Tag: IoT

Norway’s OptoScale nets $4.1m to grow its fish farm monitoring tech

October 13, 2021

The Trondheim-based startup believes it’s differentiated by its use of on-site edge processing, rather than relying on cloud computing.

India’s AgNext banks $21m Series A funding, delivers 5x return for exiting investor

August 20, 2021

The startup will use the capital to cement its presence in India and expand its food quality assessment platform to the Middle East and Europe.

EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s RapidAIM gets funding to scale real-time pest management

March 11, 2021

The Brisbane-based startup wants to lower the financial and ecological costs of crop pest management with its low-power insect sensor technology.

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese precision ag platform Kebai secures Series B funds from Auchan owners

January 14, 2021

The Beijing-based startup will use the funding to accelerate its global expansion, partnering with other agrifood businesses in Creadev’s portfolio.

Grain monitoring startup TeleSense closes $10.2m Series B to ramp up sales

October 22, 2020

California’s TeleSense uses remote sensing to monitor temperature and humidity in grain storage bins, helping to prevent disease and spoilage.

Strella Biotech scores $3.3m seed round co-led by Yamaha to track ripeness with IoT

May 6, 2020

The early-stage startup wants to help packers, and eventually retailers, better manage their inventories so that consumers never have to suffer overripe fruit again.

Sensoterra joins network provider to take its soil moisture probes to the world’s most parched farms

March 22, 2020

Starting with its native Australia, NNNCo will roll out the moisture sensing tech across the Asia-Pacific region.

GrainChain scores $5m more from Overstock.com’s blockchain-focused Medici Ventures

March 6, 2020

“GrainChain has quietly become one of the most successful blockchain-meets-agriculture platforms on the market,” said Overstock CEO Jonathan Johnson.

xFarm’s Matteo Vanotti on not reinventing the farm data wheel

December 13, 2019

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 pressure is on for environmental accounting in ag. Sprout Accelerator wants to help

November 20, 2019

There’s been no greater pressure for the agriculture industry to account for its environmental footprint than there is today. Sprout is looking for startups approaching this challenge to apply for its accelerator.

Survey: Which Food & AgTech categories, geographies are investors most excited about?

November 5, 2019

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.

India’s Fasal raises $1.6m seed funding to build out precision ag across SE Asia

October 30, 2019

Fasal, a precision agriculture platform, has just raised $1.6 million of seed funding from Omnivore and Wavemaker Partners, AFN can confirm.

9 questions with FoodBytes! Chicago pitch company Agremo

October 16, 2019

Serbian startup Agremo pitched its farm data management software last month to a panel of judges and audience.

BRIEF: Alibaba and Bayer to create Blockchain-based Ag Tracking System

October 2, 2019

Alibaba’s Ant Financial teams up with Bayer Crop Science to create blockchain-based tech to improve the lives of farmers. Read on for details.

Can tech save our bacon as ASF spreads?

September 30, 2019

As the deadly African Swine Fever keeps spreading, we identify tech that could potentially help farmers win in the battle against it.

Vertical farm tech Intelligent Growth Solutions expands Series A to £7m

September 26, 2019

Vertical farm tech Intelligent Growth Solutions sealed a £7m Series A, after a second close of the round backed by Ospraie Ag Science and AgFunder.

How much should you feed fish? UMITRON’s ‘Fish Appetite Index’ can tell you

August 26, 2019

How much do fish need to eat? UMITRON tells us how its tech uses machine learning & IoT for aquaculture. We also interview their co-founder & MD.

Why Grain IoT Startup Telesense Acquired Webstech

May 2, 2019

Telesense, which counts major international shipping outfit Maersk Growth among its investors, says its acquisition of Webstech gives it the largest remote-sensed dataset for grain storage in the world.

Woman-Led Midwest Angel Investment Firm iiM Invests $2.4m in 6 AgriFood Tech Startups

January 31, 2019

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.