The Kenyan agtech venture is helping small farmers shift toward sustainable commercial farming with access to seeds, finacing and markets.
The fund will offer discounted loans to growers who implement regenerative farming practices to improve soil health and nitrogen management.
The biological inputs market is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 11.9% over the next five years, compared to chemicals’ 3.7%, according to recent market research.
The Raleigh, North Carolina-based startup captures and screens microbes found in the natural world to identify apt candidates for pest control and crop protection.
The Netherlands startup is using CRISPR to perform non-transgenic genome edits on plant varieties – in addition to developing nanotech-enabled delivery of crop inputs.
The Berkeley, California-based startup said it’ll use the capital to “rapidly” scale its US business while expanding its global presence and releasing new nitrogen fixation products.
It could file its prospectus – seeking to raise a reported $10 billion at a $60 billion valuation – as soon as next week.
“We’re looking forward to combining [Ginkgo’s] genome editing and fermentation capabilities with our chemical technologies and industry insights in health and crop sciences,” said Sumitomo Chemical CTO Hiroshi Ueda.
The Paris-based startup offers AI-powered hardware that can be mounted onto the roof of a tractor, sprayer, or spreader to automate operations.
“If I tell suppliers I have 25% of retailers on my platform, that’s a very solid proposition compared to 5% of farmers,” Agrim co-founder Mukul Garg tells AFN.
The Pennsylvanian startup makes RhizoSorb, which can be deployed as a fertilizer additive or soil amendment to improve crop uptake of phosphorus and other nutrients.
It’s one of the first agrifoodtech exits of 2021.
The Costa Rican startup tells AFN about its experience of raising capital in its home country.
The Ontario-based startup is counting on nanotechnology to offer farmers the benefits of both traditional chemical-based inputs and newer biological products.
You’ve probably heard of microbials used as seed coating and soil amendments but what about incorporating them directly into seeds?
As any fruit farmer will tell you, sunlight is great — until your trees get sunburnt. The scorching of high value fruits like apples or
Farmers have been so hungry for the corn and wheat amendments that the startup has sold out multiple times flying in the face of skepticism over microbes’ efficacy.
We’ve seen microbes for crop health but what if they can help prevent dangerous heavy metals from entering food, too?
Brazil’s small farmers are worth an estimated $20bn in crop protection buying power but most ag retailers cater to larger commodity-focused operations.
Syngenta Ventures’ Michael Lee tells AFN how the firm is viewing the biologics space and why WeedOut’s species-specific approach is so important.
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