Tag: Bees

BeeHero blossoms with $4m seed round to commercialize precision pollination

May 28, 2020

The startup hopes to shake up some long-standing ways of thinking about how to measure pollination while improving bee health.

Startup Spotlight: BeeHero is using tech to make pollination-as-a-service a bit sweeter for farmers and bees

November 1, 2019

The startup tracks pollination quality in real-time to provide farmers reliant on bees with hyper-efficient pollination.

The land of alt milk and AI honey: notes from Israel’s AgriFood Week

September 26, 2019

I tucked into my first ever breakfast in Israel early this Sunday morning faced with a blatantly biblical reminder, but there’s nothing typical about the future milk and honey being developed by the country’s booming foodtech scene.

AgriFood Tech Spotlight: Dropcopter is Pollinating Orchards with Drones as Bee Colonies Decline

February 18, 2019

Pollination is one of the biggest concerns for specialty crop growers, especially as bee populations continue to decline.

ApisProtect Raises $1.8m Seed Funding to Monitor Bees with IoT

November 20, 2018

The startup measures data from beehives — including temperature, humidity, CO2, sound, and movement data — and analyzes that data to provide beekeepers with alerts about potential issues that could lead to bee colony losses.

Oracle Partners with World Bee Project to Monitor World’s Declining Bee Population

October 18, 2018

The World Bee Project Hive Network will start monitoring beehives using sensing technologies from two UK startups — BuzzBox and Arnia — which will transmit the data they collect into the cloud for analysis.

Beehive Management Tech Raises Series A To Avoid Hive Loss

September 6, 2017

The Bee Corp develops decision support software that monitors conditions inside a commercial beehive, focusing on utilizing commoditized IoT sensors and data science.