“We are getting closer to $100 million in revenues,” says BeeHero cofounder Omer Davidi. “We expect to be there very soon. This year, we’ll probably exceed $70 million.”
Edete—which offers precision pollination as a service (PPaS)—helps Mother Nature by applying pollen directly to trees in a highly targeted manner.
When it comes to farming, says Verdant Robotics cofounder Dr. Gabe Sibley, the biggest pain points are typically labor and input costs. “We squarely address both.”
BeeHero says the new platform is meant to bring the same granularity of data found via its in-hive sensors to activity in the field
Unlike almonds, which rely on honeybees for pollination, a dwindling and increasingly expensive resource, pistachio crops are pollinated by wind, which is both abundant and free-of-charge. So why are some growers turning to artificial pollination?
With the help of pollination tech, AI and several other tools, the company plans to make its “ultra-premium” berries more affordable in the future.
The Italian startup uses sensors to monitor the health of honeybee hives and provide apiculturalists with rapid and effective decision support.
The Canadian telco’s social impact fund boosts the number of agtech startups in its portfolio with this latest round of investments.
The Israeli startup claims that pilots of its tech have demonstrated results “at least as good” as both bees and manual pollination, with greenhouse tomato yields improved up to 15%.
PowerPollen has come up with a way to apply collected pollen to female plants any time of day or night, maximizing yield and reducing risk.
The startup hopes to shake up some longstanding ways of thinking about how to measure pollination while improving bee health.
The startup tracks pollination quality in real-time to provide farmers reliant on bees with hyper-efficient pollination.
BeeFlow just raised $3m for its technology that feeds bees organic molecule compounds to boost their immune systems and to train them to pollinate less-enticing flowers.
Pollination is one of the biggest concerns for specialty crop growers, especially as bee populations continue to decline.
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