Tag: sensors

Pest control sensor startup Spotta raises $1.2m seed funding

August 3, 2020

The team at Spotta wants to enable a lighter use of pesticides by building networks of accurate real-time insect detectors.

Here are the most promising technologies for reducing food waste throughout the supply chain

July 15, 2020

A new report identifies key technologies to fight food waste at six key points of the food supply chain, including coatings, packaging, and sensors.

Digital Ag: Why is predicting return on investment per field so hard?

June 16, 2020

Several factors have kept farmers guessing which fields are producing the lion’s share of profit – and which are responsible for making losses, writes Dmytro Lennyi.

Strella Biotech scores $3.3m seed round co-led by Yamaha to track ripeness with IoT

May 6, 2020

The early-stage startup wants to help packers, and eventually retailers, better manage their inventories so that consumers never have to suffer overripe fruit again.

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.

France’s Sencrop acquires sensor maker Visio-Green in start of consolidation play

February 13, 2020

The acquisition will add 1,800 weather stations to the company’s existing European network to support hyper-local weather data for farmers.

Is CropX’s acquisition of CropMetrics a signal of increasing consolidation in digital agtech in 2020?

January 13, 2020

The Israeli startup is hoping the acquisition will accelerate its expansion into the US breadbasket as agtech veterans predict more consolidation in 2020.

xFarm’s Matteo Vanotti on not reinventing the farm data wheel

December 13, 2019

xFarm’s partnership-centric approach to farm data helped it secure €3 million in equity funding from Italy’s United Ventures and Switzerland’s TiVenture.

Kraft Heinz leads $12m Series A for smart checkout startup Zippin

December 12, 2019

What does a CPG company want with smart checkout technology, you ask? Data, and lots of it.

The pressure is on for environmental accounting in ag. Sprout Accelerator wants to help

November 20, 2019

There’s been no greater pressure for the agriculture industry to account for its environmental footprint than there is today. Sprout is looking for startups approaching this challenge to apply for its accelerator.

Why Prospera started in greenhouses before taking AI tech into the fields

November 15, 2019

Prospera recently announced its partnership with Valley Irrigation to combine its sensor-based analytics software with Valley’s pivot irrigation systems.

Does This Smell Off? Aryballe’s “Digital Nose” Can Tell You

July 15, 2019

Remember doing the “smell test” before you poured the contents of your questionable, perhaps expired milk bottle on your morning cereal? French startup Aryballe has a solution to that deep, apprehensive whiff.

Indian AgriFood Supply Chain Sensor Startup AgNext Raises $2m Pre-Series A Round with Kalaari Capital

January 22, 2019

Kalaari joins existing investor Omnivore, the India-focused impact venture fund focused on agrifood startups.

France’s Sencrop Closes $10m Series A to Expand Agro-Weather Station Network

January 15, 2019

Sencrop’s Series A marks The Yield Lab’s first French startup investment.

ApisProtect Raises $1.8m Seed Funding to Monitor Bees with IoT

November 20, 2018

The startup measures data from beehives — including temperature, humidity, CO2, sound, and movement data — and analyzes that data to provide beekeepers with alerts about potential issues that could lead to bee colony losses.

Oracle Partners with World Bee Project to Monitor World’s Declining Bee Population

October 18, 2018

The World Bee Project Hive Network will start monitoring beehives using sensing technologies from two UK startups — BuzzBox and Arnia — which will transmit the data they collect into the cloud for analysis.

Climate Corp’s Former Head of Product Joins Arable as CEO

August 16, 2018

The current state of the digital ag space lacks sufficient high-quality data, but that’s where Ethington sees potential in Arable, he tells AgFunderNews.

Blockchain is Coming for Agriculture and You Might Not Even Notice

May 21, 2018

Blockchain alone doesn’t make growers more money, but it does provide the technology infrastructure for things like digitization, automation, and tracking, all of which drive farmers’ bottom lines in modern agriculture, writes Remi Schmaltz.

When it Comes to Soil Testing, We’ve Only Scratched the Surface

February 1, 2018

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.

Agtech Can Lead the Way To More Sustainable Farming, Aussie Report Says

December 22, 2017

Tech-enabled farming is taking hold in rural Australia, creating an opening for more sustainable farming, according to a recent study by the National Australia Bank