After raising $850,000 in an overfunded campaign with AgFunder last December, AgSmarts will send 50 units of its irrigation system to retailers this month.
From precision agriculture to biotech to drones, VCs pumped funds into companies that are revolutionizing how we grow, produce, and distribute food around the world.
Taking a page out of Climate Corporation’s playbook, Farmers Edge acquired GranDuke Geomatics of Lethbridge, Alberta. According to an agreement finalized on January 9, the precision
AgriMetis, a biotech company developing crop protection agents, closed a $7.3m Series A led by Syngenta Ventures and Acidophil. Lutherville-based Agrimetis, which was co-founded in
Village Capital just wrapped up demo day for Batch 2 of their Agtech accelerator program (Ag Global Program), and have announced the the peer-selected recipients
Yield Lab, a new St.Louis-based ag tech accelerator program launched in September, announced its first class of five startups. More than 100 companies applied to the program from
Gladstone (Nasdaq:LAND) announced that it closed on the acquisition of a 331-acre strawberry farm in Salinas, California, for approximately $17.0 million. The Company won the
An international architectural and design consultancy has revealed a conceptual proposal to address two major concerns in the city-state: its rapidly aging population and its lack of locally grown produce.
The wireless “smart gardening system” could help growers of all levels — professional farmers and novice rooftop-tomato-plant hobbyists alike — make the most of their plants and resources.
With agtech investment on pace to quadruple in 2014 to nearly $1 billion, Silicon Valley can’t seem to get enough of this super hot sector.
Gabe Friedman over at Bloomberg Businessweek reports that New Jersey based AeroFarms is taking over the former District 89 nightclub in the Ironbound district of Downtown
The discussion, Technology on the Menu: Food of the Future, focused on advancements within the AgTech space and how new technologies and methods from each sector might shape the way the global community produces its food in the coming decades.
The NYC AgTech Meetup Group will be kicking off its first monthly event in New York on Thursday, November 6th, at 7pm. As this was the first
Editor’s note: Fred Greguras is an attorney at Royce Law. This article originally appeared on their blog. I recently became good friends with my water meter
Harvest Power, which turns organic biowaste into bioenergy, natural soils, fertilizers and mulches, announced a $20 million financing round. The lead investors were True North Venture Partners,
AgReliant Genetics, the third largest corn seed company in the U.S. and Spensa Technologies, a multiplatform agriculture services company have signed an agreement that will help growers
Using a microwave radiometer and radar, SMAP will measure surface soil moisture and freeze-thaw levels across the entire globe every two to three days, providing what NASA calls the “most detailed maps yet made” of these conditions worldwide.
By: Erica Gies, independent journalist. This post originally appeared on Ensia. Grapevines march across wires strung along rolling hills, their little trunks improbably supporting heavy
A company called Green & Grow is really living up to its name. The Austin-based producer of bio-products to improve ag productivity just announced
With humanitarian and public health concerns in mind, many ranchers and consumers are embracing grass-fed sources of meat. Amidst this growing interest, a California-based startup
