Agritech

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...

Seed-X, an Agtech company that improves seed qualification during the breeding process, and TomaTech, a tomato seed breeding company, have announced a new pilot of GeNee Breeder™, the first and only seed phenotype analysis system that offers breeders reliable real-time classification of...

Alpha Farms Secures US$12M; The first slaughter-free meat startup to grow steaks raises funds from VCs and strategic partner Aleph Farms Ltd., co-founded by The Kitchen Hub, announced it has raised US $12M in Series-A investments. This new influx of support includes a...

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...

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...

— Aleph Farms Ltd. and its research partner at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, have successfully cultivated the world’s first slaughter-free ribeye steak, using three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting technology and natural building blocks of meat – real cow cells, without...

Future Meat Leadership With meat alternatives an increasingly popular sector at the moment, Future Meat Technologies announced it has closed a $14 million Series-A Funding Round, led by S2G Ventures and Emerald Technology Ventures, a Swiss-based venture capital firm. The primary financiers were...

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...

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...