Deere is investing in not one company but an entirely new way of doing crop protection and, ultimately, commodity farming.
With its regulatory process now complete, California’s LahakX readies its drone swarming and spot spraying tech for fields in California.
The Solix Sprayer can help farms reduce their chemical inputs and deliver a lower carbon footprint and environmental impact.
Apeel Sciences and Benchling are among the startups addressing the tools and services needed in the middle of the agrifood value chain.
Sustainable Farming is both under-funded and a major opportunity for investors wishing to get involved with climate tech.
Fyto’s automated grow environments for aquatic plants promise to provide a more sustainable protein base for animal feed, human food, and soil amendments.
Fresh off a Series B fundraise, Pachama discusses how its technology could make forest carbon markets less fragmented and more productive.
Brazil- and US-based Solinftec will expand availability of its precision ag farm management platform to additional growers in North and South America.
Cultivate Next will invest in early-stage restaurant tech that can enhance both guest and employee experiences.
Food retailers need technologies that can automate the supply chain to minimize disruptions and optimize inventory management.
The US company’s e-commerce portal provides a more efficient way to source proteins for novel food ingredients, drug discovery, and more.
Many of big deals during H1 involved startups automating simple, everyday tasks within broader agricultural operations.
“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.
It’s developing robots with force control that can mimic human dexterity to tackle complex but repetitive tasks in agriculture, foodservice, and logistics.
The UK firm is buying two US startups, with CEO Tim Steiner seeing “significant opportunities” in robotic manipulation solutions for online retail and logistics.
SwarmFarm was founded in 2012 by farmer couple Andrew and Jocie Bate, who also run a dryland crop and beef cattle operation in rural Queensland.
The San Francisco-based startup aims to streamline the food supply chain and reduce food waste by improving digital linkages between producers, distributors, and retailers.
As global venture capital is poised for a downturn, agri-foodtech investors observe the sector’s resilience and creativity amid near-term uncertainty.
The St. Louis-based company is on a mission to boost precision farming with a remote monitoring and analytics platform that gives growers, retailers and suppliers better in-field insights.
For the last several months, I’ve been monitoring the roll-out of robo-chefs in restaurants and I’ve started visiting them. Here’s what I thought of Spyce in Boston.
I’m drowning in new food! Can someone please restructure me out of this mess?