‘Drones-as-a-service’ firm Deveron completes $4.56m funding via private placement
The Toronto-based company has pivoted from drones as a core business to offering multi-layer analytics as farmers seek the most bang for their data bucks.
The Toronto-based company has pivoted from drones as a core business to offering multi-layer analytics as farmers seek the most bang for their data bucks.
The London-based startup has users in 100 countries, and counts major players like Driscoll’s, Kimberly-Clark, and Nestlé among its clients.
With the new business unit, Canadian telecom giant Telus is aiming to provide tech solutions across the entire agrifood supply chain.
The San Francisco-based startup has partnered with the likes of Tridon – the VC arm of Brazilian agribusiness Grupo Jacto, which joined the Series B round – and Brazil telco Claro.
The Californian startup is also working to break down language and technology barriers for US agricultural workers by offering a Spanish version of its app.
The Los Angeles-based startup has created a farm data API with the goal of helping agrifoodtech developers reduce data siloing and boost innovation.
The ongoing legal battle between Farmers Edge and Farmobile over which company owns the rights to a technology that gathers data from farm machinery has
The round was led by Gagarin Capital Partners, with Matrix Capital, Impulse VC, IMI.VC, along with various undisclosed business angels joining in.
Several factors have kept farmers guessing which fields are producing the lion’s share of profit – and which are responsible for making losses, writes Dmytro Lennyi.
There are many farm management software platforms trying to help farmers address long-standing problems like labor shortages and team communication even before the global Covid-19 pandemic added extra pressure. Farmer’s Hive is a new kid on the block.
Facebook’s move to acquire 10% of the Indian telco is about a lot more than agriculture and supply chains. But its impact on the sector could be massive – here’s how.
The collaboration brings private-sector tech players into the mix to extend the scope of the NGO’s contract farming program for rice-growing smallholders.
Big Blue claims its weather monitoring tools can help farmers and agritech startups save costs and improve revenues through better decision-making.
Starting with its native Australia, NNNCo will roll out the moisture sensing tech across the Asia-Pacific region.
Canadian startup XpertSea hopes its portable technology will replace some of the antiquated methods that many producers still use in the world’s biggest animal protein