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January 19, 2017
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Ag Industry Brief, Amber Agriculture Wins Best Startup At CES, Agribotix Partners with SenseFly, Larta Wins SBA Tibbetts Award, more
January 16, 2017
Awards, partnerships and agtech product trials dominate this week’s industry brief.
Geospatial Engineer
January 12, 2017
Who You Are You enjoy taking initiative and getting things done, rather than sitting back and waiting for direction. You have experience identifying innovative ways
Data Engineer
January 12, 2017
Who You Are You have experience deploying robust, efficient web services and data pipelines. Equally important is your ability to ensure the served data is
FarmLogs Raises $22m Series C as CEO Vows Never to Exit to Agribusiness
January 11, 2017
The South African media group led the round for data analytics and record-keeping tool FarmLogs, joined by existing investors.
Associate, Field Agronomy
January 9, 2017
Terviva is a California-based start-up that is commercializing Pongamia pinnata as a new horticultural tree crop. Pongamia is a legume tree producing an annual crop
How One Startup is Deploying Agtech in Developing Markets
January 9, 2017
Smallholder farmers have limited cash flow to be able to purchase new agtech, so SunCulture, and other agtech startups operating in the African region, have had to get creative in how they sell their wares.
The Carbon Contract: How Ag Data Can Enable Robust Carbon Markets
December 30, 2016
Wade Barnes writes about the role precision ag technologies can play in offsetting carbon emissions and participating in the carbon market in Canada.
Suits (or Hoodies) and Boots: What Corporates and Farmers Can Learn from Each Other
December 29, 2016
Kate Burke, founder of Think Agri, a consultancy firm based in Melbourne, Australia, is on a mission to fill the education gap between investors and agribusinesses.
Kleiner Perkins Exits Farmers Edge as ‘Canada’s Warren Buffet’ Buys Stake – exclusive
December 20, 2016
Fairfax Financial, the investment company of Prem Watsa, has invested in Canadian digital precision agriculture company Farmers Edge, injecting new capital into the company as well as buying stock from existing investors.
Yagro Raises $500k Seed Round for Online Marketplace for Agri Inputs – exclusive
December 19, 2016
The UK-based startup raised the funding from local angel investors but is planning to expand overseas after conquering the UK.
Scotts Miracle-Gro Acquires Oso Tech After Rollercoaster Ride for Startup
December 14, 2016
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.
Airware’s Commercial Drone Fund Invests in Raptor Maps
December 7, 2016
This funding marks Commercial Drone Fund’s fourth investment, but its first foray into ag-focused drone technologies.
How Machine Learning and Big Data Are Driving Progress in Indoor Agriculture
December 5, 2016
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.
Ag Industry Brief: Rabobank’s Terra Accelerator Opens, Two New Agtech Competitions Launch, Scotts Acquires Majority of AeroGrow, more
December 5, 2016
Startup resources continue to grow with a new accelerator and two competitions launching last week.
Smallholder Farmers Have the Ability to Save and myAgro is Helping Them Do It
November 21, 2016
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.
Ag Industry Brief: Pessl Partners with Huawei on IoT for Ag, Olam Deploys Phytech, IntelinAir Adds New CoFounder, more
November 18, 2016
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.
Agtech Funding Sheet: Gene-editing, Food Waste, Insects, Algae, Impact, Biotech, Farmland, more
November 17, 2016
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.
The Billion Dollar Food Waste Market Investors Are Missing
November 17, 2016
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.
Ag Industry Brief: ‘Google Glass’ of Drones Launches, IntelinAir Connects to John Deere, AgriMetis Named Startup to Watch, more
November 7, 2016
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!
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