After a three-and-a-half year wait, startups will now have access to a new crop of potential investors, under Title III of the JOBS Act. But how onerous are the regulations?
Private equity and M&A activity in the ag industry continues as a Chinese conglomerate invests into an Israeli agtech company, and Syngenta acquires a farm management software tool.
Welcome to another addition of AgFunderNews’ weekly roundup. Drones are back in the news, PE investors exited a Scottish shellfish company and an organic frozen fruit brand for $600m, and the World Bank’s IFC has invested in BigBasket.com
Drones are a hot commodity for many farmers and agribusinesses, but the regulations surrounding their use commercially are still murky and cause for confusion.
Illumitex has launched a program to help growers take advantage of the USDA’s Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), which provides grants to agricultural entities using energy-efficient improvements or a renewable energy system.
The Tennessee department of agriculture is launching an agtech accelerator with Memphis Bioworks Foundation as part of wider plans to expand the state’s $66bn agriculture industry.
The recipient of $2m in angel financing last week, HUVRData, drone-based data analytics company, has now officially launched as a service for agriculture, wind farms, solar farms and the oil and gas sector.
This is the second part of Raghavan Sampathkumar’s article on the prospects and challenges of agtech development in India. In part two he discusses realistic scenarios in the country’s agriculture sector, and offers recommendations to agtech entrepreneurs.
Opponents of the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act (SAFLA) have nicknamed it the ‘Deny Americans the Right to Know’, or DARK, Act, while GMO proponents say it will help to reduce the regulatory costs associated with developments in food production.
The USDA has announced the first investments from the $10bn Rural Infrastructure Opportunity Fund. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack speaks to AgFunderNews about the fund’s development.
Oakland-based food company Back to the Roots announced this morning that it has closed its first funding round to the tune of $2 million. Fund
Idaho is the latest state to announce a new agtech event, among a slew of local, national and international events cropping up across the globe. On
Drone advocates are impatient as the market roars on, but the FAA remains flightless. This week, 33 drone-advocacy groups sent a letter to FAA
Think of an agriculture system that leads to better nutrition, higher wages, fair global trade, and more security for each person along the supply chain.
By: Fiona Harvey, Award-winning environment journalist for the Guardian. This post originally appeared on Ensia. “When [the trucks] came through they could not get access
By: Todd Reubold, Ensia director and founding editor. This post originally appeared on Ensia. What happens when demand outstrips supply for natural resources needed to
On Monday, the negotiations of the 950-page farm bill finally come to a close, and leaders of the House and Senate are ready to vote.
This week at Davos, ag and agtech was at the heart of a topic that touches each of us. Nearly 870 million people in the
When it comes to the meat industry, a lot of us know the basics—demand is increasing, especially in developing countries, and resources are decreasing. But
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