Meet the Founder: hexafarms bets on indoor ag: ‘We want to push the limits of AI in this space’ May 17, 2024 Jennifer Marston Berlin, Germany-based hexafarms just raised $1.4 million in pre-seed funding to bring its AI and sensor tech to indoor growers in Europe.
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‘We predicted increases in cocoa prices months before the market.’ Helios taps AI to power forecasting platform for soft commodities
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To boldly go… fueled by mycoprotein & greens: Maia Farms and Ecoation win Canadian grand prize in Deep Space Food Challenge
Meet the founder: Protix’s Kees Aarts on insect ag… ‘You can’t come in with a Silicon Valley playbook and outcompete a legacy industry in 3 years’
From almond crops to BIPOC communities, Daily Harvest aims to transition more farms to regenerative-organic
Kenya’s Stable Foods on bolstering food security with irrigation tech: ‘The response from farmers has been encouraging’
Ketones will fuel the next generation of energy drinks, say ex-Pepsi & Coke execs behind KEY, as AgFunder leads $4m seed round
OlsAro raises $2.7m to expand climate smart crop breeding platform: ‘We’re enabling farming on otherwise unfarmable land’
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New AgFunder, ISF report highlights gaps and opportunities to invest in climate adaptation for smallholder farmers
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