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Demeter Hits €45 million 1st Close of New €70m Agtech Fund
The new fund attracted investment from major players in the agricultural sector. The post Demeter Hits €45 million 1st Close of New €70m Agtech Fund appeared first on AgFunderNews.
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UK Livestock Disease Test Startup PBD Biotech Secures £400k Funding for...
The company’s development, called Actiphage, is aimed at a group of diseases caused by mycobacteria, including bovine TB which has already resulted in the slaughter of over 30,000 cattle in the UK and...
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New Hydroponics Approach Draws £500k Seed Funding for Welsh Startup Phytoponics
A new deep-water approach to hydroponics has earned Welsh agtech startup, Phytoponics, $650,000 of seed funding support over the last two years. The post New Hydroponics Approach Draws £500k Seed...
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£500m UK AgriTech Cluster Gets Top Political Backing
Leading British politicians and AgriTech industry representatives met in the House of Commons in London this week to focus attention on the development of a £500 million ($650 million) AgriTech...
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Turkish Fintech for Farmers Raises $1.3m Seed Round, Targets 2019 Expansion
Tarfin, the Turkish digital platform that enables farmers to access agriculture inputs through instant financing solutions, recently completed a $1.3 million seed round. Collective Spark Fund, a...
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Canadian Automated Vertical Farm Systems Developer Inno-3B Raises C$6m Seed...
Canadian vertical farming systems developer Inno-3B has completed its first seed round of financing at nearly C$6 million ($4.45m). Located in Quebec and Ontario, the company provides turnkey vertical...
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UK Farm Minister Urges British Producers to Lead the World in Technology
The British Government’s Food, Farming and Environment Minister, Michael Gove, has promised to deliver an ambitious new UK food strategy in 2019, embrace a properly funded 25-year environment plan and...
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Kapsera Raises €700k for Microbe Encapsulation Technology in Agrinnovation...
Kaspera is focused on the microbe-based biofertilizer and biopesticide markets with patented technology enabling the encapsulation of the microbes. The post Kapsera Raises €700k for Microbe...
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Red Sea Farms Raises $1.9m to Grow Tomatoes in the Desert Using Saltwater
Red Sea Farms, a Saudi Arabian startup developing saltwater-tolerant crops and saltwater-based greenhouses in the Middle East, has secured $1.9 million in funding. The startup raised funding to build...
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Berry Picking Robot Hank Could be Perfectly Timed for Brexit Britain
Hank’s appearance on the British crop scene appears to be perfectly timed, with many UK farmers currently preparing for life without a steady flow of European Union (EU) fruit pickers and other...
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ICYMI: 3 Things You Missed at the Rothamsted Open Innovation Forum for Agritech
Last week, the UK’s leading crop science facility Rothamsted Research hosted the first Rothamsted Open Innovation Forum (ROIF 2017). The aim of the event was to foster collaboration between industry,...
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Crowdfooding CEO: Why Funding Food and Drink Startups is So Difficult
Securing funding for food and drink start-ups is more difficult than doing the same job for innovators in other industries, according to Alessio D’Antino, CEO and co-founder of Crowdfooding UK....
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Agribusiness Innovators in Southeast Asia: USAID Wants to Partner with You!
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has issued a call to agribusiness innovators working in Southeast Asia’s ag industry to submit expressions of interest (EOI) in partnering with the...
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Microalgae-based Aquaculture Vaccine Tech Wins Nutreco Feed Tech Challenge
MicroSynbiotiX, a startup creating a novel oral delivery process for fish, has won the Nutreco Feed Tech Challenge. The award is a commitment from the global animal feed company to undertake commercial...
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Belgian Startup Using Llama Antibodies for Biopesticides Increases Series B...
AgroSavfe, a Belgian agro-biotech company that is developing a new generation of biopesticides, has increased its Series B financing round to $11.6 million. The bulk of the additional investment was...
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EU PiG Innovation Group Launches to Stop Member Countries Repeating New Tech...
European Union pig industry researchers and development specialists are set to examine more than 300 innovation ideas over the next three months as part of a 13-country project initiated by the EU PiG...
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5 Questions with Anterra Capital’s Adam Anders
The venture capital landscape in agriculture technology has changed dramatically over the last four years – funding increased from $500 million in 2012 to $4.6 billion in 2015 alone – but fundraising...
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Government Mind Games are Driving Investors Away from Biofuel & Other...
The closer you get to the commercialization of a development, the harder it becomes to raise capital, and recent government activities around the world are not making life easier for innovators,...
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Agrisoma Biosciences Raises $15.4m Series B for Sustainable Bio-based Jet...
Quebec-based Agrisoma Biosciences, a startup developing and selling Carinata seed, has raised $15.4 million in Series B funding to support the company’s global expansion. Agrisoma believes oilseed...
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Why Securing Funds for Biotech Innovators is a ‘Different’ Challenge
Paris-based venture capital firm, Sofinnova Partners, has financed and accompanied almost 500 companies during its 45-year existence, including some in and around the agtech scene. Most recently the...
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