The biological crop protection startup is the first agtech equity investment by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which will look at all technologies that can play a role in increasing productivity for smallholder farmers, a spokesperson told AgFunderNews.
Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers and Cultivian Sandbox are among a hot list of VCs backing animal nutrition biotech company Agrivida.
Innovation in agriculture is rife and agriculture technology startups could become the next generation of food and agriculture companies. But some investors are unsure how to invest in this growing sector. Here are our top 3 ways to access agtech.
The recipient of $2m in angel financing last week, HUVRData, drone-based data analytics company, has now officially launched as a service for agriculture, wind farms, solar farms and the oil and gas sector.
This is the second part of Raghavan Sampathkumar’s article on the prospects and challenges of agtech development in India. In part two he discusses realistic scenarios in the country’s agriculture sector, and offers recommendations to agtech entrepreneurs.
This week’s fundings include a private equity fund investment into a fruit and veg multinational, a $2m angel investment into a U.S. drone service and $4m into an Indian e-commerce service for farmers.
Smart Agriculture Analytics, an English language data provider for China’s agriculture technology market, will now connect non-Chinese agtech and input providers with Chinese distributors.
CapAgro Innovation Fund recently celebrated its one year anniversary after noticing an overwhelming need for capital in Europe’s agri-innovation community.
AgSmarts is raising $750k – $1m in a follow-on seed round led by a new strategic investor. Brett Norman, CEO, tells AgFunderNews about the company’s progress since its first seed round last year.
India’s growing class of passionate and young entrepreneurs holds promise for the development of the country’s agriculture sector, which supports nearly two-thirds of the population, writes Raghavan Sampathkumar, founder of SMARTAgBiz.
Agribusiness Cargill announced plans to build a $30 million shrimp feed facility in Guayaquil, Ecuador last month. Here Ryan Lane shares his insights on the industry’s technological developments.
Pacific Ag is the fourth investment for Advantage Capital Agribusiness Partners, the $154.5m Rural Business Investment Company, since it launched in April.
Ganesh Kishore, managing partner of Spruce Capital Partners, co-manager of MLS Capital Fund II alongside Xeraya Capital, caught up with AgFunderNews to discuss the fund’s first investments and how it identifies opportunities.
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.
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