Tag: machine learning

Here’s where AI could make the biggest impact in the agrifoodtech sector

May 30, 2023

AI’s biggest potential impact likes in making complex analytics accessible and affordable to agrifood and agribusiness processes.

Meet the founder: HabiTerre discusses the importance of credibility before commercialization in agtech

February 17, 2023

University professor and startup founder Kaiyu Guan discusses remote sensing, computational modeling and why scientific credibility is critical for agtech’s success.

BREAKING: Alphabet brings agtech startup out of stealth with data from 10% of world’s farmland, 3 major customers

January 10, 2023

Mineral aims to provide foundational and actionable data and analytics for companies across food, agriculture, and technology and it solves for a key issue holding back digital agriculture advancements for years: lacking data.

Brief: Trigo nabs $100m, plans expansion of its Amazon Go-like cashierless checkout tech

October 27, 2022

Trigo will further deploy its cashierless checkout system across Europe and the US, and develop its store and inventory management software, StoreOS.

Deere’s investment in InnerPlant is about changing Big Ag. More corporates need to follow suit

September 29, 2022

Deere is investing in not one company but an entirely new way of doing crop protection and, ultimately, commodity farming.

Brief: Agreena acquires Hummingbird Technologies to ‘strengthen the integrity of carbon farming’

July 28, 2022

Agreena will bring Hummingbird’s remote monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) technology in-house to further scale and validate its carbon market.

BREAKING: Nufarm leads $70m Series C for crop protection startup Enko

July 27, 2022

Enko will use the funding to advance its pipeline of crop protection chemistries that provide an alternative to outdate chemical-based products.

Meet the Female Founder: How EIO’s Tamara Leigh became a powerhouse in dairy tech

March 10, 2022

Ag journalist-turned-startup founder Tamara Leigh discusses a career spent championing the community, the cows, and other women.

Supply chain digitizer Silo raises $9m in Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz

September 24, 2020

The San Francisco-based startup aims to streamline the food supply chain and reduce food waste by improving digital linkages between producers, distributors, and retailers.

BeeHero blossoms with $4m seed funding to commercialize precision pollination

May 28, 2020

The startup hopes to shake up some longstanding ways of thinking about how to measure pollination while improving bee health.

Could TeakOrigin’s data-based “language” around food quality help ailing supply chains during Covid-19?

April 20, 2020

The startup is using analytical chemistry, optical spectroscopy, and machine learning to create a universal data-based language for evaluating food quality.

SoftBank-backed Accel Robotics is blending online & physical with check-out free technology

December 5, 2019

So far, checkout-free technologies appear to be using the same recipe of technology: will they be forced to diversify or die?

Why Prospera started in greenhouses before taking AI tech into the fields

November 15, 2019

Prospera recently announced its partnership with Valley Irrigation to combine its sensor-based analytics software with Valley’s pivot irrigation systems.

8 key industry trends in AgTech today

November 6, 2019

Sistema_VC recently hosted a conference on agtech and here Dmitry Filatov shares the key industry trends that emerged on the day including tailored food, AI-assistants for farmers, data-driven supply decisions, and more.

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 AgFunder thinks Ai Palette will revolutionize $4tln FMCG industry

August 22, 2019

Did you know that 85% of new food products fail within two years? We’ve invested in Ai Palette to reduce that, writes AgFunder founding partner Michael Dean.

Sustainable Beer by 2025? AB InBev Partners with Ag Biotech Startup BHB to Optimize Barley Production

January 29, 2019

Through the partnership with agtech startup Benson Hill Biosystems, AB InBev is hoping to equip farmers with more productive and sustainable barley varieties.

Bowery Raises $90m Series B from GV, Temasek

December 12, 2018

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

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.

8 Transformational Food Tech Startups

November 22, 2018

This Thanksgiving, we at AgFunder are thankful for our portfolio companies. Over the last year, we have invested in transformational food system companies, operating across the supply chain, from farm to fork.