Vivent uses AI to detect and interpret electrical biosignals within plants that are linked to stress, helping to diagnose pathogens and pests.
The Canadian startup provides solar-powered, self-cleaning sensors that can keep track of livestock feed levels in real time.
Covid-19 has created new opportunities for acquisitions as startups struggle to fundraise, according to CropX CEO Tomer Tzach.
The team at Spotta wants to enable a lighter use of pesticides by building networks of accurate real-time insect detectors.
A new report identifies key technologies to fight food waste at six key points of the food supply chain, including coatings, packaging, and sensors.
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.
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.
Starting with its native Australia, NNNCo will roll out the moisture sensing tech across the Asia-Pacific region.
The acquisition will add 1,800 weather stations to the company’s existing European network to support hyper-local weather data for farmers.
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.
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