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August 03, 2015

Food tech startups raking in cash: survey
Washington (AFP) July 31, 2015
Farm and food tech startups were red-hot in the first half of 2015, pulling in $2.06 billion from investors, a new survey showed Friday. The figure for the first six months was up 132 percent from the same period in 2014 and nearly matched the full-year 2014 total of $2.36 billion, according to research from the funding platform AgFunder, which helps connect investors to emerging firms. The amount of money pouring in - amid an overall boom in tech investments - could be revised since some of t ... read more

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