| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.04.2025 | Unlearn Appoints Krates Ng as Chief Technology Officer | Unlearn, a leader in AI solutions for clinical trials, today announced Krates Ng as its Chief Technology Officer. As a seasoned technology leader with deep experience in enterprise software, Ng joins the team at an optimal time in its growt... |
| 13.12.2024 | New fund from Astarte & Toesca underscores the promise of investing in Latin America’s permanent crops | Chile is becoming increasingly attractive to investors looking to back nature-based and/or sustainable agriculture-based solutions.
The latest to do so is UK-based Astarte Capital Partners, a global firm that focuses on real assets and rece... |
| 21.02.2024 | Q&A: Following a $38m raise, ProducePay discusses growth, partnerships, and the boogeyman of the supply chain | Often nowadays, supply chain tech discussions mention “cutting out the middlemen,” those intermediaries that sit between growers and retailers. This group has garnered a slew of negative labels in recent years, from inefficient to exploitat... |
| 12.02.2024 | ProducePay Closes on $38M in Series D Funding | - |
| 05.02.2024 | ProducePay Scores $38 Million Series D Funding |
LOS ANGELES, CA, ProducePay, an agtech company, announced $38 million in Series D financing. The round was led by Syngenta Group Ventures.
>> Click here for more funding data on ProducePay
>> To export ProducePay funding dat... |
| 05.02.2024 | ProducePay raises $38M to tackle produce supply chain waste | Food waste is a major problem.
In the U.S. alone, roughly 30% to 40% of the supply ends up in landfills. A United Nations report estimated that around one-third of the world’s food is wasted every year, adding up to 1.3 billion tons — worth... |
| 05.02.2024 | ProducePay Raises $38M in Series D Funding | ProducePay, a Los Angeles, CA-based agtech company, raised $38M in Series D funding.
The round was led by Syngenta Group Ventures, with participation from new investor CF Private Equity, as well as existing investors G2 Venture Partners, An... |
| 09.01.2024 | Peruvian Avocados: A superfood conquering the world | PROMPERU LOGO
Peru shipped US$223 million worth to the United States in 2022 to meet the country’s fast-growing demand.
People in the United States have long shown a love for avocados, with consumption quadrupling between 2000 and 2022.
Per... |
| 14.03.2023 | Farm tech market map: charting the next wave of agtech value for farmers | Editor’s note: Seana Day is a partner at Culterra Capital and based in the US. She has 20-plus years of investment, M&A, and strategy experience in agrifoodtech. Her analyses on the sector are regularly used by participants in the space... |
| 31.01.2023 | 3 Fast Growth Climate Tech Startups To Watch In 2023 | TSCHAGGUNS, AUSTRIA - AUGUST 03: Hikers make their way towards Switzerland over the Gruenes Fuerkele ... [+] peak in the Raetikon mountain range on August 3, 2016 near Tschagguns, Austria. The Raetikon mountains, part of the Central Eastern... |
| 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 | BREAKING: ProducePay & ALLCOT announce a carbon offset program for produce growers | Online ag marketplace ProducePay has teamed up with climate strategies provider ALLCOT to launch what the companies say is “the first-of-its-kind” carbon-offset program for produce growers. Through the program, ProducePay hopes to help grow... |
| 17.05.2022 | EXCLUSIVE: Anterra closes $260m Fund II, says quality of agrifoodtech opportunity ‘has increased exponentially’ | Agtech investment firm Anterra Capital has closed its second Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund on $260 million. The fund will invest in entrepreneurs developing biotech and digital solutions across the agrifoodtech value chain, fr... |
| 15.06.2021 | G2 Venture Partners Closes New Fund With $500M to Drive the Next Stage of Sustainable Transformation in Traditional Industries
G2VP Leads $43m Series C for ProducePay | - |
| 11.06.2021 | G2VP Leads $43m Series C for ProducePay | - |
| 25.05.2021 | ProducePay raises $43million, searches for “rockstar” CTO | Los Angeles-based ProducePay, a financing, analytics, and marketplace start-up focused on the global fresh produce market, has landed $43 million in its Series C funding round.
Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, co-founder and CEO of ProducePay
The... |
| 25.05.2021 | ProducePay Raises $43M in Series C Equity Funding | ProducePay, a Los Angeles, CA-based financing, analytics, and marketplace startup focused on the global fresh produce market, raised $43m in Series C funding. |
| 24.05.2021 |
ProducePay Picks Up $43M In Series C
| Los Angeles-based ProducePay, a fintech startup which offers up pricing information, analytics, and a marketplace connecting produce growers and distributors, has raised $43M in its Series C funding. The funding was led by G2VP, with co-lea... |
| 24.05.2021 | Financing, Analytics, & Marketplace Startup ProducePay Scores $43 Million Through Series C Investment Round Co-Led By G2VP & IFC | ProducePay, a U.S.-based financing, analytics, and marketplace startup for the fresh produce market, announced on Monday it raised $43 million through its Series C investment round, which was co-led by G2VP, IFC, and IDB with participation ... |
| 22.05.2021 | ProducePay Raises $43M in Series C Equity Funding | ProducePay, a Los Angeles, CA-based financing, analytics, and marketplace startup focused on the global fresh produce market, raised $43m in Series C funding.
The round, which brought brings total equity and debt funding raised to date to o... |
| 22.05.2021 | Watching startups eat markets is good fun | Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign ... |
| 21.05.2021 | UPDATED: ProducePay scores $43m Series C funding from VCs, development banks | Editor’s note: This article was updated on May 21, 2021, to provide comment from ProducePay founder Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck.
Online ag marketplace ProducePay has raised $43 million in a Series C round co-led by Silicon Valley-based firm G... |
| 20.05.2021 | ProducePay Raises $43 Million to Build Ag Trading Exchange | Downtown-based ProducePay Inc., a fintech-like business that has created a privately run commodity trading exchange to sell perishable fruits and vegetables, has raised $43 million in a Series C round. |
| 20.05.2021 | BREAKING: ProducePay scores $43m Series C funding from VCs, development banks | Online ag marketplace ProducePay has raised $43 million in a Series C round co-led by Silicon Valley-based firm G2VP, the World Bank‘s International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the Inter-American Development Bank‘s IDB Invest.
Existing i... |
| 20.05.2021 | ProducePay Raises $43 Million in Series C Equity Funding to Help Growers and Distributors Thrive in the Global $300 Billion Fresh Produce Industry | LOS ANGELES, May 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ProducePay, a financing, analytics, and marketplace startup bringing transparency, predictability, and fairness to the global fresh produce market, today announced a $43 million Series C funding... |
| 05.05.2021 | Bespoke Financial Wants To Be More Than Just a Lender. It Wants To Be Stripe for Cannabis. | George Mancheril has a habit of fidgeting with his wedding band while talking at warp speed about debt capital markets. The effect is more evocative of Wall Street uppers than Californian cannabis, but looks can be deceiving.
True, Mancheri... |
| 21.04.2020 | Food Supply Chain Automation Could Be A Bright Spot For Restaurants Amidst The COVID-19 Fight | Man in a COVID-19 mask passes an empty restaurantPhoto by Victor He on Unsplash |
| 17.03.2020 | Asia drives $786m global investment in Agribusiness Marketplaces last year | Alternative protein gets plenty of limelight in the agri-foodtech arena nowadays. But there are startups from outside the “fake meat” craze that are having just as big an impact on the global ecosystem.
Agribusiness marketplaces are one suc... |
| 11.12.2019 | ProducePay nabs $190 million debt financing for its purchasing program for farmers | From TechCrunch by Jonathan Shieber |
| 11.12.2019 | ProducePay Raises $190 Million In Debt Financing | Los Angeles-based startup ProducePay announced that it raised a $190 million debt facility from CoVenture and TCM Capital
Los Angeles-based startup ProducePay announced that it has raised a $190 million debt facility from CoVenture and TCM ... |
| 10.12.2019 | ProducePay Raises $205 Million Debt Financing | - |
| 10.12.2019 |
ProducePay Picks Up $205M In Debt
| Los Angeles-based ProducePay, the venture-backed operator of an online marketplace for produce, has raised a big, $205M debt funding round, from Coventure and TCM Capital, the company said on Tuesday. ProducePay operates a maarketplace whic... |
| 10.12.2019 | ProducePay nabs $190 million debt financing for its purchasing program for farmers | Los Angeles-based ProducePay has inked a $190 million debt facility from CoVenture and TCM Capital to expand its purchasing model and marketplace for farmers.
ProducePay offers farmers cash advances throughout the growing season to smooth t... |
| 10.12.2019 | ProducePay closes $205m debt financing to launch aggressive scaling campaign | Many consumers are committing to eating fresher food creating a new market opportunity for retailers, particularly when it comes to value-added produce like pre-chopped or sliced items.
But meeting this new demand is a tricky endeavor. Fres... |
| 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... |
| 25.10.2019 | Meet Bespoke Financial, a lender for cannabis companies backed by Snoop Dogg’s Casa Verde Capital | Bespoke Financial wants to provide cannabis businesses with the same kind of financial services that other businesses get, but that dispensaries and growers can’t yet access.
The regulations around cannabis operations are so stringent at th... |
| 24.10.2019 | Flowhub, Bespoke Financial bring $30m in VC funding to cannabis sector this week | The cannabis world is seeing a lot of investor love this week with two funding announcements. The first comes from cannabis dispensary retail management platform Flowhub, which landed a $23 million Series A from Kraft Heinz’s corporate vent... |
| 19.10.2018 | Term Sheet — Friday, October 19 | THE BIG BIRD RACE
Good morning. Polina is off today and will return next week. In place of this morning’s essay is a brand-new report by Lucinda Shen on the rise of electric scooter chargers—the people behind the multibillion-dollar busines... |
| 18.10.2018 | ProducePay Raises $14M Series B |
LOS ANGELES, CA, ProducePay, which provides fresh produce farmers with financial resources, tech tools and data insights, has secured $14 million in Series B funding.
>> Click here for more funding data on ProducePay
>> To e... |
| 18.10.2018 | ProducePay Raises $14 Million Series B Round | - |
| 18.10.2018 | Produce Pay Raises $14m Series B to Help Farmers Get Paid | Produce Pay, a food tech startup with an online marketplace for fresh produce farmers and distributors, has raised $14 million in Series B funding.
Agribusiness marketplaces are a hot trend in agrifood tech at the moment as entrepreneurs lo... |
| 18.10.2018 | ProducePay Raises $14m in Series B Funding | ProducePay, a Los Angeles, CA-based provider of financial resources, tech tools and data insights to fresh produce farmers, secured $14m (£11m) in Series B funding.
The round was led by Anterra Capital, with participation from Rabo Frontier... |
| 18.10.2018 |
Produce Pay Finds $14M More
| Los Angeles-based ProducePay, a Los Angeles company which is developing fintech for food growers, distributors, shippers and marketers, has raised $14M in a Series B funding round, the company said this morning. The funding was led by Anter... |
| 18.10.2018 | Daily funding roundup - October 17th, 2018 | Seva raised $2.4M; Invisible Technologies raised $2.6M; Future Family raised $10M; Cobo raised $20M
Seva: Seva is a unified search platform that helps knowledge workers discover and organize the information they need at work. Seva has raise... |
| 18.10.2018 | ProducePay raises $14m Series B to help farmers get paid | Produce Pay, a food tech startup with an online marketplace for fresh produce farmers and distributors, has raised $14 million in Series B funding.
Agribusiness marketplaces are a hot trend in agrifood tech at the moment as entrepreneurs lo... |
| 10.01.2018 | Howard Lindzon’s Social Leverage is looking to raise up to $50 million for its newest fund | Social Leverage, a seed and early-stage venture outfit, is looking to raise up to $50 million for its third fund, shows a new SEC filing.
It’s of interest in large part because of co-founder Howard Lindzon, a kind of internet celebrity and ... |
| 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... |
| 11.12.2017 | Eight Agtech Startups Venturing Into Fintech | Just as startups are starting to address the entire food supply chain (hence the term agrifood tech), agtech companies are learning through experience that the financial realities on farms present both challenges and opportunities for innov... |
| 14.09.2017 | Farm Technology Startups Raise $1.13bn in H1-2017, a 56% YoY Increase | Farm technology startups, a subset of the broader AgriFood Tech market, raised $1.13 billion in early stage funding in the first half of 2017, representing a 56% increase year-over-year, according to the upcoming AgFunder AgriFood Tech repo... |
| 16.03.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Leonardo DiCaprio invests in LoveTheWild, ProducePay raises $7m | LoveTheWild, the Boulder-based frozen seafood brand that only sources farmed fish, has closed an undisclosed Series A round of funding with Leonardo DiCaprio and seafood-focused venture capital fund Aqua-Spark. The fund invested $2.5 millio... |
| 16.03.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Leonardo DiCaprio Invests in LoveTheWild, ProducePay Raises $7m Series A, more | LoveTheWild, the Boulder-based frozen seafood brand that only sources farmed fish, has closed an undisclosed Series A round of funding with Leonardo DiCaprio and seafood-focused venture capital fund Aqua-Spark. The fund invested $2.5 millio... |
| 15.03.2017 |
ProducePay Picks Up $7M Equity, $70M Debt For Farm Financing Startup
| Los Angeles-based ProducePay, which operates a fintech startup to help farmers better manage their cash flow, has raised $77M in funding, split between $7M in equity and $70M in debt. The funding was led by CoVenture, and also included Menl... |
| 14.03.2017 | ProducePay raises $77 million in debt and equity to revolutionize farm financing | When Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck was growing up he always loved the work he saw going on around his family’s farm. But without the aptitude for it, Schwarzbeck chose to go the business school route. Now, with his Los Angeles-based startup Pro... |
| 14.03.2017 | ProducePay raises $77 million in debt and equity to revolutionize farm financing | When Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck was growing up he always loved the work he saw going on around his family’s farm. But without the aptitude for it, Schwarzbeck chose to go the business school route. Now, with his Los Angeles-based startup Pro... |
| 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... |
| 08.07.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Online Payment Platform for Growers and Satellite Data Company Raise Funding, more | ProducePay Raises $2.51m Seed Round
ProducePay, an online platform helping farmers to sell their produce and receive payment in a timely manner, has raised $2.51 million in seed funding. Investors in the round include Californian venture ca... |
| 30.06.2016 |
ProducePay Harvests $2.5M
| Los Angeles-based ProducePay, which develops a service to help farmers better manage their cash flow, has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round, the company said this week. The funding came from Menlo Ventures, Arena Ventures, CoVenture, Red... |
| 29.06.2016 | ProducePay raises $2.5M to bring cashflow to farmers | ProducePay has raised $2.5 million to solve what CEO Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck said is a major issue for farmers — getting paid in a timely manner for their crops.
Borquez Schwarzbeck explained that farmers usually have to cover the cost of... |
| 07.10.2015 | Red Bear Angels Backs Startups From The Cornell Community | How’s this for school spirit? A group of alums have come together to invest in startups connected to Cornell.
Chairman and founder Sam Sezak (also a partner at Blue Heron Capital) has a bachelor’s degree from Cornell. He said the idea began... |
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Farmer Fintech ProducePay Is Getting Into the Carbon-Trading Game | It’s not exactly easy to understand what ProducePay does, so let’s get that out of the way first.
The Los Angeles-based fintech company essentially functions as a digital marketplace for produce that connects farmers to distributors and sel... |
| - | ProducePay Raises $14m Series B Funding to Help Farmers Feed the World in a Sustainable Way | The following appeared on the Business Wire website, October 18, 2018. Click Here to view the original article.
LOS ANGELES – ProducePay, the Los Angeles based company which provides fresh produce farmers with financial resources, tech t... |
| - | ProducePay: Agtech Company Raises $38 Million | ProducePay – an agtech company recognized as the World Economic Forum’s newest Unicorn Innovators for its transformational work strengthening the fresh produce supply chain – announced $38 million in Series D financing. The funding round wa... |
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