Tag: remote sensing

CORRECTION: Hummingbird Tech closes Series B on $10m with BASF, Telus joining SALIC-led round

October 15, 2019

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.

BRIEF: Picterra raises $3.3m to democratize AI-based geospatial mapping

September 17, 2019

The Swiss company's software that can be programmed to identify and map objects in satellite and drone images for a wide range of uses, from precision agriculture to humanitarian aid.

Aker Technologies scores $2.6m for automated crop scouting tech

September 4, 2019

The St. Louis-based company is on a mission to boost precision farming with a remote monitoring and analytics platform that gives growers, retailers and suppliers better in-field insights.

The Amazon is being decimated. How could tech have prevented it?

August 28, 2019

The Amazon Rainforest is being whittled away by one of the most massive blazes in history. Could tech have prevented it?

Gamaya raises €10.9m Series B led by India’s Mahindra & Mahindra in new partnership strategy

July 25, 2019

Gamaya launched in 2015 to bring high-tech imaging and analytics solutions to industrial-size farms. A new partnership with Indian tractor manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra is going to shift the Swiss company’s focus the other way, to small-scale farms.

FluroSat Scores $3.2m Seed Funding Co-Led by Microsoft’s M12

July 22, 2019

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 analytics company FluroSat has raised $3.2 million in funding led by Microsoft’s venture fund, M12, which focuses on investments in big data, hardware, and software.

India’s CropIn and Dutch 20tree.ai Win Rainforest Alliance’s AgTech Developer Challenge

July 16, 2019

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.

AgriFood Tech Startup Spotlight: FruitSpec

January 24, 2019

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 this is for orchardists and fruit packing houses.

Indigo Acquires Satellite Imagery Startup TellusLabs for ‘Living Map of World’s Food Supply’

December 13, 2018

Indigo Agriculture, the microbial ag products startup-cum-agribusiness marketplace has acquired TellusLabs, a startup using satellite imagery to monitors the world's croplands.

Taranis Lands $20m Series B to Expand Imagery Analytics Platform for Farmers

November 6, 2018

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.

UPDATE: Umitron Increases Seed Funding Round for Aquaculture Automation Tech to $11m

September 10, 2018

Umitron, an Asian startup using satellite imagery, IoT, and automation to increase the efficiency of offshore aquaculture, raised the funding from the Japanese government and a Japanese venture capital firm.

Agrograph Raises $500k in Seed Funding to Accurately Predict Crop Yields

September 6, 2018

The Madison-based company’s software combines satellite imagery and field data with machine learning algorithms to predict crop yields at the field level.

Sentera Raises $14m Series A from Syndicate of Leading Agtech Investors

September 6, 2018

“Obviously everybody likes their funders, but we are particularly happy to have this group behind us,” Sentera CEO Eric Taipale told AgFunderNews.

AgFunder Invests in Smart Pest Management Company Aerobotics

August 2, 2018

Aerobotics, a South African agtech company with a smart scouting platform to identify pests and diseases in tree crops, has closed a $2 million Series A.

Hyperspectral Imaging Sets New Standards for Food Monitoring

July 31, 2018

Despite being the world’s most globalized industry, agriculture is extremely inefficient, write Abi Ramanan and Gustav Nipe from hyperspectral imaging with machine learning for food companies startup ImpactVision.

AgriFood News: Olio Raises £6M Series A, Nutreco invests in ViAqua, Farming as a Career, more

July 12, 2018

The AgriFood News Aggregator features headlines from around the globe collected on AgFunder’s news sharing platform #feedit each week. Have news to share? Post it here and engage, share, and debate with your peers.

Ceres Imaging Raises $25m Series B for Multi-Spectral Aerial Imaging

June 28, 2018

California-based remote sensing startup Ceres Imaging has raised $25 million in Series B financing from one existing and one new investor, taking the company’s total investment to $35 million.

Can Imagery Cure India’s Food System Woes?

May 29, 2018

Hemendra Mathur discusses how image processing could be truly disruptive in Indian agriculture for solving the inherent problems of productivity, grading and sorting, yield estimation, pest detection, traceability, and detecting food adulteration.

ImpactVision Can Detect Foreign Objects in Food Using Hyperspectral Imagery

May 15, 2018

ImpactVision has launched a new application that uses hyperspectral imagery to detect foreign objects in food.

PrecisionHawk Partners with FAA on Blueprint for Flying Beyond Visual Line of Sight

May 1, 2018

Flying drones BVLOS will enable agricultural operations to capture all of their fields in one go, increasing the efficiency of the technology, according to Thomas Haun, VP Agriculture Solutions at PrecisionHawk.