| Date | Title | Description |
| 27.10.2025 | Produzindo Certo recebe R$ 20,7 milhões e mira expansão em tecnologia e impacto no agronegócio | A Produzindo Certo concluiu uma rodada de investimentos de R$ 20,7 milhões e inicia uma nova fase de crescimento com foco em tecnologia e impacto socioambiental no agronegócio. A captação foi liderada pelos fundos Arar Capital e SP Ventures... |
| 15.10.2025 | Ascribe Bio: $12 Million Series A Raised For Launching Next-Generation Natural Biofungicide | Ascribe Bio, a biotechnology company developing natural crop protection solutions, announced it has closed an oversubscribed $12 million Series A financing round co-led by Corteva, through its Corteva Catalyst platform, and Acre Venture Par... |
| 15.10.2025 | Ascribe Bio Raises $12M in Series A Financing | Ascribe Bio, an Ithaca, N.Y.-based natural crop protection company, closed a $12m Series A financing round.
The round was co-led by Corteva, through its Corteva Catalyst platform, and Acre Venture Partners with participation from new and ex... |
| 03.10.2025 | NoBACZ Healthcare Secures £4.8M: Revolutionizing Animal Wound Care with Innovative 'Liquid Bandage' | NoBACZ Healthcare, a pioneering Cambridge spinout, has secured a vital £4.8 million funding round. This investment accelerates the global deployment of its 'liquid bandage' technology. The innovative solution offers sustainable, antibiotic-... |
| 30.09.2025 | Cambridge spinout NoBACZ bags £4.8M to scale sustainable wound-care tech for animals | NoBACZ Healthcare, a University of Cambridge spinout developing novel products that change the way lesions and wounds are treated in livestock and horses, has raised a £4.8 million funding round.
Wounds on livestock and horses are typically... |
| 30.09.2025 | NoBACZ Healthcare Raises £4.8M in Funding | Cambridge, UK-based NoBACZ Healthcare, a University of Cambridge spinout developing novel products that support how lesions and wounds are treated in livestock and horses, raised £4.8M in funding.
The round was led by The Yield Lab, with pa... |
| 11.04.2024 | GroGuru® Launches World's First Fully Integrated Wireless Underground System Soil Sensor Probe for Continuous Root Zone Monitoring of Annual Field Crops | GroGuru CRM Probe in Corn Root Zone
GroGuru Partners with AquaCheck on Breakthrough Capacitance Probe with Integrated GroGuru® WUGS (Wireless Underground System) Featuring a 10 Year Battery Life
SAN DIEGO, April 11, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ ... |
| 12.10.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Investors fund agri-waste to energy, more precision fermentation, coffee capsule recycling | The largest round this week went to India’s SAEL, a company converting agricultural waste into renewable energy. Other notable fundraises went to precision fermentation, AI imaging for agriculture, restaurant tech in Latin America, and cult... |
| 21.09.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: MycoWorks opens mycelium plant, Flagship et al pump $250m into Indigo Ag, Pure Harvest bags $150m | After a pretty dry spell, agrifood investors were throwing around the big bucks this week, with the launch of two sizeable funds ($384m from Astanor Ventures and $312m from Humble Growth), while Flagship led a $250m round into Indigo Ag and... |
| 13.07.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Aphea.Bio scores $78m for biologicals, Do Good Foods files Ch. 11, Chipotle’s avocado robots | Good news this week arrived in the form of funding rounds for biologicals maker Aphea.Bio and infant formula startup Bobbie, amongst several others. Less sunny was news that upcycled chicken company Do Good Foods filed for Chapter 11 bankru... |
| 22.06.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Cosucra raises $49m, Carbon marketplace Supercritical raises $13m, Cox launches $300m fund, Getir exits France | This week plant-based ingredients specialist Cosucra raised €45 million ($49 million); Los Angeles-based Omeat emerged from stealth armed with $40 million to expand its ‘simple and elegant’ solution to scaling cultivated meat; and Berkeley-... |
| 08.06.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Green Coffee Co brews up $25m, ChatGPT designs robotic harvesting, Zume shuts down | Despite a general scarcity of agrifoodtech funding this week, a few companies announced notable rounds, including the Green Coffee Company, which will expand across Colombia, and Turkish food waste management startup Fazla. Elsewhere, ChatG... |
| 07.06.2023 | Exclusive: Nestlé invests in Latin American startups via partnership with the Yield Lab Latam | In a move to support agrifoodtech startups in the region and bolster its own sustainability efforts, Nestlé is investing in VC firm the Yield Lab Latam (YLL). Nestlé will invest in YLL via its internal Sustainability Fund. The news comes ju... |
| 06.06.2023 | From fintech to alt protein, Latam’s next generation of agrifood startups is building a farmer-first food system | Latin America is one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, home to around 60% of global terrestrial life in addition to vast amounts of land and water resources. The livestock sector in Latam accounts for 23% of global beef and buffa... |
| 13.04.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: ClimateAI raises $22m, Legit Group cooks up $13m, Farm.One reopens | This week, climate forecasting platform ClimateAI landed Series B funding and cloud kitchen startup Legit Group snagged Series A funds. Elsewhere, struggling Farm.One secured investment and reopened its farm in Brooklyn, and eGrocery startu... |
| 07.10.2022 | If it’s agtech, it’s climate change: How the crisis is shaping investors’ strategies | To state the (painfully) obvious: The fates of agriculture and climate change are inextricably linked.
The weather dictates what grows where and when, but as the Earth warms beneath a wool blanket of excess carbon, agriculture is especially... |
| 05.10.2022 | 7 investors discuss how agtech can solve agriculture’s biggest problems | Climate change and geopolitical instability are wreaking havoc on agriculture. To gauge how VCs are responding to these issues, we spoke with seven investors.
For starters, rising greenhouse gas emissions are driving punishing droughts and ... |
| 22.07.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: String Bio raises $20m, SVG heads south with $50m agtech fund | Indian biotech company String Bio landed Series B funding this week and announced plans to turn methane into alternative protein. California’s SVG Ventures announced a new fund specifically supporting the ag sectors in Australia and New Zea... |
| 19.07.2022 | Brief: Blockchain startup ucrop.it raises $3.1M pre-series A to help farmers prove sustainable practices | Ucrop.it, an Argentina-based agtech company that tracks farmers’ sustainable practices on its a blockchain-enabled platform, announced the close of a pre-series A funding round of $3.1 million. This deal was led by Yugen Partners in New Yor... |
| 25.03.2022 | 12 agtech takeaways from 12 global agriculture experts | Rhishi Pethe is the creator of “Software is Feeding the World,” a free weekly newsletter about tech trends in food and agriculture, and head of product management for Project Mineral at X.
The views expressed in this guest article are the a... |
| 24.01.2022 | With a fresh $40m in the bank, TerraMagna is bringing ‘buy now, pay later’ to Brazilian farmers | Brazilian ag fintech startup TerraMagna recently raised $40 million in funding from Japanese tech giant SoftBank and other investors.
The round included $30 million in debt financing and a $10 million equity component.
SoftBank Latin Americ... |
| 25.11.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Optimum Agriculture backs The Yield Lab LatAm to fuel region’s agtech growth | US asset manager Optimum Agriculture has announced a strategic investment in agrifoodtech VC and accelerator The Yield Lab LatAm (YLL).
They’ll work together on the firm’s third investment vehicle, The Yield LatAm Opportunity Fund, which ha... |
| 18.11.2021 | Bioventure Sundew Acquires MicroSynbiotiX And Completes €1.4M Funding |
Sundew, a Dutch-Danish biotech startup focused on combating aquatic pests, diseases and invasive species, announced today the acquisition of MicroSynbiotiX in an all-share transaction. The addition of the algal RNA platform and pipeline a... |
| 11.11.2021 | UK tech firm targets £320 billion global insect pest challenge | UK tech firm targets £320 billion global insect pest challenge
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Spotta Smart Pest Systems is helping the global agricultural sector improve productivity and profitability through remote monitoring technology reducing insect crop d... |
| 30.06.2021 | Auravant cierra una ronda de inversión de €1,6M liderada por GoHub. Acuden The Yield Lab, Kamay, Addendum, Latam Angels y BA | 30/06/2021
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AURAVANT CIERRA UNA RONDA DE €1,6M LIDERADA POR GOHUB. ACUDEN THE YIELD LAB, KAMAY VENTURES, ADDENDUM CAPITAL, LATAM ANGELS Y VARIOS BUSINESS ANGELS.
La plataforma SaaS líder en agricultura de precisión, que cue... |
| 31.05.2021 | Yield Lab Europe Expands Agrifood Fund And Partners Up With StartLife |
The Yield Lab Europe has announced almost €50 million at second close for its sustainable agrifoodtech venture capital fund, investing in seed- to Series A-stage companies in Europe. They will also open an office on Wageningen Campus as p... |
| 26.05.2021 | BREAKING: The Yield Lab Europe secures $61m for sustainable agrifoodtech fund | The Yield Lab Europe — the European affiliate of US-headquartered accelerator group The Yield Lab — has completed the second close of its sustainable agrifoodtech fund.
The EU’s European Investment Fund through the European Fund for Strateg... |
| 26.05.2021 | The Yield Lab Europe secures $61m for sustainable agrifoodtech fund | The Yield Lab Europe — the European affiliate of US-headquartered accelerator group The Yield Lab — has completed the second close of its sustainable agrifoodtech fund.
The EU’s European Investment Fund through the European Fund for Strateg... |
| 26.05.2021 | Dublin-based agrifood tech fund The Yield Lab Europe announces (almost) €50 million raise at second close | Dublin-based The Yield Lab Europe has announced almost €50 million at the second close of its agrifood tech fund. The fund, which focuses on seed and Series A startup investments in Ireland and Europe, welcomes new investors including the E... |
| 12.05.2021 | Apeel Sciences acquires ImpactVision to look inside fruit & veg for freshness | Disclosure: ImpactVision has received investment from AgFunder, which is the parent company of AFN. Learn more here.
Apeel Sciences, the food waste technology company, has acquired hyperspectral imaging startup ImpactVision. This is Apeel’s... |
| 17.02.2021 | Argentine ag blockchain platform ucrop.it raises seed funding | Traceability continues to be an area of interest for various stakeholders in the agrifood supply chain, particularly after Covid-19 raised questions about the safety of our food system.
“We are solving a verification problem, which is to un... |
| 12.11.2020 | The Yield Lab LatAm talks accelerators in the time of Covid-19 as it announces newest cohort | The Yield Lab LatAm has announced its new cohort of startups selected from a pool of 171 global applicants. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the Buenos Aires-based program is going full steam ahead.
“The main thing this year is that we saw a ... |
| 27.10.2020 | Kaffe Bueno brews up $1.3m funding to upcycle coffee grounds into functional ingredients | Kaffe Bueno, a Danish startup that ‘upcycles’ used coffee grounds, has raised €1.1 million ($1.3 million) in seed funding from Paulig Group Venture Capital, Vækstfonden, The Yield Lab, and an undisclosed Danish business angel.
The Copenhage... |
| 27.10.2020 | Kaffe Bueno closes EUR 1.1 million seed round for coffee by-product upcycling | Danish Industrial biotech startup Kaffe Bueno received EUR 1.1 million from, PINC (Paulig Group venture capital, FI), Vækstfonden (DK), The Yield Lab (IE), and a Danish business angel. The money will be spent on scaling up production, growi... |
| 16.01.2020 | Amazon for ag? Agrofy closes $23m Series B in LatAm’s largest-ever agtech deal | 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 agric... |
| 29.08.2019 | Accelerators seeking entrepreneurs in Latin America | They include Start-Up Chile, The Yield Lab Latin America and MassChallenge Mexico
For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions, but anothe... |
| 08.08.2019 | The Yield Lab LatAm reveals 2nd cohort and increasing diversification among LatAm agrifood entrepreneurs | The Yield Lab Latin America (YL) has revealed the startups joining its second cohort based out of Buenos Aires, Argentina where I was lucky enough to meet them during AgTech Week.
The five selected startups represent a broad spread of farm ... |
| 23.05.2019 | Who Are the Most Active AgriFood Tech Investors? | While still a niche corner of the overall venture capital industry, investment in AgriFood Tech startups has grown exponentially since 2012, reaching $17 billion in 2018, according to our research.
AgriFood Tech encompasses all foodtech and... |
| 08.01.2019 | Accelerators targeting agtech companies | They include AgLaunch, The Pearse Lyons Accelerator, Hatch, Sprout Accelerator and TERRA
For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions, but... |
| 18.12.2018 | Maersk Invests in ImpactVision’s “Game-Changing” Hyperspectral Imaging Tech for Food System | Maersk, the world’s largest transporter of food, has made a strategic investment in ImpactVision, a software company using hyperspectral imaging and machine learning to rapidly assess food quality. ImpactVision is an AgFunder portfolio comp... |
| 20.11.2018 | ApisProtect Raises $1.8m Seed Funding to Monitor Bees with IoT | ApisProtect, an Irish startup using Internet-of-Things technology to monitor beehives, has raised $1.8 million in seed funding.
The startup measures data from beehives — including temperature, humidity, CO2, sound, and movement data — and a... |
| 16.11.2018 | Акселераторы на любой стартап: список лучших программ в России и США | Любой стартап мечтает пройти акселерационную программу, но не каждый акселератор рад видеть всех желающих. Поэтому стартапы, как правило, проходят тщательный конкурс, прежде чем получают предложение участвовать в программе.
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| 04.10.2018 | Startup accelerators helped spark Latin America’s tech boom | Agustín Esperón Contributor
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Five years ago, no startups from Latin America were participating in prestigious U.S. accelerators like 500 Startups or Y Combinato... |
| 18.06.2018 | The Yield Lab Launches LatAm Accelerator, Invests in 3 Agtech Startups | The Yield Lab, one of agtech’s first startup accelerators, has launched a Latin American program.
The Yield Lab LATAM will be based in Buenos Aires and will take on six startups in total for the first cohort. Each startup receives up to $10... |
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| 08.02.2018 | TechAccel Backs Chloroplast Engineering Startup Plastomics | Kansas-based agtech venture development organization TechAccel has backed ag biotech startup Plastomics.
The St. Louis-based startup is working to shorten the pipeline for developing new seeds with multiple transgenic traits, increasing the... |
| 02.11.2017 | Is St. Louis the Silicon Valley of Agtech? | St. Louis has worked hard to be a magnet for Fortune 500 companies. Nine members of this elite class call the city home, not the least of which is multinational agricultural giant Monsanto.
Walmart has more than 20,000 employees in St. Loui... |
| 18.08.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: $2m Cannabis Tech Raise, Organic Hydroponics, NAFTA, more | Cannabis POS System Raises $2.2 million
Green Bits, a point of sale (POS) software provider for the cannabis industry has raised $2.2 million from Casa Verde Capital, a cannabis-focused VC firm. Green Bits claims to have processed $1.5 bill... |
| 15.08.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, August 15 | OPEN MIC
It’s the middle of August, the latest issue of Fortune is finally closed, and I am all out of things to say about the latest wrinkle in Uber’s neverending soap opera. (That wrinkle, by the way, comes in the form of an open letter f... |
| 06.06.2017 | 30 Best Startup Accelerators in the US Ranked | There's no shame in getting a little bit of help, particularly when it comes to running a business. Sure, you can bootstrap a one-man company with no advice from seasoned entrepreneurs and a notable lack of experience yourself, but you know... |
| 30.03.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Latin American Startups, Ag Marketplaces, Bio-Inputs, Sensors, more | Arvegenix, an ag biotech company creating genetically improved field pennycress for oil, raised a $2.4 million venture round with a long list of investors, including some agtech-focused funders like agtech accelerator The Yield Lab, Cultivi... |
| 19.03.2017 | Y Combinator has a new AI track, and wants startups building ‘robot factory’ tech to apply | Y Combinator Partner Daniel Gross today announced that the accelerator-turned-venture-fund will offer its first “vertical” track exclusively for AI startups. YC gathers founders from different industries together in each investment cycle. T... |
| 09.03.2017 | 8 AgTech Accelerators That Are Changing The Game | Farming has been the age-old way of making a living and keeping people working. It’s also very sustainable if you didn’t notice. But what many don't realize is that agriculture technology has been blossoming in recent years. Big “Farma” com... |
| 20.02.2017 | 10 Food Incubators That Are Helping Entrepreneurs Thrive | We all know that starting a business can be a rough-and-tumble experience, but getting into the food industry can be one of the most challenging of them all. Food entrepreneurs who want to stake a claim in the industry have to traverse thro... |
| 01.02.2017 | The Yield Lab Invests $300k in Latest Agritech Cohort Taking Total to $1.8m | The Yield Lab, the accelerator program based in St Louis, Missouri, has made three new investments of $100k each in agritech startups joining its 2017 cohort. This takes The Yield Lab’s total investment in agtech startups to $1.8 million ac... |
| 23.01.2017 | Agriculture Industry Brief: AgFunder Awards, Trump’s USDA Pick, Climate Ventures 2.0 & Yield Lab Open, more | And the Winners of the AgFunder Innovation Awards are..!
We were excited to announce the winners of the 2016 AgFunder Innovation Awards, nominated by you, our readers. We awarded 20 companies and three accelerators across five categories in... |
| 19.01.2017 | AgFunder Innovation Awards 2016 Winners Announced | Today we are excited to release the winners of the inaugural AgFunder Innovation Awards.
Startup activity in food and agriculture technology is growing dramatically; at AgFunder we’ve come across over 5k companies since 2014. At the same ti... |
| 24.11.2016 | 3 Ways Accelerators Add Value to Venture Capital Firms | Editor’s Note: Matt Plummer is principal at The Yield Lab, one of agtech’s oldest accelerator programs for startups. While the value of accelerators for startups is quite clear, how venture capital firms view these resources is less so. Her... |
| 02.11.2016 | AgTech Accelerator Brings in Elanco for $20m First Close, Eyes First Investments | AgTech Accelerator, the Research Triangle Park-based early stage investment vehicle, has held a first close on $20 million after launching in May with $11.5 million.
Animal health company Elanco led the $8.5 million round, which saw existin... |
| 25.08.2016 | A Complete Guide to Startup Resources in Agriculture and Food Technology Innovation | Editor’s Note: Today, AgFunder, AgThentic, and Ag Innovation Development (AgIDG) Group release a new report entitled: A Guide to Startup Resources in Agriculture and Food Technology. The report details the 77 startup resources available to ... |
| 21.07.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Argentina’s S4 Closes $1.2m Seed Round, New Wave Foods Raises Funding for Shrimp Alternative, Indigo’s $100m, more | Microbiome-focused Indigo Closes $100m Series C for Cotton Seed Coating
Indigo has raised a $100 million Series C round as it launches its first commercial product, a seed coating promoting water efficiency in cotton. The round was led by t... |
| 17.07.2016 | The Yield Lab Launches Irish Agtech Accelerator | The Yield Lab, one of the first accelerator programs to focus on the agriculture technology market, has launched an Ireland-focused program and investment fund.
Dubbed Yield Lab Galway, after the town in which it will be based, the accelera... |
| 04.02.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Memphis Meats to Raise $2m Seed Round, FarmDrop Raises $4.3m, more | Cultured Meat Company Memphis Meats to Raise $2m Seed Round
Memphis Meats, which is growing cultured meat in a laboratory using cells from cows, pigs, and chickens, is closing in on a $2 million seed round to add to its initial funding from... |
| 31.01.2016 | The Yield Lab Selects 2016 Cohort of Agtech Startups, Investing $100k in Each | Agtech startup accelerator The Yield Lab has selected six startups to form its latest cohort. The group will invest $100k into each business and spend nine months mentoring, training and supporting them.
The Yield Lab, which already has fiv... |
| 25.09.2015 | Agtech Accelerator Yield Lab Opens for Class of 2016 – Exclusive | Yield Lab has launched the application process for its 2016 business accelerator program, giving agriculture technology entrepreneurs the opportunity to access $100,000 in funding, and nine months of mentoring, training and support.
This is... |
| 27.08.2015 | TerViva Raises $2m in Series B to Grow Soybean Alternative on Degraded Land | TerViva, a Californian agribusiness growing pongamia, a perennial legume tree, and processing it for vegetable oil and protein-rich animal feed, has raised $2 million in Series B funding.
A Florida-based family office and established citrus... |
| 22.01.2015 | Yield Lab accelerator announces first class of agtech startups | Yield Lab, a new St.Louis-based ag tech accelerator program launched in September, announced its first class of five startups. More than 100 companies applied to the program from around the world, and the first batch includes one company fr... |
| 24.10.2014 | Yield Lab agtech accelerator partners with Arch Grants | St. Louis based agtech accelerator Yield Lab and Arch Grants have announced they are developing a partnership to provide resources to AgTech startups in the St. Louis region. Yield Lab is a new business accelerator that invests in sustainab... |
| 23.10.2014 | St. Louis Wants to Give Agriculture Technology Startups Viable Resources | In an effort keep the St. Louis tech ecosystem growing, The Yield Lab and Arch Grants announced that they will be partnering to provide the highest level of resources to Agriculture Technology startups in the region. The Yield lab is an acc... |
| - | Dublin-based agrifood tech fund The Yield Lab Europe announces (almost) €50 million raise at second close | Dublin-based The Yield Lab Europe has announced almost €50 million at the second close of its agrifood tech fund. The fund, which focuses on seed and Series A startup investments in Ireland and Europe, welcomes new investors including the E... |
| - | The Yield Lab lança fundo de US$ 50 milhões e investe boa parte em agtechs brasileiras | A The Yield Lab, gestora americana, está levantando seu terceiro fundo na América Latina que deve chegar a US$ 50 milhões. O objetivo é investir em agtechs, especialmente no Brasil, que trabalhem com software no modelo B2B e sejam escalávei... |
| - | The Yield Lab: стартап-инкубатор, который планирует спасти планету от голода | От хронической нехватки еды страдают около 795 млн человек, подсчитали в Продовольственной и сельскохозяйственной организации ООН. Последние 25 лет мир успешно борется с голодом. Но стремительный рост населения и стагнация в сельском хозяйс... |
| - | A era de ouro para as agtechs brasileiras | Um dos setores mais importantes para a economia do país, o agronegócio brasileiro está cada vez mais aquecido. Dados do IBGE referentes ao PIB municipal apontam que de mais de 5 mil cidades brasileiras mostram forte crescimento nas principa... |
