Category: Fund Raise

Raising funds by AgTech and FoodTech companies to expand their operations.

ViAqua Therapeutics Announces $4.3 Million Investment led by S2G Ventures for its RNA-based Aquaculture Health Platform

Post author By AgReads®
Post date June 10, 2021

Financing will support the commercialization of the first product aimed at improving health in shrimp and support the development of additional products to improve aquatic animal health and nutrition. ViAqua Therapeutics, a biotechnology company and developer of an orally administered RNA-particle platform to promote and improve animal health in aquaculture, announced it has completed a […]

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Qualitas Health/iwi raises $10m in first close of new investment round

Post author By AgReads®
Post date January 11, 2021

Plant-based omega-3 pioneers, Qualitas Health, DBA iwi, announces it has secured $10 million in venture funds at a $73million post-money valuation. The investment round is being led by world-class FoodTech investor PeakBridge VC, Malta, together with Arancia Group, a privately owned Mexico-based food ingredient/food service conglomerate, Minrav (the company’s largest investor) and additional private investors. […]

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Mondelēz made seed investment in developer of multi-ingredients snacks

Post author By AgReads®
Post date November 15, 2020

SnackFutures, Mondelēz International’s innovation and venture programme has recently made a seed investment in Torr, an early-stage Israeli FoodTech Company, alongside The Kitchen Hub, a FoodTech incubator powered by Strauss-Group. Torr dreams, develops and produces snacks that serve a unique, tasty and much healthier bite. “Our investment in Torr validates Mondelēz International’s venture approach that […]

Tags AgriFood Capital, Clean Label, Food Ingredients, Food Processing, Food Safety, FoodTech, Fund Raise, Human Health, Innovation in Food and Agribusiness, Israel Agriculture Technology, Minimally Processed, Natural Ingredients, Novel Foods, Research, Startups, Supply Chain, Sustainable Agriculture

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TeleSense raised $10.2M Series B for its grain monitoring products

Post author By AgReads®
Post date October 25, 2020

TeleSense, a California-based company that is revolutionizing grain storage and supply chain, raised close of a $10.2 million Series B round of financing led by existing investor Finistere Ventures, an agri and food investment pioneer. A powerful mix of new investors and industry leaders with global reach, including Fulcrum Global Capital (FGC), UPL Ltd., Artesian […]

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Phytolon, a startup developing plant-based food colours secured $4.1m in funding

Post author By AgReads®
Post date September 25, 2020

Phytolon, an Israel based startup leveraging a proprietary, fermentation-based technology for the production of plant-based food colours completed a $4.1 million funding round led by Millenium Food-Tech, EIT Food, Consensus Business Group, The Trendlines Group, Israel Innovation Authority and Yossi Ackerman. Founded in 2018, Phytolon utilises current scientific advancements to bring biotechnology-based, natural, high-quality food-colorants […]

Tags Agri Innovation, BioTech, Data-Driven, Ecofriendly, Environment, Fermentation, Food Processing, FoodTech, Fund Raise, Human Health, Intellectual Property Rights, Israel Agriculture Technology, Natural Ingredients, Plant-based Foods, Research, Startups, Sustainable Agriculture

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Aeroponics startup Aerospring Gardens has raised S$1 million in a pre-Series A round

Post author By AgReads®
Post date September 11, 2020

Aerospring Gardens Pte Ltd, an aeroponics startup based out of Singapore raised S$1 million in a pre-Series A round from Sirius Venture Capital, a boutique venture capital and entrepreneurial finance firm. The Aerospring is a compact, modular, self-watering vertical gardening system that looks good in any urban dwelling. It grows 27-36 edible plants on one […]