Company
Perth, WA
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Agworld raised.
The transaction that ended Agworld's run as a startup, per published coverage. It closes the funding history too, where it is the ladder's last rung.
| Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semios | Acquisition | 3 Sep 2021 | $100m+ | Startup News (WA) (Wed 24 Nov 2021), Startup News (WA) (Fri 3 Sep 2021), AgFunderNews |
Companies Agworld acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Doug Fitch | CEO · Founder | Startup News (WA) (Wed 24 Nov 2021), Startup News (WA) (Fri 3 Sep 2021), Tenacious Ventures |
| Simon Foley | GM | Startup News (WA) |
Stories naming Agworld. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Startup News recaps its most-read WA startup stories for the June quarter and the 2021-22 financial year, listing funding raises, acquisitions and other headlines that drew readers.
AgriStart has announced the seven businesses joining the 2022 HARVEST agtech accelerator, a five-month program that opened with a bootcamp and this year focuses on innovations serving the grains industry.
Vancouver's Semios is buying Perth crop-data platform Agworld for a reported $100 million, a landmark exit for the local agtech scene and a windfall for early backer Yuuwa Capital.
Roundup of agrifoodtech news: several startup raises including Regrow's Series A, Semios acquiring Agworld, Sweetgreen buying Spyce, and Microsoft-linked carbon credit deals with reNature.
Agritech firm FluroSat raised $3.2 million in a round led by M12; the piece also recalls its 2017 seed round, its purchase of ProductionWise, and a joint research grant.
FluroSat wins a $3 million CRC-P research grant to build predictive agronomic analytics with sector partners, while founder Anastasia Volkova shares advice on winning collaborative grants and recalls earlier backing.
FluroSat's chief executive describes a newly awarded collaborative grant project building an interoperable agronomic analytics engine with Australian industry partners to fix fragmented farm data.
A year-end reflection on Australian agtech's 2017 rise, covering FluroSat's investment round, several startups' funding totals, SproutX's first accelerator cohort, Observant's acquisition, and the author's hopes for 2018.
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Profile of Agworld, a farm management platform founded in 2009, covering its agronomist-focused go-to-market, data rules of engagement, investor relationships, and its recalled $1.5 million Series A led by Yuuwa Capital.