This spring Bon Appetech is hosting a foodtech focused conference to jumpstart the “Good Food Innovation” movement, and build a more robust ecology around food and
Kespry the developer of commercial-grade drone system for aerial data capture, analysis, and visualization systems, announced that it has raised $10 million in Series A
St. Louis based agtech accelerator Yield Lab and Arch Grants have announced they are developing a partnership to provide resources to AgTech startups in the St. Louis region. Yield Lab
If you’re interested in farming, but don’t know a tractor from a harvester then maybe Farming Simulator 15 is for you. A new edition of the
Foodtech big-data company FoodEssentials which collects, aggregates and analyzes food label data for government, retailers and manufacturers has raised a $1.5M Series A, according to their SEC filing. Edward
Penford (NASDAQ: PENX), which develops and manufactures specialty natural ingredients for food, paper, and other bioproducts has announced an acquisition deal by Ingredion (NYSE: INGR) in a $340 million cash transaction with
Some how this one slipped by us, and so in the interest of covering the whole spectrum of agtech deals, we’re covering this belated announcement.
AgSmarts, dubbed the ‘Google Nest’ for agriculture irrigation, has been named as a semi-finalist to the $1M Global Action Challenge. The $1M prize is a competitive
AgReliant Genetics, the third largest corn seed company in the U.S. and Spensa Technologies, a multiplatform agriculture services company have signed an agreement that will help growers
NexSteppe, a company delivering the next generation of sustainable feedstock solutions for the biobased industries, announced today it has raised $22M Series C from Total
It’s a good day for Insectivores! Exo, a foodtech company developing insects as an alternative protein source, announced the close of a $1.2 million seed
It’s a big year for VCs funding drone companies! DroneDeploy, a smart drone management platform, announced a $2M seed round led by SoftTech VC with participation
PrecisionHawk, an information delivery company that uses a small, lightweight UAVs and cloud-based software to collect, process and analyze aerial data, today announced it has
The SmartAgriFood accelerator officially launched a €4 million open call for SMEs and web-entrepreneurs to develop a new generation of smart agriculture applications and services building
NewLeaf Symbiotics, a St Louis, Missouri-based agricultural biotechnology company focused on the commercialization of beneficial plant bacteria, announced today that it has closed a $17
aWhere, a Denver, CO based big data analytics company focused on the Ag industry, Elixir Capital, a private equity fund based in Silicon Valley and
If you’re in-tune with the Valley, watching investment trends and looking for new opportunities, chances are you’ve started looking into Ag. In February in
Some big investors are looking at Ag’s new opportunities to be had. Just a few months ago, Monsanto bought Climate Corp for a whopping $930
To meet the demand for food, fuel, and other agricultural products, scientists estimate that we’ll need to double—perhaps even triple—production by the year 2050 [1].
By Rob Leclerc When you think of “Israel,” do you think “AgTech”? Probably not, but maybe you should. With two-thirds of its land desert, and
