3 Entrepreneurs Discuss What it Takes to Be a Woman Working in Agtech
On International Women’s Day, AgFunderNews reporter Lauren Manning caught up with three female agtech entrepreneurs to find out what it’s like working in agtech.
On International Women’s Day, AgFunderNews reporter Lauren Manning caught up with three female agtech entrepreneurs to find out what it’s like working in agtech.
A busy week of fundings brings newly-named Indigo, Understory, American Botanicals and Gaia Herbs to this week’s Fundings-in-Brief
Steve Pitstick manages Pitstick Farms in Maple Park, Illinois and recently attended and spoke at PrecisionAg Innovation Series. Here he tells us some of his key takeaways from the day.
MicaSense’s $7.4m investment from a drone company and Label Insight’s $10m Series B investment from a global accounting firm are just two of this week’s Fundings-in-Brief.
Koch Industries first turned its attention to ag biologicals in December 2014 when it acquired part of plant science company Mendel Biotechnology.
Cultured meat manufacturer Memphis Meat, UK farm-2-consumer company FarmDrop and Syngenta’s acquisition by ChemChina are some of this week’s Fundings-in-Brief.
*Agrible recently brought on new investor Flyover Capital to close out its Series A. The deal first closed in July 2015 with Serra Ventures and ADM. This is an updated version of a post that was first published on July 22, 2015.
RFD-TV and The Weather Channel have launched the Farm & Ranch Forecast as a “tool” to help farmers make everyday decisions.
Strider, a decision support technology offering farmers a relatively simple data aggregation and pest management tool, brought on its first US customers at the end of last year.
The seed treatment company raised the majority of the funding from an Australian agriculture producer.
The UK-based agtech business competition is organized by Agri-Tech East, a cluster organization for the sector. Initial expressions of interest are due March 7, 2016.
Farmland fund manager SLM Partners argues that ecological farming provides an alternative way to produce more with less, through deeply science-based and knowledge-intensive farming systems.
The National Farmers’ Federation is spearheading the initiatives alongside commercial partners such as Accenture and Vodafone, after Prime Minister Turnbull announced them late last year.
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.
USAID, the Government of Sweden, the Government of Germany, Duke Energy Corporation, and the United States Overseas Private Investment Corporation have pledged a total of $47m to clean energy projects for agriculture.
Paine & Partners acquired the Australian pest control business through its fourth fund as industry insiders discuss the development of the ag biological industry.
Farm491 will offer startup space in two new facilities near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, and give startups access to 491 hectares of farmland for testing and research.
In the first week of COP21, the Paris Climate Change conference, Monsanto announced a carbon neutral crop production plan as a group of food, farming and environmental organizations announced plans to put the agribusiness on trial for crimes against humanity at the Hague.
This week’s news-in-brief covers the launch of a new crop-spraying drone, a $20m commitment by New Zealand to combat agricultural emissions, and agribusiness PE fund Arlon leads sugar business M&A.
It’s been quite a year for aWhere, which closed its $7 million Series A round of funding in September 2014 on AgFunder, as the company sets its sights on the financial markets.