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| 19.03.2026 | AgZen Secures $10M to Revolutionize Crop Spraying with Real-Time AI | AgZen secured $10M in Series B funding. Its RealCoverage technology optimizes crop spraying, reducing chemical use by up to 50% and boosting yields. The system provides real-time data, detecting tiny droplets at high speeds. With 15x acreag... |
| 17.03.2026 | AgZen: $10 Million Raised For Agricultural Spray Optimization Technology Expansion | AgZen, an agricultural technology company focused on improving crop spraying efficiency through real-time data and AI, has raised $10 million in a Series B funding round following rapid adoption of its technology by growers and industry par... |
| 16.03.2026 | AgZen Raises $10M in Series B Funding | AgZen, the Somerville, MA-based MIT spinout bringing droplet-level control to agricultural spraying, raised $10M in Series B funding.
The round was led by DCVC Bio with participation from Material Impact and Astanor Ventures.
The company in... |
| 27.08.2025 | Debut: $20 Million Raised For AI Ingredient Discovery Platform | Debut, a leader in biotech beauty, has secured $20 million in investment to expedite the development of its proprietary, AI-powered ingredient discovery platform, aiming to advance innovations in skin longevity and expand its formulation bu... |
| 04.08.2025 | Still Bright Raises $18.7M in Seed Funding | Still Bright, a Newark, N.J.-based copper extraction tech developer, raised $18.7m in seed funding.
The round was led by Material Impact and Breakthrough Energy Ventures with participation from Azolla Ventures, Fortescue, Impact Science Ven... |
| 15.07.2025 | Gen Phoenix Raises $15M in Funding | Gen Phoenix, a Peterborough, UK-based sustainable recycled leather fibre materials manufacturer, raised $15M in funding.
The round was led by Material Impact with participation rom Tapestry.
The company intends to use the funds to:
Expand i... |
| 09.11.2024 | Bridging Innovation: Northwestern University and Material Impact Team Up for a Greener Future | In the heart of innovation, Northwestern University is forging a new path. The Querrey InQbation Lab, affectionately known as The Q, has partnered with Material Impact, a Boston-based venture firm. This collaboration aims to transform groun... |
| 05.11.2024 | Northwestern University Partnering With Material Impact To Advance Research From Lab To Market | Northwestern University’s Querrey InQbation Lab (The Q) signed a new partnership with Material Impact, which is a Boston-based venture firm focused on innovations in materials science and deep tech. Launched in 2021 with funding from the St... |
| 06.09.2024 | 6K Raises $82M in Series E Funding | 6K, a North Andover, MA-based leader in the sustainable production of engineered materials for lithium-ion batteries and additive manufacturing, closed $82M as part of its Series E funding round.
The capital raised was an insider-led invest... |
| 06.09.2024 | GALY Raises $33M From Bill Gates’ BEV, H&M, and Inditex to Advance Climate-Resilient Cultivated Cotton | GALY, a plant-cell culture startup based in Brazil and Boston, USA, has raised $33 million in an oversubscribed Series B financing round to advance its proprietary platform for cultivated cotton from lab to pre-industrial scale.
Additionall... |
| 13.07.2024 | AMD's Strategic Acquisition of Silo AI: Revolutionizing Enterprise AI Solutions Globally | In a groundbreaking move, AMD has announced its definitive agreement to acquire Silo AI, Europe's largest private AI lab, in a transformative all-cash transaction valued at approximately $665 million. This strategic acquisition is set to pr... |
| 11.07.2024 | Inditex, Owner of Fashion House Zara, Invests in GALY’s Cultivated Cotton from Plant Cells | Spanish multinational clothing company Inditex, owner of Zara and Massimo Dutti, among other fashion brands, has announced a minority stake investment (the sum has not been disclosed) in GALY, a Brazilian and US biotech producing cultivated... |
| 03.05.2024 | Meet the founder: AgZen’s Vishnu Jayaprakash on spraying, praying, and sticky droplets… | It’s no secret that not all the chemicals directed at crops hit their target, leading to runoff in waterways and buildup in soil, which is bad for the environment and even worse for farmers’ bottom line given the rising cost of crop inputs,... |
| 20.11.2023 | Material Impact Closes Third DeepTech Fund, At $352M | Material Impact, a Boston, MA-based deep tech venture capital firm, closed its third fund, at $352M.
University endowments, foundations, family offices, and fund-of-funds joined existing Limited Partners from Fund I and Fund II.
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| 16.11.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Delivery startup Crisp bags $38m, ‘mindful drinking app’ Sunnyside lands $11m, Bowery layoffs | Announcements from this week suggests foodtech funding rounds are slowly gaining speed again. Crisp bucked the downward trend of food delivery startups with a Series C raise, Sunnyside raised funds for its alcohol monitoring app, and Le Fou... |
| 09.11.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Talus Renewables nabs $22m for green ammonia, Getir buys FreshDirect | This week, Talus Renewables closed a funding round for its green ammonia system and vegetable waste firm Letoon Holdings secured capital. M&A is coming for online grocery, as evidenced by Getir’s acquisition of US-based FreshDirect. The... |
| 10.05.2023 | Sustainable performance fibers company Werewool raises $3.7 million led by Material Impact and Sofinnova Partners | Werewool won the prestigious ELLE & Polestar Design Towards Zero Award
Our mission as a company is to make the fashion industry compatible with nature.”
— Chui-Lian Lee, Co-founder and CEOBROOKLYN, NY, USA, May 10, 2023/EINPresswire.com... |
| 04.04.2023 | Gen Phoenix’s upcycled leather woos luxury brand investors | The materials developer formerly known as ELeather has a new name and $18 million in fresh growth funding from some of the world’s fanciest brands.
Now going by Generation Phoenix, the upcycler says its new investors include Coach parent Ta... |
| 28.07.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: FreshRealm, Kitchen United score mega-deals in a downturn, Arable raises $40m | Despite the current downturn in tech, FreshRealm landed a mega-deal recently, as did ghost kitchen network Kitchen United. In agtech, Normative bagged funds for its carbon reporting platform and old favorites like donuts and avocados are go... |
| 27.07.2022 | Synthetic Bio Startup Huue Secures $14.6M Series A to Launch The World’s First Clean & Scalable Indigo Dye | “We’re excited to have the opportunity to accelerate our mission with support from existing and new investors, Material Impact and HSBC Asset Management’s Climate Tech VC Fund, who share our vision for a sustainable and scalable future for ... |
| 08.12.2021 | Box Announces $100,000 Box Impact Fund Grant Recipients | Four nonprofits doing critical work for child welfare and crisis response receive grants for $25,000
Box, Inc. , the leading Content Cloud, announced the grantees of the Box Impact Fund, which provides grants for digital transformation to n... |
| 17.09.2021 | Debut Biotech is creating next-gen ingredients through ‘cell-free biomanufacturing’ | With climate change and its environmental consequences upon us, many companies are turning to more ‘natural’ alternatives to the chemical-based ingredients commonly used in food, beverages, cosmetics, and therapeutics.
One such company is S... |
| 12.08.2021 | Debut Biotech Raises $22.6M Series A to Commercialize High-Value Ingredients from Proprietary Cell-Free Biomanufacturing Platform | By overcoming the limitations of cell-based fermentation, Debut Biotech produces high-value ingredients rapidly and more sustainably.
SAN DIEGO (PRWEB) August 12, 2021
Debut Biotech, a next generation biomanufacturing platform harnessing ce... |
| 29.06.2021 | Sustainable Water Company Infinite Cooling Closes $12.25M Series A Round Led by Material Impact | Infinite Cooling Inc., a technology company focused on reducing water consumption and enabling sustainable industrial cooling, today announced it has closed $12.25 million in Series A financing led by Material Impact. The company will use t... |
| 16.12.2020 | VC funding in solar 2020: perovskites, silicon and utility-scale foundations, plus lots of software | During the great thin-film PV scare of the late aughts, venture capitalists showered billions of dollars upon scores of largely undeserving solar startups.
The solar startup pipeline is smarter these days, as are, one hopes, the venture cap... |
| 11.12.2020 | Healthcare in Politics Conference Session 2: Startups Disrupting Session | Sempre Health, Makhers Studio, Ejenta present
Vator · Healthcare in Politics Invent Health Startups Disrupting Session
Healthcare in Politics, Startups Disrupting session is hosted by Ethan Prater from Alchemist Accelerator; Hubert Zajicek ... |
| 12.10.2020 | Invent Health Startups Disrupting Session | Healthcare in Politics, Oct 2020
Healthcare in Politics, Startups Disrupting session is hosted by Ethan Prater from Alchemist Accelerator; Hubert Zajicek (CEO, Co-founder & Partner, Health Wildcatters) and Adam Sharkawy (Co-Founder &... |
| 01.07.2020 | June VC Funding: 65 startups raise over $2.2B with agtech, biotech leading | It is summer for Boston startups indeed.
More than 60 startups raised over $2 billion in venture funding in June. Chief among those were Duck Creek Technologies' $230 million round and Indigo Ag's $300 million Series F round.
Venture capita... |
| 24.06.2020 | Venture Firm Material Impact Raises $200 Million For New Fund As More Money Flows To Deep Tech | Material Impact cofounders Carmichael Roberts (left) and Adam Sharkawy at their Boston headquartersBoston Globe via Getty Images |
| 24.06.2020 | Venture Firm Material Impact Raises $200 Million For New Fund As More Money Flows To Deep Tech | - |
| 24.06.2020 | VC firm Material Impact raises $200 million | - |
| 21.06.2020 | Energy investment roundup: $50M for drinking water from solar-powered ‘hydropanels’ | Despite this miserable year, renewable energy has seen a modest wave of VC and corporate investment in 2020. pv magazine has logged it here. The wave continues:
Blackrock-led $50M gets water from a solar-powered panel
Zero Mass Water raised... |
| 20.05.2020 | Plastic-Free & Water-Soluble Shampoo Startup Secures US$3M Seed Funding | 25 1
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Sustainable personal care startup Nohbo has recently announced that it has raised US$3 million in a seed funding round. With the new capital, the company, which makes water-soluble vegan soap pods, hopes to scale ... |
| 14.04.2020 | Mark Cuban Backed Nohbo Secures $3M Seed Funding for Plastic-Free Personal Care Pods | Australian vegan beauty brand Nohbo has secured $3M in a seed funding round. Material Impact led the round, together with Safer Made and existing investor Mark Cuban‘s Radical Investments. Nohbo previously appeared on TV’s Shark Tank with C... |
| 27.03.2020 | ‘Shark Tank’ Alum Nohbo Raises $3M Series Seed Led By Material Impact | - |
| 12.03.2020 | Bloomer Tech raises $3M for its smart bra focused on heart health | Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the U.S.
[Editor's note: Future of Behavioral and Mental Health with BetterHelp, Headspace, Ginger.io, Providence Hospitals, UnitedHealthcare Optum, Khosla Ventures, Oak HC/FT and mor... |
| 17.01.2020 | Soft Robotics Raises $23M Series B led by Material Impact & Calibrate Venture Partners | - |
| 30.11.2019 | Infinite Cooling Closes $4M Round in Seed Funding led by Material Impact | - |
| 01.04.2019 | Material Impact Joins $9M Series A to NextGen Jane | OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Reproductive health technology company NextGen Jane announced today that it has raised $9M in a Series A funding round. Investors include Material Impact, who led the round, along with Access Industries, Vi... |
| 12.11.2018 | Fusion Coolant Raises $8 Million in a Series C Financing Round Led by Material Impact | - |
| 08.11.2018 | Material Impact, a new fund focused on materials technology, just closed its debut fund with $110 million | Material Impact, a Boston, Mass.-based firm that says it “transforms materials into companies that make an impact,” has closed its debut fund with $110 million in capital commitments from a range of university endowments, foundations, famil... |
| 14.05.2018 | Boston VC Fundraising News: OpenView, CRV, Material Impact | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 5/14/18, 2:25 pm. See below.] Boston-area venture capitalists are stocking up on cash to invest in more startups. Here is the latest fundraising news:
—OpenView Ventu... |
| 02.05.2018 | Soft Robotics Raises $20M | Award-winning industrial robotics company Soft Robotics announced today that it has raised $20M in an oversubscribed funding round. The new investors include Scale Venture Partners, Calibrate Ventures, Honeywell Ventures, Tekfen Ventures, Y... |
| 02.05.2018 | Material Impact portfolio company Soft Robotics raises $20M in oversubscribed funding round. | - |
| 26.10.2017 | Amastan Raises $13.85M Series B | Amastan Technologies, a leading producer of high value advanced materials using microwave-plasma production systems, today announced it raised $13.85 million in new funding. The Series B round, led by industrial technology venture capital f... |
| 10.07.2017 | UBS Wealth Management Units Invest $325 Million in Impact Fund | - |
| 14.03.2014 | Cisco Invests $6M in Jordan-Based Badia Impact Fund | Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) made a $6m investment in Jordan-based Badia Impact Fund.
The fund, which is also backed by the European Investment Bank, the King Abdullah Fund for Development and Silicon Badia’s parent company Accelerator Tech... |
| - | EDFI ElectriFI invests EUR 3m in new impact fund for renewables in Africa | Empower New Energy signs first round of equity raising in partnership with Norfund, EDFI ElectriFi and consortium of private investors. |
