| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.03.2025 | Vertical Farmer Plenty, Backed by Bezos, Softbank, Files Bankruptcy | (Bloomberg) -- Plenty Unlimited Inc., a vertical farming business that’s drawn backing from Jeff Bezos, SoftBank Group Corp. and Walmart, has filed for bankruptcy with a lender-backed plan to either raise capital or sell the business.
The c... |
| 13.02.2025 | Progress report: Where are vertical farming’s biggest leafy green growers now? | In many ways, onetime unicorn Plenty’s highly publicized 90% valuation slash in January felt like the end of a long, drawn-out death sentence for large-scale vertical farms growing leafy greens.
But was it actually?
Events from the last cou... |
| 30.12.2024 | Why Corporate VC Will Be A Critical Funding Outlet For Startups In 2025 | 1 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
By Neal Hansch
As we approach 2025, cautious optimism surrounds the global startup funding landscape and outlook.
With successful IPOs and exits ahead in the new year, shifting market dynamics, evolv... |
| 30.09.2024 | Дайджест научпоп-новостей за неделю, о которых мы ничего не писали | Земля, возможно, перешла уже седьмой планетарный рубеж из девяти, показывает проверка здоровья планеты
Индустриальная цивилизация близка к тому, чтобы преодолеть седьмой планетарный рубеж, а возможно, уже преодолела его, утверждают учёные, ... |
| 29.07.2024 | Vertical Farming Venture Capital Has Dried Up, But Startups Are Still Planting Seeds | 6 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
As venture capital wagers go, indoor farming has not done especially well.
Over the years, investors have plowed over $6 billion into startups in the space, most during the peak period of 2019-2023. ... |
| 18.07.2024 | PLENTY AND MAWARID LAUNCH REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP TO GROW FRESH PRODUCE IN GCC | First joint vertical farm underway in Abu Dhabi, slated to bring strawberries to market in 2026
ABU DHABI, UAE, July 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Plenty Unlimited Inc. ("Plenty") and Mawarid Holding Investment ("Mawarid&qu... |
| 18.06.2024 | Inside a Vertical Warehouse Farm Hiding in Plain Sight | Inside Plenty’s vertical farm, spinach towers are in harvest. Plenty
Nestled between massive nondescript warehouses housing a concrete factory and a roofing plant in Compton, Calif. sits a massive 100,000-square-foot farm with the potential... |
| 14.03.2024 | Vertical Farming Crops Market is Expected to Achieve $1.3 Billion at CAGR of 26.2% by 2027 | Vertical Farming Crops Market
Vertical farming crops market is anticipated to grow at a substantial rate, owing to consumers inclination toward fresh and locally grown crops. ”
— Allied Market Research
WILMINGTON, NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE 19801... |
| 08.03.2024 | Indoor Farming Technology Market Booms as Demand for Sustainable Agriculture Grows | - |
| 25.12.2023 | Кофе без кофе и мясо из принтера: фудтех-стартапы и их разработки | Ожидается, что уже к 2050 году население планеты достигнет 9,7 млрд человек. Чтобы обеспечить всех нас едой, нужно будет производить на 60% больше продуктов, чем сегодня. При этом из-за глобального потепления площадь пригодных для земледели... |
| 18.05.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: GoodLeaf Farms snags $78m, Prime Roots raises $30m, Miso Robotics gets new investment | This week, Prime Roots raised funding for its mycelium-based take on deli meats and GoodLeaf Farms raked in funding to expand across Canada. Elsewhere, restaurant-tech startup Incentivio scored new funding, a South African bank took a stake... |
| 12.04.2023 | Data snapshot: Almost half of all AgriFoodTech VC investment in the US goes to California startups | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new research re... |
| 02.03.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Shef cooks up $75m, Futura Gaïa lands $11m, Asuene closes $22.8m | This week, US-based Shef, which runs an online marketplace for home-cooked meals, announced new funding, as did France’s Futura Gaïa, for its soil-based vertical farms. Climate tech startup Asuene closed a $22 million round and several comp... |
| 23.02.2023 | Plenty lands real estate deal to secure ‘up to $1bn’ for vertical farm development, starting with strawberries | Commercial real estate trust Realty Income has agreed to invest “up to $1 billion” towards the development of indoor farm space for vertical farming startup Plenty. Realty Income will acquire and provide development funding for properties P... |
| 09.02.2023 | The week in agrifoodtech: JOKR’s back with $50m, Plenty nabs $20m indoor ag grant, Mewery debuts microalgae meat | Despite ongoing setbacks for the instant grocery sector, JOKR returned to the headlines this week with new funding. Vertical farming startup Plenty was also in the news with a new grant for R&D. Czech startup Mewery put a new spin on th... |
| 26.01.2023 | The week in agrifoodtech: Drive-thru grocery Addie’s bags $10m, Bill Gates invests $12m into methane reduction | The US state of Massachusetts got its first drive-thru grocery store with the launch of Adie’s, which also raised $10 million. In agtech, Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures pumped $12 million into methane-reduction tech and AgFunder l... |
| 25.01.2023 | With $3bn in deals, top 10 climate x agrifoodtech startups prove themselves a vital part of climate tech ecosystem | Climate tech investment landed in the spotlight in 2022.
While other sectors (e.g., eGrocery, food delivery) saw valuations nosedive and VC dollars dwindle, climate tech investment “hovered at historic highs,” according to PWC’s State of Cl... |
| 24.01.2023 | Brief: Plenty confirms closure of South San Francisco vertical farming facility | Vertical farming startup Plenty has confirmed with AFN that it is closing its South San Francisco facility.
The company will shift all production to its Compton, California facility, though it will continue to have a retail presence in the ... |
| 13.09.2022 | Brief: Gotham Greens raises $310m to build greenhouses across the US | US-based indoor farming startup Gotham Greens has landed $310 million in Series E funding to expand its greenhouse facilities in the US. BMO Impact Investment Fund and Ares Management led the round, with participation from Commonfund, RockC... |
| 20.05.2022 | Vertical farming faces several challenges. Zoning law is one of them. | Jared Burden is member of law firm GreeneHurlocker. He is based in Harrisonburg, Virginia, US.
From Airbnb to Uber, disruptive companies often have to delicately navigate municipal rules and regulations, including zoning laws, in order to o... |
| 17.03.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Licious nets $150m, Bear Robotics raises $81m | Licious, an India e-commerce marketplace for meat, scored $150 million in Series F-plus investment this week, while California’s Bear Robotics bagged $81 million for its robot restaurant servers. Over in agtech, Local Bounti snapped up a ri... |
| 15.03.2022 | Bowery, Plenty announce strawberry plans on same day as competition heats up | US vertical farming startup Plenty and berry grower Driscoll’s plan to build a new indoor farm completely dedicated to strawberry production.
The announcement comes a little over a year after the pair first announced their intention to grow... |
| 24.02.2022 | The Lowdown: Bowery’s strawberry bot buyout | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Root AI and Tevel.
Last week, New York vertical farming company Bowery announced that it had acquired Mountain View, California-based ag robotics startup Traptic for an undisclos... |
| 27.01.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Swiggy, Deliverect & Calii raise funds for food delivery | Three of the biggest rounds announced in the last week came from on-demand food delivery startups. India’s Swiggy raised another $700 million, with both the UK’s Deliverect and Mexico’s Calii announcing substantial rounds.
In agtech, Plenty... |
| 25.01.2022 | Plenty raises $400m from Walmart, others in vertical farming’s largest funding to date | US-based Plenty has secured $400 million in Series E funding in what is the largest investment round to date for a vertical farming company. New investors One Madison Group and JS Capital led the round. Existing investor Softbank Vision Fun... |
| 25.01.2022 | Brief: Plenty raises $400m from Walmart, others in vertical farming’s largest funding to date | US-based Plenty has secured $400 million in Series E funding in what is the largest investment round to date for a vertical farming company. New investors One Madison Group and JS Capital led the round. Existing investor Softbank Vision Fun... |
| 20.01.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Consumer foodtech players Flipdish, Yumi & La Vie raise large rounds | One of this week’s biggest fundings went to Flipdish — a US startup providing software that powers payments, online ordering, and delivery for foodservice enterprises — which netted a massive $100 million in a round led by Chinese tech gian... |
| 26.08.2021 | Data Snapshot: Insect ranches, vertical ag among 2020’s top-funded ‘Novel Farming’ startups | AFN‘s parent company AgFunder released the latest edition of its annual Farm Tech Investment Report earlier this month, which showed that funding for agritech startups last year saw its biggest annual increase in since 2018.
According to th... |
| 02.08.2021 | Hey Alexa, should I water my lettuce? Telus, Amazon funds back home farm startup Rise Gardens | Alexa can help you do a lot of things, from making a reservation to keeping your grocery list up to date and vacuuming your house. But what if the Amazon voice assistant could also help you to grow lettuce and other vegetables at home? For ... |
| 30.06.2021 | Indoor farm Shenandoah Growers picks former Starbucks marketing chief as new CEO | Shenandoah Growers, an indoor farming company based in Virginia, US, has hired Matthew Ryan, the former chief marketing officer of Starbucks, as its new CEO.
Prior to his departure from Starbucks in November last year, Ryan racked up decade... |
| 10.06.2021 | Move over leafy greens: Seedo Corp is cultivating saffron indoors | Often said to be more valuable than gold, saffron is one of the most expensive spices in the world. Comprising the dried stigma and styles of the Crocus sativus flower, it can sell at over $500 per ounce at times – while the global saffron ... |
| 25.05.2021 | Bowery bags ‘biggest-ever’ vertical farming raise with $300m Series C | Bowery has closed a $300 million Series C round, marking what it claims is “the largest private fundraise to date for an indoor farming company.” New investor Fidelity Management & Research led the round. Amplo and Gaingels also came on... |
| 02.04.2021 | Friday Foodtech Digest: Animal-free fat, bee-free honey & fish-free fish get funding | Nourish Ingredients banks $11 million to make animal-free fats (Australia). Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures and CSIRO-affiliated Main Sequence Ventures invested in the Canberra-based startup, which is using bacteria to produce fats and oils... |
| 31.03.2021 | Oishii sees itself as ‘the Tesla of vertical farming.’ Here’s how it’s cracking CEA strawberries | Indoor farming is best known for leafy greens and micro-herbs. But New York’s Oishii is hoping to blaze a new trail and sweeten up the segment.
“A lot of people call strawberries the holy grail of vertical farming,” Oishii founder Hiroki Ko... |
| 22.03.2021 | Waterfund commits $50M to OurCrowd’s water and agtech portfolio | Waterfund, an investment and trading firm that specializes in acquiring and managing water-related infrastructure assets, today announced a deal with Israel-based crowdfunding platform OurCrowd that will see the Waterfund team commit $50 mi... |
| 11.03.2021 | Vertical farming startup Oishii raises $50m for bee-assisted, carbon-neutral strawberry cultivation | US vertical farming startup Oishii has raised a $50 million Series A round led by Mirai Creation Fund, part of Tokyo-based SPARX Group. Additional investors in the round include Sony Innovation Fund — the corporate venture arm of Japanese t... |
| 01.02.2021 | Ex-Impossible Foods VP Dana Worth on his new role at Plenty & the future of indoor farming | Dana Worth. Image credit: Plenty
As Impossible Foods‘ former vice president of sales, Dana Worth is no stranger to the agrifoodtech space. He recently announced his departure from the plant-based patty maker to take up a new role as senior ... |
| 15.01.2021 | Plenty expands leadership team with Impossible Foods hire | Worth is the second high-profile executive from Impossible Foods to move to an indoor farming company this year, with AppHarvest recently hiring Impossible Foods CFO David Lee as its new president.
Joining Plenty from Impossible Foods -... |
| 29.12.2020 | Vertical Indoor Farms Make Sense | (Brandon Wade/AP Images for Eden Green)ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| 15.12.2020 | iUNU raises $7m as S2G Ventures gets bullish on greenhouse tech | Greenhouse computer vision startup iUNU (pronounced “you-knew”) has raised $7 million in a Series A round co-led by S2G Ventures and Ceres Partners. This follows a $7.5 million round in February 2019.
S2G Ventures is keen on the greenhouse ... |
| 09.12.2020 | Gotham Greens raises $87m Series D funding to decentralize food production | The indoor ag space is on fire this year and Gotham Greens is stoking the coals. The New York-based startup just raised an $87 million quity and debt round led by Colorado VC Manna Tree with participation from Florida real estate and privat... |
| 20.11.2020 | This 2-Acre Vertical Farm Out-Produces 720 Acre ‘Flat Farms’ | Farming is going vertical, thanks to startups like San Francisco-based Plenty. Photo by Alex Wigan on Unsplash |
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| 27.10.2020 | Plenty Unlimited has Raised $140 Million in New Funding to Build More Vertical Farms Around the US | |
| 21.10.2020 | As Central Valley Farmlands Suffer Fire and Drought, a New Vertical Farm Is Sprouting — in Compton | Tech agricultural unicorn Plenty is gearing up to hire 50 full-time employees to run a new vertical farm monitored by robots in Compton.
The farm, which will open in 2021, will grow leafy greens and Driscoll's branded strawberries, showcasi... |
| 21.10.2020 | TOP 10 AgTech Startups in the USA | AgTech or Agricultural Technology means using technology in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture with the goal of improving yield, productivity, profit and beneficialness. |
| 21.10.2020 | Meet Arama Kukutai, co-founder and partner at Finistere Ventures | Finistere Ventures invests in startups in the food and agriculture spaces
Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed!
While there are more startups ... |
| 19.10.2020 | SoftBank’s Son agitates for Southeast Asian food delivery mega-merger: report | SoftBank wants its portfolio company Grab to seal a merger with rival Southeast Asian ‘super app’ Gojek as quickly as possible, reports have suggested.
According to Bloomberg, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is “stepping up pressure” on Grab co-... |
| 18.10.2020 | Неделя foodtech за 5 минут: коллаборация роботов, foodtech-стартап года, сделки на сотни миллионов | Всем привет! На этой неделе роботы пожали свои моторизированные руки и договорились о партнерстве в направлении доставки пиццы. Smart Kitchen Summit объявил лучший foodtech-стартап 2020 года. Livekindly и Plenty получили более 100 миллионов... |
| 16.10.2020 | Plenty Raises $140 Million In Round Led By SoftBank | Vertical-farming company Plenty Unlimited announced it has raised $140 million in a new round of funding led by SoftBank
Vertical-farming company Plenty Unlimited announced it has raised $140 million in a new round of funding led by SoftBan... |
| 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... |
| 14.10.2020 | Plenty Secures $140 Million in its Series D Financing Round | Plenty Unlimited Inc., today announced it has secured a $140 million USD Series D round, led by existing investor Softbank Vision Fund 1 and including new investor Driscoll’s, the world’s leader in fresh berries. The investment will be used... |
| 14.10.2020 | Plenty has raised over $500 million to grow fruits and veggies indoors | Plenty Unlimited has raised $140 million in new funding to build more vertical farms around the U.S.
The new funding, which brings the company’s total cash haul to an abundant $500 million, was led by existing investor SoftBank Vision Fu... |
| 14.10.2020 |
Plenty Unlimited Raises $140M, Plans To Set Up Farm In Compton
| Plenty, a Bay Area startup developing vertical farming technology, said this week that it has raised $140M in a new funding round, and will build a new farm in Compton. The startup--backed by Softbank Vision Fund and strawberry farming gian... |
| 17.09.2020 | Infarm raises $170m in first close of Series C | Infarm, a Berlin-based startup putting micro-vertical farms in urban locations like supermarkets, hospitals, and restaurants, has raised $170 million in the first close of its Series C round. The company expects the round to surpass $200 mi... |
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| 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, ... |
| 02.07.2020 | Vertical farming in LatAm: AgroUrbana closes $1m seed funding | Access to vertical farming technologies is deepening and widening across the world, bringing down the costs and hassle of locally producing anything from Singaporean strawberries to Arctic tomatoes.
In Latin America, however, indoor vertica... |
| 19.05.2020 | SoftBank reports $24bn loss on startup investments, with agrifood performance unclear | SoftBank – one of the world’s most active agrifoodtech investors last year – has reported a ¥1.9 trillion ($17.7 billion) annual loss on its Vision Fund startup portfolio.
This staggering deficit from the Vision Fund – which SoftBank launch... |
| 30.04.2020 | Farm tech investment up 370% in 6 years. How will Covid-19 impact 2020 trends? | Come rain, shine, or coronavirus, there’s just no halting the AgFunder research mothership. From a safe social distance this Thursday, AgFunder remotely unfurled its new 2020 Farmtech Investment Report — a data-driven snapshot of global inv... |
| 15.04.2020 | SoftBank, one of 2019’s top agrifood investors, forecasts $24bn loss on its startup bets | One of last year’s biggest tech investors in agrifood globally has warned of an eye-watering ¥2.6 trillion ($24.2 billion) annual loss on its startup bets.
SoftBank said in a note to shareholders that it made an estimated loss of ¥1.8 trill... |
| 07.04.2020 | BRIEF: SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son predicts bankruptcy for 15 Vision Fund portfolio cos | SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son now believes that 15 of the startups in his company’s Vision Fund portfolio will go bankrupt – though he still thinks the VC mega-fund can make a positive return.
As part of its AI and robotics-focused mandate, th... |
| 09.01.2020 | UK aeroponics startup LettUs Grow raises £2.35m seed round | LettUs Grow — a UK startup designing aeroponic systems and farm management software for vertical farms, greenhouses and other indoor ag spaces — has secured £2.35 million ($3.1 million) in seed funding.
Early-stage life science and engineer... |
| 03.12.2019 | Is Los Angeles a natural hub for agricultural innovation? | The digital agricultural revolution can be directly traced to Los Angeles. This historical but also growing bond with agriculture, technology, and food uniquely positions it to be a leader in the industry’s transformations, writes Liron Bri... |
| 15.11.2019 | Jeff Bezos-backed vertical agriculture startup Plenty ‘hibernates’ plans for Seattle farm | Plenty’s next-generation vertical farm called Tigris. (Plenty Photo)
Plenty is rethinking its growth strategy.
The indoor agriculture startup backed by high-profile tech executives — including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos — has canceled plans to o... |
| 04.11.2019 | The second generation of vertical farming is approaching. Here’s why it’s important. | Editor’s Note: Boaz Toledano is a business consultant specializing in vertical farming and other agtech markets. His website is: www.EconoMind.co. Here he writes about how vertical farming is progressing into its next stage. Disclosure: Tol... |
| 12.06.2019 | Is UK eGrocer Ocado’s $22m Vertical Farming Investment a Bargain? – updated | Updated Jun 12 4:32pm ET, to add details of first farm in China.
Readers of the Grimsby Telegraph, a niche northern English newspaper, may have spotted a striking headline in print last November: “Inside the world’s most advanced vertical f... |
| 11.06.2019 | InFarm Joins Vertical Farming Pantheon With Titanic $100m Series B | Berlin-based portable vertical farm startup InFarm on Tuesday disclosed a vast Series B raise of $100 million, bringing its total funding to over $134 million. The raise dramatically eclipsed the big vertical farming news from Britain’s Oca... |
| 14.05.2019 | Jeff Bezos Reveals His Daily Decision-Making Goal and 30 Other Crazy Things We've Learned About the Amazon Founder | May 14, 2019 11 min read
In 1994, the then 30-year-old Jeff Bezos left behind a six-figure gig on Wall Street as the youngest ever senior vice president at investment banking firm D.E. Shaw & Co. to start Amazon in Seattle. Now, he's th... |
| 11.03.2019 | These London Vegetables Can Survive A Bomb Blast | Richard Ballard and Steven Dring have been growing vegetables and micro-herbs that can survive a bomb blast.
That’s because these two urban farmer-founders have been using a Second World War air-raid shelter as their first controlled enviro... |
| 07.02.2019 | What is the future of container farming? | Editor’s note: Peter Tasgal is an agriculture consultant with former experience as CFO and board member of a $100 million CPG business headquartered in Montreal, Canada. He was also an investment banker for over 10 years.
Here he writes abo... |
| 08.01.2019 | A List of Food Tech Startups That Defined 2018 Trends and What to Expect in 2019 | As the sun sets on food tech in 2018 and the dawn of a new year arrives, what can we say about 2018 and what can be expected of 2019? A diverse number of food tech innovations were developed and used by an equally diverse set of generations... |
| 12.12.2018 | Bowery, an indoor farming startup, raises $90 million more, including to counter a SoftBank-funded rival | When in July of last year, SoftBank’s Vision Fund led a whopping $200 million round in the Silicon Valley startup Plenty, investors behind a competing indoor farming startup across the country, New York-based Bowery, were left reeling. Just... |
| 09.08.2018 | AgriFood News: Singapore’s Largest Indoor Farm, SoftBank to Invest $750m into Pizza Robot? SWIIM Raises $3m, more | The AgriFood News Aggregator features headlines submitted each week by members of the AgFunder community through our news sharing platform #feedit. Have news to share? Post it here and engage, share, and debate with your peers in the commen... |
| 26.04.2018 | Monsanto’s Venture Arm Could Be Winding Down, Sources Suggest, As Company Looks for New Talent | *Updated April 27, 2018, 15:35 to add more context around future of MGV.*
Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), the venture arm of Monsanto, has lost all of its dedicated staff after former managing director John Hamer, former investment director... |
| 22.03.2018 | Clari Pockets $35 Million To Reinvent CRM With AI And APIs | Andy Byrne, CEO of Clari, snags $35 million in venture capital funding to deliver better CRM results... [+] using AI Source: Clari |
| 08.03.2018 | AgriFood Tech Investment Surges to $10.1bn Bringing in a New Normal | Editor’s Note: This week we released the new AgFunder AgriFood Tech Investing Report 2017, continuing to expand the scope of our previous AgTech Investing Reports. You can download the report here. For more information about our research, r... |
| 07.02.2018 | DEADLINE APPROACHING: Cast Your Vote in the AgFunder Innovation Awards | ***VOTING CLOSED***
It’s that time of year again to recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward with the AgFunder Innovation Awards. These are peer-selected awards based on votes placed by you, our 45... |
| 26.01.2018 | Top startup news stories you need to know this Friday, January 26 | Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Friday, January 26.
Data warehouse startup Snowflake just raised $263 million at a $1.5 billion valuation. San Mateo, California-based startup Snowflake announced a it ... |
| 19.01.2018 | Ag Industry Brief: Plenty Makes Plans in China, Remote Sensing Startups Merge, Ex-Cisco CEO Invests in Agtech, more | Plenty, Inc. Announces Plans to Build 300 Vertical Farms in China
The SoftBank-backed indoor farming company Plenty, Inc. made public its plans to build 300 new vertical farms near major Chinese cities, where the growing middle class is eve... |
| 15.01.2018 | EXCLUSIVE: Biotech Dominates THRIVE Top 50 in AgTech List | Biotech and predictive analytics startups dominate the Salinas, CA-based THRIVE AgTech’s Top 50 list of agtech companies shaping the future of agriculture for 2018.
The largest technology category on last year’s list, “big data analytics,” ... |
| 04.01.2018 | 30 Food Technologies to Support Your Sustainable New Year’s Resolutions | When it comes to technology in the first week of January, you might be thinking wearable fitness trackers and meal replacements. But there is a whole host of startups with technology that can also help with resolutions skewed toward agricul... |
| 21.12.2017 | The Top 10 Farm Tech Deals of 2017 (How Many Can You Name Without Clicking?) | It was an exciting year in farm technology involving a few high profile venture capital exits and some of the largest deals on record.
In fact, funding records for this category and the subcategories within were broken more than once during... |
| 08.11.2017 | What do Indoor Farming CEOs Think of Hydroponics Organic Approval? | Last week the National Organic Safety Board (NOSB), the body tasked with making recommendations to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) around its organic certification, rejected a proposal that would disallow hydroponic and aquaponic fa... |
| 03.11.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: USDA Votes to Allow Organic Certification for Hydroponics, Plenty Heads to Seattle, New Monsanto Partnership, more | USDA Votes to Allow Organic Certification for Hydroponic, Aquaponic Growers, But Not Aeroponics
The USDA’s National Organics Standards Board (NOSB) has ruled that hydroponic growers can continue to be certified organic in an 8-7 vote that h... |
| 20.10.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: California Cuts Food Waste, Europe to Vote on Glyphosate Ban, Rabo Launches $1bn Fund, more | Europe to Vote on Glyphosate Ban
On Tuesday, October 24, the European Parliament will vote on whether to ban Monsanto’s controversial pesticide glyphosate in the next three years. The following day, the European Commission’s Standing Commit... |
| 03.10.2017 | What SoftBank really wants | Some in Silicon Valley aren’t quite sure what to make of SoftBank and its massive, roughly $100 billion Vision Fund. At times, they say privately, it looks like a drunken gunslinger, firing off massive checks in quick succession.
But source... |
| 26.08.2017 | Hardware unicorns are on the rise, and China is dominating | Four years ago, when the first unicorn count took place, there were 39 startups on the list, only one of them a hardware company. Today the world has some 213 unicorns, and 18 of those are hardware startups. Considering hardware accounts fo... |
| 26.08.2017 | Hardware unicorns are on the rise, and China is dominating | 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!
Four years ago, when the first unicorn count took... |
| 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... |
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| 21.07.2017 | Plenty Raises $200M in Series B Financing | Plenty, a San Francisco, CA-based agtech company, raised $200m in Series B financing.
The round was led by the SoftBank Vision Fund with participation from affiliates of Moore Capital Management founder Louis M. Bacon as well as existing in... |
| 20.07.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, July 20 | BRAIN → STORMED
Good morning from New York. Yesterday was the third and final day of Brainstorm Tech. I interviewed Mike Cagney, CEO and founder of online lending and personal finance startup SoFi. My first question was about the company’s ... |
| 19.07.2017 | Billionaires make it rain on Plenty, the indoor farming startup | SoftBank Vision Fund, the huge tech-investment vehicle helmed by Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, has led a $200 million investment into indoor farming startup Plenty.
Joining Son on his trip out to back the (indoor) farm movement are no... |
| 19.07.2017 | Plenty raises $200M lead by local SD friends Finistere Ventures | - |
| 19.07.2017 | SoftBank Invests in Largest Ever Agtech Deal, a $200m Series B for Indoor Ag Startup Plenty | **UPDATE: Added comments from S2G Ventures managing director Sanjeev Krishnan, AeroFarms CEO David Rosenberg***
**UPDATE: Added comments from Plenty CEO Matt Barnard, and AgFunder CEO Rob Leclerc**
Indoor vertical farming company Plenty has... |
| 14.06.2017 | Agtech, Plenty Acquires Bright Agrotech | Plenty, a South San Francisco, CA-based field-scale vertical farming company, acquired Bright Agrotech, a Laramie, WY-based developer of vertical farming production system technology.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
With the acqui... |
| 13.06.2017 | Vertical farming startup Plenty acquires Bright Agrotech to reach ‘field scale’ | California-based vertical farming company Plenty, previously See Jane Farm, has acquired Bright Agrotech in an effort to reach “field-scale.”
Bright Agrotech is an indoor ag hardware company that’s focused on building indoor growing systems... |
| 13.06.2017 | Vertical Farming Startup Plenty Acquires Bright Agrotech to Scale | California-based vertical farming company Plenty, previously See Jane Farm, has acquired Bright Agrotech in an effort to reach “field-scale.”
Bright Agrotech is an indoor ag hardware company that’s focused on building indoor growing systems... |
| - | Plenty Ranked Number One on Prestigious FoodTech 500 | SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 1, 2021--
Plenty, the flavor-first vertical farming company with a mission to improve the lives of people, plants, and the planet, today announced its #1 ranking on the esteemed Forward Food... |
