Ahead of speaking at the Indoor Ag-Con in Las Vegas in April, Randy Mortensen tells AgFunderNews about the benefits and challenges of LED lighting for indoor agriculture.
Phil Cruver is CEO of Catalina Sea Ranch, the first offshore aquaculture facility in US Federal waters. Here he describes the Ocean Internet of Things project that his company is also working on.
ESEV Genetics is a research & development company focused on cannabis breeding and genetics. Here Noam Chehanovsky, CTO and co-founder of the company, describes the benefit of MAS.
Agricultural development is one of the biggest initiatives for the foundation. Here Vipula Shukla, senior program officer for agriculture, speak about the foundation’s approach to agtech investing.
Two weeks ago Symbiota, an agtech startup researching beneficial microbes for plant growth, changed its name to Indigo. We caught up with Perry to hear more about this and the startup’s $56m Series B.
Former partner at Khosla Ventures Andrew Chung today launched 1955 Capital, which will invest in the energy, food and agriculture, education and health sectors.
Ahead of a speaking slot at next month’s World Agri-Tech Investment Summit in San Francisco, the secretary for agriculture for California talks about how the state government supports agtech innovation.
It’s been a long road for the ag biologicals market, which has hit some hurdles over the years amid questions around efficacy. Here John Brubaker, CEO of Plant Impact, describes the journey for biostimulants in particular.
2015 was a big year for Planet Labs, the satellite company. We caught up with Ryan Schacht, account executive for agriculture ahead of the World Agri-Tech Investment Summit in San Francisco to get an update.
RoCRE is an agtech incubation center attached to the world’s longest running agricultural research station Rothamsted Research, which has been researching science and innovation in the industry since 1843.
Noah Deich, executive director of the Center for Carbon Removal, shares insights heard at COP21 into how agtech can play a role in keeping global temperatures down.
The food technology-focused accelerator’s new managing director, Andrew Ive, talks to AgFunderNews about getting to know the sector since joining in November.
Farmers are playing a larger role in funding agtech startups than you might think. Here are 4 ways they are doing so.
Strider, a decision support technology offering farmers a relatively simple data aggregation and pest management tool, brought on its first US customers at the end of last year.
AgFunderNews caught up with McDonald’s UK supply chain director Connor McVeigh to find out more about the fast food restaurant chain’s influence on farming practices and his views on agriculture technology.
Last year, we saw a surge in the number of policy shifts and regulatory moves affecting food and agriculture in the US. Here’s five from 2015 that will likely have a ripple effect into the new year.
An agtech entrepreneur and former venture capitalist, Matthew B. Crisp recently closed a Series A funding round for Benson Hill Biosystems, and here he shares some of his key takeaways.
Drones across industries raised this funding, according to CB Insights, while growers debate the efficiency of the technology for agriculture.
Farmland fund manager SLM Partners argues that ecological farming provides an alternative way to produce more with less, through deeply science-based and knowledge-intensive farming systems.
Barfoots of Botley grows, processes, and packs a range of semi-exotic produce grown in the UK, Spain, Senegal, and Peru, and is currently undertaking 30 innovation projects. MD Julian Marks presented three at the Oxford Farming Conference.
