Yagro Raises $500k Seed Round for Online Marketplace for Agri Inputs – exclusive
The UK-based startup raised the funding from local angel investors but is planning to expand overseas after conquering the UK.
The UK-based startup raised the funding from local angel investors but is planning to expand overseas after conquering the UK.
It’s been a rough ride for Oso Tech and its investors from its founding in 2011 in Urbana, Illinois until now. But the journey culminated in an exit and sale to Scotts Miracle-Gro.
This funding marks Commercial Drone Fund’s fourth investment, but its first foray into ag-focused drone technologies.
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.
Startup resources continue to grow with a new accelerator and two competitions launching last week.
myAgro is a mobile savings system enabling smallholder farmers in Africa to pay for crucial inputs like seed and fertilizer in pre-paid installments as they prove their ability to save.
Weather data company Pessl Instruments is collaborating with Huawei on releasing new products in 2017. Find out more and how Phytech is being deployed in Australia in this week’s Ag Industry Brief.
Catch up on a diversified week of fundings in the food and agtech market as things start to heat up as we approach the end of the year.
A collaboration between AgFunder and ReFed, this article aims to highlight some of the technologies working towards reducing food waste globally that are not always associated with the problem.
Sperm sexing technology, hi-tech glasses for drones, and an aerial imagery company working with John Deere make up a very diverse and exciting Ag Industry Brief this week!
Decisive Farming recently raised $6 million in Series A funding and focuses on one key area to keep the competition at bay.
A varied week of agtech fundings includes a food waste-to-biofertilizer company, a leading global private equity firm, an Irish startup using artificial intelligence to find healthy peptides, a precision ag software startup, and more.
Agribusinesses are at risk of being left behind if they don’t make technology investment a core part of their strategy, according to a new report from BCG Consulting and AgFunder.
US farmland values fell 0.2 percent in Q3, representing a shift from 0.7 percent growth during Q2. Whole Foods is in a spot over two cases of Hepatitis in Detroit, while Western Growers plans to award startups at its upcoming AGM.
Zymergen is engineering microbes for use across a range of industries including agriculture, and has raised one of agtech’s largest funding rounds to-date.
IntelinAir, the aerial imagery analysis company for the agriculture industry, yesterday announced the addition of two board members and some agronomy and robotics experts to its advisory committee.
Agriculture technology has emerged as a new destination for investors, but it still lacks definition. Here are five ways to think about it.
American Farm Bureau Insurance Services and Granular have partnered to simplify crop insurance for their clients, and Proagrica will offer clients on its global ag analytics platform access to Iteris ag information services.
Ahead of the PrecisionAg Vision Conference in Phoenix, Arizona next month, James Sulecki writes about five key trends in horticulture technology.
Crop Enhancement, a startup using what it dubs “sustainable chemistry” to combat crop pests and increase crop yields in the tropics, has raised $8.5 million in Series B funding.
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