Three industry mergers & acquisitions top this week’s Industry-in-Brief as the debate over GM salmon and food labeling continues, and a Saudi Arabian dairy company’s purchase of alfalfa land in California causes concern.
A busy week of fundings includes wastewater treatment tech, drones, satellite imagery, food e-commerce, precision agriculture, and biopesticide startups.
Michigan’s Great Lakes AgTech Business Incubator is pursuing a slightly different model to other incubators.
Until about five years ago, traceability in the seafood industry was virtually non-existent. Now startups are emerging to tackle different parts of the supply chain.
How three new startups are approaching satellite imagery for the agriculture industry in slightly different ways.
Vilsack’s visit to Cuba with Obama, lighting indoor lunar greenhouses, winners of a water innovation accelerator, and Mars joining the GMO labeling party are all featured in this week’s Industry-in-Brief.
Thrive Accelerator, the Salinas, CA-based food and agriculture startup program, has chosen 12 startups to take part in its 8-week program this year.
Food waste costs the US economy over $200bn a year, but there’s lots of opportunity to get involved in its reduction, according to a new report instigated by the Fink Family Foundation.
We speak to three of the most established ag data companies to find out more about their methods of data collection and how they think their data will set them apart from others.
Last week Geosys partnered with Pessl Instruments and SST Software, while Farmers Edge announced a deal with The Weather Company. This follows a series of precision ag partnerships last year.
Dan Meagher, CEO of the company, gives AgFunderNews an update on the company’s progress 7 months after its Series D and a year after pivoting the business to focus on animal nutrition.
Fraley joined representatives of Dow, DuPont and Bayer at the World Agri-Tech Investment Summit to discuss the value of collaboration and investment in agtech innovation.
The Kansas ag data startup hopes to address concerns from farmers about sharing their data, and provide another revenue stream for them.
Harper Adams University’s innovation hub is the latest initiative aimed at fostering growth in the UK’s slow-growing commercial agtech sector.
Through its subsidiary GoodLeaf Farms, the Canadian vertical farming company has started selling produce in Canada under agreements with major retailers and distributors.
The Dutch investment firm received new investment from Rabobank and Fidelity becoming the world’s largest agtech fund alongside S2G.
Surterra’s willingness to take on some risk by building its first facility before getting initial license approval last November is one of the main reasons it is the first to start growing cannabis.
Precision irrigation company HydroBio won a patent for its technology while a startup company using fresh vegetables to naturally sweeten food in this week’s Industry-in-Brief.
A follow-on financing for an animal health company, and an insect protein Series A are two of this week’s fundings-in-brief.
On International Women’s Day, AgFunderNews reporter Lauren Manning caught up with three female agtech entrepreneurs to find out what it’s like working in agtech.
