Deere is investing in not one company but an entirely new way of doing crop protection and, ultimately, commodity farming.
Agreena will bring Hummingbird’s remote monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) technology in-house to further scale and validate its carbon market.
Enko will use the funding to advance its pipeline of crop protection chemistries that provide an alternative to outdate chemical-based products.
Ag journalist-turned-startup founder Tamara Leigh discusses a career spent championing the community, the cows, and other women.
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.
The startup hopes to shake up some longstanding ways of thinking about how to measure pollination while improving bee health.
The startup is using analytical chemistry, optical spectroscopy, and machine learning to create a universal data-based language for evaluating food quality.
So far, checkout-free technologies appear to be using the same recipe of technology: will they be forced to diversify or die?
Prospera recently announced its partnership with Valley Irrigation to combine its sensor-based analytics software with Valley’s pivot irrigation systems.
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 do fish need to eat? UMITRON tells us how its tech uses machine learning & IoT for aquaculture. We also interview their co-founder & MD.
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.
Through the partnership with agtech startup Benson Hill Biosystems, AB InBev is hoping to equip farmers with more productive and sustainable barley varieties.
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
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.
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, 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, 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.
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.
The Iron Man model of artificial intelligence — combining man and machine — could truly take agriculture into the next era of productivity, writes Joe Byrum.
