One of the criticisms laid at the door of agtech startups is that they doesn’t interact enough with the farming community they are trying to serve.
The Association for Vertical Farming (AVF) and Illumitex created the 2016 Vertical Farming Award competition to promote innovation and awarded first prize to a Malaysian community project.
Agriculture stakeholders, programmers, developers and data scientists are invited to come together in Nairobi, Kenya this July for a two-day hackathon aimed at finding technological solutions for smallholder farmers in East Africa as they adapt to changing conditions.
There’s a new agtech accelerator in town: the Memphis, Tennessee-based AgLaunch Accelerator is now accepting applications for its Fall 2016 cohort.
The $10m Bayer Trendlines Ag Innovation Fund is the first step in developing a co-investment platform as the Israeli incubator eyes launching another $30m fund.
Leading seed accelerator Y Combinator featured five agtech startups at its recent Demo Day. Here some of them discuss the benefits of the program.
Kenneth Zuckerberg, senior research analyst in Rabobank’s Food & Agribusiness Research & Advisory Group, shares his thoughts on the future of the agtech startup market.
The application deadline for the Cascadia CleanTech Accelerator is May 15, 2016.
Three industry mergers & acquisitions top this week’s Industry-in-Brief as the debate over GM salmon and food labeling continues, and a Saudi Arabian dairy company’s purchase of alfalfa land in California causes concern.
Michigan’s Great Lakes AgTech Business Incubator is pursuing a slightly different model to other incubators.
The New York meal kit delivery service is hoping to differentiate itself in the overheating food e-commerce market.
The Larta Institute is now accepting applications for the 2016 Ag Innovation Showcase. Applications are due by May 15
RoCRE is an agtech incubation center attached to the world’s longest running agricultural research station Rothamsted Research, which has been researching science and innovation in the industry since 1843.
2 Female Agtech Entrepreneurs were selected by their peers to receive investment from VilCap Investments and Radicle Capital.
Microsoft and the USDA have announced the winners of their Innovation Challenge, a competition tasking entrepreneurs with making good use of the USDA’s recently-released data.
The food technology-focused accelerator’s new managing director, Andrew Ive, talks to AgFunderNews about getting to know the sector since joining in November.
The agtech startup accelerator, which already has five companies in its portfolio from the 2015 cohort, selected six businesses ranging from gene technologies to frozen fish eggs.
The UK-based agtech business competition is organized by Agri-Tech East, a cluster organization for the sector. Initial expressions of interest are due March 7, 2016.
An agtech entrepreneur and former venture capitalist, Matthew B. Crisp recently closed a Series A funding round for Benson Hill Biosystems, and here he shares some of his key takeaways.
The first FoodBytes! Summit for 2016 is set to take place in Brooklyn, New York, on March 3, 2016, and applications are now open.
Smoke & mirrors, not worth the extra cost: 50 US farmers speak out on carbon markets