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April 9, 2018
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Wilbur-Ellis Backed Insect Startup Beta Hatch Closes $2.1m Seed Round
April 5, 2018
Beta Hatch cultivates mealworms for animal feed using patent-pending equipment, a trade-secret process and unique genetic stock, developed by entomologist and founder Virginia Emery.
FBN Challenger AgVend Raises $1.75m for National Expansion
April 4, 2018
AgVend is the latest entrant into a small set of players vying for the so far small community of farmers looking to purchase online – all banking on the expectation that that community will grow.
The $100m Bayer, Ginkgo Bioworks Joint Venture Has a Name, a CEO, and a Plan
March 20, 2018
Bayer and Ginkgo Bioworks announced the partnership in September 2017. The partners jointly invested $100 million in the venture, making the deal the second largest deal from an Ag Biotechnology startup in 2017, according to the AgFunder data.
Dyson Founder Backs Remote Sensing Agronomy Platform Hummingbird in £3m Series A Round
March 7, 2018
Though Hummingbird began as a drone-focused precision agriculture company two years ago, it evolved beyond just drones as the team realized that the method of data collection is secondary to the data itself.
Ag Industry Brief: Bowery Opening Second Farm, JUST Eyes Africa, Dan Barber Starts Selling Seeds, more
March 2, 2018
Indoor farming startup Bowery is opening a second farm while chef Dan Barber starts selling seeds and JUST creates a product just for Africa, plus more in our weekly brief.
TPG Rise Fund’s Agriculture Lead Discusses First Investment in Indian Dairy
February 22, 2018
We caught up with Joy Basu ahead of the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit, to discuss how she approaches impact investing in agriculture at The Rise Fund and how agtech can fit into an impact investing thesis.
Remote Sensing Platform Mavrx is Testing the Power of “Free”
February 21, 2018
Mavrx founder Max Bruner said that the change isn’t necessarily about boosting the registered user count, as one might guess, but more about paving the way for more custom and ‘white label’ requests in the future from a more diverse set of customers.
Global Thinking Sets Up New Zealand Agtech Startups for Outsized Impact
February 15, 2018
The New Zealand agtech ecosystem is starting to gain recognition for its innovation well beyond the boundaries of New Zealand.
African Agtech Market Map: 99 Technologies Changing the Future of Agriculture in Africa
February 14, 2018
A representative and non-exhaustive selection of these companies have been visualized in this African Agtech Market Map, into nine categories by AgFunder and The Seed Project.
When it Comes to Soil Testing, We’ve Only Scratched the Surface
February 1, 2018
Soil is the largest living organism on earth, yet humans know far more about our solar system than we do the top six inches of soil on this planet. Soil testing offers some amazing opportunities for farmers to find new efficiencies within their operations and to increase yields but we are just starting to scratch the surface.
WISErg Brings Funding Total to $57m for Food Waste Tech with Series C
January 18, 2018
Food waste-to-fertilizer technology startup WISErg has raised a $19.2 million Series C round, bringing the company’s total fundraising to $56.6 million.
With Virtual Coops On the Rise, Will Traditional Ag Coops Go Virtual?
January 16, 2018
Agriculture Coops can be a place to adapt and disperse technology innovation. Unfortunately, in most cases, adoption has been slow due to a lack of a technology embedded in coop culture.
Agricultural Plant Operator
January 15, 2018
Do you have experience in plant/facility production, quality control, and maintenance? Perhaps warehousing experience, including shipping and receiving? Are you willing to operate material handling
Controller, Finance & Accounting
January 13, 2018
Background: TerViva is a 7-year-old food and agriculture company. We believe that if we are to feed the rising global population in a climate-constrained world,
Ag Industry Brief: Trump Supports Rural Broadband, Sodexo Gets into Delivery Game, Biotech IPO Back On, more
January 12, 2018
President Trump and the Supreme Court weigh in on agriculture issues while startups launch new products in this week’s brief.
The Growing Impact of Hyperspectral Imagery in AgriFood Tech
January 11, 2018
With the price of hyperspectral cameras falling fast, the new imagery on the block is poised to have a big impact on food and agriculture among other industries.
Inocucor Brings in Pontifax to Close $38.5m Series B
January 8, 2018
Inocucor manufactures biological stimulants for agriculture using a patented fermentation process to combine multi-strains of bacteria and yeasts into soil and plant optimizers. It has two products on the market today that aim to enhance the growth of crops.
Agtech Exits: 2017 Activity Generates Cautious Optimism for 2018
January 3, 2018
No longer distracted by consolidation large strategic players will have more time, and money, to pursue exits in 2018, according to some industry insiders.
What’s Needed in African Agriculture Before Technology
December 29, 2017
The prevalence of small farms on the African continent has meant growth in crop yields far lags other parts of the developed and developing worlds and means many of these new high tech tools are irrelevant to the African agricultural market.
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