The agtech investor’s journey to exit is still unclear. Here are four routes to exit and their challenges as discussed at the World Agri-Tech Investment Summit.
SVG Partners’ THRIVE Accelerator is officially open for its second year. AgFunderNews speaks with SVG Partners’ chief technology officer Chris Boody.
For many livestock managers, the process of medicating their cattle is one of the most arduous tasks they face each year. SmartVet wants to solve this problem and is launching a campaign on AgFunder to raise expansion capital.
Welcome to another AgFunderNews’ Fundings in Brief, including food and agriculture technology funding news and industry insight from the week.
On a mission to help paint a clearer picture of the emerging ag big data technologies out there, AgFunderNews recently spoke with eight companies to learn more about the space.
AgFunderNews caught up with Johnny Kahlbetzer, the Twynam Agriculture Group director, to discuss the crop and livestock producer’s recent foray into agriculture technology investment.
The two agribusinesses are partnering up to develop biological solutions for agriculture with an eye toward commercialization.
Spensa Tech raised the capital to scale up its pest detection hardware and to develop its software platform.
Welcome to another weekly news roundup with AgFunderNews. One of this week’s biggest stories is machinery giant Deere & Company’s purchase of Precision Planting from Monsanto.
AgFunderNews recently met George Freeman MP, UK Minister for Life Sciences, to hear a bit more about the strategy and initiatives the UK government is promoting for the country’s agtech sector.
The commercial distribution of agriculture technologies is one of the main hurdles that agtech companies and their venture capital partners face, according to speakers at the World Agri-Tech Investment Summit in London this week.
Syngenta is teaming up with the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) to create a new joint award: The Syngenta Crop Challenge.
Investment in food and agriculture will reach more than $4 billion by the end of the year, according to a recent report from Dutch banking group Rabobank.
The firm’s fourth fund is expecting to announce a first close on $75m in early 2016.
Welcome to another week of Fundings in Brief with AgFunderNews, with news from Syngenta, Lariat Partners and an interesting fact about bats in ag.
The startup is building a database of healthy peptides found in agriculture byproducts for use in the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and supplement markets.
After S2G’s official fund launch last week, AgFunderNews caught up with the firm to hear a bit more about its investment process and how it views the food and agriculture sector.
Phyto Partners, a new investment firm from Florida focused on making investments into the growing legal cannabis industry, has invested into business intelligence and data provider New Frontier.
The firm, which has 8 portfolio companies already under its belt, launched the fund at the New York Times Food for Tomorrow Conference this morning (Wednesday).
Private equity and M&A activity in the ag industry continues as a Chinese conglomerate invests into an Israeli agtech company, and Syngenta acquires a farm management software tool.
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