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How One Veteran’s Personal Journey Sparked the Creation of a Multi-Million Dollar Cannabis Startup

November 8, 2018 Lauren Manning Leave a comment

“I never consumed cannabis for the first 29 years of my life, Socrates Rosenfeld founder and CEO of Jane Technologies tells AgFunderNews after raising a $6m Series A round of funding.

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Full Harvest Raises $8.5m Series A for Food Waste Marketplace

August 15, 2018 Louisa Burwood-Taylor 1 Comment

Full Harvest says it is the only business-to-business marketplace for the end-to-end purchase, sale, and logistics of surplus and imperfect produce.

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FarmLead’s Online Grain Marketplace Raises $6.5m Series A Led by Monsanto

March 20, 2017 Louisa Burwood-Taylor 1 Comment

FarmLead helps growers, who typically sell to a handful of local buyers, to negotiate better prices for their grain by opening them up to a new set of potential buyers online.

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Frankly Speaking

Alternative Protein Startups: Let’s Get the Facts Straight about Livestock’s Carbon Footprint

March 21, 2019 7:05 am | By Lauren Manning

The issue of livestock farming’s impact on the environment is not as clear cut as many would have you believe. In fact, many much of the data dairy and meat alternative businesses are using to market their animal-free wares are inaccurate and misleading. Read more →

Editor’s Pick

Cultivating Agtech Leadership for Established Row Crop Leaders

March 22, 2019 1:58 pm | By Sponsored Post

One of the drags on successful agtech innovation is the under-representation of the producers’ voice, writes the Illinois Soybean Association. Read more →

Startup Corner

TERRA Growth Stage AgriFood Accelerator Opens for Applications!

April 18, 2019 1:04 pm | By Sponsored Post

TERRA, a non-equity-based accelerator program, is unique in its approach to acceleration by focusing on startups that are ready to scale their businesses, as opposed to those at the proof of concept stage refining their pitches for seed funding. Read more →

Research & Data

Top 20 Retail & Restaurant Tech Startups in 2018

April 10, 2019 9:07 pm | By Lauren Manning

Retail and restaurant tech is a category of agrifood tech startups encompassing technologies and services aimed at making retail food businesses more profitable as well as improving shopper experience at the supermarket, in restaurants and other brick & mortar stores.

Animal AgTech, The Sector’s Awkward Uncle, Proudly Struts Its Stuff In San Fran

March 26, 2019 3:01 pm | By Richard Martyn-Hemphill

Animal agtech is no innovation backwater as the inaugural ReThink summit focused on the sector proved last week in San Francisco. Read more →

Podcast

Future Food: Will We Have Kitchens in 2050? Climate Corp Founder Friedberg Shares His Vision of Future Food System

March 12, 2019 2:54 pm | By Louisa Burwood-Taylor

What will you be eating in 2050? How will it get to your table? How we grow, purchase, and eat our food is changing. New technologies are playing a key role in shaping that change. In this podcast, we speak to the people driving that future, from entrepreneurs and venture capital investors, to chef, farmers and food businesses. Welcome to Future Food! Read more →

Technology Corner

3Bar Biologics and Pivot Bio Team Up to Crack One of the Biggest Barriers to the Adoption of Biologicals

March 20, 2019 1:41 pm | By Lauren Manning

The duo is hoping to smash one of the biggest barriers to biologics adoption by providing farmers with a way to cultivate living microbial inputs on the farm that cannot survive in the current supply chain without cold storage. Read more →

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Tag Archives: ecommerce

How One Veteran’s Personal Journey Sparked the Creation of a Multi-Million Dollar Cannabis Startup

Full Harvest Raises $8.5m Series A for Food Waste Marketplace

FarmLead’s Online Grain Marketplace Raises $6.5m Series A Led by Monsanto

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