| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.03.2026 | Cauldron Raises $13.25M in Series A2 Funding | Cauldron Ferm, an Orange, Australia-based advanced biomanufacturing company, raised $13.25M in Series A2 funding.
The round was led by Main Sequence Ventures, with participation from Horizons Ventures, SOSV, and NGS Super.
The raise brought... |
| 16.01.2026 | Alpaca Raises $150 Million at a $1.15B Valuation to Build the Global Standard for Brokerage Infrastructure | Alpaca, a global leader in brokerage infrastructure whose APIs empower partners like Kraken, SBI Securities, and Dime!, today announced it has raised a $150 million Series D led by Drive Capital that values the company at $1.15 billion. Dri... |
| 15.01.2026 | Global Fintech Alpaca Secures $150M Funding, Valuation Hits $1.15 Billion | Alpaca, a leading brokerage infrastructure provider, secured $150 million in Series D funding. This investment elevates its valuation to $1.15 billion. The capital will fuel global expansion and enhance its API-driven platform. Alpaca conne... |
| 14.01.2026 | Alpaca: $150 Million At $1.15 Billion Valuation Raised To Build The Global Standard For Brokerage Infrastructure | Alpaca, a brokerage infrastructure provider whose APIs are used by partners including Kraken, SBI Securities, and Dime!, has raised a $150 million Series D at a $1.15 billion valuation. The round was led by Drive Capital, and Drive Capital ... |
| 14.01.2026 | Alpaca Raises $150M in Series D Funding | Alpaca, a San Mateo, CA-based company which specializes in brokerage infrastructure APIs, raised $150M in Series D funding, at $1.15 Billion valuation.
The round was led by Drive Capital with participation from Citadel Securities, Opera Tec... |
| 22.12.2025 | ZeroAvia Completes Financing Round | KEMBLE, UK and EVERETT, Wash., Dec. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ZeroAvia today announced that it has completed a further round of financing, led by Barclays Climate Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Horizons Ven... |
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| 05.09.2025 | Xampla Secures $14M to Propel Plant-Based Plastic Revolution | Xampla secured $14M Series A funding. The UK-based innovator pioneers Morro™ materials, natural plant-based alternatives to single-use plastics. These plastic-free, biodegradable, and home-compostable solutions directly address the global p... |
| 03.09.2025 | Xampla secures $14M to replace 10 billion units of single-use plastic | Cambridge-based Xampla, creator of natural materials for commercial use, has secured $14 million in Series A funding to accelerate its mission to replace single-use plastics with plant-based alternatives.
Global plastic production is projec... |
| 19.02.2025 | Harrison.ai doubles down on US with $112M Series C funding | Photo courtesy of Harrison.ai
Harrison.ai has recently raised a total of $112 million in a Series C funding round led by Aware Super, ECP, and Horizons Ventures.
The earlier reported $20 million investment from the Australian government's N... |
| 12.02.2025 | Harrison.ai Secures $112 Million to Revolutionize Medical Diagnostics | In a significant leap for healthcare technology, Harrison.ai has raised $112 million in Series C funding. This Australian healthtech company is on a mission to transform medical diagnostics through artificial intelligence. The funding round... |
| 11.02.2025 | Harrison.ai Secures $112M to Expand AI-Powered Medical Diagnostics | What You Should Know:
– Harrison.ai, a global healthtech company, today announced the completion of a $112M in Series C funding round co-led by Aware Super, ECP, and existing investor Horizons Ventures. New investors, including Australia’s ... |
| 11.02.2025 | Harrison.ai Raises US$112M in Series C Funding | Harrison.ai, a Haymarket, Australia-based global healthtech company and developer of AI-powered medical diagnostic support and workflow solutions, raised US$112M in Series C funding.
The round, which brought the total amount to $240M, was l... |
| 11.02.2025 | Harrison.ai: $112 Million (Series C) Raised For AI-Based Medical Diagnostic Support | Harrison.ai, a leading global healthtech company and developer of AI-based medical diagnostic support and workflow solutions, announced the accelerated expansion of its operations into the US, which is a move supported by $112 million of Se... |
| 11.02.2025 | Harrison.ai raises $112M for its AI medical diagnosis tools
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One click below supports our mission to provide free, deep, a... | Medical software startup Harrison-AI Pty Ltd. today announced that it has closed a $112 million funding round to enhance its technology.
Aware Super, ECP and returning backer Horizons Ventures jointly led the Series C investment. The dea... |
| 31.01.2025 | Exclusive: Perfect Day buries legal hatchet with co-manufacturer; searches for new CEO | The high-profile legal dispute between animal-free dairy pioneer Perfect Day and co-manufacturer Olon is over, with court records showing that the litigation has been voluntarily dismissed with each party agreeing to cover its own legal exp... |
| 26.01.2025 | Owlstone Medical: $27 Million First Close Of Series E Closed | Owlstone Medical, a leader in Breath Biopsy for early disease detection and precision medicine applications, announced the first closing of $27 million (circa £22 million) in its Series E funding round. The fundraiser was led by Ventura Cap... |
| 16.01.2025 | Owlstone Medical's $27 Million Leap: A Breath of Fresh Air in Diagnostics | Owlstone Medical is on the rise. The Cambridge-based company has just secured $27 million in its Series E financing round. This funding is a game-changer. It promises to accelerate the development of innovative diagnostic tests that could r... |
| 15.01.2025 | Owlstone Medical Raises USD$27M in First Close of Series E Financing | Owlstone Medical, a Cambridge, UK-based company which specializes in Breath Biopsy® for applications in early disease detection and precision medicine, announced a first closing of $27M in its Series E funding.
The round was led by Ventura ... |
| 12.12.2024 | Fleet: Australia-Based Space Exploration Company Raises $100 Million (Series D) Raised At $525 Million Valuation | Fleet Space Technologies – which is Australia’s leading space exploration company – announced the closing of a $100M Series D funding round led by Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG), the late-stage venture and growth investment arm of Ontario T... |
| 12.12.2024 | Fleet Space Closes A$150M Series D with A$800M+ Valuation | Funding from Teachers' Venture Growth and Other Investors to Scale Exploration Solutions Powered by Space & AI for Faster Energy Transition Mineral Discovery
ADELAIDE, Australia, Dec. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fleet Space Technologies (F... |
| 12.12.2024 | Fleet Space Closes USD$100M Series D; At USD$525M Valuation | Fleet Space Co-Founders, Flavia Tata Nardini (CEO) & Matt Pearson (CXO)
Fleet Space Technologies, an Adelaide, Australia-based space exploration company, raised USD$100M in Series D funding, at USD$525M valuation.
The round was led by T... |
| 02.10.2024 | Cauldron Ferm to Develop Asia-Pacific’s Largest Precision Fermentation Facility Following Queensland Government Support | Australia’s Cauldron Ferm announces that the Queensland Government, through its Industry Partnership Program (IPP), will support the development of the ‘Cauldron Bio-fab’, a precision fermentation facility in Mackay.
The facility will be th... |
| 26.09.2024 | Notpla's Seaweed Revolution: A Bold Step Towards Plastic-Free Packaging | In a world drowning in plastic, Notpla emerges as a beacon of hope. This London-based startup has secured £20 million (over $25 million) in a Series A+ funding round, aiming to replace single-use plastics with innovative seaweed-based packa... |
| 25.09.2024 | Seaweed Packaging: Notpla Closes £20M Series A Extension to Fuel US Expansion & Sell 100 Million Plastic-Free Units | 5 Mins Read UK seaweed packaging startup Notpla has closed a £20M ($26.8M) Series A extension to expand to the US and replace 100 million single-use plastic items by 2026.
Notpla, the London-based maker of sustainable packaging, has snapped... |
| 13.08.2024 | Cauldron awarded $2.8m to advance continuous fermentation tech, appoints CTO | Australian startup Cauldron has been awarded AUD4.3 million ($2.8 million) from the Department of Industry, Science and Resources Industry Growth Program (IGP) to help scale a manufacturing platform enabling its partners to produce high-val... |
| 11.08.2024 | The Rise of Alternative Proteins: A New Era in Biomanufacturing | The world is changing. Traditional food systems are under pressure. Climate change, population growth, and health concerns are pushing us to rethink what we eat. Enter alternative proteins. They are not just a trend; they are a revolution. ... |
| 08.08.2024 | Cauldron Appoints Biotech Veteran to Spearhead Hyper-Fermentation Solution for Alternative Proteins | Contract manufacturer organization Cauldron Ferm announces the appointment of Solugen and BASF industry veteran David Weiner as new chief technology officer.
Drawing on his extensive experience in product development and scaling innovative ... |
| 06.08.2024 | Olon ups ante in animal-free dairy litigation: Perfect Day was ‘atrocious business partner’ | The legal dispute between animal-free dairy pioneer Perfect Day and former manufacturing partner Olon is turning increasingly ugly, with Olon describing the foodtech startup as “an atrocious business partner” presenting “a false narrative” ... |
| 23.07.2024 | Medal: AI Assistant Company Secures $13 Million At $333 Million Valuation | Medal – the AI company behind the popular MedalTV clipping app – launched Highlight, its groundbreaking AI assistant platform designed to alter how users interact with popular AI models. And Medal also announced a $13 million funding round ... |
| 13.07.2024 | Highlight by Medal: Revolutionizing AI Assistance | Highlight by Medal is changing the game in AI assistance, offering developers a new way to create custom solutions on existing AI models while giving users access to a wider range of AI features. With a recent funding round of $13 million, ... |
| 11.07.2024 | Medal Unveils Highlight - a Revolutionary AI Assistant Platform, Raises $13M at $333M Valuation | Highlight by Medal offers developers an improved way to build custom solutions on top of existing AI models, while providing users access to a larger ecosystem of AI features
NEW YORK, July 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Medal, the innovative AI ... |
| 11.07.2024 | Medal Unveils Highlight – a Revolutionary AI Assistant Platform, Raises $13Million at $333Million Valuation | Highlight by Medal offers developers an improved way to build custom solutions on top of existing AI models, while providing users access to a larger ecosystem of AI features
Medal, the innovative AI company behind the popular MedalTV clipp... |
| 14.06.2024 | BREAKING: Perfect Day files $200m counterclaim accusing ex-partner of ‘gross negligence’ and ‘willful misconduct’ | Animal-free dairy pioneer Perfect Day—which was hit with a $144 million lawsuit from Italian contract manufacturing partner Olon in April accusing it of breach of contract—has fired back with a $200 million counterclaim accusing Olon of “gr... |
| 05.06.2024 | Qualcomm-backed Full-stack AI Technology Company Kneron Launches its latest Edge AI server and an AI-embedded PC | Kneron, the San Diego-based full-stack AI company known for pioneering neural processing units (NPUs), released its latest Edge AI server and an AI-embedded PC. To date, Kneron has raised nearly $200 million, backed by Horizons Ventures, Qu... |
| 31.05.2024 | Meet the founder: Voyage Foods’ Adam Maxwell on futureproofing the chocolate supply chain | Looking at cocoa prices over the last few years, there’s a fair bit of volatility, says Voyage Foods founder Adam Maxwell. But if you normalize the curve, he says, they’re just going in one direction (spoiler alert: it’s up). And in the l... |
| 11.05.2024 | Voyage Foods: Leading the Way in Sustainable Food Innovation | Voyage Foods, a cutting-edge food innovation company based in California, has recently secured a substantial $52 million in funding, bringing their total raise to an impressive $94 million. This funding round, co-led by Level One Fund and H... |
| 09.05.2024 | Voyage Foods Closes $52M Series A+ Round After Notching Cargill Partnership | 4 Mins Read Ethical pantry company Voyage Foods, famous for its cocoa-free chocolate and nut-free spreads, has secured $52M in a Series A+ funding round, weeks after signing a commercial deal with Cargill.
Voyage Foods, which says it makes ... |
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The second-largest credit card issuer, American Express, doesn't have an appetite for mega-acquisitions, CEO Stephen Squeri told a roomful of reporters Tuesday.
Why it matters: Capital One agreed to a... |
| 15.04.2024 | Exclusive: Perfect Day sued by manufacturing partner for fraud and breach of contract. Olon claims $112m in unpaid bills, $32m in damages | Perfect Day—a pioneer in the ‘animal-free’ dairy space making whey protein via precision fermentation—has been sued by its Italian contract manufacturing partner Olon for breach of contract, fraudulent inducement, and fraudulent concealment... |
| 03.04.2024 | From generative chemistry to computational astrophysics, startups employ new methods to fight cancer | Here are a few startups in the cancer space that made headlines recently
The recent revelation of Princess Kate Middleton’s battle with cancer has sent ripples across the globe, reminding us that this disease knows no boundaries of status o... |
| 21.03.2024 | Revolutionizing Precision Fermentation: Cauldron Ferm's $6.25M Series A Funding | Cauldron Ferm, an Australian hyper-fermentation company, has secured $6.25M in Series A funding to scale its continuous fermentation technology and build a large-scale facility for manufacturing high-value ingredients. Led by Horizons Ventu... |
| 19.03.2024 | Investors Back Cauldron’s Plans for Global Network of Precision Fermentation Facilities to Tune of $6.25M | Precision fermentation company Cauldron Ferm announces it has secured AUD 9.5 million ($6.25M) in a series A round led by Horizons Ventures. SOSV, In-Q-Tel, and previous investor Main Sequence also participated in the round, bringing Cauldr... |
| 18.03.2024 | Cauldron raises $6.25m series A to scale continuous fermentation tech | Australian startup Cauldron has raised AUD9.5 million ($6.25 million) in a series A round led by Horizons Ventures to scale a manufacturing platform enabling its partners to produce high-value ingredients via precision fermentation more eff... |
| 22.02.2024 | Unilever enters ‘animal-free dairy’ arena via Breyers brand in tie up with Perfect Day | CPG giant Unilever has teamed up with Perfect Day to launch a lactose-free chocolate frozen dairy dessert under the Breyers brand, using whey protein made in fermentation tanks by microbes, rather than cows.
The ‘animal-free frozen dairy de... |
| 08.01.2024 | Perfect Day Secures $90M to Scale Whey Proteins, Co-Founders Step Down for New Leadership | Perfect Day, a US precision fermentation company producing whey proteins, announces that it has raised a pre-series E financing round of up to $90 million led by internal investors.
After securing the funding round, co-founder and CEO Ryan ... |
| 05.01.2024 | Exclusive: Perfect Day founders step away as company finalizes ~$90m pre-series E, installs interim CEO | The founders of precision fermentation specialist Perfect Day are stepping down from their leadership roles after a decade at the helm. The news comes as the company finalizes a pre-series E round of up to $90 million and installs current p... |
| 11.10.2023 | Atomo Coffee introduces ‘world’s first beanless espresso,’ fields calls from leading coffee brands | [Disclosure: AgFunder, parent company to AgFunderNews, is an investor in Atomo]
Seattle-based startup Atomo—which unveiled the ‘world’s first beanless espresso’ this week at Gumption Coffee in New York—is gearing up to open a facility in Ma... |
| 05.10.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Umiami raises $34.7m for plant-based whole cuts, Bonsai Robotics bags $13.5m, Blue Apron to sell for$103m | This week, French plant-based meat startup Umiami snagged €32.5m ($34.7m) to take its whole cuts platform to the US; Australian precision fermentation startup Eden Brew raised A$24.4m ($15.3m) to scale up animal-free casein production; and ... |
| 25.07.2023 | Nourish Ingredients aims to launch fats with an ‘authentic animal taste and aroma’ in late 2024 | Nourish Ingredients, an Australian startup deploying precision fermentation to produce animal-like fats for the next generation of meat alternatives, has secured A$5.8 million ($3.9 million) in funding and grants from the Australian governm... |
| 11.07.2023 | Exclusive: Perfect Day to sell consumer brands so it can focus on b2b operations | Perfect Day plans to sell off its consumer products arm The Urgent Company as a whole or in parts, so it can focus on its core competencies as a b2b supplier of high-value ingredients made via precision fermentation and an enterprise biolog... |
| 10.05.2023 | Data snapshot: Innovative Food startups Vow and Nourish provide hope amid Australia agrifoodtech funding decline | Data snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| 30.03.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Local Bounti lands $145m, Momofuku Goods bags $17.5m, Vow’s ‘mammoth’ meatball | This week, indoor farming startup Local Bounti raised additional funding, as did the Momofuku restaurant group’s spinoff company, Momofuku Goods. Indoor mushroom startup Smallhold expanded thanks to a retail partnership, and cultivated meat... |
| 29.03.2023 | Cauldron raises $7m to expand precision fermentation platform using ‘smaller, smarter, cheaper’ continuous process | Australian startup Cauldron has raised A$10.5 million ($7 million) in a seed round led by Main Sequence and Horizons Ventures to scale a manufacturing platform enabling its partners to produce high-value ingredients via precision fermentati... |
| 01.03.2023 | Germany-based Doctorly secures €9.3M to help doctors manage practice digitally: Know more | Berlin-based Doctorly, a digital-first, cloud-based, fully centralised, practice management platform for doctors, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $10M (approximately €9.39M) in a Series A round of funding.
“We are incredibly motiv... |
| 13.02.2023 | Exclusive: Loam Bio raises $73m Series B from Lowercarbon, Acre, others to boost soil carbon | Carbon farming startup Loam Bio has raised A$105 million ($73 million) in a Series B round co-led by Chris Sacca fund Lowercarbon Capital and Wollemi Capital. The company has also commercially launched its CarbonBuilder seed inoculum and Se... |
| 20.10.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: new investments in alternative fat, Kroger buying Albertsons, Beyond Meat cuts 200 jobs | This week saw two new investments in startups making alternative fat products: Australia’s Nourish Ingredients and UK-based Hoxton Farms. Kroger announced plans to buy fellow grocery giant Albertsons and precision spraying startup Smart Ass... |
| 25.07.2022 | Why is Perfect Day trying to buy India’s largest gelatin manufacturer? | US alt-dairy startup Perfect Day looks set to acquire India’s Sterling Biotech, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of gelatin, which entered liquidation in 2019, after placing the winning bid at an auction.
Perfect Day, which produces... |
| 21.07.2022 | Normative raises €31m to accelerate the expansion of the world’s most accurate carbon accounting engine ahead of more carbon disclosure regulations | Normative raises €31m to accelerate the expansion of the world’s most accurate carbon accounting engine ahead of more carbon disclosure regulations
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| 30.06.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Eclipse scoops $40m for animal-free ice cream, Current Foods nets $18m | This week, Eclipse — best known for its animal-free ice creams — closed its Series B round, while another plant-based protein startup, Current Foods, raised capital for its vegan salmon analog.
Elsewhere, e-grocer Ocado scored big from a pu... |
| 29.06.2022 | BREAKING: Seaweed biomaterials startup AlgiKnit nets $13m Series A funding | AlgiKnit, a US startup developing sustainable textiles from seaweed, has raised $13 million in Series A funding, it announced today.
Collaborative Fund led the round.
New investors included H&M CO:LAB, the investment arm of Swedish clot... |
| 28.06.2022 | BREAKING: AgFunder, S2G Ventures & Horizon Ventures invest $40m into ‘beanless’ coffee startup Atomo | [Disclosure: AgFunder is AFN’s parent company.] Foodtech startup Atomo has closed a $40 million Series A round and officially launched the first of its “beanless” molecular coffee products to consumers. AgFunder, S2G Ventures and Horizon Ve... |
| 07.12.2021 | Fleet Space develops next-gen 3D printed satellites to bolster IoT connectivity | Australian satellite developer Fleet Space has revealed plans to launch a new generation of 3D printed small satellites in the next 12 months, called Alpha.
Claimed to be the world’s first entirely 3D printed satellite, the Alpha will integ... |
| 28.10.2021 | Soil Carbon Co is now Loam Bio, raises $30m Series A funding | Australian startup Soil Carbon Co has rebranded and raised A$40 million ($30 million) in Series A funding, it announced today.
Now named Loam Bio, the Orange, New South Wales-based company inoculates crops with symbiotic microbial fungi tha... |
| 30.09.2021 | DNA-based data storage platform Catalog raises $35M | Conventional electronic media like flash drives and hard drives require energy consumption to process a vast amount of high-density data and information overload and are vulnerable to security issues due to the limited space for storage. Th... |
| 29.06.2021 | AP Ventures invests into ZeroAvia to advance the future of hydrogen-electric solutions for the aviation sector | ZeroAvia, a pioneer of hydrogen-electric aviation solutions, has secured an additional $13 million for its 50+ seat engine development program from AP Ventures, a significant investor in breakthrough technologies across the hydrogen value c... |
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| 01.06.2021 | Berlin’s insurtech wefox pulls home $650 million, now valued at $3 billion | Berlin-based digital insurance company wefox has raised $650 million in a Series C round led by Target Global. The record-setting round also saw participation from new investors FinTLV, EDBI, LGT via Lightrock, Partners Group, Jupiter, Deci... |
| 30.03.2021 | Indonesian investment platform Ajaib secures US $ 65 million in Series A | Ajaib, a Jakarta ( Indonesia) based fintech startup, announced on 29th March 2021 that it has raised US $ 65 million in its Series A funding round. The round was led by Ribbit Capital along with participation from many other investors inclu... |
| 02.12.2020 | Singapore grants world’s first regulatory approval for ‘lab-grown’ meat | San Francisco’s Eat Just, which is developing a range of plant-based and ‘lab-grown’ alternative proteins, has received the world’s first regulatory approval to sell meat cultured from animal cells to consumers.
The Singapore Food Agency (S... |
| 27.10.2020 | Impossible Foods enters Asia’s supermarkets to take on Beyond Meat, regional upstarts | Impossible Foods is making its products available to home cooks in Asia for the first time, with the debut of its Impossible Beef range in select supermarkets in the region.
The plant-based beef alternative can now be purchased off the shel... |
| 21.10.2020 | Plant-based protein maker v2food raises $55m: ‘We consider ourselves part of the meat industry’ | Australian plant-based meat maker v2food has raised A$77 million (US$55 million) in its Series B round, taking its total funding to date to A$113 million ($80 million) and setting the stage for its expansion into Asia.
Taking part in the Se... |
| 15.09.2020 | Brightseed banks $27m to build out its plant nutrient discovery platform | San Francisco-based Brightseed has raised $27 million in a funding round led by Lewis & Clark Agrifood.
The startup has developed an artificial intelligence-powered platform to discover and identify phytonutrients – chemical compounds i... |
| 12.09.2020 | Audio platform Curio picks up another €7.6 million in series A from Earlybird Ventures | London based premium audio platform with curated library of expert journalism, Curio has announced on 10th September, 2020, that it has raised around €7.6 million in series A round. The investment round was led by Earlybird along with Horiz... |
| 07.09.2020 | Innovative Food startups raised more in H1 2020 than they did in the whole of 2019 | Startups developing innovative food and ingredients, including alt-proteins, raised more funding in the first half of 2020 than all of 2019, according to AgFunder‘s recent Agrifoodtech Mid-Year Investment Review.
Investment into Innovative ... |
| 11.08.2020 | Upcycled molecular coffee startup Atomo raises $9m seed funding from S2G, AgFunder | Many of the latest moonshots in foodtech involve a simple formula: ‘x without y.’ Eggs without chickens. Milk without cows. Collagen without pigs. Whisky without barrels.
So, how about coffee without the bean?
That’s what’s brewing at Seatt... |
| 15.07.2020 | Brave Robot ice cream launches as the first brand from the Perfect Day-backed Urgent Company | The founders of the alternative dairy protein manufacturer, Perfect Day, have joined with a longtime product developer in the dairy industry to create a new sustainably focused consumer food company called the Urgent Company.
Focused on cre... |
| 13.07.2020 | Animal-Free Dairy Startup Perfect Day Series C Reaches US$300M As Investors Go All In On Milk Alternatives | 1
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| 08.07.2020 | Canada’s largest pension fund makes alt-dairy bet in Perfect Day’s $300m Series C | Perfect Day, a Californian startup using plants and fermentation techniques to manufacture animal-free dairy products, has expanded its Series C round to $300 million.
Hawk eyed readers of AFN may have spotted Perfect Day’s previous and alr... |
| 24.06.2020 | Using microfungi & melanin, this soil carbon startup just raised $6.9m in a round led by Li Ka-shing’s VC | Australian startup Soil Carbon Co has raised A$10 million ($6.94 million) in seed funding in a round led by Horizons Ventures, the VC firm set up by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing.
Horizons was joined by Grok Ventures, a VC firm launched by A... |
| 24.06.2020 | Using microfungi and melanin, this soil carbon startup just raised $6.9m in a round led by Li Ka-shing’s VC | Australian startup Soil Carbon Co has raised A$10 million ($6.94 million) in seed funding in a round led by Horizons Ventures, the VC firm set up by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing.
Horizons was joined by Grok Ventures, a VC firm launched by A... |
| 13.05.2020 | Jay-Z, Serena Williams-backed Kopi Kenangan scores $109m in Sequoia-led Series B round | Indonesian ‘new retail’ coffee chain Kopi Kenangan has raised $109 million in a Series B round led by Sequoia Capital India. Local existing investor Alpha JWC Ventures also participated in the round, alongside new backers including Singapor... |
| 24.04.2020 | Replacing plastic with plant pulp for sustainable packaging attracts a billionaire backer | In a small suburb of Melbourne, two entrepreneurs are developing a technology that could mean big changes for the packaging industry.
Stuart Gordon and Mark Appleford are the co-founders of Varden, a company that has developed a process to ... |
| 27.12.2019 | Future City newsletter: Struggles at SoftBank’s $10B hospitality startup, the death of CrediFi & more | Proptech is a $20 billion industry that’s already reshaping and upending traditional real estate as we know it. And this is just the beginning. Each Thursday, The Real Deal’s Future City newsletter breaks down the biggest news in proptech a... |
| 11.12.2019 | Perfect Day closes $140m Series C led by Temasek to scale B2B dairy alternatives | Perfect Day, the Californian startup using plants and fermentation techniques to manufacture animal-free dairy products, has closed a $140 million Series C round of funding. Singapore state fund Temasek led the round joined by past investor... |
| 05.09.2019 | Momenta Leads $7.35M Series A Investment in Fleet LoRaWAN Satellite | Momenta Ventures closes a Series A investment in Fleet Space Technologies, a satellite connectivity company building ubiquitous connectivity to IoT devices
The company will use the new funding to launch its next-generation nanosatellites in... |
| 05.09.2019 | Momenta Leads $7.35M Series A Investment in Fleet LoRaWAN Satellite | Momenta Ventures closes a Series A investment in Fleet Space Technologies, a satellite connectivity company building ubiquitous connectivity to IoT devices |
| 16.05.2019 | Impossible Foods eyes Asia, Europe after $300m celebrity whopper | Plant-based protein maker Impossible Foods — which designs vegan burgers that simulate the oozing, bleeding effect you get with rare meat — has closed another private funding round this week, securing a further $300 million of capital and b... |
| 17.04.2019 | Proof of Capital is a new $50M blockchain fund that’s backed by HTC | It’s often said that the dramatic fall of crypto prices last year ushered in a new era for technology-focused startups in the blockchain space, and the same argument can be made for the venture capitalists who fund them. Proof of Capital is... |
| 02.04.2019 | Here’s why this German software startup wants to collect data from autonomous vehicles | Berlin-based automotive AI startup Teraki recently announced that it has raised €2 million in additional funding for its mission to provide breakthrough AI and edge data processing software to meet the exploding data demands of the $395 bil... |
| 29.03.2019 | Berlin-based automotive AI startup Teraki raises €2 million and launches DevCenter for customers | Berlin-based automotive AI startup Teraki has developed a platform that promises to bring a more than tenfold increase in efficiency to components used in automotive electronics, a €350 billion industry. Founded in 2014, the startup has now... |
| 13.06.2018 | Evolve BioSystems Announces $40 Million Series C Financing to Expand its Flagship Infant Probiotic Product Evivo | DAVIS, Calif., June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Evolve BioSystems, Inc., the leading infant gut microbiome company, today announced that it has completed a $40 million Series C round of funding co-led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation... |
| 04.04.2018 | UPDATE: Impossible Foods Adds $114m in New Financing, Bringing Total to Nearly $400m | *First Published August 1, 2017. Updated April 4, 2018 to reflect new financing.”
Plant-based burger maker Impossible Foods has added a $114 million convertible note to its ample coffers. The additional financing comes from existing investo... |
| 16.03.2018 | Ag Industry Brief: More Exec Churn at Chipotle, EU Changes Protocol on GMOs, TechAccel Funds New Grants, more | Top Marketing Executive at Chipotle Steps Down
In the latest in a series of executive transitions at Chipotle Mexican Grill, the company’s chief marketing officer Mark Crumpacker announced he would step down. Chipotle has long struggled to ... |
| 02.02.2018 | Agrilyst Adds Horizons Ventures to New Round with Eyes on China | Indoor farming software startup Agrilyst has raised an undisclosed strategic round, bringing in new investors with the aim of expanding the scope of its product offering and entering the Chinese market.
Agrilyst offers a software-as-a-servi... |
| 17.12.2017 | Horizons Ventures backs AI startup Fano Labs in first Hong Kong investment | Horizons Ventures, the VC firm founded by Hong Kong’s richest man Li Ka-Shing, has made a rare early-stage investment after it backed AI startup Fano Labs.
Horizons has invested in the likes of Facebook, Razer, Slack, Improbable, Spotify an... |
| 13.12.2017 | The new reality of mobile AR and computer vision venture capital | Tim Merel Contributor
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| 21.11.2017 | Divergent 3D taps a Chinese-led investment syndicate for up to $107 million in new funding | On a lonely stretch of road just off the highway in Torrance, Calif. employees at Divergent 3D are hard at work plotting a revolution in vehicle manufacturing.
Inside the nondescript office building across the street from a branch of the Lo... |
| 06.11.2017 | What You See Is What You Get With Agtech Entrepreneurs as Silicon Valley Moves Away from Hype – SparkLabs CoFounder | Agtech entrepreneurs may not have the sharpest, most polished pitches, but you can be sure that they’re not over-hyping their businesses, according to Frank Meehan, cofounder and partner of SparkLabs Global Ventures and Asia’s leading start... |
