Tag: remote sensing

Here’s where AI could make the biggest impact in the agrifoodtech sector

May 30, 2023

AI’s biggest potential impact likes in making complex analytics accessible and affordable to agrifood and agribusiness processes.

Smells like Salmonella? Sensifi emerges from stealth to disrupt food safety market with artificial nose for contactless bacterial sensing

May 25, 2023

Israeli startup Sensifi is emerging from stealth with a technology it claims could disrupt the food testing market by enabling rapid, on-premise detection of pathogens such as E. Coli and salmonella via an ‘artificial nose.’

Meet the founder: HabiTerre discusses the importance of credibility before commercialization in agtech

February 17, 2023

University professor and startup founder Kaiyu Guan discusses remote sensing, computational modeling and why scientific credibility is critical for agtech’s success.

Brief: Water conservation more of a priority for agriculture companies than reaching net zero – survey

February 9, 2023

A new Inmarsat report notes “improved environmental outcomes” including water conservation from leveraging satellite IoT tools for agriculture.

BREAKING: Alphabet brings agtech startup out of stealth with data from 10% of world’s farmland, 3 major customers

January 10, 2023

Mineral aims to provide foundational and actionable data and analytics for companies across food, agriculture, and technology and it solves for a key issue holding back digital agriculture advancements for years: lacking data.

AgriFutures evoke^AG. 2023: a prime opportunity for agrifood tech startups – apply to join now!

October 21, 2022

Australia’s evokeAG Startup Program is instrumental in connecting local and global startups to farmers researchers, corporates, governments and investors.

How St. Louis cultivates collaboration between agtech and geospatial tech to strengthen food security

August 22, 2022

St. Louis is in many ways the point of intersection for the agtech and geospatial sectors when it comes to improving our global food system.

Brief: Agreena acquires Hummingbird Technologies to ‘strengthen the integrity of carbon farming’

July 28, 2022

Agreena will bring Hummingbird’s remote monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) technology in-house to further scale and validate its carbon market.

Brief: Cargill to start paying cotton growers premiums to implement more regen ag practices

June 23, 2022

Cargill will enroll US cotton growers in its RegenConnect program that pays farmers for implementing soil health practices.

Q&A: How Harry Stebbings-backed Pachama is using to tech to improve forest carbon markets

June 3, 2022

Fresh off a Series B fundraise, Pachama discusses how its technology could make forest carbon markets less fragmented and more productive.

Brief: Soil carbon platform Perennial raises $18m from Temasek, Bloomberg, Microsoft

May 17, 2022

The US company’s soil carbon measurement, reporting, and verification platform could help corporates better meet their emissions reductions targets.

Q&A: Aerobotics co-founder James Paterson on centering the farm in ‘farm tech’

November 29, 2021

The Cape Town-based startup considers itself a farming company enabled by technology, rather than a tech company working in ag, says CEO James Paterson.

For Lentera Africa, remote work is the future of farming on the continent

November 26, 2021

“The potential for remote farming is huge,” says CEO Moses Kimani.

EXCLUSIVE: Intelinair raises $20m to scale digital agronomy product, expand into carbon

September 23, 2021

It has completely overhauled its go-to-market strategy after bringing on a former Dow AgroSciences CEO as an investor and board member.

8 startups reshaping the global food system

May 5, 2021

Eight startups presenting at F&A Next’s virtual summit on May 26 exemplify the creativity and ingenuity that has global investors eager to place their bets on the agrifoodtech sector at large.

Complexity, AI & the future of food: Thinking beyond human capabilities

March 24, 2021

Many see AI’s ultimate goal as replication of the inner workings of the human brain. But is there another way to look at what AI can do for us?

Agtech CVC: FMC Ventures on launching a corporate venture group in 2020

March 3, 2021

FMC Ventures’ Amar Singh speaks with AFN about the advantages and challenges of being the newcomer in agrifood corporate venture investing and its laser-focus on crop protection.