Brightseed, a US-based company identifying the presence of plant nutrients, has raised $27m from a consortium including CGC Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of Continental Grain Company.
Venture capital firms Lewis & Clark AgriFood, Seed 2 Growth Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Fifty Years, Germin8 and AgFunder joined the round.
The company had prior undisclosed funding and was launched by former Hampton Creek head of research and development, Jim Flatt.
Flatt told news provider TechCrunch: “This capital raise is going to really allow…
