Investor · 2 deals
Every published round Cargill 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.
| Company | Stage | Announced | Amount | Role | Alongside | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regrow | Series B | 24 May 2022 | $50m | Participant | Startup Daily (Thu 22 Jun 2023), Forbes Australia, AgFunderNews (Fri 21 Oct 2022), SmartCompany, AgFunderNews (Thu 26 May 2022), Startup Daily (Tue 24 May 2022), Main Sequence Ventures portfolio | |
| Regrow | Series A | 25 Aug 2021 | $23.5m | Lead | Forbes Australia, SmartCompany, Startup Daily (Tue 24 May 2022), AgFunderNews (Wed 25 Aug 2021), AgFunderNews (Wed 18 Aug 2021), Startup Daily (Wed 18 Aug 2021), AgFunderNews (Tue 17 Aug 2021), Tenacious Ventures, Tenacious Ventures portfolio |
Companies Cargill has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regrow | 25 Aug 2021, Series A | 2 | 1 |
Fund closes reported for Cargill, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies Cargill has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Cargill did.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Ben Fargher | Managing Director of Sustainability | AgFunderNews |
Stories naming Cargill. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Roundup of agrifoodtech news: raises across Europe, Singapore and Australia, Collaborative Fund wraps a $125m vehicle, Neutral Foods merges with Zeal Creamery, SCiFi Foods shuts down, and Aleph Farms cuts staff.
ZoomAgri raised a $6 million Series A led by GrainCorp with GrainInnovate and SP Ventures, to expand its AI grain inspection technology geographically and into new commodities.
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.
Profile of four agtech founders tackling food security: Invertigro's modular vertical farms, Regrow Ag's satellite soil-carbon measurement, Lleaf's light-altering greenhouse film, and Sea Forest's methane-reducing seaweed cattle supplement.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup reporting funding for Momofuku Goods, STEER, Cauldron, EV Biotech, Extracellular, Quisto, Local Bounti and Agreena, the shutdown of New Age Eats, and partnership and product news including Vow's mammoth meatball.
Also AgFunderNews
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: funding for Muncher, Vow, Freight Farms and others, a grant to GreenPod Labs, Bayer buying Targenomix, Bunge and Advanta taking SEEDCORP|HO stakes, and Deliveroo and Voly shutting down.
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Agtech firm Regrow, once Flurosat, has landed a fresh multi-million-dollar raise on top of last year's Series A, while its co-founder urges Australia to move fast to claim climate technology leadership.
Agtech carbon platform Regrow Ag, founded by Dr Anastasia Volkova, has closed a Series B led by Galvanize Climate Solutions with prior backers returning, to expand regenerative agriculture programs for food companies.
Also AgFunderNews·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·AgFunderNews·Forbes Australia
Clear Dynamics has closed a $35m Series B led by existing backers OIF Ventures and Colinton Capital Partners, with new family office and private investment, to fund international expansion of its AI enterprise software.
Also OIF Ventures portfolio·Centerstone Capital portfolio·Startup Daily
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.
Weekly digest of agrifoodtech deals: numerous venture rounds including Apeel, Knowde and Cirkul, several acquisitions such as Kalera buying &ever, and Barramundi Group's Oslo listing.
Regrow secured a US$17 million Series A led by Ajax Strategies, Tenacious Ventures and Cargill to scale its carbon measurement platform for agri-food supply chains, having earlier acquired soil analysis firm Dagan.
Also SmartCompany
Carbon MRV platform Regrow has closed a $17 million Series A, with Cargill, Ajax Strategies and Tenacious Ventures joining returning backers such as M12 and Main Sequence. Regrow was formed via the FluroSat-Dagan merger.
Also AgFunderNews
Tenacious Ventures' investment note explains its backing of Regrow's US$17 million Series A alongside Cargill, covering Regrow's agricultural MRV technology, its FluroSense platform, and its formation from the FluroSat-Dagan merger.
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