Tag: EdenShield

OurCrowd portfolio company EdenShield was featured in the Times of Israel, an English-language news website covering Israel, the region & the Jewish world. EdenShield are the producers of a novel plant extract from the Israeli Judean Desert that makes crops odorless to pests, preventing multi-billion dollar crop damage. EdenShield, an Israeli agritech start-up that has pioneered the development of natural pesticides, has raised over $1 million to expand its operations and establish a distribution network […] The investment round was led by Israeli crowdfunding platform OurCrowd. With the new funding, EdenShield will begin wide-scale marketing of its first two products, NET, which is applied to greenhouse screens, and DIRECT, is meant to be applied directly to greenhouse flowers and medical cannabis. The money will also be used to develop EdenShield formulations for specific crops. EdenShield raised $712,000 from OurCrowd investors in 2014. Read more on the Times of...

OurCrowd portfolio company EdenShield was featured in Globes, the leading Israeli financial daily. EdenShield are the producers of a novel plant extract from the Israeli Judean Desert that makes crops odorless to pests, preventing multi-billion dollar crop damage. Non-toxic insect control developer EdenShield has closed an investment round of just over $1 million, led by OurCrowd. EdenShield is a portfolio company of The Trendlines Group’s Trendlines Agtech. EdenShield CEO Yaniv Kitron, CEO said, “We are delighted with the completion of the financing round and the support of OurCrowd, which will enable us to commercialize our products and to respond to the great interest we are getting from farmers and partners.” EdenShield raised $712,000 from OurCrowd investors in 2014. Read more on...

OurCrowd portfolio company EdenShield was featured in The Huffington Post, a leading online news source, content aggregator and blog. EdenShield are the producers of a novel plant extract from the Israeli Judean Desert that makes crops odorless to pests, preventing multi-billion dollar crop damage. While traditional farmers may be slow to adopt EdenShield’s natural extracts, grown and extracted in Israel and then used on netting in the field or applied in the greenhouse, large grow operations for medical cannabis have been taking note. The team is currently trying their product in Israel and in Africa and are farming the natural substance (plant name is secret) in the northeast Negev Desert. In a kibbutz. They have recently expanded their production from 3 to 30 dunams and are anticipating $1 million USD in sales next year. EdenShield raised $712,000 from OurCrowd investors in 2014. Read more on The Huffington...