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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 ...
AgFunder announces first close of Fund IV at $60m
WEBMar 22, 2022 · AgFunder captures increasing, urgent investor demand for agrifoodtech with $60m Fund IV first close. March 22, 2022. AgFunder. Disclosure: AgFunder is AFN’s parent company. AgFunder, one of the world’s most active investors in foodtech and agtech startups, has increased its assets under management to $160 million – 10x in two years ...
Regenerative agriculture business Advanced Eco Agriculture raises …
WEBApr 12, 2022 · Today Kempf and his team at Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA) have raised $4.7 million in financing — both equity and debt — in their first external round of funding. The financing was led by New York impact investment firm Tree Trunk Light with other non-equity financiers. Tree Trunk Light’s founder and managing director Paul Bergman was ...
Amazon for ag? Agrofy closes $23m Series B in LatAm’s
WEBJan 16, 2020 · Argentina’s Agrofy has raised $23 million in Series B funding in the largest fundraising effort for a Latin American agtech startup on record. Agrofy is an online agribusiness marketplace matching buyers and sellers of a wide range of agricultural products ranging from machinery and crop inputs to farmland and financial services.
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 …
Unpacking ADM's regenerative agriculture progress report
WEBDec 14, 2023 · 2023 results. As of the beginning of November 2023, ADM has signed up more than 1.9 million acres in North America for regenerative agriculture practices out of a targeted 2 million for the year. This is double from 2022, when the company signed up 1 million acres. What this accounts for in terms of overall land in ADM’s supply chain is …
Inside ADM's mission to shift millions more acres to regen ag
WEBMar 27, 2024 · The real acceleration started in 2022, when ADM took its regen ag from pilot- to large-scale programs across the US. The program had more than 2 million acres signed up for regen ag in 2023 and is aiming for north of 4 million by 2025. “Since we exceeded our goal last year by a significant amount, we’ve adjusted what our goals here …
AgTech Accelerator Launches First Startup Bringing Gates
WEBMar 2, 2017 · AgTech Accelerator, the venture development organization, has launched its first startup, Boragen, leading a $10 million Series A for the ag biotech startup.. AgTech Accelerator invested $3 million of its current $20 million capital pool and facilitated the further $7 million from its syndicate of investors — which now includes the Bill & Melinda …
Who Are the Most Active AgriFood Tech Investors?
WEBMay 23, 2019 · Chicago-based S2G Ventures is the most active agrifood-focused investor globally, currently investing out of its second fund, a $180 million vehicle focused across the whole supply chain, from farm-to-fork. Some of S2Gs high profile investments include Beyond Meat, Apeel, Benson Hill. In 2018 it made 20 agrifood tech investments in, more ...
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 ...
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