Agritech

Kibbutz Givat Brenner, Israel — Seed-breeding specialist start-up, Equinom Ltd., is revolutionizing soy cultivation and commercialization to deliver a portfolio of tastier, non-GMO soy with a higher nutritional profile. According to a recent US Soybean Export Council report, since...

Global warming has generated a host of rotten repercussions, the most dramatic being a considerable rise in the sea level. One of the damaging side effects of the rising level of the sea is the increased salinity of groundwater in many areas. The...

Tastwise Founders Today, Tastewise announced it has received $5 Million in Series-A funding from PeakBridge Investment.  Tastewise has developed an A1 platform to analyze billions of bits of data from  social media, regular media, and many other sources to determine trends in the...

printer Redefine Meat™ has announced the completion of a $6 million seed round led by CPT Capital, joined by Israel-based Hanaco Ventures, Germany's largest poultry company The PHW Group, and leading Israeli Angel investors. Redefine Meat™ will use the investment to finalize the...

CropX's team CropX, an Israeli soil sensing and agricultural analytics company, announced the acquisition of Nebraska-based CropMetrics, a prominent provider of cloud-based, precision-irrigation tools. Current CropMetrics and CropX partners and customers will now have access to an unmatched combination of in-soil data, advanced...

The Israeli government has awarded a contract to operate a FoodTech Incubator in the Northern Israel city of Kiryat Shemona to a consortium made up of Finistere Ventures, OurCrowd, Tnuva, and Tempo Beverages. In a meeting in his offices...

Blue White Robotics, which produces equipment to automate large vehicles, including farm equipment, has decided to concentrate on farm equipment. As a result, the company has raised $37 million. Entrée Capital co-led this Series-B funding round, after seeding Blue White Robotics, and...

Fortissimo and Kibbutz Afikim announced today the execution of an agreement for the sale of 50% of S.A.E. Afikim ("Afimilk") to Livestock Improvement Corporation ("LIC"), a New Zealand based cooperative. The enterprise value of Afimilk is $140 million. The acquirer, LIC is...

MetoMotion’s GRoW robot in a cherry tomato greenhouse MetoMotion, a developer of advanced, intelligent robotic systems to help growers operate farms of the future, announced that it has completed an investment round of $5 million led by Ridder, a leading greenhouse technology company,...

Kibbutz Givat Brenner, Israel – Equinom, Ltd., the leading seed breeding startup, announces it has closed its Series B round of funding of $10 million, led by BASF Venture Capital, Germany followed by Roquette, France; and Trendlines Group, Israel. Equinom’s current investor,...