| Date | Title | Description |
| 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. ”
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| 18.01.2024 | Salad and spinach kits sold in 7 states recalled over listeria risk | BrightFarms spinach and salad kits sold in seven U.S. states are being recalled because they may be contaminated with listeria, according to a notice posted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The recall involves spinach grown by Brig... |
| 29.12.2023 | 2023 in review: Beyond Meat in ‘survival’ mode, ‘jaundiced’ indoor ag investors, AI in every pitchdeck… | 2023 has been a tough year for agrifoodtech startups, with high interest rates, inflation, fundraising challenges, banking scares, and souring investor sentiment in sectors from indoor ag to alt proteins, prompting pivots, layoffs, and busi... |
| 10.04.2023 | 🎥 Revol Greens CEO: ‘Customers don’t care what technology you have, they care if it’s a better product’ | The promise of a reliable supply of fresh, local produce with a pesticide-free positioning is alluring. But with controlled environment agriculture (CEA) startups dropping like flies, “jaundiced” investors are now laser-focused on models wi... |
| 26.01.2022 | Vertical farming company Plenty raises $400M, partners with Walmart to supply greens | Dive Brief:
Plenty has raised $400 million in a Series E funding round, which it claims is the largest to date for an indoor farming company. New investors One Madison Group and JS Capital led the round, which also included Walmart and Soft... |
| 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... |
| 19.08.2021 | Brief: Cox Enterprises acquires indoor ag startup BrightFarms | US indoor ag startup BrightFarms has been wholly acquired by media and communications conglomerate Cox Enterprises. Financial details were not disclosed.
Atlanta-based Cox had been BrightFarms’ majority shareholder since it led the startup’... |
| 18.08.2021 | An important takeaway from Maven Clinic’s $1 billion valuation | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| 12.08.2021 | Farms of the Future: How AppHarvest’s indoor farm uses AI to produce 30 times more food per acre than traditional farms; also uses 90% less water | In 2021, the total world population is estimated to be around 7.88 billion people. With billions of people to feed, the demand for food is also rising. With millions of people, there are also challenges of land and water to contend with. Th... |
| 17.03.2021 | Indoor agtech: An evolving landscape of 1,300+ startups | Editor’s note: Chris Taylor is a senior consultant on The Mixing Bowl team and has spent more than 20 years on global IT strategy and development innovation in manufacturing, design, and healthcare, focussing most recently on indoor agtech.... |
| 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... |
| 22.10.2020 | BrightFarms raises $100m in Cox-led Series E round to expand throughout the US | Indoor ag startups are the belle of the ball when it comes to funding these days, and BrightFarms is the latest debutante.
The New York startup announced a $100 million Series E earlier this week led by the cleantech division of media and a... |
| 21.10.2020 | FoodTech startup BrightFarms lands $100 million Series E funding to expand high-tech indoor farming across America | Over the past two decades, the American food scene has undergone considerable change. According to a recent report from the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation and the American Heart Association, 95 percent of shoppers ... |
| 21.10.2020 | BrightFarms Secures $100M in Series E Funding | BrightFarms, an Irvington, N.Y.-based next-generation indoor farming company supplying U.S. grocery retailers with packaged salad greens, secured more than $100 million in Series E debt and new equity funding.
The round was led by Cox Enter... |
| 20.10.2020 | BrightFarms Secures $100 Million Series E | BrightFarms, a leading next-generation indoor farming company supplying U.S. grocery retailers with packaged salad greens, has secured more than $100 million in debt and new equity capital to support robust expansion plans. The Series E rou... |
| 20.10.2020 | BrightFarms raises $100m+ in Series E, predicts half of leafy greens could be grown via indoor farming ‘in a decade or so’ | Based in New York with greenhouses in Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, and Pennsylvania (where it has just opened a mega-facility) and three new farms under development in North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Texas, BrightFarms is one of a growing... |
| 18.02.2019 | Packaged Facts: What are the disruptive food trends for 2019? | In its latest research, Packaged Facts focused on the core disruptive trends occurring across all retail channels in 14 food categories: cereal, chocolate candy, cookies, fresh bread, fresh packaged salads, frozen dinners/entrees, frozen ... |
| 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... |
| 12.11.2018 | Why Wharton Impact Investing Partners is Interested in AgriFood Tech | Curious about the role of AgriFood tech startups in impact investing? Read on as Devika Balachandran, an associate on Wharton Impact Investing Partners’ Food & Nutrition sector team, discusses the importance of AgriFood Tech in impact i... |
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| 28.06.2018 | BrightFarms Raises $55M in Series D Funding | BrightFarms, an Irvington, NY-based operator of local greenhouse farms, raised $55m in Series D funding.
The round was led by Cox Enterprises with participation from Catalyst Investors, WP Global Partners and NGEN Partners. In conjunction w... |
| 28.06.2018 | BrightFarms Raises $55M Series D | BrightFarms, the No.1 brand in locally grown packaged salads, today announced it has secured $55 million in a Series D equity financing. The round was led by Cox Enterprises, a leading communications, media and automotive services company, ... |
| 28.06.2018 | Cox Enterprises Leads $55M Series D for BrightFarms | BrightFarms, the No.1 brand in locally grown packaged salads, today announced it has secured $55 million in a Series D equity financing. The round was led by Cox Enterprises, a leading communications, media and automotive services company, ... |
| 28.06.2018 | BrightFarms Doubles Funding with $55m Series D | BrightFarms, the controlled environment agriculture (CEA) company, has raised a $55 million Series D round, bringing the greenhouse grower’s total funding to more than $100 million.
BrightFarms grows salad greens and herbs in hydroponic gre... |
| 20.06.2018 | Indoor Farmers Are “Way Too Complacent” About Food Safety | “If you mess up indoors, everything is magnified,” says Sarah Taber.
Taber is an independent food safety consultant specializing in indoor farming. Previously she served as director of food safety for The Aquaponics Association after earnin... |
| 10.04.2018 | Open List of Women Leaders in Ag Challenges Industry Event Organizers to Promote Equal Representation | When Allison Kopf posted an open google doc on LinkedIn with the names of 75 “Inspirational Women in Ag” on Saturday, she knew it would get a response, but she did not expect the response to be as swift as it was.
“I’m not surprised the lis... |
| 30.03.2018 | Ag Industry Brief: Drones and Ag Inputs See M&A, Indoor Growers Form Safety Working Group, Corporate VC Staff Shift, more | Ryan Rakestraw Joins Temasek From MGV
A venture principal at Monsanto Growth Ventures since early 2015, Ryan Rakestraw has joined Singapore state fund Temasek. Rakestraw will focus on agriculture and food-related venture capital investments... |
| 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,” ... |
| 11.08.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Automated Indoor Farming, M&A, Farmers Demand Climate Action, more | Agrilyst and Motorleaf Partner for Fully Automated Indoor Farming
Indoor farm management and automation software firm Agrilyst and automation and IoT hardware and software provider Motorleaf have partnered up to facilitate increased automat... |
| 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... |
| 29.09.2016 | BrightFarms Funding Success: It’s All In The Business Model | Last week, greenhouse operator BrightFarms announced it had raised $30 million in Series C funding, the largest US-based controlled environment agriculture investment round on record.
It’s certainly a feat. Indoor agriculture startups raise... |
| 22.09.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: IKEA Invests in Terramera, AST (AgFunder Alum), Brightfarms, Farmers Edge, Cool Planet, more | Brightfarms, the greenhouse operator, closed a $30.1 million Series C led by growth equity firm Catalyst Investors and joined by existing investors WP Global Partners and NGEN Partners. According to the company, this funding is the largest ... |
| 22.09.2016 | BrightFarms Completes $30.1 Million Series C Financing | BrightFarms, Inc. today announced a $30.1 million Series C equity financing, led by growth equity firm Catalyst Investors and joined by existing investors WP Global Partners and NGEN Partners.
With this financing, the largest equity investm... |
| 22.09.2016 | BrightFarms Completes $30.1 Million Series C Financing | BrightFarms, Inc. today announced a $30.1 million Series C equity financing, led by growth equity firm Catalyst Investors and joined by existing investors WP Global Partners and NGEN Partners.
With this financing, the largest equity investm... |
| 21.09.2016 | BrightFarms Raises $30.1M Series C | BrightFarms, Inc. today announced a $30.1 million Series C equity financing, led by growth equity firm Catalyst Investors and joined by existing investors WP Global Partners and NGEN Partners.
With this financing, the largest equity investm... |
| 21.09.2016 | BrightFarms raises $30.1M to build local greenhouses | BrightFarms has three greenhouses, and will use the funding to grow to 15 over the next five years
Living in California, I think I'm spoiled when it comes to the options I have when it comes to healthy and organic food. There are a lot of p... |
| 21.09.2016 | BrightFarms Raises $30.1M Series C | BrightFarms, Inc. today announced a $30.1 million Series C equity financing, led by growth equity firm Catalyst Investors and joined by existing investors WP Global Partners and NGEN Partners.
With this financing, the largest equity investm... |
| 21.09.2016 | BrightFarms Raises $30.1M in Series C Financing | BrightFarms, Inc., a NYC-based local produce grower, raised $30.1m in Series C equity financing.
The round was led by growth equity firm Catalyst Investors with participation from existing investors WP Global Partners and NGEN Partners.
The... |
| 21.09.2016 | BrightFarms raises $30.1 million to set up futuristic greenhouses across the U.S. | Agriculture tech startup BrightFarms has raised $30.1 million in Series C funding to bring its high-tech greenhouses, and fresh produce, across the U.S.
The company is on a mission to make all fresh fruit and vegetables locally, rather than... |
| 16.05.2016 | Why Brooklyn’s top VC is placing a bet on indoor farming | Agrilyst, the 2015 winner of the TechCrunch Disrupt NY battlefield, took the opportunity last week at Disrupt NY 2016 to announced that it had raised a million-dollar seed round.
The Downtown Brooklyn startup created a software as a service... |
| 02.12.2015 | Advice For Higher-Yielding Agriculture Startups | Gabriel Wilmoth Contributor
Gabriel Wilmoth is an investment manager at Syngenta Ventures and has spent more than a decade helping farmers and ag innovators become more profitable and more sustainable.
With interest and investment in food a... |
| 10.11.2015 | Greenhouse Company BrightFarms Closes Series B on $13.65m | Hydroponic greenhouse company BrightFarms has closed a $13.65 million Series B-1 round led by WP Global Partners, the institutional fund management firm, family office-backed Emil Capital Partners and NGEN Partners, the sustainable private ... |
| 06.11.2015 | BrightFarms Raises $13.65M in Series B-1 Funding | According to a note, BrightFarms, Inc., a New York City-based startup that is creating a national brand of local produce, raised $13.65m in Series B-1 funding.
The round was led by WP Global Partners, NGEN Partners, Emil Capital Partners, a... |
| 05.11.2015 | Hunger Games: How “Culinary Currency” is reshaping the food industry | This sponsored post is produced in association with Panasonic Lab 1.0.
Millennials are hungry — not just for inspired meals, but for the connection they represent, says Eve Turow, author of A Taste of Generation Yum. And while half of the 8... |
| 21.09.2015 | Agrilyst Wants To Be The Google Analytics For Greenhouses | Agrilyst, which is officially launching in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Battlefield today, helps greenhouse operators run their operations more efficiently by pulling in data from sensors in the greenhouse and information about crop yields and... |
| 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... |
| 03.06.2014 | BrightFarms Raises $2.4M in Series B Financing | BrightFarms, a New York, NY-based urban agricultural company, raised an additional $2.4m in Series B financing.
The round, which now amounts to $7.4m, was led by WP Global Partners with participation from other investors including NGEN Part... |
| 03.06.2014 | BrightFarms Snares $2.4M Financing |
NEW YORK, NY, Leading urban agriculture company, today announced the closing of an oversubscribed $2.4 million tranche of financing.
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| 05.02.2014 | BrightFarms, Hydroponic Greenhouse Company, Raises $4.9M in Series B | Greenhouses just got a little greener.
BrightFarms, a New York City-based company bringing commercial hydroponic greenhouses to urban areas, raised $4.9M in a series-B round. Lead investors were NGEN Partners; Emil Capital Partners and Ted ... |
| 31.01.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 1/31/14 | Enigma, Medium, Cloudpartner, PricePanda, One Kings Lane, Statwing, Zopa, Practically Green, Hansoft
Seed stage
Guardly, a provider of enterprise-grade mobile safety solutions, raised $1.45 million in seed financing led by San Francisco-bas... |
| 29.01.2014 | BrightFarms Reaps $4.9M Series B To Expand Its Urban Greenhouse Network | BrightFarms, which builds greenhouses in urban areas, announced that it has raised $4.9 million in Series B funding from NGEN Partners, Emil Capital Partners, BrightFarms founder Ted Caplow, and others.
Its latest round brings the total Bri... |
| 29.01.2014 | BrightFarms Raises $4.9M in Series B Funding | BrightFarms, a NYC-based urban agriculture company, raised $4.9m in Series B funding.
Backers included NGEN Partners, Emil Capital Partners, BrightFarms founder Ted Caplow and other investors.
The company intends to use the funds to continu... |
| 28.01.2014 | BrightFarms Secures $4.9M in Series B |
NEW YORK, NY, Leading urban agriculture company announced that it has secured $4.9 million in Series B financing.
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| 13.12.2011 | BrightFarms Completes $4.3M Series A Equity Financing | BrightFarms, Inc., a New York-based company that finances, builds and operates hydroponic greenhouse farms at supermarkets, has completed a $4.3m Series A equity financing.
The round was led by NGEN Partners, with participation from Emil Ca... |
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