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Every published round AgFunder took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.
Everyone AgFunder has named to a program in published coverage. A place in a program is not a raise: the cheque is the figure recorded with the place, which is the program's standard terms where we hold them, and a blank is one we don't.
Companies AgFunder has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AgriFi | 3 May 2023, Accelerator | 1 | 0 | |
| Azaneo | Electric pulse weeding technology company | 2023, Pre-seed | 1 | 0 |
| DHF Platforms | 13 Sep 2023, Accelerator | 1 | 0 | |
| Eclipse Ingredients | 15 Jul 2025 | 1 | 0 | |
| Fable Food | Mushroom protein crafted from upcycled shiitake mushroom stems | 8 Feb 2023, Series A | 1 | 0 |
| Fable Food Co | 9 Feb 2023, Series A | 1 | 0 | |
| Invest Inya Farmer | 24 Mar 2023, Seed | 1 | 0 | |
| Lyro | 20 Oct 2022, Accelerator | 2 | 0 | |
| Rainstick | Plant stimulation technology company | 20 Dec 2024, Accelerator | 1 | 0 |
Fund closes reported for AgFunder, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies AgFunder has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal AgFunder did.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Dean | Founding Partner | Startup Daily, SmartCompany, AgFunderNews (14 Jul 2025), AgFunderNews (11 Sep 2023), AgFunderNews (3 May 2023), Beef Central / Grain Central |
| John Friedman | Executive Director | AgFunderNews (20 Oct 2022), AgFunderNews (11 Apr 2022) |
Stories naming AgFunder. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Interview with Eclipse Ingredients' chief executive on commercialising human lactoferrin through precision fermentation, beginning with cosmetics, plus its distributor agreements and partnerships for manufacturing scale-up.
Weekly roundup: Constantinople raises $62.5m; Blackbird wraps fund six above $1b; Guardhouse buys Mobohubb; SCX.ai debuts on the ASX; plus seed rounds, exits and executive changes across the ecosystem.
IIF has secured fresh backing from Verdex Capital, with existing supporters AgFunder and Investible also taking part, to drive its expansion into Canada after recently winning regulatory approval in New Zealand.
Farm-investment platform IIF has raised a fresh round with Verdex Capital leading and AgFunder and Investible also taking part, as it prepares to launch in Canada.
Agriculture and food roundup: robotics, crop and fruit-tech raises; Qantas-backed Brisbane aviation-fuel startup; three fund closes; Kimitec majority acquisition; a Hyphen executive hire; and a John Deere repair settlement.
AgFunderNews roundup of agrifood deal news: eleven startup funding rounds, Generate Capital selling Equinox Growers, executive appointments including a new FFAR board member, and other industry items.
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Weekly roundup detailing five Australian startups' raises: a PR platform's Series B, a biotech's post-stealth funding, a defence tech round, a pre-seed voice-AI raise, and a crowdfunding campaign.
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Precision fermentation startup Eclipse Ingredients has come out of stealth with a $7 million round backed by the Australian government and AgFunder to produce human lactoferrin for food and skincare markets.
Eight cultivated-meat startups enter a UK regulator's sandbox for tailored guidance; executives from Mosa Meat, Hoxton Farms and BlueNalu discuss approval timelines, resourcing and international alignment.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: twelve startup funding rounds, an Australian government grant for cultivated meat, three acquisitions, and a NotCo executive hire.
Weekly agrifoodtech digest: Colossal Biosciences' mammoth-de-extinction raise, Formo's venture debt, NatureMetrics' Series B, Chipotle's corporate bets, two agri fund closes, two acquisitions, and a cultivated-meat startup's layoffs.
Interview with IIF founder Nathan MacPhee on his cooperative platform letting ordinary people fund crops and livestock, giving farmers earlier payment and shifting seasonal risk; New Zealand's Agnition Ventures has backed the company.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: Zepto and Getir raise big rounds, an Australian recycled-plastics startup lands $100 million backed by Lululemon, SoundHound acquires Allset, and several agrifood companies announce executive appointments.
Weekly agri-foodtech roundup: raises at THIS, Tender, Ever After Foods, Farmbot and Beta Bugs; two acquisitions; Proterra's rural fund raise; grants; and AgriFORCE appointing Jolie Kahn CEO.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: Hysata's green-hydrogen Series B, Rize's Series A, other raises, Ocean 14 and Peakbridge fund closes, Uber buying Delivery Hero's Taiwan unit, executive hires, and an accelerator's cohort selection.
Q&A with FutureFeed's chief executive on Asparagopsis seaweed as a livestock methane-cutting feed additive: its licensing business, backers, licensees' progress, regulation, research and scaling hurdles.
A data review of 2023's ten largest Australian agrifoodtech raises, topped by Loam Bio's US$73.2 million Series B, showing funding down 33% as capital concentrated in upstream climate-mitigation startups.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup covering Agrotoken's Series A, raises by Mediterranean Food Lab, Better Juice, Burro, SeeTree and farm-ng, the MaxAB–Wasoko merger, v2food's brand acquisition, a Flashfood CEO change, and Drizly's shutdown.
AgFunderNews reviews 2023's largest Novel Farming Systems funding rounds, showing sector investment fell to $680 million from $2.8 billion, and notes bankruptcies including Lemnature AquaFarms.
A year-end countdown of 2023's twenty largest agtech funding rounds, from biofuels and carbon marketplaces to farm robotics, with EcoCeres' $400 million raise at the top.
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Australian agtech startup Rainstick treats seeds and microbes with targeted electrical fields to lift germination and crop yields; cofounder Mic Black describes early trial results, university validation work, and the company's funding position.
Profile of Cairns agtech startup Rainstick, which mimics lightning with electricity-based seed treatment to lift crop yields; its co-founders are closing a pre-seed round and have built early partners in Singapore.
AgFunder's Asia-Pacific investment analysis finds agriculture-focused biotech surged in 2022, with China and India ahead, while Australian soil-carbon firm Loam Bio landed a sizable round in 2023.
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Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: raises for Overstory, FarmInsect, GoodBytz and others; Ever.Ag buys Austin Data Labs; grants for Wadhwani AI and Notpla; SLM and Impact Ag roll out a carbon fund; URB-E rebrands.
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Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: Paine Schwartz closes its $1.7bn food-and-ag fund; several seed and Series A rounds; Tangelo acquires Diet ID; Infarm declared bankrupt; layoffs and partnerships across the sector.
AgFunder's GROW accelerator picked ten companies for its fourth cohort; the three profiled — AgriFi, Invest Inya Farmer and DHF Platforms — connect farmers in Asia Pacific with new sources of finance.
Tenacious Ventures explains why it led a pre-seed round for weed-control startup Azaneo, with Agfunder and IP Group investing, and describes the company's chemical-free pulsed electric field technology.
Also AgFunderNews
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: funding rounds led by CH4 Global's $29 million Series B close, acquisitions of Aitme and The Weather Company, SoftBank selling Zomato shares, partnerships, an IPO filing and Toyota's greenhouse trial.
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Weekly agrifoodtech roundup reporting Konscious Foods' seed raise, commitments into Ocean 14 Capital's blue economy fund, LIVEKINDLY's acquisition of Alpha Foods, several grants, and a Wiliot advisor hire.
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The New South Wales government has granted Hiringa Energy and Sundown Pastoral Co money for a green hydrogen and ammonia facility at Sundown's Good Earth cotton farm near Moree.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: robotics and agtech companies across several countries raised funding, Grit Road Partners closed an $11 million fund, John Deere acquired Smart Apply, and new partnerships included BeeHero entering Australia.
Weekly roundup reporting several agrifoodtech funding rounds, a fund investment, acquisitions including National Milk Records and SlantRange, and the shutdown of Zume Pizza.
GROW and AgFunder have named the ten agrifoodtech startups joining their 2023 impact accelerator, chosen from a record 600 applicants, with each participating company receiving a $100,000 investment from AgFunder.
A weekly funding roundup covering Mindset Health's Series A, grants for two lunar rover consortiums, Pivot's raise, and Invest Inya Farmer's seed round.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup covering funding rounds for Pure Salmon, FreshToHome, SwarmFarm and others, acquisitions of Delphi and Soylent, layoffs at Impossible Foods and GreenLabs, and plant-based labeling news.
Queensland mushroom-based meat alternative maker Fable Food Co raised a Series A led by K3 Ventures, with celebrity and existing investors, to fund product development and expansion into North America, the UK and Singapore.
Mushroom-based meat alternative maker Fable Food Co has raised a Series A to fund US and UK expansion, with its founder arguing fungi products beat soy and pea protein rivals on taste, price and health.
Australian mushroom-based meat maker Fable Food raised an $8.5 million Series A led by K3, with returning and new backers, to fund product development and expansion into North America, the UK and Singapore.
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Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: funding for FoodByUs, New School Foods, BloomX and others, acquisitions by CropX and Growy, plus layoffs at Impossible Foods and Glovo.
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Weekly agrifoodtech deal roundup: grocery and agtech startups announce new funding rounds, an Australian feed-additive startup lands backing, several acquisitions and a shutdown occur, and a protein fund launches.
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