Tag: UK

ADM Capital Leads $5m Round for Moleaer Expecting Boom in Nanobubble Tech for Indoor Ag

June 6, 2019

Nanobubbles -- yes, that's teeny tiny bubbles, can boost indoor farming and aquaculture yields, can be used in water treatment, preventing dangerous algal blooms and can aid waste and filtration systems as well as other industries like mining.

Letter from London: Britain’s ‘Food Waste Tsar’ Wants Radical, Drastic Change

May 29, 2019

These notes from our London-based reporter include a food waste symposium, London Food Tech Week and a bevy of startups.

Transforming a 10,000 Year Old industry: Why LocalGlobe Invested in Breedr

March 14, 2019

Today, LocalGlobe announced its lead role in the £2 million seed round for Breedr, a UK digital ag startup for the animal agriculture sector. Breedr joins Wefarm and Infarm in LocalGlobe's agtech portfolio. Here Brett tells us more and why they invested.

These London Vegetables Can Survive A Bomb Blast

March 11, 2019

Two urban farmer-founders have been using a Second World War air-raid shelter as their first controlled environment agriculture site for their London-based agtech startup Growing Underground.

In the Mooood For Love: UK Startup Launches Tudder, a Tinder For Cows

February 14, 2019

Tudder is a new swipe-led matchmaking app, helping farm animals across the UK find breeding partners in the quest for moo love.

UK Farm Minister Urges British Producers to Lead the World in Technology

January 4, 2019

The British Government’s Food, Farming and Environment Minister, Michael Gove, has promised to deliver an ambitious new UK food strategy in 2019, embrace a properly funded 25-year environment plan and commit to rising investments in agritech.

£500m UK AgriTech Cluster Gets Top Political Backing

November 1, 2018

Leading British politicians and AgriTech industry representatives met in the House of Commons in London this week to focus attention on the development of a £500 million ($650 million) AgriTech Cluster, to be located on the edge of the university town of Cambridge, in the UK.

New Hydroponics Approach Draws £500k Seed Funding for Welsh Startup Phytoponics

October 16, 2018

A new deep-water approach to hydroponics has earned Welsh agtech startup, Phytoponics, $650,000 of seed funding support over the last two years.

How the UK is Becoming a Global Leader in Agritech

October 10, 2018

With highly skilled talent in many disciplines from animal and plant sciences to land management, the UK has a proven ability to develop and market new technologies.

UK Livestock Disease Test Startup PBD Biotech Secures £400k Funding for Global Trials

August 14, 2018

The company’s development, called Actiphage, is aimed at a group of diseases caused by mycobacteria, including bovine TB which has already resulted in the slaughter of over 30,000 cattle in the UK and cost the British taxpayer more than £100m

Wefarm Raises $5m from Skype, WordPress Founders for Smallholder Farmer Network

March 13, 2018

Wefarm uses AI technology to connect small-scale farmers to crowdsourced information by enabling them to share techniques and advice on anything from how to battle a disease to how to increase their income, through SMS or online in their own languages.

Dyson Founder Backs Remote Sensing Agronomy Platform Hummingbird in £3m Series A Round

March 7, 2018

Though Hummingbird began as a drone-focused precision agriculture company two years ago, it evolved beyond just drones as the team realized that the method of data collection is secondary to the data itself.

KisanHub Raises £1.75m for Big Data Potato Platform

January 22, 2018

KisanHub targets agriculture enterprises, not farmers like most precision ag services, meaning suppliers, processors, and retailers that own some of their own farmland, but also have a network of contract farmers, are the company's customers.

UK Attempts to Mend ‘Fragmented’ Ag Innovation Pipeline with Research Funding

January 19, 2018

Britain’s Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is committing £5m ($6.9m) to fund the country’s farm sector PhD students in an effort to overhaul the UK industry’s “fragmented” innovation and skills pipeline.

UK’s Cornwall Establishes £10m Agritech Funding Opportunity for Southwest Region

July 18, 2017

As England’s only officially designated ‘Less Developed Region’, the area has received grant support from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and a range of local and national development partners.

Major UK Food & Ag Corporates Join Forces to Launch £40m Precision Ag Innovation Center Agri-EPI

July 5, 2017

Located at Harper Adams University, the Agri-EPI Centre is the first of four agritech innovation centers under the UK's agritech strategy that are being jointly funded by the ag industry and the government.

The Future of British Farming: Accentuate the Technology and Eliminate the Subsidy

May 31, 2017

Brexit presents an opportunity for the UK to re-pivot, refocus and redeploy its capital and energies towards the nation’s value-added agricultural technologies and cutting-edge science capabilities, writes Richard Ferguson.

UK Agritech Startup Roslin Tech Raises £10m for Animal Therapeutics Platform

April 4, 2017

Roslin Technologies has spun out of the University of Edinburgh and The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, to raise £10 million ($12.4m) in funding to commercialize its first products.

Open Innovation and Intellectual Property – a Troubled Relationship or a Perfect Match?

February 15, 2017

Simon Kremer recently attended the Rothamsted Open Innovation Forum for agriculture technology, and here offers some thoughts on how IP plays into open ag innovation.