5 Lessons from Raising Venture Capital in Agtech
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.
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.
SunCulture, a company creating solar-powered irrigation kits for smallholder farmers, discusses the challenges of getting startup funding in Africa.
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A group of producers and agribusinesses has called for collaboration in the industry to ensure the development of effective agriculture technology.
Last month AgFunderNews caught up with Andy Ziolkowski, managing director at Chicago-based agtech VC Cultivian Sandbox, to discuss a growing trend for investing in both farmland and agtech.
Liron Brish, the co-founder and CEO of Farm Dog, a precision agriculture platform, discusses the comments made at an event organized by DEFRA and the Open Data Institute.
AeroFarms has plans to build 25 farms over the next five years and expand its reach across four continents, David Rosenberg, CEO, tells AgFunderNews.
It’s been a long road since 1998 to get AquaSpy technology into the hands 3,000 subscribing farmers and agribusinesses, CEO Bruce Moeller tells AgFunderNews.
The need to engage more effectively with ag scientists and other agtech stakeholders was one of the main challenges cited by UK farmers speaking at the Realizing our Economic and Agricultural Potential conference in Cambridge last month.
Food processing technology provider 915 Labs recently closed a $3 million seed round. Here CEO Michael Locatis tells AgFunderNews more about the company.
Hemendra Mathur, managing director for Indian private equity firm SEAF India Investment Advisors, discusses the growing organic food market in India and where investors can find value.
Mike Betts, director of investments at AgFunder, shares his key takeaways from the event and his thoughts on the growing aquaculture sector.
The agtech investor’s journey to exit is still unclear. Here are four routes to exit and their challenges as discussed at the World Agri-Tech Investment Summit.
AgFunderNews caught up with Johnny Kahlbetzer, the Twynam Agriculture Group director, to discuss the crop and livestock producer’s recent foray into agriculture technology investment.
AgFunderNews recently met George Freeman MP, UK Minister for Life Sciences, to hear a bit more about the strategy and initiatives the UK government is promoting for the country’s agtech sector.
After S2G’s official fund launch last week, AgFunderNews caught up with the firm to hear a bit more about its investment process and how it views the food and agriculture sector.
Speakers at the Indoor Ag-Con in New York on Thursday discussed some of the industry’s biggest challenges as it starts to scale.
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