A European View: Real Potential at Startupbootcamp FoodTech Demo Day in Paris
We’re talking early stage, but there was real quality in the room, writes Johan Jorgensen from Sweden FoodTech.
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Turkish Fintech for Farmers Raises $1.3m Seed Round, Targets 2019 Expansion
Tarfin, the Turkish digital platform that enables farmers to access agriculture inputs through instant financing solutions, recently completed a $1.3 million seed round.
Collective Spark Fund, a venture capital fund focusing on early-stage technology startups in fintech, consumer tech, and SaaS, led the round with a co-investment from Wamda Capital, a multistage VC focused on digital disruption.
Produce Pay Raises $14m Series B to Help Farmers Get Paid
Agribusiness marketplaces are a hot trend in agrifood tech at the moment as entrepreneurs look to create more options for farmers than existing distribution channels to give them more flexibility and hopefully more money in their pockets.
Tulaa Raises $627k Seed Round for Smallholder Fintech
Tulaa, a Kenyan fintech startup for smallholder farmers, has raised $627k in seed funding in a round led by AHL Venture Partners, one of the largest impact-focused venture capital firms in Africa.
Q&A: Blockchain Traceability Startup CEO On Selling Blockchain to the Food System
We caught up with Emma Weston, cofounder and CEO of AgriDigital, on the sidelines of the recent World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit to discuss how she sells blockchain technology to different rungs in the supply chain with various levels of fluency, and where new traceability technologies should ultimately be headed.
EXCLUSIVE: VanderSat and Swiss Re Partner to Bring Crop Insurance to Untapped Markets
VanderSat and Swiss Re have been working together for over a year to validate the startups technology and efficacy in making insurance products more precise, and more profitable.
Social Enterprise Raises $3m to Digitally Support Smallholder Farmers in Myanmar
The bulk of Impact Terra's new funding will support Smart Agriculture Myanmar (SAM), a project that uses remote sensing to provide advice to farmers about crop timing, pest management, and irrigation.
African Agtech Market Map: 99 Technologies Changing the Future of Agriculture in Africa
A representative and non-exhaustive selection of these companies have been visualized in this African Agtech Market Map, into nine categories by AgFunder and The Seed Project.
Eight Agtech Startups Venturing Into Fintech
Startups of various kinds are branching out from the world of agrifood tech into the world of fintech, both to make their products more accessible to their target customers and to generate more value from their core offerings.
World Food Day: 5 Farmtech Startups Serving Smallholder Farms
For 2017 UN World Food Day the organization is focusing on the challenges that forced migration brings to the world's 500 million smallholder farms.
Agricultural Giants Risk Being Left Behind in Agtech Boom
There's a real risk that the biggest agricultural companies in the world right now might not be the same in 10 years’ time. That doesn't have to be the case, but if you look at the data, it's not hard to imagine it happening, writes Paul Cuatrecasas.
Australian Government Backs Fintech Startup Aimed at Increasing Farmer Net Wealth
Today, Agrihive, a collaborative organization that launched during the worst drought in Australian history, has launched Farmecco, a fintech platform for farmers aimed at improving their financial literacy.
FarmDrive Raises Funding to Help Africa’s Smallholder Farmers Get Finance with Credit Scoring Algorithm
FarmDrive is using big data to create credit scores for smallholders farmers, enabling local banks to lend to them.