Agtech acquisition alert! Israel’s ICL acquires Growers to boost digital offering
The established specialty mineral and chemical provider will combine Growers Insight’s platform with its agronomic services.
The established specialty mineral and chemical provider will combine Growers Insight’s platform with its agronomic services.
Weather events have plagued US crop production throughout the year, including severe floods and an early freeze. Using Indigo’s GeoInnovation platform, we take a deeper look and ask, could technology have helped farmers weather the storms better?
The deal is the latest move for Telus in the agriculture and agtech space.
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“Producers, especially in high-value crops, have invested a lot in data gathering. They have a lot of data. But they don’t know what to do with it. They need mathematical insights,” Pedro Carrillo, CEO of ec2ce, tells AFN.
Fasal, a precision agriculture platform, has just raised $1.6 million of seed funding from Omnivore and Wavemaker Partners, AFN can confirm.
UK startup Hummingbird Technologies tells us it plans to expand into North America with its fresh injection of funds from BASF VC and TELUS Ventures.
Funding for agtech in India has surged 300%. The number of startups also grew 25%. Is it any wonder why Asha Impact is bullish on the sector?
Focused on cotton and grain production, FluroSat’s flagship product FluroSense uses hyperspectral imaging to predict disease and support better crop health decision making. Agronomic data
Data management company Farmobile plans to use the new funding to help it expand its aggregation and data-for-profit services worldwide. For Ag Growth International, it could mean integrates more data-focused tech into its equipment offerings.
To mobilize the innovative power of the remote sensing sector for cocoa, the Rainforest Alliance recently announced the Ag-tech developer challenge – a call to remote-sensing, high-tech and earth-observation companies.
Many of us take for granted that we can enjoy fresh fruit year-round and probably have no clue just how much of a logistical feat
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 clients including large-scale citrus growers.
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.
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 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.
“Obviously everybody likes their funders, but we are particularly happy to have this group behind us,” Sentera CEO Eric Taipale told AgFunderNews.
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.
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.
Shuchi Nijhawan, VP of agriculture at Eka, writes about the adoption of digital agriculture in the coffee industry, particularly in India.
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