The rise of the reused machines: Germany’s E-Farm raises $5.3m Series A
The Hamburg-based startup has built an online marketplace for secondhand agricultural machinery, using AI-powered valuation and offering EU-wide warranties.
The Hamburg-based startup has built an online marketplace for secondhand agricultural machinery, using AI-powered valuation and offering EU-wide warranties.
Istanbul-based Tarfin offers access to extended payments for smallholder farmers, and creates pools of receivables for institutional investors as asset-backed securities.
Indigo says incoming CEO Ron Hovsepian, a partner at its investor Flagship Pioneering, is a “seasoned operational leader rightly suited to lead […] at this critical stage of maturation.”
SP Ventures’ new fund will focus on seed and Series A-stage deals across a variety of sectors in Latin America’s agrifoodtech sector.
Infrastructure, crop cultivation, and logistics and distribution are set to be the leading areas for funding in the years ahead, says East Ventures partner Melisa Irene.
The media conglomerate and agribusiness giant have joined S2G Ventures and Skyline Global Partners to fund the Iowa startup, which offers a data-backed warranty service for farmers.
Between them, Singapore and Indonesia raised over five times the funding of all the other ASEAN countries put together.
Adoption remains one of the biggest hurdles for agtech innovators.
Take a first look at Seana Day’s new Farm Tech Landscape 2020 here, and some insights into what to expect next.
After gaining momentum in the Black Sea market, the digital marketplace is hoping to woo players across North America with its multi-offering platform.
Maintaining a functioning global food chain has catapulted agrifoodtech to ‘essential’ status. During the F&A Next virtual summit, eight will showcase the latest innovations shaping the future of food.
The heavyweight list of project owners includes ADM, Bunge, Cargill, COFCO, Louis Dreyfus Company, and Glencore Agriculture.
The collaboration brings private-sector tech players into the mix to extend the scope of the NGO’s contract farming program for rice-growing smallholders.
Regenerative agriculture is a means to increase farmers’ profits, sequester over 1 trillion tons of carbon, and build resilient economies through regenerating our soils and landscapes. But how can we disseminate these practices fast enough for agriculture to become a key player in the fight against climate change?
As US agri-foodtech investment slowed slightly in 2019, other markets picked up the slack. Here’s a list of the leading deals outside the US.
Arya has a warehousing and fintech platform to solve to help Indian farmers avoid selling their grain at the worst time of year — after harvest.
there are a few ways to interpret this $19.8 billion figure. Though it signals a 4.8% drop in funding and 15% decline in deal activity year-over-year, it also represents a staggering 250% growth in five years, and proves that the huge scale of investments in 2018 was no freak outlier.
The acquisition will add 1,800 weather stations to the company’s existing European network to support hyper-local weather data for farmers.
Leaf wants to make it easier for agtech innovators to create apps by harnessing clean, standardized, and aggregated data from multiple sources.
Find out the areas of agtech innovation Ankur Capital’s founder Ritu Verma thinks are primed for investment in India and beyond.
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