| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.11.2024 | The Green Revolution: AgriFoodTech's Bold Moves Towards Sustainability | The world of AgriFoodTech is buzzing. New investments are flowing like a river after rain. Companies are pivoting, innovating, and racing towards sustainability. This week, the spotlight shines on insect farming, green hydrogen, and regener... |
| 31.10.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Funding for mealworms & green hydrogen, Ohalo unveils a new kind of almond | Insect producer Tebrio and green hydrogen producer Matteco both announced new capital raises this week. Outside of funding, Dave Friedberg’s Ohalo introduced a self-pollinating Nonpareil almond, the EPA approved an alternative to the recent... |
| 12.10.2023 | Сити-ферма: майним зелень в подвале | Что такое сити-ферма?
Сити-ферма — теплица или стеллажная система, которая в городских условиях позволяет круглый год получать экологически чистый урожай. В нашем случае используется стеллажная система, для которой солнце вообще не требуетс... |
| 07.09.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Toray’s $8bn foray into biomass tech, Paptic lands $25m, Israeli agrifoodtech heats up The Kitchen | This week, materials manufacturer Toray announced a mega-investment in cellulosic sugar and Finland’s Paptic secured funds to expand its sustainable materials portfolio. Meanwhile, Israeli agrifoodtech startups were all over the news this w... |
| 07.04.2023 | People Moves: Impossible Foods vet joins Nobell, cheers to Diageo’s first female CEO, FDA head to retire | To keep us all up to speed on the latest people moves in agrifood, AFN publishes a monthly column of the industry’s biggest leadership changes.
Are you in a new role or company? Know someone who has left? Drop me a line to share the details... |
| 17.11.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Muncher grabs $27m for ghost kitchens, Freight Farms lands $17.5m | Besides a major milestone for cultivated meat, this week’s news also includes new fundraising for Colombian ghost kitchen startup Muncher and a Series B round for vertical farming startup Freight Farms. Meanwhile, it’s more bad news for foo... |
| 15.11.2022 | Freight Farms Raises $17.5M in Series B3 Funding | Freight Farms, a Boston, MA-based manufacturer of container farms, raised $17.5M in Series B3 funding.
The round was led by Aliaxis SA, and Ospraie Ag Science, with participation from Spark Capital, Stage 1 Ventures, and Alkaline Partners.
... |
| 15.11.2022 | Freight Farms Secures $17.5M Series B3 |
BOSTON, MA, Freight Farms, the world's leading manufacturer of container farms, announced today its $17.5 million Series B3 funding round.
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| 25.08.2022 | Freight Farms Named 2022 “IoT Monitoring Solution of the Year”" By AgTech Breakthrough | Data helps us to understand the relationships between the physiology of plants and their response to environmental variables at a level that has not been possible before - Jon Friedman, Co-founder and COO, Freight Farms
BOSTON (PRWEB) Augus... |
| 30.08.2021 | Purpose At Work: Freight Farms, A Boston Startup Growing Global Solutions To Food Insecurity And Injustice | Purpose At Work: Freight Farms, a Boston Startup Growing Global Solutions to Food Insecurity & ... [+] InjusticePHOTO PROVIDED BY Freight Farms |
| 06.07.2021 | No Lives at Steak, IDTechEx Predicts How Food Will be Made in the Future | |
| 21.04.2021 | New Freight Farms Greenery S Ushers in the Next Era of Smart Small-Space Farming | |
| 29.12.2020 | Vertical Indoor Farms Make Sense | (Brandon Wade/AP Images for Eden Green)ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| 28.12.2020 | Indoor farming gets greener via solar load aggregation | Food and commercial crops that grow outside can soak up sunshine in order to grow. But move those same plants indoors as part of so-called “controlled-environment agriculture” and the associated energy costs can make all but the highest-mar... |
| 23.12.2020 | Through New Partnership, Hydroponic Farmers Get Access To Clean Energy | Ten-year-old Freight Farms is all about sustainable agriculture. The Boston-based agricultural technology company sells 320-sq.-ft. containers allowing for indoor hydroponic vertical farming. Customers, called farmers, grow more than 500 va... |
| 15.12.2020 | New Partnership Between Freight Farms and Arcadia Brings Clean Energy to Indoor Farming | |
| 15.10.2020 | Plenty scoops up $140m in Series D round led by Driscoll’s and SoftBank | Vertical farming startup Plenty has closed a $140 million Series D round led by existing backer SoftBank and new investor Driscoll’s. This round brings the startup’s total funding to $500 million.
“We looked at other vertical farms, and Ple... |
| 20.08.2020 | Agtech startup iFarm bags $4M to help vertical farms grow more tasty stuff | Vertical farming technology provider iFarm has bagged a $4 million seed round, led by Gagarin Capital, an earlier investor in the startup. Other investors in the round include Matrix Capital, Impulse VC, IMI.VC and several business angels.
... |
| 12.08.2020 | This major grocer is stocking up on Plenty’s indoor grown greens | US West Coast grocery chain Albertsons today announced a new agreement with indoor farming startup Plenty to stock its vertically grown greens across 430 California store locations.
The produce aisle represents $60 billion in annual sales, ... |
| 16.07.2020 | This vertical farming startup you may not have heard of says it has “industry-leading unit economics” | The indoor farming industry is heating up again, posting one of the biggest year-over-year increases in funding according to AgFunder’s AgriFoodTech Investing Report. In 2019, indoor farming investment jumped 38% on 2018.
For Florida-based ... |
| 26.02.2020 | The role of impact investors in early stage agtech investing | Humans have deployed technology to defy nature’s limitations on the cultivation of food – often to nature’s detriment. Now, a growing number of venture capitalists are doubling down on technology to harmonize agriculture and nature.
Mission... |
| 15.02.2020 | Containerized Vertical Farming Company Freight Farms Secures $15 Million | Freight Farms — a global innovation leader of containerized vertical farming — announced that it has raised $15 million in Series B funding
Freight Farms — a global innovation leader of containerized vertical farming — announced that it has... |
| 14.02.2020 | Freight Farms Secures $15M Series B |
BOSTON, MA, Freight Farms, the global innovation leader of containerized vertical farming, announces that it has raised $15 million in Series B funding.
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| 12.02.2020 | Freight Farms Raises $15M in Series B Funding | Freight Farms’ Greenery can produce more than 500 varieties of crops like calendula (pictured) at commercial scale year-round, using 99.8% less water than traditional agriculture. Four rows of panels on a flexible moving rack system house m... |
| 12.02.2020 | Ag Tech Startup Freight Farms Raises a $15M Series B | Freight Farms
As populations grow and climates change, finding sustainable farming methods will prove increasingly important. Boston-based ag tech company Freight Farms is working to make farming more planet-friendly, and it's doing so by a... |
| 12.02.2020 | Freight Farms Raises $15 Million in Series B Funding Led by Ospraie Ag Science | Freight Farms, the global innovation leader of containerized vertical farming, today announces that it has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by Ospraie Ag Science, an investment firm committed to supporting sustainable solutions th... |
| 12.02.2020 | Freight Farms Raises $15M in Series B For New Partnerships and Expansion | Freight Farms is now more green.
The Boston startup that builds automated farm systems in shipping containers raised $15 million in a Series B round led by New York City-based Ospraie Ag Science, which invests in agtech companies. Existing ... |
| 12.02.2020 | Freight Farms raises $15m Series B led by Ospraie Ag Science | Container farming startup Freight Farms has raised a $15 million Series B led by Osrpaie Ag Science, a venture firm focused on sustainable ag. Existing investor Spark Capital also participated in the round, which brings the company’s total ... |
| 29.01.2020 | Sodexo partners with container farming startup Freight Farms to bring indoor ag to college campuses | When a major foodservice player like Sodexo calls up your relatively young startup to ask whether you’d be interested in providing indoor ag services for their university clients, it’s safe to say you’ve arrived.
“Their partnership team rea... |
| 22.04.2019 | Happy Earth Day: Here's A Roundup of Eight Sustainable Startups in Boston | Happy Earth Day!
There has never been a more crucial time to take care of our planet. Recently, people on social media have taken on the zero waste mission and the #trashtag challenge went viral last month.
In the Greater Boston Area, there... |
| 27.03.2019 | For Indoor Ag Startup Freight Farms, Competing with the Mass Market Produce Industry was Never the Plan | Indoor agriculture, a generalized term used to refer to farms inside structures such as greenhouses, container farms, and multi-level warehouse operations housing thousands of rows of plant space, has been touted as a way to meet the demand... |
| 06.03.2019 | Square Roots Partners with Major US Food Service Company Gordon in Mission to Achieve Local Food at International Scale | Urban indoor farming startup Square Roots is partnering with Gordon Food Service to bring Square Roots’ container farms to more locations throughout the US. Gordon has made an undisclosed investment in Square Roots as part of the deal.
“Con... |
| 26.01.2018 | Cybereason Hiring, Nuance CEO Retiring & More New England Tech News | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Corrected 1/26/18, 2:18 pm. See below.] Here are some of the latest technology industry headlines from the Boston area and across New England:
—Cybereason plans to hire 300 p... |
| 01.12.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: New CEOs Headed to Blue Apron and Chipotle, Cannabis Co. Buys into Blockchain, more | Blue Apron Co-Founder Steps Down from CEO Role
Co-founder and CEO of Blue Apron Matt Salzberg has stepped down from his position at the helm of the struggling meal delivery kit company. Blue Apron’s shares have tumbled by 70 percent since i... |
| 24.08.2017 | Kimbal Musk’s Indoor Farmer Training Program Raises $5m Seed Funding | Square Roots, the Brooklyn-based indoor farmer training program and container farm founded by Kimbal Musk, has raised a $5.4 million seed round led by New York-based VC Collaborative Fund, joined by several individual investors.
The 12-mont... |
| 14.08.2017 | Beyond the Megafarms: 4 Alternative Models For Indoor Agriculture | Indoor agriculture has grabbed several headlines in the mainstream media recently. Not only does the idea of growing produce indoors, in an automated high-tech environment capture the imagination of many consumers and readers, but just last... |
| 03.08.2017 | UAE’s Produce Import Ban Shines Light on Food Security Dilemma and Indoor Ag Opportunity | It’s perhaps not news that the Middle East is in a precarious position when it comes to food security. One of the hottest, driest, and most inhospitable climates on Earth, the region’s agriculture industries are unable to feed their populat... |
| 08.06.2017 | Brief: Freight Farms Raises $7.3m Series B Round For Shipping Container Tech | Freight Farms, the startup growing lettuce inside shipping containers, has completed its Series B funding round on $7.3 million.
AgFunderNews first reported the round in April when an SEC filing revealed the company had closed $5.7 million ... |
| 07.06.2017 | Spark Capital Leads $7.3M Series B for Freight Farms | Boston-based Freight Farms, a provider of high-yield crop production, has raised $7.3 million in Series B funding, according to a blog post. Spark Capital led the round. |
| 06.06.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, June 6 | TS TUESDAY
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| 06.06.2017 | Freight Farms Lands $7.3M Series B Round |
BOSTON, MA, Freight Farms, a startup that builds automated farm systems in shipping containers, has closed a $7.3 million Series B financing.
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| 06.06.2017 | Ready, set, grow: Freight Farms raises $7.3M for repurposed shipping containers | Freight Farms, the Boston startup helping Google grow lettuce, just raised $7.3 million for its internet-connected farms.
The Series B round was led by Spark Capital, with participation from Launch Capital and Stage 1 Ventures, according to... |
| 06.06.2017 | Freight Farms Raises $7.3M Series B to 'Make Local Food a Global Reality' | Freight Farms, the Boston startup that builds automated farm systems in shipping containers, has closed a $7.3 million Series B round led by return investor Spark Capital.
News of Freight Farms raising a new round of financing came in April... |
| 06.06.2017 | Freight Farms Lands $7.3M as Agriculture Meets Data & Automation | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Investors have planted $7.3 million in Freight Farms to help the Boston-based startup bring its micro-farms to more places around the globe—and potentially even beyond.
The in... |
| 13.04.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: SEC Filing Reveals Freight Farms Has Raised $5.7m Towards Larger Series B | Freight Farms, the startup growing lettuce inside shipping containers, has raised $5.7 million in an $8 million round, according to a SEC filing. Since the startup raised $3.7 million in Series A funding in 2014, this could be its Series B ... |
| 13.04.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, April 13 | FEELING TOPPY
Today Yext will go public on NYSE under the symbol YEXT. It’s a small IPO, valuing the company at around $940 million. Last night the company boosted pricing by $1 a share to $11 a share, for a total raise of $115.5 million.
P... |
| 04.01.2017 | What Will 2017 Bring for Indoor Ag? | Editor’s Note: Nicola Kerslake is the founder of Newbean Capital, a registered investment adviser that manages early stage venture capital mandates and that has a particular interest in indoor agriculture. It owns the Indoor Ag-Con events b... |
| 31.12.2016 | 5 ways the new connected agriculture world changed in 2016 | The world of agriculture technology, or agtech, is rapidly evolving from an industry entrenched in tradition to one that is fast embracing change. It’s automating laborious tasks and providing farmers and growers with greater knowledge and ... |
| 08.10.2016 | A startup founder’s playbook for transforming big industry | Agile development, rapid learning, granular instrumentation, a large-scale compute and data infrastructure, cutting-edge machine learning — these are the ingredients that give innovative companies their edge.
But to date, this mindset and a... |
| 08.10.2016 | A startup founder’s playbook for transforming big industry | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Agile development, rapid learning, granular instr... |
| 05.10.2016 | How Does Agtech Fit an Impact Investing Thesis? | Editor’s Note: I recently attended SOCAP, the largest conference for the impact investing community, and was excited to note a growing enthusiasm on the potential for food and agriculture technology to promote positive change in the world. ... |
| 05.10.2016 | Connecting the Dots: Trends in Crop Protection and Animal Health | Editor’s Note: Kevin Zussman is an agtech investor with Cultivian Sandbox, a venture capital firm that invests in food & agriculture technology startups. Cultivian Sandbox is a joint venture between Cultivian Ventures and Sandbox Ventur... |
| 29.08.2016 | The plug and play city: how shipping containers are changing infrastructure | - |
| 24.08.2016 | Bed-Stuy is getting its own urban farming accelerator | Last week, we wrote about how Brooklyn was beginning to look like an urban farming hub.
Well, here’s another step in that direction: Square Roots, an accelerator focused on urban farming, is launching this fall in the former Pfizer factory ... |
| 10.06.2016 | 5 Ways to Profit From the Exciting Future of Food | 1. Make it taste good
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| 23.05.2016 | Industry-in-Brief: Freight Farms Receives NASA Grant, White House Launches Microbiome Initiative, more | Freight Farms Receives NASA Grant
Freight Farms, a containerized farming company, has received a NASA Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant to fund work alongside Clemson University in exploring growing food to extreme climates. T... |
| 22.04.2016 | 10 Green Startups to Celebrate Earth Day | Earth Day comes around once a year. And while this day is meant to be a 24-hour celebration of the many ways people protect the environment, a lot of startups spend the entire year being green. With these green startups innovating technolog... |
| 08.12.2015 | 16 Boston Startups to Watch in 2016 | As you’ve probably heard, it’s never been easier (or more socially acceptable) to shun a normal career path in favor of founding a startup. That doesn’t mean it’s any easier to launch a good startup, though. And for people like myself there... |
| 03.12.2015 | Announcing the 2015 50 on Fire Winners | Tonight we unveiled the 2015 50 on Fire winners during our annual 50 on Fire celebration. These 50 winners represent a group of diverse individuals and organizations who are driving the innovation economy in Boston and beyond.
To select the... |
| 12.11.2015 | Jarrod and Marcus – founders of Forbidden Foods | website twitter facebook
Jarrod Milani and Marcus Brown are the co-founders of Forbidden Foods – a rice foods company based in Melbourne, with a vision to “Feed The World With The World’s Best”. They pride themselves on the quality of the s... |
| 21.04.2015 | With Water Running Out, Freight Farms Launches 2015 Farm-In-A-Box | Climate change is real, and it is getting uglier. Global temperatures are continuing to rise, placing enormous strain on water and food supplies throughout the world. Many areas have been hit hard by the climate disruption, but none more pr... |
| 19.12.2014 | Boston Tech Roundup: Freight Farms, Autodesk, Mavrck, Atlas | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Startups are raising money, a small developer shop has been acquired, and the split-up of a venture capital firm motors along in this collection of recent deals around the Bos... |
| 18.12.2014 | Freight Farms raises $3.7M from Spark Capital to grow food anywhere | The Boston Globe has reported that Freight Farms has raised a $3.7 million Series B round from Spark Capital to continue building out its farm in a box system. Launch Capital, an investor in their $1.2 million Series A, also participated.
B... |
| 17.12.2014 | Freight Farms Adds $3.7M Led by Spark Capital | Boston's Freight Farms has raised $3.7 million in funding to expand its "farm in a box" and take the next steps toward changing our notion of agriculture.
It's the first agriculture-related investment for Boston venture firm Spark... |
| 17.12.2014 | Freight Farms Raises $3.7M in Funding | Freight Farms, a Boston, MA-based provider of self-contained, Web-connected hydroponic farms to growers of leafy greens, raised $3.7m in funding.
Spark Capital made the investment.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate the rese... |
| 13.08.2014 | Startups Take a Shine to Urban Agriculture; Can They Reward Investors? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Using a smartphone, Jon Friedman can run a whole network of high-tech, urban farms. His company, Freight Farms, developed an app that allows farmers to control the growing con... |
| 31.12.2013 | 10 Startups That Changed The Narrative In 2013 | ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.
Real companies making real products that real people, you know, spend real money on. That’s what ReadWrite predicted would be the hotte... |
| 14.12.2013 | Freight Farms Raises $1.2M Series A Round |
BOSTON, MA, Freight Farms has received $1.2 million in Series A funding to continue converting used shipping containers to portable greenhouses.
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| 09.12.2013 | Freight Farms Raises $1.2M Series A to Grow Community of Local Food Producers | MassChallenge and Techstars Boston alum Freight Farms announced Monday it has raised $1.2 million in a Series A round led by Morningside Venture Investments Limited. Also participating in the round were LaunchCapital and Rothenberg Ventures... |
| 04.12.2013 | Boston Roundup: Volition Capital, Freight Farms, Technical Machine | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A few notable fundraising deals:
—Volition Capital, a spinout from Boston-based Fidelity Investments’ venture operation, has finished raising its second growth equity fund at ... |
| 29.05.2013 | Forget Sexy, Startups Today Look To Disrupt The Mundane | To be a successful startup company, you don’t always need to enter the biggest, sexiest industry you can find. Some of the most interesting startups these days are finding ways to disrupt what is old, stodgy and stagnant.
Take a look at the... |
| 09.03.2013 | Here Are 3 Of The Most Exciting Startups Out Of TechStars Boston | Constrvct
Mary Huang and Jenna Fizel, Constrvct founders After sorting through thousands of applicants for its three-month accelerator program, TechStars Boston recently announced the 14 startups in its spring 2013 class.
Now in its sixth c... |
| 09.03.2013 | Here Are 3 Of The Most Exciting Startups Out Of TechStars Boston | Constrvct
Mary Huang and Jenna Fizel, Constrvct founders After sorting through thousands of applicants for its three-month accelerator program, TechStars Boston recently announced the 14 startups in its spring 2013 class.
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| 25.02.2013 | TechStars Boston Spring 2013 Class Announced | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
TechStars, the top-shelf startup accelerator program, is kicking off its newest Boston class with a group that covers a wide array of sectors and includes several teams from o... |
| - | Solar powered offgrid greenhouse grows food faster using less water | A pilot structure built in California has shown that ‘wavelength selective’ greenhouses can be designed with solar panels that feed crops enough sunlight, while also powering the structure. In the greenhouse, 20% of crops actually grew bett... |
| - | EGEB: Washington State’s amicable coal breakup, German politics heavily affected by environment, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial, and political review/analysis of important green energy news. Featured Image Source
Washington State leaves coal behind, but not its workers – After getting a permit to build a natu... |
| - | Freight Farms | “Freight Farms manufactures the Greenery™ S, the world's most productive hydroponic shipping container farm, and the farmhand® suite of cloud-based mobile applications. Container farming enables any individual, community, or organization to... |
