Each month, AgFunder News publishes a column of the agrifood industry’s biggest leadership changes, layoffs and more.
In a world of African Swine Fever, increasing scrutiny of the meat industry and consumer demand for transparency, the pork industry needs to modernize. But according to Chris Bomgaars, founder of EveryPig, many in the industry are reticent to move on.
“The last decade has been great, yet not without challenges,” Pat Christie, founder of Conservis tells AFN.
xFarm’s partnership-centric approach to farm data helped it secure €3 million in equity funding from Italy’s United Ventures and Switzerland’s TiVenture.
The InsuResilience Investment Fund led Israel-based Agritask’s Series A funding round for its application in expanding farm and crop insurance to smallholder farmers.
Find out which regions and sectors VCs are most eager to explore in 2020 and tips on how startups can improve their chances of making a deal in this new investor sentiment survey conducted by Idea2Scale and AgFunder.
The Israeli agritech company FruitSpec — which is carving out a niche using hyperpectral imagery to count fruits —is set to officially close its $4 million Series A fundraise at the Agrivest conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. Get the scoop here!
Introducing GROW accelerator’s first cohort starting with two startups that are taking aim at India’s agricultural problems – Viridis RS and Tractorjunction.com.
The St. Louis-based company is on a mission to boost precision farming with a remote monitoring and analytics platform that gives growers, retailers and suppliers better in-field insights.
Today, LocalGlobe announced its lead role in the £2 million seed round for Breedr, a UK digital ag startup for the animal agriculture sector. Breedr joins Wefarm and Infarm in LocalGlobe’s agtech portfolio. Here Brett tells us more and why they invested.
iUNU hopes to take some of the manual data-entry aspects of greenhouse operation into the 21st century by automating as much of the process as possible.
Flurosense, Agworld, PCT Agcloud, CSIRO, and AgLink Australia recently won a grant to build an interoperable agronomic analytics engine to resolve many of the inherent challenges surrounding agricultural data. Anastasia Volkova tells us more.
Kansas City-based angel investment firm iiM (Innovation in Motion) has invested in a variety of early-stage agrifood tech startup companies covering everything from a bio-based plastic alternative to oral vaccines for livestock and companion animals.
The web and mobile platform allows grain farmers to manage and oversee their farm in real-time, including employee operations and activities in the field.
Israeli imagery analytics for ag platform Taranis has closed a $20 million Series B round of funding led by Viola Ventures, an Israeli venture firm making its first investment into agtech.
