The UDSA and Microsoft have launched the Innovation Challenge, a contest offering access to large amounts of USDA data. Awards include cash prizes and the deadline is November.
Next Millennium Farms and Exo have raised capital for their cricket protein production projects as investors and consumer become more comfortable with the concept.
These are good days to be a precision agriculture company, but with so many new technologies coming to market, it’s getting tough to discern which are poised to become “must haves” for growers, writes Gabriel Wilmoth of Syngenta Ventures who attended InfoAg last week.
Fish 2.0 is a biennial business competition designed to group sustainable seafood technology and supply chain companies together for investors.
A group of researchers at Washington State University have been working with Ultraviolet C light, or UVC light, to help organic producers make sure their produce is safe without having to use any chemical-based sanitization products.
Deals from the week include a private equity-backed Australian producer’s A$550m IPO, an agriculture fund commitment by Merced County and the Accel Partners-led Series A round of grocery delivery company Opinio in Bangalore.
What a start to the year! Today AgFunder releases its Midyear AgTech Investing Report (Free Download) and 2015 has already lived up to expectations. Nearly surpassing
Colorado has a range of resources available to innovators, researchers, and entrepreneurs building food & agriculture-related companies. Here are eight we have found.
A group of researchers conducting project Fish SCALE at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are using DNA sequencing to combat seafood fraud.
AgFunderNews caught up with the Forbes reporter and co-organizer of the magazine’s recent AgTech summit to discuss his highlights from the event.
UK-based research group Oxitec has started genetically engineering moths to make them infertile to help farmers control and reduce the destruction of their crops.
A group of venture capitalists, previously active in other digital technologies, are now turning their attention to agriculture technology with a new a $40m to $50m fund.
AgFunderNews talks to the US deputy secretary of agriculture Krysta Harden and Brad Doorn, program manager for water resources applications research at NASA, about the recent MOU between the two agencies.
Biotech investor MLS Capital Fund II, cannabis greenhouse developer GrowCo, Inc, Canadian investment firm Fairfax, Inter-American Development Bank and Cargill all feature in this week’s News in Brief.
“These are exciting times, these are challenging times, but the breakthroughs are incredible,” says Erik Andrejko, VP of Science at Climate Corp. When it comes to
Planet Labs’ acquisition of Blackbridge and its RapidEye satellites last week raised questions about how useful the images are for farming. AgFunderNews speaks to Planet Labs’ client Wilbur-Ellis, engineering consultant Daedulus Systems and Engineering and Ryan McClinko from Planet Labs.
Granular, arguably AgTech’s most developed farm management software, has raised $18.7 million in Series B financing in a round led by new investor and Californian family office Tao Capital Partners.
Colorado-based Surna, Inc, a manufacturer serving the growing indoor cannabis cultivation sector, recently announced the major expansion of its existing facility in the city of Boulder to respond to increasing demand.
AgFunderNews recently had the opportunity to ask Jack Hemenway of Moss Enterprises, a leading technology education provider to a host of industries including farming, five questions about the future of 3D printing in agriculture and what every investor should know about this exciting new technology.
Oregon state’s clean tech funding and research collaboration arm OregonBEST has invested in a range of agtech start-ups, most recently a drought defending biodegradable superabsorbent polymer.
