Comet Labs and Orange Silicon Valley recently partnered on a report entitled: Bringing Digital Intelligence to Indoor Farming — urban agriculture in the age of AI. Here are their key learnings.
Analysts and media sources argue that it’s still too early to know what actions President-elect Trump will take in the food and ag sector, but his rhetoric and campaign pointed to 4 potential policies on trade, immigration, USDA, and regulation.
This is Temasek’s 3rd agtech investment in a year.
The developing farm labor dynamic in California, where Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed historic farmworker overtime pay legislation, spells good news for agriculture robotics startups.
Labor supply is not just decreasing as workers, but it’s becoming more expensive, putting some fruit and vegetable farmers under pressure to find alternative solutions, speakers told the Forbes AgTech Summit today.
Rob Trice, founder of The Mixing Bowl, shares his thoughts on how agtech entrepreneurs are building their businesses and how it compares to other sectors.
Rory Aronson wants you to steal his idea. Seriously. In founding FarmBot, he decided none of his ideas would be proprietary.
Leading seed accelerator Y Combinator featured five agtech startups at its recent Demo Day. Here some of them discuss the benefits of the program.
Harper Adams University’s innovation hub is the latest initiative aimed at fostering growth in the UK’s slow-growing commercial agtech sector.
ATC, which is currently raising $5 million on AgFunder, will soon deliver the first retrofit of a tractor with its commercial product eDrive to FamilyFarms Group.
Former partner at Khosla Ventures Andrew Chung today launched 1955 Capital, which will invest in the energy, food and agriculture, education and health sectors.
2015 surpassed our mid-year expectations raising $4.6bn across 527 deals and representing 94% year over year growth.
We have collated 10 of the year’s most-read stories for you to enjoy over the festive period while we take a short break from publishing news.
A group of producers and agribusinesses has called for collaboration in the industry to ensure the development of effective agriculture technology.
The French agribot manufacturer is developing two new robots for vegetable farms and vineyards as well as eyeing international expansion.
The Californian startup that is using robots to weed, thin and spray vegetable fields, raised the capital from a heavy-hitting group of agtech-focused and technology venture capital firms.
Microbial DNA maker Zymergen recently announced a $42M Series A led by Data Collective, with a group of investors participating, including AME Cloud Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurveston,
The bots are coming for your fields, your food, and your fertilizer. Three brothers have schemed up an idea that makes John Deere look medieval.
