AFN introduces… Viridis RS & Tractor Junction
Introducing GROW accelerator’s first cohort starting with two startups that are taking aim at India’s agricultural problems – Viridis RS and Tractorjunction.com.
Introducing GROW accelerator’s first cohort starting with two startups that are taking aim at India’s agricultural problems – Viridis RS and Tractorjunction.com.
Asia and Africa are home to 80% of the world’s population and with rising incomes, they are craving and demanding more animal-sourced foods, GFI India’s head Varun Deshpande told AFN on the sidelines of the Good Food Conference in San Francisco today.
Funding for agtech in India has surged 300%. The number of startups also grew 25%. Is it any wonder why Asha Impact is bullish on the sector?
Dutch banking giant Rabobank is teaming up with impact investment firm Caspian to lend $2 million to India’s agtech startups, which are hot with venture capital firms, but not so much with banks.
Farming is expensive and the payout isn’t always guaranteed, but DeHaat hopes to soften the financial stress for its members with new offerings like credit and insurance.
Omnivore, the Indian agrifood tech venture capital firm, has closed its second fund on $97 million, exceeding a target of $75 million.
Ninjacart, an Indian agritech startup that connects farmers to retailers, has raised Rs625 Cr ($89.5m) from New York-based hedge fund Tiger Global, taking its valuation
TartanSense builds small land-based robots for small farms and smallholder farmers initially focused on pesticide application.
Intello Labs is an Indian agtech startup using computer vision and deep learning to measure the quality of crops.
TheKrishi brings multiple stakeholders of the Indian agri-ecosystem together on a platform.
A number of Indian agritech startups are making headlines with their transformative technologies, but the Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) project in the southern Indian province of Andhra Pradesh is also making waves in the once-ignored industry.
Animal health technologies are coming into focus this year after largely lagging crop technologies in startup investment.
Kalaari Capital provided the funding, joining existing investor Omnivore.
For the past few days, Sweden Foodtech has been at the Tasting India Symposium in New Delhi. It is a magic experience. And we haven’t even mentioned the food, writes Johan Jorgensen.
Indian AgriFood Startups Are Innovating to Give Consumers What They Want, and Fix a Broken Industry. Find out more in this first-ever India AgriFood Startup report.
CropIn Technology Solutions, an Indian agriculture technology startup, has raised Rs58 crores ($8 million) in Series B financing from Chiratae Ventures (formerly IDG Ventures India) and
There is a weak link in the current ecosystem for Indian agritech entrepreneurs and businesses, and it’s the link with corporates, writes Hemendra Mathur.
This is the first equity investment by the Gates Foundation in India, highlighting the importance of modernizing India’s dairy sector, according to Mark Kahn, partner of Omnivore.
Hemendra Mathur discusses how image processing could be truly disruptive in Indian agriculture for solving the inherent problems of productivity, grading and sorting, yield estimation, pest detection, traceability, and detecting food adulteration.
A new coalition of agriculture and finance industry players is working together to find new ways to get technology into the hand of smallholders farmers
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