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AgFunder News: AgTech accelerator launches first startup bringing Gates Foundation for Boragen $10m series A

By Louisa Burwood-Taylor

March 2, 2017

AgTech Accelerator, the venture development organization, has launched its first startup, Boragen, leading a $10 million Series A for the ag biotech startup.

AgTech Accelerator invested $3 million of its current $20 million capital pool and facilitated the further $7 million from its syndicate of investors — which now includes the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — and existing investors in Boragen’s technology.

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