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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.
Gastrograph AI Closes $4m Series A to Predict Consumer Flavor Preferences of Food & Beverages
November 12, 2018
Gastrograph AI, a predictive analytics technology for food and beverage companies, closed a $4 million Series A round of funding last week. Gastrograph collects data about
Equinom Raises $4m to Improve Plant Proteins Using Computational Breeding, No Gene Editing
October 17, 2018
Equinom, an Israeli startup using computational biology to breed crops with improved characteristics without any genetic manipulation, has raised $4 million in a bridge funding round.
UPDATE: Umitron Increases Seed Funding Round for Aquaculture Automation Tech to $11m
September 10, 2018
Umitron, an Asian startup using satellite imagery, IoT, and automation to increase the efficiency of offshore aquaculture, raised the funding from the Japanese government and a Japanese venture capital firm.
Forget Self-Driving Tractors; Agriculture’s AI Should be Modeled on Iron Man
June 11, 2018
The Iron Man model of artificial intelligence — combining man and machine — could truly take agriculture into the next era of productivity, writes Joe Byrum.
Indian IoT Platform for Pre and Post Harvest Raises Seed Round Led By Omnivore
April 18, 2018
AgNext has created a suite of tools, including hardware and software, to leverage data to improve the efficiency and profitability of farmers and processors.
Startup Using Deep Learning to Fight Food Waste Raises $2m Seed Round
March 26, 2018
After photographing strawberries, the AgShift app tells the user what the percentage of red is in the photo, which speaks to how much shelf life is left.
Alibaba’s Jack Ma Interviewed by ImpactVision CEO at Davos
January 25, 2018
Ramanan interviewed the e-commerce giant in her capacity as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper — a network of teams of young people committed to solving global problems.
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