Agtech CVC: ADM Ventures on the many ways corporations can invest in innovators
ADM Ventures’ Victoria de la Huerga talks with AFN working for a company that was acquired by ADM–then helping the corporation build its venture investing strategy.
ADM Ventures’ Victoria de la Huerga talks with AFN working for a company that was acquired by ADM–then helping the corporation build its venture investing strategy.
The agrifoodtech sector not only rebounded quickly from Covid’s impacts, it far outpaced last year’s performance. Investor confidence speaks to a maturing sector and an environment ripe for new bets on next generation technologies.
FBN will help farmers generate carbon credits through personalized agronomic assitance and allow them to control when they sell them.
The new growing center takes six weeks to construct and can produce the equivalent of up to 10,000-square-meters of farmland, according to InFarm.
Provivi will use the funds to sell its pheremone-based pest control products to smallholder farmers in Kenya, Bangladesh, and India at cost.
Consumer Physics will apply its SCiO technology, which uses near-infrared spectrometers and cloud-based software, to Driscoll’s quality measurement process.
Anuvia is hoping to clean up conventional fertilizer with its bio-basd input that improves yields while also reducing GHG emissions and sequestering carbon.
With this aqui-hire, DeHaat – which serves over 380,000 farmers across India – will be able to add financial services for farmers to its platform.
It’s a big week for LatAm’s agrifoodtech fund, SP Ventures. The fund will close on around $50 million to $75 million, surpassing the $30 million goal it initially set.
The two companies have combined their crop science and soil health chops with an eye on the nascent carbon credits market.
US Farmers & Ranchers in Action identifies where the rubber meets the road for the financing and adoption of climate-smart ag.
The ag industry is actively developing farm management systems (FMS), but the abundance of choices may be confusing. New research from AgroHub, AgFunder, and Top Lead seeks to make things simpler.
The Singapore government unveiled the fund, aimed at encouraging local agtech adoption, as part of its 2021 national budget and 10-year sustainability plan.
Bioinformatics. Drone surveillance. Farm robotics. BASF Venture Capital’s Markus Solibieda talks to AFN about tech innovations the company’s backing to complement and disrupt the agri-chemicals status quo.
The Buenos Aires-based startup helps commodities buyers to find growers that use certain sustainability practices – while getting growers a better price for their efforts.
The US President’s plan calls for a ‘carbon bank’ that would pay farmers, ranchers, and foresters for implementing regenerative agriculture methods.
Willow Industries offers a post-harvest ‘kill step’ designed to remove potentially harmful microbes from up to 105 pounds of cannabis per day.
Promoting his new book on climate change technologies, the Microsoft co-founder said plant-based protein makers Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are “totally competitive.”
ListenField’s API ecosystem combines satellite, weather, and in-field data with crop modeling, phenology, and genotype selection to improve yields for rice and other crops.
Sea Forest will use the funds to start supplying commercial quantities of seaweed that Australian science agency CSIRO has shown to reduce cattle methane emissions by as much as 80%.