Here’s where AI could make the biggest impact in the agrifoodtech sector
May 30, 2023
AI’s biggest potential impact likes in making complex analytics accessible and affordable to agrifood and agribusiness processes.
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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.
The Small Robot Company nearly ‘through the danger zone’ after losing lead investor and launching crowdfunding campaign
May 10, 2023
SRC (Small Robot Company) is building survival runway via crowdfunding but says its difficulties are common amongst UK ag robotics startups.
70% of specialty crop growers now investing in farm robots, says new Western Growers report
May 8, 2023
Robots that automate the task of weeding are far and away the most popular right now amongst specialty crop growers, says Western Growers.
Why Farmers Business Network launched Norm, an AI advisor for farmers built on ChatGPT
May 4, 2023
Generative AI platform Norm could become “a principal way to interact with a lot of parts of the FBN experience,” says the company.
Tevel named winner at World Ag Expo for advancing autonomous harvesting using flying robots
April 18, 2023
Tevel is partnering with ag machinery manufacturers and integrating its robots and ground computing software system with harvesting machinery.
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Concept Genie, build me a beverage concept with milk and lemon…’ Ai Palette unveils generative AI tool to speed up new product development
April 18, 2023
[Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Ai Palette.] Singapore-based startup Ai Palette is building out its capabilities to help food and beverage companies
Food & ag corporates prefer to engage with academia, research over startups, according to open innovation report
April 17, 2023
Only half of agrifood corps have used startup scouting in open innovation efforts, preferring to collaborate with research, according to new report.
Energy management platform TablePointer scoops $3m From Wavemaker, AgFunder & others
April 10, 2023
With its plug-and-play system, TablePointer hopes to enable small- and medium-sized enterprises to manage their energy cheaply and more efficiently.
‘Massive impact on how we grow fresh produce.’ Why Astanor Ventures led $23m Source.ag Series A
February 22, 2023
Source.ag’s AI-based system creates “extreme efficiencies” in greenhouse production and improve food security and transparency, says Astanor.
Farm software startups in Asia Pacific raised more funding in 2022 despite downturn
February 22, 2023
Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze food and agriculture technology investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more
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.
Look to other geographies for business models and not just their tech; takeaways from World Bank’s Africa-Korea Agtech Summit
February 14, 2023
Learn from other geographies with similar challenges, create room for blended financing and other snippets from the Africa-Korea Agtech Summit
‘Proven science is an anomaly’: Why Middleland Capital invested in gut microbiome startup BIOHM
January 30, 2023
Powerful data and validated science were just a few of the reasons Middleland Capital led BIOHM’s recent $7.5m funding round.
FBN invests in and partners with Greeneye herbicide reduction tech in “ironic” deal
January 25, 2023
The partnership will combine the Farmers Business Network’s customized crop protection plans with Greeneye’s AI-based precision weed spraying system.
Brief: EarthOptics nets $27.6m Series B to advance soil sensing and data platform
January 23, 2023
EarthOptics, a company based in Arlington, Virginia that provides soil data measurement technologies and services, has secured $27.6 million Series B funding. The round was
Top 10 alternative protein startups brought in $1.3bn in 2022 vs $2.3bn in 2021
January 18, 2023
It’s been a tough few months for the alternative protein startup category, particularly companies developing plant-based meat, dairy, and seafood alternatives
BREAKING: Alphabet brings agtech startup out of stealth with data from 10% of world’s farmland, 3 major customers
January 10, 2023
Mineral aims to provide foundational and actionable data and analytics for companies across food, agriculture, and technology and it solves for a key issue holding back digital agriculture advancements for years: lacking data.
2022’s 5 biggest foodtech deals
December 28, 2022
Food delivery, cultivated meat, and bio-energy startups across Asia, North America and Oceana landed agrifoodtech’s top five deals of 2022.
Why AgFunder invested in Verdant Robotics
December 8, 2022
Verdant Robotics recently announced a $46.5 million Series A funding, led by Cleveland Avenue. AgFunder first invested in the seed stage round a few years ago when the company was still in stealth. Here AgFunder partner Rob Leclerc explains why.
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Here’s where AI could make the biggest impact in the agrifoodtech sector