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Indigo Acquires Satellite Imagery Startup TellusLabs for ‘Living Map of World’s Food Supply’
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
Ceres Imaging Raises $25m Series B for Multi-Spectral Aerial Imaging
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?
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
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
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.
EXCLUSIVE: VanderSat and Swiss Re Partner to Bring Crop Insurance to Untapped Markets
VanderSat and Swiss Re have been working together for over a year to validate the startups technology and efficacy in making insurance products more precise, and more profitable.
Remote Sensing Startup Skycision Raises $1.1m Seed from Rural America Ag Innovation Fund
Skycision technology focuses on identifying changes in fields over time, analyzing three to five years of satellite data to find trends in specialty crops
Why Syngenta Acquired FarmShots: “It’s Definitely a Race”
We caught up with Dan Burdett, global head of digital agriculture at Syngenta, to find out why the company decided to acquire FarmShots rather than partnering with the four-year-old startup and what other technologies Syngenta is eyeing in 2018.
Dyson Founder Backs Remote Sensing Agronomy Platform Hummingbird in £3m Series A Round
Though Hummingbird began as a drone-focused precision agriculture company two years ago, it evolved beyond just drones as the team realized that the method of data collection is secondary to the data itself.
Remote Sensing Platform Mavrx is Testing the Power of “Free”
Mavrx founder Max Bruner said that the change isn’t necessarily about boosting the registered user count, as one might guess, but more about paving the way for more custom and 'white label' requests in the future from a more diverse set of customers.
American Robotics Raises $2m to Bring Fully Autonomous Drones to Market
American Robotics CEO Mozer said that the decision to raise a second seed round followed an overwhelming response from growers when the company released a video of its autonomous drone, Scout, in 2017.
When it Comes to Soil Testing, We’ve Only Scratched the Surface
Soil is the largest living organism on earth, yet humans know far more about our solar system than we do the top six inches of soil on this planet. Soil testing offers some amazing opportunities for farmers to find new efficiencies within their operations and to increase yields but we are just starting to scratch the surface.