Tag: artificial intelligence

Brief: Chipotle trials kitchen automation with new tortilla chip-making robot Chippy

March 28, 2022

The US restaurant chain has teamed up with Miso Robotics to pilot kitchen automation solution Chippy.

IUNU raises $24m Series B funding to bring ‘true autonomy’ to CEA

March 16, 2022

Seattle-based IUNU will use the new funds to expand its platform, which provides computer vision and data analytics to CEA growers.

Faeth raises $20m from Khosla, AgFunder to battle cancer with food

January 18, 2022

It uses “precision therapies, software, and nutrition to help treat cancer, for the millions of patients who desperately need better outcomes,” according to CEO Anand Parikh.

Olam calls on Brightseed’s AI to uncover health properties of garlic & pepper

January 12, 2022

The head of Olam’s spices business said that Brightseed’s data insights “will help us unlock the health potential and differentiation in our spice supply and fuel future innovation.”

Digital ag platforms xFarm & Farm Technologies merge to become ‘Spotify of agtech’

December 7, 2021

The Italian startups will combine their businesses to help 80,000 farms boost efficiency across 1 million hectares using data.

Complete Farmer looks to the crowd to give African smallholders a boost

November 16, 2021

The Ghanaian startup allows crowdfunders – which it calls ‘digifarmers’ – to invest in African smallholdings, and then digitalizes the ag value chain end-to-end.

Why it is important to evolve from precision farming to Agriculture 4.0

November 5, 2021

Agriculture 4.0 will give farmers the opportunity to diversify their businesses like never before, increasing both profitability and sustainability.

TrusTrace scores $6m to bring sustainability & traceability to agrifood supply chains

October 14, 2021

The Stockholm-based startup claims its platform has tracked over 8,000 suppliers, 250,000 products, and goods worth more than $12 billion to date.

Investor Q&A: Why Toyota Ventures invested in Burro’s farm robots

October 11, 2021

Managing director Jim Adler discusses his firm’s recent investment in farm robots startup Burro and where Toyota plans to look next in agtech.

Botmaker Burro banks $11m Series A funding in Toyota, S2G-led round

September 28, 2021

The Philadelphia-based startup claims its agricultural bots of burden are “the only plug-and-play autonomous people-scale” solution on the market.

EXCLUSIVE: Intelinair raises $20m to scale digital agronomy product, expand into carbon

September 23, 2021

It has completely overhauled its go-to-market strategy after bringing on a former Dow AgroSciences CEO as an investor and board member.

EXCLUSIVE: Ai Palette raises $4.4m to help brands predict the food trends of the future

August 24, 2021

The Singapore-based startup secured the Series A funding from Exfinity Venture Partners, pi Ventures, and AgFunder, among others.

India’s AgNext banks $21m Series A funding, delivers 5x return for exiting investor

August 20, 2021

The startup will use the capital to cement its presence in India and expand its food quality assessment platform to the Middle East and Europe.

Nutreco, Polish state fund pump $25m into animal antibiotic alternative Proteon

August 11, 2021

The Polish startup is using bacteriophages – viruses that infect bacteria – as an alternative to antibiotics for aquaculture and land-based livestock ag.

AgFunder exit review: John Deere’s $250m acquisition of Bear Flag Robotics

August 5, 2021

“When we invested, what I loved about Bear Flag was that they were solving the right problem,” writes AgFunder partner Rob Leclerc about his firm’s exit from the ag automation startup.

Danone partners with nutrient discovery startup Brightseed amid ‘plant-based 2.0’ push

August 4, 2021

The pair are expanding on their earlier collaboration, which “uncovered 10 times more bioactives than previously known” in the soybean plant.

ClimateAi raises $12m Series A from Robert Downey Jr fund, others

July 21, 2021

“We’ve reached an inflection point on climate adaptation, and there’s a growing sense of urgency around preparing supply chains,” said CEO Himanshu Gupta.

Precision ag player reborn as soil carbon market Boomitra; scores $4m from Yara, Chevron

June 22, 2021

The San Jose-based startup aims to offer farmers an easy, cost-effective route to measuring soil carbon and participating in carbon credits markets.

Quantum computing’s answer to the global food security problem

June 15, 2021

Quantum hardware’s depth of analysis would likely advance our understanding of the genetic code of plants – and humans – far beyond what we know today.