Agrilyst Raises $8m Series A, Rebrands to Artemis, Sets Sights on Enterprise-Level Indoor Farms
The indoor ag software developer has also added former Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan to its Board of Directors.
The indoor ag software developer has also added former Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan to its Board of Directors.
Red Sea Farms, a Saudi Arabian startup developing saltwater-tolerant crops and saltwater-based greenhouses in the Middle East, has secured $1.9 million in funding. The startup
What do robotics, blockchain, insur-tech, and cow fart-reduction tech (yes, really) all have in common? These technologies will all be showcased at F&A Next in The Netherlands next month!
Results of a new study in New York suggest that urban agriculture may not be able to provide the bevy of benefits that have excited consumers and enticed investors.
PIP, a $15 million public-private partnership of leading agtech startups, agribusinesses, and biotech companies will research the potential for indoor farms to grow crops with improved nutrition, taste and other characteristics hard to achieve outdoors.
The cost of farming indoors has always been a big question mark around its impactfulness on the food system; if it’s too expensive, it won’t be scalable.
The Boston startup just unveiled its newest container farm, Greenery, with 70% more growing space and updated IoT technology
AFN spoke to Elham Al Qasim, acting CEO of the Abu Dhabi Investment Office, to discuss the ins and outs.
Two urban farmer-founders have been using a Second World War air-raid shelter as their first controlled environment agriculture site for their London-based agtech startup Growing Underground.
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.
Growing in retrofit shipping containers has received significant buzz over the past five to 10 years as produce is grown hyper-locally on a small footprint. But how viable is this form of growing in the long term?
One month into 2019, it’s clear that this year’s “it” produce is gourmet mushrooms. Smallhold’s Andrew Carter tell us why.
The new facility will be automated from seeding to growing to harvesting featuring handling robotics, artificial intelligence, data analytics, and around-the-clock monitoring sensors and control systems to optimize every aspect of growing produce indoors.
Canadian vertical farming systems developer Inno-3B has completed its first seed round of financing at nearly C$6 million ($4.45m). Located in Quebec and Ontario, the company
Bowery Farming, the New York-based indoor farming group, has closed a $90 million Series B round of funding in a round led by Google’s venture
Patrick Flynn, founder of Urbanvine.co, asks Jeff Mastin, director of R&D at Total Grow LED Lighting, to discuss what the future of LED grow light technology for agriculture looks like.
A new deep-water approach to hydroponics has earned Welsh agtech startup, Phytoponics, $650,000 of seed funding support over the last two years.
Though Bright Farms’ funding hasn’t quite caught up to its higher raising counterparts in AeroFarms and Plenty, the greenhouse grower appears to be the closest to being a national brand.
iBio uses highly automated indoor farming methods to manufacture pharmaceutical drugs and, according to Barry Holtz, president, it already has much of the technology that today’s food-growing indoor farms are just starting to develop.
The JV with Emirates Flight Catering will involve the construction of a 130,000 square foot facility in Dubai to service all airlines and lounges operational out of Dubai International Airport.
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International Fresh Produce Association launches year 3 of its produce accelerator