Tag: sensors

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

The Yield Expands into Agriculture, and the US, to Offer Growers Microclimate-based Decision Support

November 27, 2017

The AI-enabled ag sensor and IoT startup now offers an end-to-end microclimate sensing and predictions service for land-based crops as well as aquaculture.

Farmobile Raises $18m Series B from Private Investors, Anterra

October 26, 2017

Farmobile produces a small in-cab unit called a PUC that wirelessly shares machine and agronomic data gathered in the field in real time.

Digital Agriculture Needs a Broad Community of Contributors to Succeed

August 31, 2017

Dr. Naira Hovakimyan describes some of the inherent challenges in applying data analysis to agriculture and offers some thoughts on the solution for the digital agriculture industry going forward.

Women in Agtech: Saturas Founder Anat Halgoa Solomon

August 9, 2017

In the next in our women in agtech series of interviews with female CEOs and founders working in agtech, AgFunderNews caught up with Solomon to find out more about Saturas and being a female entrepreneur in agtech.

Sensor Skepticism at Forbes AgTech Summit

July 11, 2017

It was notable at this year’s conference that farmers, startups, and other stakeholders all seemed to be on the same page about sensors.

Connected Country Seeks to Digitize the Australian Farm With Local Network as Internet Struggles Continue

July 6, 2017

Founded as a joint venture between Discovery Ag, an ag data startup founded by Australian ag retailer Delay Agribusiness, and National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo), Connected Garden has started to roll out a rural internet of things.

How Remote Sensing Powers Precision Agriculture

March 14, 2017

Modern sensing instruments have advanced far beyond simple photographic film. Today’s devices measure light, radiation, and heat by capturing different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, writes Joe Byrum.

Agtech Funding Sheet: Insect Farming, Big Data, Soil Health Tech, Crowdfund a Cow Platform, more

January 26, 2017

Insect farming, Big Data technology, soil health products, and a Crowdfund a cow platform are just a few of this week's agtech fundings.

Agtech Funding Sheet: IoT & Automation, Aquaculture Feed, Weeding Tech, Smart Fridges, more

January 5, 2017

A bumper week of fundings as we catch up from the holidays offer a diverse look at the types of startups innovating in the food and ag space today.

Kleiner Perkins Exits Farmers Edge as ‘Canada’s Warren Buffet’ Buys Stake – exclusive

December 20, 2016

Fairfax Financial, the investment company of Prem Watsa, has invested in Canadian digital precision agriculture company Farmers Edge, injecting new capital into the company as well as buying stock from existing investors.

Ag Industry Brief: Pessl Partners with Huawei on IoT for Ag, Olam Deploys Phytech, IntelinAir Adds New CoFounder, more

November 18, 2016

Weather data company Pessl Instruments is collaborating with Huawei on releasing new products in 2017. Find out more and how Phytech is being deployed in Australia in this week's Ag Industry Brief.