Leaf Agriculture raises $11.3m Series A to build ‘the lingua franca’ of ag data
August 1, 2024
“The cost of using Leaf pays for itself in both lower initial development costs and reduced maintenance costs.”
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What agtech can learn from the Indy 500: a conversation about data and uncertainty with Purdue’s Chad Fiechter
June 24, 2024
In the race to digitize agriculture we must remember to keep growers and producers at the center of operations and innovations.
BREAKING: Ag insights platform Gro Intelligence is closing down
May 31, 2024
Ag insights platform Gro Intelligence is calling it quits after failing to secure enough capital to stay afloat following a turbulent few months, AgFunderNews understands.
Gro Intelligence sued by ex-employees for failing to provide advance notice of mass layoffs
April 8, 2024
Gro did not provide advance written notice of its mass layoffs as required under federal and state law, allege former employees in a proposed class action lawsuit.
Exclusive: Ag insights platform Gro Intelligence unable to make payroll, replaces founder with new CEO
February 23, 2024
CTO James Cariello has been named as the new CEO at the firm, which recently laid off 10% of its staff and has been trying to raise fresh capital through a convertible bond.
Job cuts at AI-powered ag insights platform Gro Intelligence: ‘They have a great product, but I’m not sure they know how to sell it’
February 15, 2024
“The CEO got all [of the] company [together] in a less than five-minute call and the affected ones were disconnected less than an hour and a half afterwards.”
Exclusive: Innova Memphis leads $2.8m round for iYOTAH to tackle the dairy sector’s massive data problem
February 5, 2024
When it comes to data management for dairy producers, there’s a massive untapped opportunity for innovation, says VC investor Innova.
10 years of Farmers Business Network, from ‘tremendous fear and uncertainty’ to a ‘tremendously exciting future’
December 18, 2023
“As we matured and scaled, people got increasingly nervous about what that could mean for their business.”
Investment in data integration is crucial for companies in the agricultural supply chain
November 20, 2023
Connecting valuable data, whether it’s coming from an animal, a truck or an input is the crucial first step.
BeeHero aims for more control outside the hive with the launch of a new pollination insights platform
August 8, 2023
BeeHero says the new platform is meant to bring the same granularity of data found via its in-hive sensors to activity in the field
How the Croptix platform is changing plant nutrition and disease monitoring
June 14, 2023
AEA’s John Kempf on why his company led the recent seed round for US-based precision agriculture startup Croptix.
Former Impossible Foods CFO David Lee launches new startup, Inevitable Tech, to be ‘the AI for agtech’
May 15, 2023
The company’s first product will be a “clean propagation system” to ensure healthier, higher-quality plants.
Bayer, Microsoft formalize and launch cloud-based data manager, tools for agriculture
March 14, 2023
Bayer and Microsoft will offer off-the-shelf digital tools to aggregate ag data and better track everything from plant growth to supply chain visibility.
What is “the next big thing” for agtech?
March 8, 2023
As we look to the next decade there’s an underserved, tech-driven opportunity for founders and investors alike: serving the ag service providers.
Meet the founder: HabiTerre discusses the importance of credibility before commercialization in agtech
February 17, 2023
University professor and startup founder Kaiyu Guan discusses remote sensing, computational modeling and why scientific credibility is critical for agtech’s success.
FBN appoints Temasek’s John Vaske as new CEO, co-founder Amol Deshpande steps down
February 16, 2023
Co-founder Amol Deshpande, who started Farmers Business Network in 2014, is stepping down as CEO “to pursue other interests.”
With $1bn deployed, FBN Finance now offers bridge loans for farmers to expedite farmland financing
February 14, 2023
The FBN bridge loan tool helps farmers compete against cash offers and larger ag companies and investors when securing land.
Brief: Google joins $13.7m round for Cropin’s data-driven farm management platform
January 11, 2023
Series D funding will expand cloud-based platform, Cropin Cloud, which unifies the company’s various apps and services for agriculture
An 8-step action plan to fix the soil health tech stack now
October 31, 2022
Standardizing soil data will build a thriving marketplace that rewards farmers and ranchers for actions that increase soil health and sequester carbon.
Innovation hub AgriFutures growAG. plans to make Australia the agtech capital of the Southern Hemisphere
October 30, 2022
The growAG platform connects startups, researchers, investors and other key players with opportunities in Australia’s agtech industry.
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