Water was the theme of the latest Foodshot Global challenge, and more specifically, how tech can help protect water as a resource for food and agriculture.
African Agriculture aims to transform the Sahel’s beef and dairy industries through the production of animal feed.
A new Inmarsat report notes “improved environmental outcomes” including water conservation from leveraging satellite IoT tools for agriculture.
We cannot let this recent rainfall lull us into a false sense of complacency around water management and risk our long-term water supply.
The partnership claims to already support close to five million people’s water supplies in Ethiopia and Kenya.
The US startup recently raised $5.5 million in Series A funding to accelerate development and adoption of its water management sensors.
Moleaer will use its Series C funding to increase the availability of its proprietary nanobubble equipment and address water shortages.
Despite progress, six major fast food brands must do more to reduce water pollution and provide more transparency in their animal protein supply chains.
A battle is being waged over water use in California and California’s Central Valley is at the epicenter, writes Sean Hood.
Prospera recently announced its partnership with Valley Irrigation to combine its sensor-based analytics software with Valley’s pivot irrigation systems.
I caught up with Aric Olsen, president of Jain USA, are his most recent acquisition of ETWater, a weather data analytics and sprinkler control company using machine learning to measure the evapotranspiration rate of grass.
We can spend a lot of money on feed rations, but if the animal’s gut integrity is wrong because of bacteria in the water line, that nutrition is wasted and is also a welfare issue, says Barney Kay, head of agriculture at Tesco.
Lance Donny, CEO and founder of OnFarm, will become SWIIM’s chief operating officer, helping to integrate SWIIM’s water balance monitoring and reporting data into the OnFarm dashboard.
WaterBit’s autonomous irrigation solution takes into account the stage of the plant, soil conditions and weather.
If your resolutions skew toward agriculture and food rather than the treadmill, there is a whole host of startups with technology that can help.
Global revenue risk from lack of water availability for irrigation or animal consumption has reached $459 billion. With figures like this, it’s no wonder that funds and corporations are hearing more concern about water from investors.
Further M&A activity from large agribusinesses like Jain is essential so we caught up with Observant to find out what pieces of advice the cofounder would give to farm-based agritech startups hoping to turn their businesses into acquirable companies.
The year’s first exit came from Observant, an early agtech pioneer in the precision water management space. Jain Irrigation acquired the Australian company.
A bumper week of fundings includes startups offering satellite imagery analysis, drones-as-a-software, milk products, wine e-commerce and more.
It’s been a rough ride for Oso Tech and its investors from its founding in 2011 in Urbana, Illinois until now. But the journey culminated in an exit and sale to Scotts Miracle-Gro.
