A mid-year report by AgFunder says that agtech startups raised $2.06 billion in the first half of 2015. The report, powered in part by CrunchBase, highlighted the rising trend in agtech investing, with the comparable figure for all of 2014 at $2.36 billion.

Highlights from the report include:

There were 280 unique investors during the period covered by the report.
Food e-commerce captured 27% of investments during the first half of 2015.
Water tech captured 26%. No other sub sector accounted for more than 10%.
Bioenergy investments were down in the period.
Food e-commerce and water tech accounted for $1.076 billion during the period.
Companies like Blue Apron and Munchery headlined the food e-commerce category.
Planet Labs stood out among precision agriculture companies for this period.

California-based companies dominated the landscape with 44 deals during the first half of 2015, representing 31% of all deals in the U.S. AgFunder associated $583 million with those deals.

Top investors in the space included Sequoia Capital, Cap Agro, The Yield Lab, The Data Collective, Innovation Endeavors, Accel Partners, DFJ, Qualcomm Ventures and others.

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