Japan’s IntegriCulture has raised ¥800 million ($7.4 million) in Series A funding to help push its low-cost cellular agriculture platform to enterprise customers. Investors in the round include AgFunder, Beyond Next Ventures, Hiroshima Venture Capital, NH Foods, Real Tech Fund, and VU Venture Partners. [Disclosure: AgFunder is AFN‘s parent company.] Several other investors participated, including Caygan Capital‘s CEO Naruhisa Nakagawa. IntegriCulture co-founder and CEO Yuki Hanyu tells AFN that […]

A set of new laws aimed at reforming India’s agricultural sector will be a boon to smallholder farmers and agritech startups alike, the country’s agriculture secretary told AFN. Sanjay Agarwal, secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, said in an interview that three ordinances being introduced by the Indian government represent a “major, major change” […]

Editor’s Note: Connecterra is an AgFunder portfolio company. AgFunder invested in Connecterra’s $4.9 million Series A in 2018, with AgFunder’s Michael Dean penning a thought piece via AFN last November on Connecterra’s journey from its initial sensor focus as a ‘fitbit for cows,’ to a full-stack technology and artificial intelligence platform combining proprietary sensor hardware, animal data, third party […]

In a special live episode of the Future Food podcast, I speak to Victor Friedberg and Sara Eckhouse from FoodShot Global about their new focus area, Precision Protein. FoodShot Global is an AgFunder Network Partner and we’ve worked together since its launch a few years ago as a new, multistakeholder, Moonshots for Food approach to investing in foodtech and agtech. […]

Indigo Ag, a Charlestown, Mass.-based developer of copr sustainability and selling solutions, raised around $300 million in new Series F funding, Axios has learned. Why it’s the BFD: Indigo is the world’s most highly valued agtech startup, with a $3.5 billion post-money valuation. The Series F round total is expected to be around $500 million, including […]

A lot has happened during the COVID-19 lockdowns in terms of human behavior. E-commerce seems to have grown at the same rate in the last two months as it did in the last seven years. PipeCandy has been analyzing the segments within e-commerce that stand to gain the most with this “once in a generation” […]