The Era of the Activist Investor in Food
August 8, 2017
In just the past few years, several food and agriculture companies have found themselves contending with activist investors.
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Disruptive Crop Insurance Startup Crop Pro Raises $8m from Agtech VCs
August 8, 2017
Cro Pro, which claims to be the first VC-backed insurer to be approved to offer federally-backed policies, aims to promote agtech adoption through unique private, agtech insurance products.
Sacramento is Making Moves to Become an Agtech Hub
August 4, 2017
The Greater Sacramento Economic Council is attempting to carve out a piece of the tech scene just 90 miles to the south, and thanks to UC Davis and nearly 250,000 acres of farmland, that means agtech too.
Ag Industry Brief: Monsanto Emails, New Australian Accelerator, Federal Cannabis Legalization Bill, more
August 4, 2017
Controversial Monsanto email communications have been revealed by the New York Times.
UAE’s Produce Import Ban Shines Light on Food Security Dilemma and Indoor Ag Opportunity
August 3, 2017
It’s perhaps not news that the Middle East is in a precarious position when it comes to food security. One of the hottest, driest, and
TomKat Ranch: Measuring the Benefits of Regenerative Agriculture with Precision Ag Tech
August 2, 2017
Kevin Watt, land and livestock manager at TomKat Ranch, thinks that once the benefits of regenerative ranching can be fully quantified — through soil carbon measurements, forage density, and more — it could become a mainstay of both ranching and soil management.
Report: China’s Foreign Food & Ag Acquisitions Set to Increase
August 1, 2017
After a series of high profile acquisitions and more likely on the way, China is poised to have a much larger footprint in the global food supply chain in the near future, according to a new report from Rabobank.
Cannabis Industry Becoming Competitive as Canopy Selects Latest Cohort
July 31, 2017
We caught up with co-founder and managing director Patrick Rea to discuss the current political climate for cannabis and what Canopy’s new cohort say about where the cannabis industry is today.
Gene Editing Gets Public Market Approval as Calyxt Raises $64m IPO
July 28, 2017
Calyxt spun out from its parent company Cellectis to price an oversubscribed IPO at the bottom of the price range, while analysts remain concerned about gene editing regulation.
Ag Industry Brief: AGCO Acquires Precision Planting, CropLogic Going Public, Plant-Based M&A, more
July 28, 2017
New Zealand in-field IoT provider CropLogic is set to go public on the Australian Stock Exchange while Japan’s Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co has acquired Canadian dairy-free, food company Daiya.
Syngenta Ventures Invests in Premier Crop Systems After Months of Trials with Software
July 26, 2017
Syngenta Ventures has acquired a minority stake in Premier Crop Systems (PCS), a Des Moines, Iowa based agronomic software tool in a growth equity investment round.
NYC Hosts First Food Waste Fair for Exploding Food Waste Innovation, Revealing Challenges
July 26, 2017
Food waste issues are coming into the mainstream as investors and municipalities realize that there is money to be saved and made in keeping food out of the landfill.
Arkansas Congressman Rick Crawford on How to Help Rural Farmers
July 25, 2017
The state of Arkansas is home to Tysons, Walmart, a Nestle plant and a Frito-Lay factory, but much of the food produced in Congressman Rich Crawford (R) of Arkansas’s first district is grown on family farms.
Prospera Raises $15m Series B from Qualcomm and Cisco for Ag IoT
July 25, 2017
Israeli digital ag startup Prospera has raised a $15 million Series B round for its end-to-end internet of things platform using AI and computer vision for indoor and outdoor farms.
Ag Industry Brief: Heat’s on Amazon, China Approves GMOs, Blue Apron IPO Investigated, more
July 24, 2017
Trump’s nomination of Sam Clovis, a new hire at Finistere Ventures, Hampton Creek’s board fallout, and Arlon’s Brazilian dairy investment are also covered this week.
Brazil’s First Agtech Accelerator Program Pulse Seeking Startups
July 20, 2017
The country’s first agtech program is sponsored by RaÃzen, Brazil’s largest producer of sugarcane ethanol and third-largest energy company, along with SP Ventures and NXTP Labs.
SoftBank Invests in Largest Ever Agtech Deal, a $200m Series B for Indoor Ag Startup Plenty
July 19, 2017
SoftBank has invested in Plenty, a vertical farming startup in California, to help the company expand into new markets and crops.
Congress Wades into Farm Data Ownership Debate
July 17, 2017
Last week, the US House of Representatives Agriculture Committee held a hearing on agriculture technology and data utilization in preparation for the next Farm Bill.
Commercial Grasshopper Farmer Hargol Foodtech Raises $600k Seed Round
July 14, 2017
According to the founder, Hargol is the only active, commercial-scale grasshopper farm in the world and consumer products customers are clamoring to get this traditional protein source.
Indian Dairy IoT Technology Stack Stellapps Raises Series A
July 13, 2017
Stellapps offers data collection and analytics to every piece of the dairy supply chain with the aim of improving the productivity, and quality of milk, and producing transparent data both for and about the dairy industry.
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