Chinese food delivery giant pumps $14m into robot maker PuduTech
July 7, 2020
PuduTech and Meituan Dianping will collaborate on robotics and catering digitization, and explore opportunities in “localized lifestyle services.”
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Category: Robotics & Automation
Funding for agri-drone companies in a time of corona: futurism or folly?
July 6, 2020
Recent funding for remote-sensing companies like AgroScout could signal a revival for providers of agri-drone technology.
Alibaba tie-up brings Beyond Meat to Chinese shoppers
July 2, 2020
For the first time, home cooks in China will be able to purchase Beyond Meat’s plant-based products off the shelf, starting with Alibaba’s ‘new retail’ supermarket chain Freshippo.
Want to build Asia’s new agrifood ecosystem? Apply to Singapore Food Bowl now!
June 4, 2020
Singapore Food Bowl is the new online program from GROW, the Asia-Pacific agrifoodtech accelerator by AgFunder. Applications close in 4 days – so hurry!
Syngenta invests in $7m seed round for Israeli autonomous chemical reduction tech Greeneye
May 27, 2020
Trials already indicate how a precision method like Greeneye’s can reduce a farmer’s herbicide usage by 65‒92%, according to Greeneye.
SoftBank reports $24bn loss on startup investments, with agrifood performance unclear
May 19, 2020
SoftBank was among the world’s most active investors in the agrifoodtech space last year, according to AgFunder research.
Farm tech investment up 370% in 6 years. How will Covid-19 impact 2020 trends?
April 30, 2020
Come rain, shine, or coronavirus, there’s just no halting the AgFunder Research mothership. AgFunder just unfurled its new 2020 Farmtech Investment Report — a data-driven snapshot of global investment in startups building technologies for the farm.
Covid-19 is accelerating inevitable food trends but which changes will stick?
April 29, 2020
The news cycle for the entire Covid-19 pandemic crisis has been awash with crises in the food industry, forcing various tech providers to step up to the challenge. But which will be left wanting when the virus eventually subsides?
Future Food Earth Day Special: Digging into dairy sustainability with Danone & Connecterra
April 22, 2020
In this Earth Day special of the Future Food podcast, I speak to Cees Jan Hollander, global director of farm relations, and Connecterra CEO Yasir Khokhar about their efforts to make the dairy sector more sustainable.
Restaurant tech offers consumers convenience, but headaches for operators
March 26, 2020
Consumers are demanding more digital offerings from restaurants, but new technologies are creating unexpected pain points for operators.
Wisdom (and wallets) of the crowd: Small Robot Company closes crowdfunding campaign at £2.1m
February 13, 2020
The VC firm 7percent Ventures is confirmed as lead investor, having plowed in £200,000. By the time of close, a total of 1,759 investors had backed the round.
Zap! This UK startup just raised €6.5m to commit electricide on weeds
January 22, 2020
RootWave owes its electrical spark of inspiration to years of earlier efforts from the CEO’s father who had been trying out ways to electrify weeds in the 1980s
A Swiss raclette-cutting robot wows CES 2020 in Las Vegas
January 17, 2020
One of the robo-stars of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was a slightly wacky invention from Switzerland: a robot that has been
‘Vive la AgRobolution!’ Naïo Tech raises €14m Series A to build more agri-robots
January 9, 2020
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.”
Protifarm raises Series B to scale robot-grown beetle “tofu”
December 12, 2019
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.
Bonjour, robots! A list of agri-robots whirring round FIRA in Toulouse next week
December 5, 2019
Next week I’ll be singing au revoir Londres, bonjour Toulouse! as I fly to France for the International Forum of Agricultural Robotics, known by its French acronym of FIRA.
SoftBank-backed Accel Robotics is blending online & physical with check-out free technology
December 5, 2019
So far, checkout-free technologies appear to be using the same recipe of technology: will they be forced to diversify or die?
AgTech Exits: Raven Industries acquires two driverless tractor startups
November 7, 2019
Smart AG offers a driverless tractor technology to help farmers upgrade existing equipment to tackle time and labor challenges while DOT designs and manufactures ready-made autonomous equipment.
French poultry tech startup Tibot Technologies raises €3m seed round for health-boosting robot
October 16, 2019
The startup’s robots roam around poultry houses floors to encourage more bird movement and to prevent hens from laying eggs outside designated nest boxes.
Augmenta raises $2.5m seed round from Hardware Club, Marathon VC
October 8, 2019
The Greek tech startup will use the funds to support commercialization of its real-time device that analyzes crops and manages input application.
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