Tag: irrigation

SupPlant raises $27m to bring irrigation tech to climate-embattled farmers

March 14, 2022

The Israeli company will further develop its smart irrigation tech API for smallholder farmers facing the impacts of climate change.

Q&A: SupPlant’s Revital Kremer on bringing precision ag to more female farmers worldwide

March 9, 2022

The chief technology officer is leading the charge to make precision irrigation available to women smallholders worldwide.

EOS Capital’s Euphrates Fund wants to give Namibia’s ag sector a climate-friendly upgrade

February 9, 2022

The woman-led fund has raised $5.7 million to help the country’s ag sector embrace technology, improve climate resilience, and empower women.

Growth in the US agtech sector can help solve water scarcity challenges

February 9, 2022

Water scarcity could soon become the ‘new normal’ in many parts of the US, imperilling crop cultivation. But agtech has solutions.

Temasek acquires micro-irrigation firm Rivulis

December 15, 2020

The Singapore sovereign fund’s acquisition of a majority stake in the Israeli company is just the latest sign of its increasingly hard focus on agrifoodtech.

Customized technology can assist smaller farms to sustain their operations

April 11, 2020

Customized technology in areas like irrigation and soil mapping can decrease wasted resources and streamline time-consuming, complex operations.

France’s Sencrop acquires sensor maker Visio-Green in start of consolidation play

February 13, 2020

The acquisition will add 1,800 weather stations to the company’s existing European network to support hyper-local weather data for farmers.

Is CropX’s acquisition of CropMetrics a signal of increasing consolidation in digital agtech in 2020?

January 13, 2020

The Israeli startup is hoping the acquisition will accelerate its expansion into the US breadbasket as agtech veterans predict more consolidation in 2020.

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.

How Jain USA Has Quietly Built a High-Tech Irrigation Platform Through Acquisitions

November 29, 2018

I caught up with Aric Olsen, president of Jain USA, are his most recent acquisition of ETWater, a weather data analytics and sprinkler control company using machine learning to measure the evapotranspiration rate of grass.

WaterBit Raises $11.4m Series A for Autonomous Irrigation Tech

June 26, 2018

WaterBit’s autonomous irrigation solution takes into account the stage of the plant, soil conditions and weather.

Israel’s Saturas Raises $4m Series A to Commercialize Precision Irrigation Tech

February 26, 2018

After several successful trials in citrus, apple, and almond orchards in Spain and Israel, Saturas cofounder and CEO Anat Halgoa Solomon told AgFunderNews that will the company use the new funds to bring its first products to market along with continuing development of a modified version of the company’s original sensor for use on vineyards.