Announcements
"Tweeting Growers"
Top 5 -yesterday
- Growy acquires assets and team of Kalera International (&ever)
- Why vertical farming falls short of the hype
- US (WI): Organic grower is planning five-story urban farm development in Milwaukee
- Israeli startup growing ready-to-eat duckweed-based green for daily intake
- Baby vs. teen leaf : what’s the best approach for loose leaf lettuce?
Top 5 -last week
Top 5 -last month
- "We could produce about 1,000 heads of lettuce every single week"
- CAN (AB): Solar-powered farms yield 12k heads of lettuces per month
- Saffron: a proper crop for enhancing profits?
- UAE: “Growing in soil is more expensive, but the plant is so much better”
- “Pioneers get killed, second-generation farmers get rich”
Investments
LettUs Grow has been selected, among others
UK: Three innovative sustainable food projects to receive funding
A project to convert surplus food into ready meals, a study exploring how vertical farms utilizing controlled agricultural environments could re-localize food production, and…
With farms in Kuwait and Singapore
Growy acquires assets and team of Kalera International (&ever)
Growy Holdings BV has acquired all of the assets, IP, and the core team of Kalera International, formerly known as &ever. This adds the fully operational automated farm in Kuwait as well as the new farm in Singapore to Growy’s portfolio. Ard van de Kreeke, Founder and CEO of Growy, says: “The acquisition…
Sativus Tech raises $1,3 million in crowdfunding
Sativus Tech Corp’s subsidiary, Saffron Tech Ltd, announced it has raised $1.3 million in additional funding from its recent crowdfunding campaign. Approximately 650 new…
Contain launches '2022 in review' and 'Indoor ag in the stock market'
Indoor agriculture fintech specialist Contain Inc. launches two new white papers to kick off 2023, "2022 in Review" and "Indoor Ag in the Stock Market." "Amidst the optimism and overall upward growth of the industry, at Contain, we have been tracking the companies listed through our indoor ag stock…
Germany: vGreens closes pre-seed funding round
vGreens has officially closed its first pre-seed funding round. With their new investors, vGreens is taking further steps towards data-driven food production affordable for everyone. "Vertical farming is old in its idea but still far away from being a commercially and nationwide viable production…
Italy: Planet Farms secures a €17,5 million loan
Planet Farms has obtained a €17,5 million loan, granted by UniCredit and assisted by SACE's Green Guarantee, for the construction of their new farm in Cirimido, Como province, Italy. "We are very pleased with the outcome of the transaction conducted with SACE and UniCredit, which allows us today to start…
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Canada: GoodLeaf Farms receives about $110mln to expand nationally
GoodLeaf Farms has closed a financing round that will fuel the expansion of its indoor vertical farms into Eastern and Western Canada. The $150-million capital raise includes further investment from McCain Foods and a new partnership with Power Sustainable Lios — a specialized agri-food investor that…
