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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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FoodBytes! by Rabobank is Returning to London in November 2019: Applications Open Now!

June 24, 2019 9:16 am | By Sponsored Post

For Rob Wilson, chief toaster at startup Toast Ale, the experience was far more than just a pitch competition and demo day. Read more →

Editor’s Pick

The Road to Automated Agriculture Begins in Brazil

July 10, 2019 5:24 pm | By Rob Leclerc

Solinftec could be the operating system for the autonomous farm and they've just hired a new CEO to rapidly drive the startup's global expansion, writes AgFunder founding partner Rob Leclerc. Read more →

Technology Corner

Does This Smell Off? Aryballe’s “Digital Nose” Can Tell You

July 15, 2019 8:07 pm | By Jessica Pothering

Remember doing the “smell test” before you poured the contents of your questionable, perhaps expired milk bottle on your morning cereal? French startup Aryballe has a solution to that deep, apprehensive whiff. Read more →

Tailgate Talk

Farmers and Entrepreneurs May Need to Rethink the Path to Agtech Adoption

July 18, 2019 8:24 am | By Sponsored Post

The future of row crop production is exciting and compelling, and as innovators and investors discuss the “possible,” an important question lingers: how – and how fast - will the farmers evolve their practices and business models to be successful as tomorrow’s farm leaders? Read more →

Frankly Speaking

A Surprisingly Developed Agtech Ecosystem Flourishes in Central Mexico

June 28, 2019 2:19 pm | By Adrian Garcia-Casarrubias

What I witnessed during the recent 2019 Mexico AgTech Competition was inspirational and motivating," writes Adrian Garcia-Casarrubias. Read more →

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Farmers and Entrepreneurs May Need to Rethink the Path to Agtech Adoption

July 18, 2019 8:24 am | By Sponsored Post

Investor Insight

Future Positive Capital’s Vision for the Future of Farming and Food

June 20, 2019 11:21 am | By Jessica Pothering

Armed with $57 million, Future Positive Capital intends to place more bets on wonky tech ideas that have the potential to drive systems change while reaping profits in long-established markets, like food and agriculture. Read more →

Research & Data

Regenerative Agriculture is Having a Moment and 70 Investments Worth $47.5bn are in it

July 11, 2019 5:59 pm | By Louisa Burwood-Taylor

Regenerative agriculture is having a moment. For long-time regen ag practitioners and proponents, this is probably jarring. But having written about regenerative agriculture for five years now, I've never seen such engagement or our stories about this ultra-sustainable method of farming perform so well. Read more →

Podcast

Future Food: Jennifer Betka on How Consumer Signals Influence Her Work as CMO of Indigo Agriculture

July 4, 2019 11:15 am | By Louisa Burwood-Taylor

Jennifer is an expert marketer with a career spanning many different industries outside of agriculture, most recently at StubHub the event ticketing business, so it's really interesting to hear about her transition into this industry. 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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