| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.10.2024 | Autonomous tech is coming to farming. What will it mean for crops, workers? | - |
| 04.10.2024 | DCVC Raises Over $700 Million To Invest In A Healthier Planet | DCVC announced it has closed over $700 million in new funds for a healthier planet and lives. The firm has committed to achieving venture-scale returns from companies whose success would bring humanity greater resilience, abundance, and equ... |
| 11.07.2023 | Dashworks launches AI assistant to streamline internal knowledge for enterprises, raises $5M | Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12 and learn how business leaders are getting ahead of the generative AI revolution. Learn More
Today, San Francisco-based AI productivity startup Dashworks announced the launch of Dash AI, a ... |
| 06.07.2023 | Best Agri-Tech Companies of 2023 | The agricultural industry is undergoing a remarkable transformation driven by the rapid advancement of technology. Agri-tech companies are at the forefront of this revolution, leveraging innovation to address the complex challenges faced by... |
| 05.08.2021 | BREAKING: John Deere acquires AgFunder portfolio company Bear Flag Robotics for $250m | John Deere has acquired Bear Flag Robotics, a Californian startup offering autonomous solutions to farmers, for $250 million. [Disclosure: AgFunder, AFN’s parent company, is an investor in Bear Flag Robotics.]
Bear Flag Robotics ‘retrofits’... |
| 05.08.2021 | Brief: John Deere acquires AgFunder portfolio company Bear Flag Robotics for $250m | John Deere has acquired Bear Flag Robotics, a Californian startup offering autonomous solutions to farmers, for $250 million. [Disclosure: AgFunder, AFN’s parent company, is an investor in Bear Flag Robotics.]
Bear Flag Robotics ‘retrofits’... |
| 23.06.2021 | NEW REPORT: Behind the scenes at the top agrifood CVCs | Furious dealmaking in the agrifoodtech sector last year yielded a surprising result: in 12 months marked by immense uncertainty, agrifood investors took bigger risks. They backed cell-cultured meat startups, insect farms, biotech companies ... |
| 23.06.2021 | Behind the scenes at the top agrifood CVCs | Furious dealmaking in the agrifoodtech sector last year yielded a surprising result: in 12 months marked by immense uncertainty, agrifood investors took bigger risks. They backed cell-cultured meat startups, insect farms, biotech companies ... |
| 08.04.2021 | Complexity, AI & the future of food: Toward the age of agrobots | Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of guest articles that former ag executive Joseph Byrum has authored on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on food security.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and ... |
| 08.09.2020 | How to spot opportunities and land funding in agriculture tech, the multibillion-dollar industry that's only becoming more crucial with population growth | Tortuga AgTech robots. Tortuga AgTech This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Conventional farming methods are unable to produce enough food to feed the world’s growing... |
| 27.05.2020 | Syngenta invests in $7m seed round for Israeli autonomous chemical reduction tech Greeneye | Regulators across the world are gradually pushing back against the overuse of chemicals on crops. Just last week, for instance, the European Commission set out proposals to reduce pesticide use in the EU by 50% by the end of the decade.
But... |
| 27.05.2020 | Syngenta invests in $7m seed round for Israeli autonomous chemical reduction tech Greeneye | |
| 11.04.2019 | How Agtech Solutions Can Leverage ‘Full Stack Thinking’ to Disrupt Agriculture | Editor’s Note: Amit Sridharan is director of Investments at Mahindra Partners US, the corporate venture capital arm of India-headquartered conglomerate Mahindra Group. His investment focus is around digital-physical intersections, autonomou... |
| 17.09.2018 | Why VCs are Embracing AgriTech | Adam Anders, managing partner at Anterra Capital, on why venture capital is waking up to the possibilities afforded by the agricultural tech sector. |
| 22.05.2018 | AI-powered robots fight weeds to disrupt US$100 billion pesticide industry dominated by agrochemical giants | The global pesticide industry is $100 billion every year
$26 billion is spent on 3 billion pounds of herbicide every year
There are now 250 of known species of resistant weeds
Genetically modified (GM) herbicide tolerant crops are design... |
| 26.04.2018 | Monsanto’s Venture Arm Could Be Winding Down, Sources Suggest, As Company Looks for New Talent | *Updated April 27, 2018, 15:35 to add more context around future of MGV.*
Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), the venture arm of Monsanto, has lost all of its dedicated staff after former managing director John Hamer, former investment director... |
| 22.03.2018 | Marc Raibert, Melonee Wise and more will be speaking at TC Sessions: Robotics May 11 at UC Berkeley | We’re gearing up for our big upcoming TC Sessions: Robotics event May 11 on the UC Berkeley campus, and we’ve got a lot to talk about. We’ve already announced Berkeley professors Pieter Abbeel and Robert Full, Android/Playground Global foun... |
| 05.12.2017 | Reflections of an Agtech VC: Gabriel Wilmoth Leaves Syngenta Ventures to Join Ag Startup | Gabriel Wilmoth has left Syngenta Ventures, where he was investment director, to join ag startup Growers, an on-farm service that helps farmers use technology to simplify their business, as the chief operating officer.
Wilmoth joined Syngen... |
| 10.10.2017 | Pontifax AgTech Closes Fund I on $105m | Pontifax Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifax AgTech) has closed its first fund on $105 million, raising capital predominantly from institutional investors including university endowments, funds of funds, insurance companies, and ... |
| 03.10.2017 | How an Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Startup Got Acquired by John Deere [podcast] | In this episode, I speak to Jorge Heraud, the cofounder and CEO of Blue River Technology, a Silicon Valley startup bringing robotics to the farm. Blue River was recently acquired by John Deere, the world’s largest tractor company, for $305 ... |
| 12.09.2017 | Blue River Was ‘Clear Leader’ in John Deere’s Search for a Robotics & AI Acquisition | “We didn’t need to look at many companies to establish that there was one clear leader that was way ahead,” John Teeple, director of advanced technology for John Deere tells AgFunderNews.
Teeple is talking about Blue River Technology, the S... |
| 06.09.2017 | John Deere Acquires ‘See & Spray’ Robotics Startup Blue River Technology for $305m | Editor’s Note: Deere & Company has acquired ag robotics startup Blue River Technology, according to an agreement announced at close of trading today. The tractor giant is acquiring the Sunnyvale, California-based Blue River for $305 mil... |
| 19.03.2014 | Blue River Technology Inks $10M in Series A-1 |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Pioneer in the use of computer vision and robotics for agriculture, today announced it has raised $10 million in Series A-1 funding.
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| - | Blue River Technology Raises $17 Million in Series B Funding | - |
| - | Blue River Technology Raises $17 Million in Series B Funding | Blue River Technology, a leader in the use of computer vision, machine learning and robotics for agriculture, today announced it has raised $17 million in Series B funding led by Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifa... |
