Tag: remote sensing

Feed sensor startup BinSentry raises $7.7m in Series A funding

September 16, 2020

The Canadian startup provides solar-powered, self-cleaning sensors that can keep track of livestock feed levels in real time.

Taranis banks $30m Series C with tech giants Hitachi, Micron among new investors

July 21, 2020

The round’s large close amid Covid-19 further cements Taranis’ reputation as a dogged drone survivor in one of the most scrutinized areas of agtech.

Funding for agri-drone companies in a time of corona: futurism or folly?

July 6, 2020

Recent funding for remote-sensing companies like AgroScout could signal a revival for providers of agri-drone technology.

Future Food: How the digitization of ag will increase food’s sustainability, with IntelinAir’s Al Eisaian

June 18, 2020

How does an environmentalist become an aerial imagery data analytics and AI entrepreneur?

Why the world’s largest beer company is investing in agtech

June 17, 2020

“We’re the largest beer company in the world and the largest user of malting barley, so when you think about where investment into breeding research or the supporting tech comes from, if we’re not going to do it, who will?”

Sensoterra joins network provider to take its soil moisture probes to the world’s most parched farms

March 22, 2020

Starting with its native Australia, NNNCo will roll out the moisture sensing tech across the Asia-Pacific region.

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

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

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.