Startup Spotlight: ClearLeaf is tackling worker & environmental welfare through crop inputs
November 19, 2020
The Costa Rican startup tells AFN about its experience of raising capital in its home country.
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Vive’s nanotech-powered crop inputs land $5.4m funding
July 28, 2020
The Ontario-based startup is counting on nanotechnology to offer farmers the benefits of both traditional chemical-based inputs and newer biological products.
Andes Ag is integrating seeds with beneficial microbes to combat inherent delivery challenges for biologics
June 9, 2020
You’ve probably heard of microbials used as seed coating and soil amendments but what about incorporating them directly into seeds?
Viva, Las Vegas! Nevada’s Cultiva nets $2.94m funding to stop crops getting sunburn
May 5, 2020
As any fruit farmer will tell you, sunlight is great — until your trees get sunburnt. The scorching of high value fruits like apples or
Pivot Bio raises $100m Series C to meet demand for sold-out nitrogen-fixing microbe product
April 30, 2020
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.
EXCLUSIVE: MicroGen Biotech raises $3.8m Series A to take heavy metals out of food
April 29, 2020
We’ve seen microbes for crop health but what if they can help prevent dangerous heavy metals from entering food, too?
Input marketplace InstaAgro raises $600k to target Brazil’s underserved small farmers
March 10, 2020
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 leads Series A for WeedOUT to commercialize first species-specific biological herbicide
March 5, 2020
Syngenta Ventures’ Michael Lee tells AFN how the firm is viewing the biologics space and why WeedOUT’s species-specific approach is so important.
NewLeaf Symbiotics raises $20m Series D to expand offerings to broadacre row crops
February 24, 2020
It also announced some changes to its executive leadership with CEO Tom Laurita stepping down in what it described as a streamlined approach towards advancing commercialization.
UPDATE: Agworld acquires plant protection data startup Greenbook
January 29, 2020
Greenbook maintains a searchable database of crop input labels to help users and industry professionals stay current on appropriate usages and warnings
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