Cultivated Bioscience Gains $5M for Yeast-Derived Cream
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. ma
Read moreChipotle Doubles Size of VC Fund Cultivate Next to $100M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cultivate Next, the $50 million venture capital fund of Chipotle Mexican Grill, is now a $100 million venture fund after Chipotle announced it doubled its capital commitment to mark the fund’s two-year anniversary. Originally launched in 2022, Cultivate Next makes early-stage investme
Read moreAgriloops Closes on EUR13M for Commercial Scale Aquaponics Farm
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 participat
Read moreRadicle Growth Launches The Radicle Corn Value Challenge Sponsored by US Corn Farmers
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Company-building platform and early stage investor in ag and food technologies, Radicle Growth, has a history of forging partnerships and launching platforms that create challenges designed to identify and grow startups advancing technologies that drive the evolution of our food systems. Its
Read moreOishii to Drive Growth of Vertically Farmed Strawberries With $134M Series B
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
Read moreHippo Harvest Secures $21M Series B for First-of-Its-Kind Modular Greenhouse Design
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-
Read moreSimple Planet Closes on Oversubscribed $6M Pre-Series A Funding
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
Read moreCargill Joins Growth Funding Round for ENOUGH, Agrees to Use and Market its Mycoprotein
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. F
Read moreReflections on 2023 Food and Agriculture Supply Chain Trends
By S2G Ventures This is the second installment of a series looking back on our report, "Trends Shaping the Future of Food in 2023." Read Part 1 of this series, Reflections on 2023 AgTech Trends. In March of 2023, we published a white paper entitled “Trends Shaping the Future of Food in 2023.” Almost a year later, we explore the
Read moreWeedOUT Raises $8.1M Series A to Combat Weed Resistance
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media WeedOUT’s approach is inspired by sterility techniques successfully used since the 1940s for controlling pest populations like flies and mosquitos. Since the inception of these sterility techniques 80 years ago, insect control using these methods has not encountered any issues of resistanc
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