Brief: Farmers Edge completes $99m Toronto IPO, shares jump 18%
The Winnipeg-based precision ag company’s share price leapt by almost 18% in its first day of trading.
The Winnipeg-based precision ag company’s share price leapt by almost 18% in its first day of trading.
The New Brunswick-based startup is commercializing its mastitis detection technology, starting with beta trials on dairies in Canada.
The Toronto-based company has pivoted from drones as a core business to offering multi-layer analytics as farmers seek the most bang for their data bucks.
Economic and retail data may help to explain why hydroponic lettuce has some way to go before it can compete on price with conventionally grown plants.
The Montreal-based startup says it has designed its robots to ‘collaborate’ with human employees, rather than replace them completely.
Patrick Morris, CEO of the Vancouver-based foodtech fund, tells AFN why it decided to go down the IPO route – and what it has planned for the future.
With the new business unit, Canadian telecom giant Telus is aiming to provide tech solutions across the entire agrifood supply chain.
The US company’s plant-based products had already made it onto restaurant menus in Asia, but now Hong Kongers and Singaporeans can cook them at home too.
Farmers Edge will assist growers in tracking and verifying production data, while Radicle will help them identify opportunities to qualify for credits.
The Canadian startup provides solar-powered, self-cleaning sensors that can keep track of livestock feed levels in real time.
As the restaurant industry turns to tech amid Covid-19, startups are landing investment – and have a unique opportunity to accelerate tech adoption.
The ongoing legal battle between Farmers Edge and Farmobile over which company owns the rights to a technology that gathers data from farm machinery has
The Ontario-based startup is counting on nanotechnology to offer farmers the benefits of both traditional chemical-based inputs and newer biological products.
The Canadian startup claims to have the only smart LED lighting technology that reproduces the full spectrum of the sun’s natural light.
The Canadian icon will ramp up its expansion in China and improve its digital capabilities with a helping hand from the Shenzhen-based tech giant.
There are many farm management software platforms trying to help farmers address long-standing problems like labor shortages and team communication even before the global Covid-19 pandemic added extra pressure. Farmer’s Hive is a new kid on the block.
For the Canadian startup, traceability and food safety are about finding correlations across the food system – and not just telling a product’s story.
Vertical farming venture Infarm’s Emmanuel Evita shares with AFN how Covid-19 is disrupting and driving its expansion and demand for hyper-local fresh food.
This Canadian startup is hoping to address transportation in the livestock industry where welfare and stress are major concerns.
This is ArcTern’s fourth investment from its $200 million Fund II but appears to be its first in agtech beyond a bet on ethanol production.
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