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Starting with its native Australia, NNNCo will roll out the moisture sensing tech across the Asia-Pacific region.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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
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.
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Indigo Agriculture, the microbial ag products startup-cum-agribusiness marketplace has acquired TellusLabs, a startup using satellite imagery to monitors the world’s croplands.
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.
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.
The Madison-based company’s software combines satellite imagery and field data with machine learning algorithms to predict crop yields at the field level.
“Obviously everybody likes their funders, but we are particularly happy to have this group behind us,” Sentera CEO Eric Taipale told AgFunderNews.
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.
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.
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