Hazel Technologies Closes $70 Million Series C Financing
Poised to Save Roughly 1 Billion Pounds of Wasted Produce by the End of 2021, Hazel® Turns its Attention and Resources to Global Opportunities and Impact
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CHICAGO, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Hazel Technologies, Inc., a USDA-funded agricultural technology company delivering new solutions to combat food waste, today announced that it had finalized documentation relating to a $70 million Series C financing round, which will bring the company s cumulative total raised to over $87 million. The Series C round is co-led by Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifax AgTech), and Temasek, a global investment company headquartered in Singapore. The oversubscribed Series C round has also attracted new and returning investors S2G Ventures, Pangaea Ventures, Rhapsody Venture Partners, Asahi Kasai Ventures, Jordan Park Group, and the Jeremy and Hannelore Gran
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