AgFunderNews

Kevin Fries is the lead agronomic modeler at InnerPlant, a California-based biotech company turning plants into living sensors to better communicate their needs to farmers.

AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech.

🇮🇳 Bertelsmann leads $24m round in Indian food delivery startup

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When we started AgFunder in 2013, we went out to raise a venture fund but didn’t have much luck as a first-time fund in a nascent sector. So we reverse-engineered the problem by building the infrastructure and ecosystem ...

ProducePay, a digital platform designed to bring greater transparency to the $1.5 trillion fresh produce industry, is shifting from a capital-heavy fintech business toward an agtech and data services model, says CEO Patrick McCullough, who expects the firm to become profitable by the year end.

Knip—a Boston-based startup making functional ingredients for food and feed via biomass fermentation—has...