| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.10.2019 | Women in AgTech: Fighting machismo in Latin America | Forbes has been having a field day (or week) with a slew of women-centric stories, making their way around social media – the gem being their piece on how 2019’s women of The Forbes 400 are the wealthiest they’ve ever been, with a combined ... |
| 22.05.2019 | Agtech startup Agrilyst is now Artemis, raises $8M Series A | Artemis, the agtech startup formerly known as Agrilyst, today announced that it has raised an $8 million Series A funding round. The round was co-led by Astanor Ventures and Talis Capital, with participation from iSelect Fund and New York S... |
| 22.05.2019 | Agrilyst Rebrands as Artemis, Lands $8M for Indoor Farming Software | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Agrilyst, an agtech startup that has commercialized software that helps manage indoor farms and greenhouses, is unveiling a new name and additional capital. The company is now... |
| 22.05.2019 | Agrilyst Raises $8M Series A Co-Led by Astanor Ventures and Talis Capital | Artemis (formerly Agrilyst), the leading enterprise Cultivation Management Platform (CMP), today announced it has closed a $8 million Series A funding round co-led by Astanor Ventures and Talis Capital with participation from existing inves... |
| 22.05.2019 | Agrilyst Raises $8m Series A, Rebrands to Artemis, Sets Sights on Enterprise-Level Indoor Farms | Agrilyst – which has re-branded to Artemis – has closed an $8 million Series A funding co-led by two London-based investors, impact group Astanor Ventures and tech firm Talis Capital with participation from existing investors New York State... |
| 08.08.2018 | Your vegetables are going to be picked by robots sooner than you think | In the very near future, robots are going to be picking the vegetables that appear on grocery store shelves across America.
The automation revolution that’s arrived on the factory floor will make its way to the ag industry in the U.S. and i... |
| 10.04.2018 | Open List of Women Leaders in Ag Challenges Industry Event Organizers to Promote Equal Representation | When Allison Kopf posted an open google doc on LinkedIn with the names of 75 “Inspirational Women in Ag” on Saturday, she knew it would get a response, but she did not expect the response to be as swift as it was.
“I’m not surprised the lis... |
| 13.03.2018 | Agtech Startups Aim to Help the CA Cannabis Market Stay in the Green | Recreational use of cannabis became legal in the state of California on January 1, 2018, and before the end of the month, industry experts were already predicting a coming shortage.
The market for legal cannabis in California is estimated t... |
| 07.02.2018 | Agrilyst raises another $1.5M for its intelligent indoor farming platform | Agrilyst, a platform that makes it easier for indoor farmers to manage their crops based on sensor data, today announced that it has raised a $1.5 million funding round from iSelect Fund, Argonautic Ventures, Horizons Lab (Horizons Venture’... |
| 02.02.2018 | Agrilyst Adds Horizons Ventures to New Round with Eyes on China | Indoor farming software startup Agrilyst has raised an undisclosed strategic round, bringing in new investors with the aim of expanding the scope of its product offering and entering the Chinese market.
Agrilyst offers a software-as-a-servi... |
| 31.01.2018 | Agrilyst Closes Strategic Funding Round | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 31, 2018
Contact: Tim Sprinkle
iSelect Fund
(720) 278-8036
tsprinkle@iselectfund.com Agrilyst Closes Strategic Funding Round
Capital Will Support Growth, Product Development and New Business Lines
BROOKLYN, NY ... |
| 08.01.2018 | Interesting facts on the state of indoor farming | In the future, will all of our vegetables be grown on stacked shelves in temperature-controlled rooms lit by LED lamps? As climate change slowly disrupts the natural rhythms of the growing cycle and if housing demand in exurbia continues ap... |
| 04.01.2018 | 30 Food Technologies to Support Your Sustainable New Year’s Resolutions | When it comes to technology in the first week of January, you might be thinking wearable fitness trackers and meal replacements. But there is a whole host of startups with technology that can also help with resolutions skewed toward agricul... |
| 03.01.2018 | Access to Capital is Biggest Challenge to Indoor Farms – Report | Indoor farming saw some big first-round raises last year. But the successes of AeroFarms, Bowery Farming, and Plenty in attracting venture capital is not necessarily reflective of the fundraising environment for the sector overall.
Twenty-f... |
| 18.12.2017 | Brooklyn founders and investors predict big headlines of 2018 | So the plan originally was to write a column of my predictions for the tech world in 2018, when I realized that I am the medium for this information, not the source of it. So why not turn to the tech and business experts I talk to every day... |
| 08.12.2017 | Power Moves: Agrilyst hires Mikhail Hutton, Nathan Bashaw to Gimlet Media, Cassie Marketos rejoins Kickstarter | Power Moves is a Technical.ly column highlighting leadership moves in Brooklyn’s tech scene. Got an announcement? Email us at brooklyn@technical.ly.Agrilyst hires Mikhail Hutton as VP of customer success.
Agtech startup Agrilyst adds a seni... |
| 15.09.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Israel, China in $300m Agtech Deal, Mistletoe CEO Launches Indian Agtech Accelerator, Protix Acquires Insect Breeder, more | Israel and China Strike $300m Deal to Bring Agtech East
Israel and China have signed a $300-million trade agreement to facilitate the export of environmentally-friendly Israeli technology to China. A statement from Israel’s finance ministry... |
| 30.08.2017 | Why agtech grows in Brooklyn | The Brooklyn landscape is going green — and not just on rooftop farms. Of late, the borough has seen an explosion of innovation about how to grow fresh, healthy food in the heart of the city.
Digging beds on rooftops and harvesting baby rad... |
| 11.08.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Automated Indoor Farming, M&A, Farmers Demand Climate Action, more | Agrilyst and Motorleaf Partner for Fully Automated Indoor Farming
Indoor farm management and automation software firm Agrilyst and automation and IoT hardware and software provider Motorleaf have partnered up to facilitate increased automat... |
| 16.06.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Amazon Buys Whole Foods, Monsanto & Atomwise Partner to Use AI for Discovery, MidWest Accelerators Announce Investments, more | Amazon is Buying Whole Foods for $13.4bn
Amazon has agreed to buy the upscale grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.4 billion, as the online retailer looks to conquer new territory in the supermarket aisle and bolster its own food delivery serv... |
| 09.06.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Agrilyst Indoor Farming Survey Open, Climate Ventures 2.0 Cohort, Coca Cola Investing $1.7bn in India Ag, more | Agrilyst Releases State of Indoor Farming Survey
In an attempt to gain a better insight about the current state of indoor farming, Agrilyst, which has developed an indoor farming software management platform, has teamed up with Cornell Univ... |
| 02.05.2017 | 50 Startups Aimed at Changing the World Join Kairos Society | Kairos Society has announced this year's Kairos 50, a collection of the 50 most innovative seed-stage companies in the world. The Kairos Society is dedicated to empowering young entrepreneurs to innovate in areas where others have remained ... |
| 10.03.2017 | 1776NY’s first-ever Women’s Demo Day featured an impressive slate | Twelve pitches in 24 minutes. And a healthy smattering of red.
That was the scene at 1776NY’s Women’s Demo Day, which observed International Women’s Day with a pitch event featuring female founders of local startups. Among them: a marketpla... |
| 21.02.2017 | Why Alltech is Putting Startup Growth Before Equity in Agritech Accelerator | This week Alltech, the animal nutrition and health company, launched the first cohort of its new accelerator program. The Pearse Lyons Accelerator is named after Alltech’s founder and president, who has taken the business from a startup in ... |
| 04.01.2017 | What Will 2017 Bring for Indoor Ag? | Editor’s Note: Nicola Kerslake is the founder of Newbean Capital, a registered investment adviser that manages early stage venture capital mandates and that has a particular interest in indoor agriculture. It owns the Indoor Ag-Con events b... |
| 13.12.2016 | Agrilyst founder up for vertical farming award | Brooklyn’s own Allison Kopf is up for Changemaker of the Year for 2016 from the Association for Vertical Farming, a leading industry group.
It’s been quite a year for the young founder, who raised over $1 million in seed funding and headlin... |
| 22.09.2016 | Indoor Farms: Where Venture Capital Doesn’t Always Make Sense | This week I took part in NYC AgTech Week, a week-long event that attracted indoor agriculture enthusiasts from across the globe for a series of presentations, tours, and panel discussions. On Tuesday evening, indoor ag software startup Agri... |
| 12.09.2016 | Agrilyst Reports Indoor Agriculture Over 4k Times More Productive Than Outdoor Commodity Crop Production | Better yields, the opportunity to harvest more times a year and higher retail prices are making indoor farming more productive than conventional outdoor operations, according to a new report from data software company Agrilyst.
The State of... |
| 06.09.2016 | Agrilyst’s Kopf Talks Indoor Ag in New York and Funding Advice for Startups | Agrilyst, the New York-based software-as-a-service startup for the indoor agriculture industry completed a $1 million seed funding round in May. Building on her experience during the fundraising process, Allison Kopf, the startup’s CEO, is ... |
| 16.05.2016 | Why Brooklyn’s top VC is placing a bet on indoor farming | Agrilyst, the 2015 winner of the TechCrunch Disrupt NY battlefield, took the opportunity last week at Disrupt NY 2016 to announced that it had raised a million-dollar seed round.
The Downtown Brooklyn startup created a software as a service... |
| 12.05.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Agrilyst Scores $1m Seed Round During a Busy Week for M&A | Agrilyst Raises $1m Ahead of Cannabis Platform Roll Out
Disrupt SF 2015 winner Agrilyst has raised $1 million in seed funding in a round led by New York seed stage investors Brooklyn Bridge Ventures with participation from NYC early-stage t... |
| 12.05.2016 | Agrilyst Raises $1M in Seed Funding | Agrilyst, a NYC-based provider of an intelligence platform for indoor farms, raised $1m in seed funding.
The round was led by Brooklyn Bridge Ventures with participation from Metamorphic Ventures and other unnamed investors.
The company wil... |
| 11.05.2016 | Agrilyst raises $1M seed round for its indoor agriculture analytics service | Agrilyst, the winner of our Disrupt SF 2015 Battlefield competition, today announced it has raised a $1 million seed round for its indoor agriculture analytics service.
The round was led by Brooklyn Bridge Ventures with participation from M... |
| 08.03.2016 | 3 Entrepreneurs Discuss What it Takes to Be a Woman Working in Agtech | Today is International Women’s Day, a day designed to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women while also recognizing that there is still substantial progress to be made in the standing of women globally... |
| 30.09.2015 | Agtech Wins Big at US Tech Startup Competitions Moving Further into Mainstream | If there is any doubt about whether agtech is moving into the mainstream, one only needs to look at some of 2015’s biggest startup competitions to see just how much traction new food and agriculture technologies are gaining.
Verizon’s annua... |
| 23.09.2015 | And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 Is… Agrilyst | At the very beginning, there were around a thousand startups. We hand-picked the 25 greatest companies so that they could compete in our incredibly competitive startup competition — the Startup Battlefield. They all presented in front of mu... |
| 22.09.2015 | Announcing The TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 Battlefield Finalists | We’ve officially closed Day Two of TC Disrupt SF 2015, complete with speaking appearances from John Doerr, Andre Iguodala, Nick Woodman, and Tim Westergren. But as Tuesday of Disrupt comes to a close, so too does the first phase of the TC D... |
| 21.09.2015 | Agrilyst Wants To Be The Google Analytics For Greenhouses | Agrilyst, which is officially launching in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Battlefield today, helps greenhouse operators run their operations more efficiently by pulling in data from sensors in the greenhouse and information about crop yields and... |
