If you’re a budding innovator, you won’t succeed in commercializing your idea without a great management team in place, irrespective of how good your original idea may be, argues Adam Anders from Anterra Capital.
The Kirchner Impact Foundation, the non-profit investment arm of Canadian merchant bank Kirchner Group, is taking its Food Fellowship to Mexico this year.
An impressive line-up of speakers from Congress, food and agriculture policy and research, and farming spoke on a panel at Food Tank’s summit in Washington DC last week about what to expect from the next farm bill.
The aim of ROIF 2017 was to foster collaboration between industry, research, and the agritech startup community to solve agriculture’s biggest challenges.
The White House, FDA, and NOAA made key moves that could impact the food & ag industry during the first few days of 2017.
Is more venture capital investment on your wish list? Or are you hoping to see more robotics startups or employable talent in the space? We spoke to a range of industry insiders to find out what they’re dreaming of for 2017.
Daryl Thomas writes about his experiences working on the mergers which became Syngenta, and how smaller ag players will play a role in the industry after the next round of consolidation.
Last week, Indoor Ag-Con returned to New York, where presentations and panel discussions focused on looking to the future of the growing industry, writes Pieter De Smedt from Urban Crops.
Agritech startup news… Aussie Agritech Startup Takes Top IBM Prize Melbourne-based SenseAg, an IoT-focused big data startup, won first prize at the global Apache Spark
IntelinAir, a San Jose-based automated aerial imagery analytics startup, closed its seed round consisting of $3 million in equity and $500k in venture debt from
A busy week of ag industry updates sees partnerships formed, mergers accepted and rejected, teams expanded, and startups progressing to the next stage.
Orbital Insight’s $20m Series B, Thrive Market’s $111m, and Ancera’s $8.9m Series A are just a few of the fundings adding to this week’s fundings-in-brief.
The FAA released its final commercial drone rule, US Senators announced a compromise on a federal GMO labeling standard, and Kellogg’s launched a VC fund.
Thought for Food is a global movement that engages and empowers university students from around the world in the mission of feeding 9 billion people by 2050.
Last week, Benson Hill Biosystems announced the launch of CropOS, its data analytics platform, which uses machine learning and cloud biology to tackle agriculture’s biggest challenges.
This week, PURE Bioscience raises $1.27 million, while Farmers Edge gets another $3.2m, hyperspectral drone imagery company Gamaya raises $3m, and five food e-commerce startups from the Europe, Asia and the US raise $131m collectively. Impossible Foods is also on the road for $200m.
AgTech Accelerator, which so far has raised $11.5 million of an overall $25 million to $30 million target, is somewhere between an accelerator and an incubator, and then some.
A UK satellite imagery company, Google Ventures’ investment in a sensor technology, and a flower delivery company attracting capital from an agtech VC contribute to this week’s Fundings-in-Brief.
Each year, April 20th marks an important date on cannabis fans’ calendars. To celebrate 4/20, here’s a snapshot of the state of the cannabis sector today and some of the startups taking advantage of the momentum.
General Mills has decided to label GMO foods in the wake of the GMO bill’s demise, while satellite imagery company Geosys partners with a precision ag platform and a weather station company, and Farmers Edge teams up with The Weather Company.
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