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Agtech Accelerator’s John Dombrosky is Looking to Pharma as a Model For the Agtech Ecosystem

August 17, 2017 Emma Cosgrove Leave a comment

We caught up with CEO John Dombrosky to find out how Agtech Accelerator is progressing and how he thinks about the health and challenges of the agtech ecosystem.

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Join us in Israel for Agrivest 2013!

December 14, 2013 Cori Capik Leave a comment

Join our CEO Rob Leclerc at Agrivest 2013 in Israel! Leclerc will be on a panel ‘Exploring the Key Fundamentals Driving Growth in Agriculture Investment’ along with Ron Meeusen from Cultivian Sandbox Ventures, Gideon Soesman from GreenSoil Investments, and Mitchell Presser from Paine & Partners.

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60 AgriFood Tech Startups Nominated for 2019 AgFunder Innovation Awards – Vote Now!

February 13, 2019 10:01 am | By AgFunder

Voting will close at 5 pm PT on February 28. The winners will be exclusively announced at the ReThink Agri-Food Innovation Week in San Francisco on March 20 at a special networking evening bridging the World Agri-Tech and the Future Food-Tech Summits. Read more →

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This German Startup Has Just Planted 50M Trees with its Search Engine

February 13, 2019 11:50 am | By Louisa Burwood-Taylor

Ecosia, a German startup with an internet search engine, today, has brought in enough revenues to enable it to plant 50 million trees. This equates to the removal of 2.5 million tonnes of Co2 from the atmosphere. Read more →

Investor Insight

Why Did Global Food Giant ADM Invest in Volcanic Microbes?

February 13, 2019 5:23 pm | By Louisa Burwood-Taylor

ADM Ventures is purposeful about the types of companies it considers investing in. Read more →

Technology Corner

In the Mooood For Love: UK Startup Launches Tudder, a Tinder For Cows

February 14, 2019 10:19 am | By Richard Martyn-Hemphill

Tudder is a new swipe-led matchmaking app, helping farm animals across the UK find breeding partners in the quest for moo love. Read more →

Research & Data

BREAKING: Restaurants Can Earn $7 for Every $1 They Invest in Fighting Food Waste – new report

February 13, 2019 5:59 pm | By Lauren Manning

The US restaurant industry alone is responsible for more than 11 million tons of food waste each year, or $25 billion worth of food, and Valentine's Day is one of the industry's biggest nights of the year. Read more →

Frankly Speaking

How to Overcome the Many Challenges Associated with Agricultural Data

February 14, 2019 4:44 am | By Anastasia Volkova

Flurosense, Agworld, PCT Agcloud, CSIRO, and AgLink Australia recently won a grant to build an interoperable agronomic analytics engine to resolve many of the inherent challenges surrounding agricultural data. Anastasia Volkova tells us more. Read more →

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Agtech Accelerator’s John Dombrosky is Looking to Pharma as a Model For the Agtech Ecosystem

Join us in Israel for Agrivest 2013!

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