2021 when money was cheap and interest in alt proteins was sky-high, has since struggled to navigate a more challenging environment, with investor sentiment souring on meat alternatives ...
Regenerative Agriculture Investing: 70 Investment Groups Worth …
WEBJul 11, 2019 · This week, a new report, cleverly called Soil Wealth, has come out detailing the level of investment in regenerative agriculture-related projects and the numbers are surprisingly high: there are some 70 investment strategies with assets under management of over $47.5 billion, and that’s just in the US. Just to clarify, that amount includes ...
Kula Bio closes $50m round for sustainable nitrogen fertilizer
WEBJan 27, 2022 · Kula Bio closes $50m Series A to further develop its low emission biofertilizer. January 27, 2022. Jennifer Marston. Disclosure: AgFunder, AFN’s parent company, is an investor in Kula Bio. Kula Bio, a US-based startup developing a biological fertilizer, has raised $50 million in Series A funding to increase production capacity and …
FutureFeed cow seaweed supplement gets funding from CSIRO, …
WEBAug 20, 2020 · EXCLUSIVE: CSIRO, Woolworths unveil FutureFeed, a seaweed supplement that cuts cow methane by 80%. Australia’s national research agency, the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), will today announce the launch of a new business that the country’s government believes will be a “game …
AgFunder Invests in Foodtech Startup Chinova Bioworks’ $2m …
WEBAugust 9, 2018. AgFunder. Chinova Bioworks, a food tech startup with a novel food preservative, has raised a $2 million seed round from AgFunder, DSM Venturing, the venture arm of the global nutrition and health company, Rhapsody Venture Partners, an early-stage science and engineering investor in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Natural …
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