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4 May. 2021

Copper Cow Coffee Raises $8.5 Million in Series A Funding Round

The Woman-Founded Vietnamese Coffee Brand Expands Distribution and Product Innovation

15 Nov. 2020

Sound Ag | How Biological Products Are Poised to Make Their Mark in U.S. Agriculture

Biological products have been around for decades, but it’s been the past couple decades and even the last few years, where this rapidly growing segment of agriculture has come into [...]

15 Nov. 2020

Culture Bio | C&EN’s 2020 10 Start-Ups to Watch

Culture Biosciences, the company dedicated to making biomanufacturing R&D a digital experience, has been selected as one of “10 Start-Ups to Watch” according to Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN) magazine

3 Nov. 2020

FarmlandFinder Launches Marketplace for Farmland

FarmlandFinder Inc, a technology provider that helps farmland companies and lending institutions digitize farmland transactions, has launched a marketplace for farmland through its Offers platform

22 Oct. 2020

Cooks | Chicken, Chicken! Blue Apron Vet Matt Wadiak Is Raising A Better Bird

How the meal kit master is reforming poultry farming, one humanely-raised heritage chicken at a time

22 Sep. 2020

Leaf Raises $2M to Scale Unified Farm Data API

We're pleased to share our investment in Leaf, a data infrastructure company that has developed an API platform for agriculture machinery, satellite imagery, weather, soil, and operations data.

13 Aug. 2020

Full Harvest | Fixing the Covid Food Disaster Can Slash Climate Emissions

San Francisco startup, Full Harvest, is matching farmers to distributors to get food to hungry people and reduce greenhouse gasses.

30 Jul. 2020

Phylagen | New test allows people to swab for coronavirus on surfaces in public places

This test kit by the San Francisco-based company Phylagen allows people to swab surfaces for SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19

27 Jul. 2020

Geltor Raises $91.3 Million Series B Funding To Accelerate Development Of Animal-Free Ingredients

Biodesign startup Geltor has raised a $91.3 million series B funding, led by alternative protein investor CPT Capital with significant commitment from WTT Investment Ltd., to expand its ingredients-as-a-service platform [...]

22 Jul. 2020

Cooks Venture raises $10 million in Series A funding

Cooks Venture has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by SJF Ventures and Cultivian Sandbox, with participation from Larry Schwartz and John Roulac. At its most basic level, [...]