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 partnership-centric approach to farm data helped it secure €3 million in equity funding from Italy’s United Ventures and Switzerland’s TiVenture.
What does a CPG company want with smart checkout technology, you ask? Data, and lots of it.
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.
Prospera recently announced its partnership with Valley Irrigation to combine its sensor-based analytics software with Valley’s pivot irrigation systems.
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.
Kalaari joins existing investor Omnivore, the India-focused impact venture fund focused on agrifood startups.
Sencrop’s Series A marks The Yield Lab’s first French startup investment.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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 produces a small in-cab unit called a PUC that wirelessly shares machine and agronomic data gathered in the field in real time.
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.
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.
It was notable at this year’s conference that farmers, startups, and other stakeholders all seemed to be on the same page about sensors.
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.
