Technology

[ad_1] India’s fresh produce industry has severe shortcomings. Bottom line: Not enough of it gets produced; nor can its consumers rely on its consistency or freshness. For the producers themselves, getting their tomatoes or lettuce to market at a fair and timely price is fraught with financially hazardous uncertainty. Does this all herald an opening […]

[ad_1] Small Robot Company (SRC), a British agrobotics startup, has told AFN that it has closed its latest Crowdcube equity crowdfunding campaign at £2.1 million. The company has now secured a total of £4,840,000 in funding to date. Late on Monday, the VC firm 7percent Ventures was confirmed as lead investor, having plowed in £200,000. […]

[ad_1] Sencrop, which provides weather data to farmers throughout Europe with its agro-weather stations and sensors, has acquired Visio-Green Agriculture, a subsidiary of Latitude GPS in what Sencrop’s co-founder indicated would be the first “in a process of consolidation and bringing more value to farmers.” Founded in 2016, Visio-Green makes sensors for agriculture including agro-weather […]

[ad_1] Every season, farms have to fork out serious cash for huge stacks of inputs, whether that’s feedstuffs, fertilizers, or pesticides. Anywhere in the world, the traditional way to get hold these is via locally-connected networks of retailers who work closely with farmers year by year, building up close personal relationships. The drawback to this […]

[ad_1] Container farming startup Freight Farms has raised a $15 million Series B led by Osrpaie Ag Science, a venture firm focused on sustainable ag. Existing investor Spark Capital also participated in the round, which brings the company’s total funding to over $28 million. The news follows a major recent announcement from the Boston-based company: […]

[ad_1] The agtech industry is generating more and more investment every single year, and with that comes increasing media spotlight. What was an emerging category when I started reporting for AFN around 2015 is now a fully-developed, thriving ecosystem of entrepreneurs, startups, VCs, academics, and more. And while I recently reported on a startup that […]

[ad_1] Countless startups, VCs, and corporates are hard at work building the agri-foodtech ecosystem, but one startup is hoping to provide some much needed digital glue for the app-based offerings in the segment. Describing itself as providing the industry’s “critically-needed infrastructure,” Leaf has developed an API intended to make it easy for anyone to seamlessly […]

[ad_1] How hard can it be to count pigs, you may ask? Believe it or not, it’s super hard. So difficult, in fact, that National Pork Board director Bill Even brought it up during an interview with AFN last year. As a livestock producer myself, I can attest to having spent more minutes than I’d […]

[ad_1] In a world of African Swine Fever, increasing scrutiny of the meat industry and consumer demand for transparency, the pork industry needs to modernize. But according to Chris Bomgaars, founder of EveryPig, a software platform for pork producers to track pig health, many in the industry are reticent to move on from how things […]

[ad_1] French animal feed developer Huddle Corp recently closed a €1.5 million ($1.65 million) funding round from European private equity firm Demeter’s food-focused Agrinnovation funds. The new round will be used to help Huddle Corp scale up for its target market: aquaculture. “After nine months of market investigation, interviews with farmers, academics, and players in […]

[ad_1] Low cost and brutal effectiveness. That pretty much sums up why chemical insecticides are the dominant way to keep insects from nibbling away at crops. Yet many of these chemicals are facing growing regulatory, scientific and media backlash. Recent research findings point to collateral damage to non-invasive, ecologically vital species of plants, insects, fish, […]

[ad_1] A note from Jennie Moss, managing director, Rethink Events: In this fascinating interview, Banks Baker pinpoints many of the critical themes in animal health and nutrition that we’ve also been hearing from the Animal AgTech Advisory Board and network. New and next-gen technologies in animal feed, preventative health, and precision monitoring are critical to […]

[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Solinftec is an AgFunder portfolio company. We invested in an extension of its TPG-led Series A round in 2017 as one of our first investments, beginning if our global portfolio. Brazilian digital agtech company Solinftec has raised $60 million in funding at Series B stage to become the biggest agtech deal on […]