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Israeli Drone StartUp SeeTree Comes Out of Stealth with $15m Series A for Perm Crop Service
Until now, the Tel Aviv-based startup has been operating in stealth mode, honing its technology and accelerating adoption of its service with a clandestine list of growers including large-scale citrus growers.
Taranis Lands $20m Series B to Expand Imagery Analytics Platform for Farmers
Israeli imagery analytics for ag platform Taranis has closed a $20 million Series B round of funding led by Viola Ventures, an Israeli venture firm making its first investment into agtech.
Skyx & Advanced Tactics Partner to Take Crop Spraying Drones to the Next Level
Israel-based drone software company Skyx and US-based drone hardware designer Advanced Tactics (AT) have partnered to take crop spraying drones to the next level.
Growers Raises $5m Series A for Farm Data Analytics with ‘Software Plus Services’ Business Model
Growers Holdings, a digital agriculture software and services startup, has raised $5 million in Series A funding in a round led by US heartland-focused investor Lewis & Clark Ventures.
Sentera Raises $14m Series A from Syndicate of Leading Agtech Investors
“Obviously everybody likes their funders, but we are particularly happy to have this group behind us,” Sentera CEO Eric Taipale told AgFunderNews.
Deveron Acquires Veritas to Add Agronomic Expertise and Data Analytics to Drone Service
Deveron, which sends pilots to fly drones over farmland on request, will gain precision agriculture capabilities by bringing Veritas’s team of agronomists, plant scientists, and data scientists onto its staff.
How Agtech Has Quietly Transformed Agriculture During the Downturn
It’s been a long, dark period in the agriculture industry since corn prices tumbled almost five years ago, but something magical has occurred: agtech has emerged as the dominant theme in a rapidly reshaping agricultural economy, writes Barclay Rogers.
Embracing Digital Agriculture: Coffee’s Fourth Wave?
Shuchi Nijhawan, VP of agriculture at Eka, writes about the adoption of digital agriculture in the coffee industry, particularly in India.
How Beer Revolutionized Math — and Just Might Save Humanity
The pioneering work of Irish brewers a century ago made today’s big data and artificial intelligence gold rush possible, write Joe Byrum.
Precision Seeding Company Clean Seed Acquires Harvest International for $13m
“The deal had several appeals for us. The driving corporate appeal is it puts Clean Seed into the planter market in the US,” Graeme Lempriere, Clean Seed’s president & CEO, told AgFunderNews.
Nutrien Acquires Agrible for $63m to “Create Ag Retailer of the Future”
Nutrien intends to integrate Agrible's suite of farm management services with its newly branded digital platform as well as continue to grow Agrible's sustainability tracking service for food companies.
John Deere Obtains Ag Data Transparent Certification Adding New Fuel to the Slow Burning Cert
John Deere is the first major ag player to achieve the certification and though several companies are maintaining their certifications over the years, the program hasn't grown out of the single digits in terms of membership, meaning this move by Deere could have a big impact.
Farmers Edge Partners with Global Reinsurer to Bring Farmers Custom Data-Backed Insurance Products
Farm management and agronomy software platform Farmers Edge announced today a four-year deal with major global reinsurer PartnerRe, to bring customized insurance products to its users.
Reflections of an Agtech VC: Gabriel Wilmoth Leaves Syngenta Ventures to Join Ag Startup
We caught up with Gabriel Wilmoth to find out more about his new role and to get some of his key takeaways from his time as an agtech investor.
How a 270 Acre Farm in New York is Using Biotech and Precision Ag for Organic Fruit & Veg Production
Fishkill Farms is a 270-acre farm in Duchess County, New York, producing a variety of fruits and vegetables and pastured eggs.
Digital Agriculture Needs a Broad Community of Contributors to Succeed
Dr. Naira Hovakimyan describes some of the inherent challenges in applying data analysis to agriculture and offers some thoughts on the solution for the digital agriculture industry going forward.
What Agtech Can Learn from Precision Ag Veterans
Sarah Nolet shares a few lessons for new agtech entrants from the Society of Precision Agriculture Australia's recent symposium.
Women in Agtech: Saturas Founder Anat Halgoa Solomon
In the next in our women in agtech series of interviews with female CEOs and founders working in agtech, AgFunderNews caught up with Solomon to find out more about Saturas and being a female entrepreneur in agtech.
Syngenta Ventures Invests in Premier Crop Systems After Months of Trials with Software
Syngenta Ventures has acquired a minority stake in Premier Crop Systems (PCS), a Des Moines, Iowa based agronomic software tool in a growth equity investment round.