The entrepreneur discusses her path to agtech and the role farm robots have in helping growers address crops, yields, and labor challenges.
Jackie Jones and Rachel Downing are two of the major forces behind CEA company Amplified Ag and its mission to evolve container farming.
Ag journalist-turned-startup founder Tamara Leigh discusses a career spent championing the community, the cows, and other women.
The chief technology officer is leading the charge to make precision irrigation available to women smallholders worldwide.
The Mushroom Meat Co.’s CEO explains the ups and downs of starting (and growing) a clean-label protein company in today’s crowded industry.
Fresh off its $110 million funding round, Nigeria’s TradeDepot is pushing the boundaries of digitalization and financing for Africa’s small food businesses and retailers.
Chicago-based impact investment fund VestedWorld has supported more than 20 African startups addressing critical social and market needs, like improving cost and value chain for food.
Co-founder and CEO Jason Green discusses its new 250,000-square-foot facility and the importance of the microbiome.
The Food Security Fund will be used to finance 250,000 hectares of commercial and smallholder farmland in Nigeria for climate-smart production.
The Seoul-based startup closed a $15 million Series B round last month, with the Asian Development Bank among the participating investors.
The Annapolis, Maryland-based company uses microbes to convert agrifood byproducts into fuel and fertilizer.
There is “no non-engineered way” to fight climate change at scale and in time, says chief science officer Ellen Jorgensen.
The Cape Town-based startup considers itself a farming company enabled by technology, rather than a tech company working in ag, says CEO James Paterson.
The Kenyan fund’s CEO talks about its own hard-learned lessons in everything from promoting tech as a tool, to fighting climate change on the continent.
The Kenyan startup is building a tech bridge between insurance companies and millions of smallholder farmers to protect them from climate change.
Managing director Jim Adler discusses his firm’s recent investment in farm robots startup Burro and where Toyota plans to look next in agtech.
Orlando Saez is a panellist at the AgTech NEXT conference on 6 October, where he’ll be speaking about geospatial imaging’s role in ag.
Releaf recently raised $4.2 million to build palm oil processing facilities across Nigeria that it claims can boost the sector’s productivity 200x.
Jeremy Williams is a panellist at the AgTech NEXT conference on 6 October, where he’ll be speaking about geospatial imaging’s role in ag.
“At Careem, we were barely scratching the surface. From tax filing [to] transportation, we realized no-one had tried to solve the problems of the retail industry.”
