10 Agtech Startups for Smallholder Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa
There is a groundswell of startups and technologies emerging to help smallholders increase efficiencies and hopefully move many from subsistence farming to farming for profit.
AgriFood Headlines: Agrilyst’s Digital Coop for Indoor Ag, Land O’ Lakes Accelerator, Deliveroo’s Innovation Fund, more
The AgriFood News Aggregator features headlines from around the globe collected on AgFunder’s news sharing platform #feedit each week.
BREAKING: Connecterra Raises €4.2m Series A for AI-powered Dairy Tech
The round was led by Russian venture capital firm Sistema VC with new investment from online venture capital platform AgFunder, UK VC 7percent Ventures, early-stage tech VC Acequia Capital, and industry veteran Henk Bles.
Brazilian Ag Marketplace Raises $630k Seed Round from Monsanto Growth Ventures and Others
This is the latest deal among a growing number of agribusiness marketplace startups globally as the trend to take input purchasing and crop marketing online takes hold.
4 Reasons Why Israel is Now a Developed AgriFood Tech Hub
Two weeks ago, our CEO Rob Leclerc went to Israel to attend Food and Ag Week and here's what he discovered.
Algaia Raises €4m to Expand Algae Product Portfolio and Extraction Technology
Algaia is a French company manufacturing algae-based products for the agriculture feed, personal care & nutraceutical industries.
USDA Has a Responsibility to Reveal Crop Yield Forecasting Methods
The USDA's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report's data collection methods are damagingly opaque and are causing unnecessary amounts of volatility and instability across global agriculture.
Blockchain is Coming for Agriculture and You Might Not Even Notice
Blockchain alone doesn't make growers more money, but it does provide the technology infrastructure for things like digitization, automation, and tracking, all of which drive farmers' bottom lines in modern agriculture, writes Remi Schmaltz.
VC-Backed Crop Insurance Startup Cancels Nearly 200 Policies in First Growing Season
Crop Pro Insurance has canceled nearly 200 crop production hail insurance policies just a few weeks into the company’s first planting season in operation.
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Taranis Acquires Aerial Imagery Platform Mavrx
It is understood that Mavrx ran into some financial and operational difficulty in recent months and was not able to service its clients for the upcoming growing season despite providing a popular product with a 90% customer renewal rate.
This Week’s Headlines in AgriFood: Fintech for Farmers, Blockchain, Glyphosate, Del Monte, and more
The AgriFood News Aggregator features headlines from around the globe collected on AgFunder’s news sharing platform #feedit each week.
Bayer is Not Shying Away from Monsanto’s Controversies with Post-Merger Exec Team
Bayer, through Condon, has indicated that it is aware the merger presents an opportunity to reset public opinion about controversial technologies like GMOs and Dicamba, but the executive announcement last week suggests a complete overhaul is not in the cards.
BIGH Raises €4.3m for Largest Urban Rooftop Farm in Europe
BIGH (Building Integrated Greenhouses), a startup based in Brussels, Belgium, has opened its first aquaponic farm on a site spanning 4,000 meters squared above a food hall in the center of the city.
Agrivest 2018: ‘It’s Unbelievable We Still Measure Agricultural Productivity by Land, Not Water Use’
Professor Louise Fresco, the president of Wageningen University & Research and former Assistant Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) addressed delegates at the AgriVest conference in Tel Aviv last week.
BREAKING: Good Eggs Raises $50m as Benchmark Leads Round Impressed by ‘Operational Discipline’
The California-based startup that was forced to withdraw from various cities across the US in 2015 after expanding too quickly, recapitalized in 2016.
ImpactVision Can Detect Foreign Objects in Food Using Hyperspectral Imagery
ImpactVision has launched a new application that uses hyperspectral imagery to detect foreign objects in food.
AgriFood Entrepreneurs Weigh in on Corporate vs VC Investor Debate
Corporate venture capital can help agrifood tech startups scale-up and expand to new markets, but can also be difficult to work with, according to entrepreneurs speaking on the sidelines of the Seeds & Chips conference in Milan this week.
Why Maersk is Investing in AgriFood Tech Startups
Maersk, the biggest food transporter in the world, is currently accepting applications from agrifood tech startups to take part in an equity-free startup support program called FoodTrack.
This Week’s Headlines in AgriFood: E Coli Outbreak, Farm Bill, S2G, Gotham Greens, TerrAvion, Asia Startup Award, more
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Should You Be Using CRISPR for Your Ag Business?
Management teams in plant genetics companies have likely been asked by at least one well-intending board member: “Are we using CRISPR? I sat next to this guy on the plane and he said that CRISPR will change everything," writes Vonnie Estes.