Kuwait’s Wafra and UAE’s Abu Dhabi Investment Office have both made commitments to develop agtech in their countries, but are taking different approaches.
Vertical farming venture Infarm’s Emmanuel Evita shares with AFN how Covid-19 is disrupting and driving its expansion and demand for hyper-local fresh food.
Venture capital investment across all industries dropped in 2019 — around 16%, according to the VenturePulse report — against a backdrop of global uncertainty related
The Dutch company recently launched an innovation lab to let promising startups make good use of its unparalleled database in a bid to tackle greenhouse cultivation’s biggest challenges.
BDS Analytics has forecast that the worldwide legal cannabis industry generated revenues in the region of £11.5 billion in 2019 and is expected to grow to around £35 billion by 2024. Alongside this phenomenal rate of growth, the UK agriculture sector is embarking upon a period of unprecedented change.
there are a few ways to interpret this $19.8 billion figure. Though it signals a 4.8% drop in funding and 15% decline in deal activity year-over-year, it also represents a staggering 250% growth in five years, and proves that the huge scale of investments in 2018 was no freak outlier.
“Vertical farming is not especially relevant in India,” says Omnivore’s Mark Kahn, but its equivalent is a company that galvanizes and coordinates the tens of thousands of already existing greenhouses dotted on the outskirts of India’s major cities, like Clover.
The container farming startup is planning to dig deeper into plant science to optimize its connected platform and provide growers with better recipes.
Freight Farms’ container farms can be integrated into food-focused curricula or provide work-study opportunities for curious students, as well as supplying their canteens.
Naïo co-founder Gaëtan Séverac is bullish about the imminent and radical adoption of agri-robots; his company placed signs at its recent event calling for an “agrobolution.”
Early-stage life science and engineering investors Longwall Venture Partners led the round, which marks its inaugural agri-food tech investment.
The “plug and play” system is designed to let nearly anyone reap the benefits of an indoor farming operation.
Tom Shields is a venture partner at AgFunder and works with the deal team on sourcing and leading investments. A serial entrepreneur, he has co-founded two highly successful companies, NetGravity (IPO 1998) and Yieldex (acquired by AppNexus/AT&T in 2015).
If you’re still on the lookout for agtech-themed holiday gifts, here’s a suggestion: How about a chocolate bar-sized portable DNA sequencer that accurately and quickly diagnoses wheat viruses? (More gift ideas welcome, by the way!)
The Netherlands-based alt-protein company is one of a small number catching investor interest for farming insects for human consumption rather than for animal feed.
It can be hard to explain exactly how Intelligent Growth Solution’s tech works, so we caught up with Niall Skinner, lead mechanical engineer at IGS to get an in-depth explanation.
she1K, the world’s first angel network led by global corporate executive women, has syndicated an early-stage investment into Farmshelf, a New York-based vertical farming startup.
Hundreds of thousands of species of micro-algae float through the world’s waterways. Just a fraction have been categorised or studied. It leaves an imaginarium of
The six winning startups beat out 150 total applicants in a competitive 18-month accelerator program featuring investors and experts.
Bowery Farming, the New York-based vertical farming startup that counts Google, First Round Capital, and famous chef Tom Collichio as investors, has just raised an
