Verizon is deploying its agriculture IoT service on three new Californian vineyards, USDA awards $33.4m in grants to ag innovation initiatives, and more in this week’s industry brief.
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The Verizon AgTech product aims to improve the connectivity of sensors and other data-capturing devices on the farm, but will only function with certified hardware providers.
MimosaTEK, a Vietnamese agtech startup providing data, decision support, and remote control capabilities through sensors and a cloud platform, recently won the Vietnamese round of Seedstars World competition.
The Dutch connected wearables company serves the dairy industry and attracted a globally diverse set of investors to its seed round.
Byte Foods, a service delivering lunches to businesses in San Francisco, has acquired Pantry, the manufacturer of smart fridge kiosks in an all-share deal.
FreshSurety, which is using IoT to report real-time freshness, location, and temperature of food, and Plasma Nutrition are two startups receiving $50k each.
The Californian start-up raised the Series B funding from names such as Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures and Campbell Soup Company.
Vilsack’s visit to Cuba with Obama, lighting indoor lunar greenhouses, winners of a water innovation accelerator, and Mars joining the GMO labeling party are all featured in this week’s Industry-in-Brief.
Catalina Sea Ranch wants to help bridge a $10 billion seafood deficit in the US with the first offshore shellfish ranch in Federal US waters.
Startup Weekend, a 54-hour startup competition that fosters ecosystem development, is coming to Ventura County, California.
The Center for Innovation and Technology is being sponsored by Bayer CropSciences, Farm Credit, Monsanto, Prophet North America, Toro Micro-Irrigation, Taylor Farms and JV Smith Companies, and is still open for applications.
The fundraising round involved big tech VCs such as Verizon Ventures and Samsung Ventures, but as Filament’s technology continues to develop, the company is seeing an increasing interest from the agricultural community.
A group of venture capitalists, previously active in other digital technologies, are now turning their attention to agriculture technology with a new a $40m to $50m fund.
AgFunder listed company, Edyn, has announced today that their Garden Sensor and Water Valve has been named a 2015 CES Best of Innovation honoree in
Editor’s note: Fred Greguras is an attorney at Royce Law. This article originally appeared on their blog. I recently became good friends with my water meter
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