Watch your six, Amazon. Google’s Wing Aviation, the first company to receive FAA clearance for drone delivery, is starting trials in Virginia on tech that’s “safer than cars.”
Until now, the Tel Aviv-based startup has been operating in stealth mode, honing its technology and accelerating adoption of its service with a clandestine list of clients including large-scale citrus growers.
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Israel-based drone software company Skyx and US-based drone hardware designer Advanced Tactics (AT) have partnered to take crop spraying drones to the next level.
Deveron, which sends pilots to fly drones over farmland on request, will gain precision agriculture capabilities by bringing Veritas’s team of agronomists, plant scientists, and data scientists onto its staff.
A busy week of fundings as the year draws to a close includes food safety technology, insect farming, food waste technology, Indian supply chain technology and more.
Software for drones provider DroneDeploy has raised $20 million in Series B funding led by tech investment firm Scale Venture Partners and ExactTarget co-founder Scott Dorsey’s fund.
This week, PURE Bioscience raises $1.27 million, while Farmers Edge gets another $3.2m, hyperspectral drone imagery company Gamaya raises $3m, and five food e-commerce startups from the Europe, Asia and the US raise $131m collectively. Impossible Foods is also on the road for $200m.
Swiss drone imagery company Gamaya has raised SFr 3.2 million ($3.2 million) in Series A funding to develop its hyperspectral imaging sensor and analytics software platform.
Microbiome Innovation Startup Pivot Bio Raises $16m Series A The microbiome is a hot topic among agtech entrepreneurs and investors at the moment as research
Airware recently announced the first two investments for its newly established Commercial Drone Fund: Redbird, a cloud data analysis company operating out of Paris, France,
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