Date | Title | Description |
11.09.2024 | Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Is Back at the Company 'Pretty Much Every Day.' Here's What He's Working On. Brin publicly confirmed for the first time that he's back at Google and working on AI. | After resigning as president of Google's parent company Alphabet in 2019, co-founder Sergey Brin is back at Google — and working on AI "pretty much every day," he confirmed for the first time in a conversation with Climate Corpora... |
02.08.2024 | Leaf Agriculture Secures $11.3 Million to Transform Farm Data Management | In the ever-evolving landscape of agriculture, data is the new gold. Leaf Agriculture, a pioneer in farm data management, has just raised $11.3 million in Series A funding. This round, led by Spero Ventures, marks a significant leap forward... |
01.08.2024 | Leaf Agriculture raises $11.3m Series A to build ‘the lingua franca’ of ag data | Farm data management platform Leaf Agriculture has raised $11.3 million in Series A financing.
Spero Ventures led the round, which also included participation from “all existing investors.”
Leaf will use the new funds to expand its product ... |
11.06.2024 | Bayer and Perdue share learnings from three-year regenerative agriculture partnership: ‘Change is hard’ | If the benefits of regenerative agriculture are so clear, why isn’t everyone doing it?
It’s a fair question, say execs at Bayer Crop Science and Perdue Agribusiness, who will be speaking at a webinar hosted by Reuters Events on June 27 to s... |
26.10.2023 | Regenerative Agriculture – An Evolving Concept | The diverse collection of sponsors of this eventPhoto by author taken at the SB'23 SAN DIEGO event |
15.09.2022 | The Production Board invests in Brazil’s largest ag retailer in SPAC deal to promote agtech adoption | The Production Board (TPB), the investment company created by Climate Corp founder David Friedberg, is investing $100 million in Brazil’s largest ag retailer — Lavoro — in a special purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) deal that will list... |
25.03.2022 | 12 agtech takeaways from 12 global agriculture experts | Rhishi Pethe is the creator of “Software is Feeding the World,” a free weekly newsletter about tech trends in food and agriculture, and head of product management for Project Mineral at X.
The views expressed in this guest article are the a... |
23.02.2022 | EXCLUSIVE: Leaf is helping Bayer ‘quickly expand’ FieldView’s digital partnerships | G. Bailey Stockdale is CEO of Leaf, a food and agriculture data infrastructure startup. Here he reveals his company’s partnership with Bayer and the impact on its Climate FieldView business so far.
Bayer Crop Science’s digital agriculture a... |
09.12.2021 | Bayer, Bushel & AWS launch carbon measurement tool for US farmers | Bayer and grain-marketing startup Bushel have teamed up with Amazon‘s Web Services (AWS) to launch Project Carbonview – a data-based carbon measurement tool aimed at helping farmers to better assess and report the carbon footprint of their ... |
30.11.2021 | Speedinvest announces €80M Climate & Industry Opportunity fund to support European climate tech startups | Vienna-based Speedinvest, a venture capital fund investing in pre-Seed, Seed, and early-stage tech startups, announced that it has launched a new €80M Climate & Industry Opportunity fund. The fund’s final close is scheduled for Q2, 2022... |
19.11.2021 | UPDATE: Bayer inks new digital ag data infrastructure deal with Microsoft: how significant is it? | UPDATED: 19 November, 2021, 15:36pm GMT to add comments from a Microsoft spokesperson about data sources and revenue generation through the partnership.
We’ve all seen those announcements before: Company X ‘partners’ with Amazon or Microsof... |
17.11.2021 | Bayer inks new digital ag data infrastructure deal with Microsoft: how significant is it? | We’ve all seen those announcements before: Company X ‘partners’ with Amazon or Microsoft to ‘enhance’ their digital capabilities.
Translation: Company X is now an Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure customer – ie, they’re using the tech giants’ p... |
01.11.2021 | CDC Group to invest over £3 billion over the next five years to combat the climate emergency | CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, is to invest over £3 billion to support emerging economies in Africa and Asia to combat the climate emergency. |
30.09.2021 | Brief: Farm data company Ag-Analytics acquires land research platform AcreValue | US farm data company Ag-Analytics has acquired land research and evaluation platform AcreValue from Granular, a subsidiary of Corteva Agriscience. The acquisition includes the AcreValue’s product, tech, and team, according to a statement se... |
28.09.2021 | Live Oak Crestview Climate Acquisition Corp. : Announces Closing of $200,000,000 Initial Public Offering | MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Live Oak Crestview Climate Acquisition Corp. (the "Company"), a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purc... |
23.09.2021 | Live Oak Crestview Climate Acquisition Corp. : Announces Pricing of $200,000,000 Initial Public Offering | MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Live Oak Crestview Climate Acquisition Corp. (the "Company"), a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purc... |
15.09.2021 | Climate Corp’s Jeremy Williams on geospatial imaging | One of the biggest aims for agrifoodtech startups is giving farmers more information and insight into what is happening with their crops.
From sensors to satellites to soil tests, entrepreneurs are taking a variety of routes to helping farm... |
10.08.2021 | CropX acquires Dacom to boost digital twins for agriculture | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
CropX, an Israel-based farm management software p... |
10.08.2021 | CropX acquires Dacom to boost digital twins for agriculture | All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now.
CropX, an Israel-based farm management software platform provider, has acquired Dacom Farm Intelligence to expand into Europe.
This acquisition represents a major ... |
09.07.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Brazilian farm management platform Aegro scores seed funding, eyes fintech opportunity | Brazilian farm management platform Aegro has raised 12 million reals ($2.22 million) in a seed round led by existing investors SP Ventures and ABSeed.
Also participating in the fundraise were local VC firms SLC Ventures — the corporate vent... |
04.05.2021 | Tera Ventures Receives Additional EUR 43M from New International Partners | Tallinn-based VC Tera Ventures attracts new partners and an additional EUR 43M of funds. New international partners are excited to be present in the promising and rapidly developing region of the Baltics. Tera will be able to invest more ac... |
18.02.2021 | Become more efficient by tomorrow: A guide to farm management systems | Editor’s note: Yulia Poroshenko is founder, and Artem Rudko is key account manager, at AgroHub in Kyiv, Ukraine.
AgroHub uses data to help farmers make better, data-driven business decisions to increase revenue, reduce cost and risk, become... |
27.07.2020 | How Apollo Agriculture is solving small-scale farmers’ credit problem in Kenya | Share this article:
Around the world, most farmers have suffered different sets of challenges in scaling and growing their farms. Although lending and crowdfunding platforms have popped up over the past years, it’s still very difficult for ... |
20.02.2020 | Agtech acquisition alert! Israel’s ICL acquires Growers to boost digital offering | ICL, the $5 billion Israeli fertilizer company, has acquired North Carolina-based Growers Holdings, a data-driven farming platform that aims to provide farmers, agronomists, and other professionals with better decision-making capabilities. ... |
17.02.2020 | UK to invest US$1.6 billion in weather and climate supercomputer | LONDON: The British government will invest 1.2 billion pounds (US$1.6 billion) in what it says is the world's most powerful supercomputer to provide more accurate weather and climate forecasts.
The new supercomputer, which will be managed b... |
23.12.2019 | Analyzing 2019’s wild weather year: could technology have helped? | Weather. It’s either a farmer’s best friend or greatest foe depending on how Mother Nature’s meteorological temperament unfolds from season-to-season or even month-to-month. Sometimes we sound a bit like Goldilocks when asked to opine on ho... |
20.12.2019 | Agtech will take off in 2020: 5 trends to watch | Editor’s Note: Corbett Kull is co-founder and CEO of Tillable, the farmland rental management platform, which helps landowners optimize returns and helps farmers access land to expand operations. He also cofounded 640 Labs, which was sold t... |
12.09.2019 | The youngest new partner at the venture firm Felicis Ventures, Niki Pezeshki, on how he wins deals | Felicis Ventures has, in its roughly 13 years of existence, established a reputation in venture circles as a smart early-stage investment firm that’s willing to make bets almost anywhere in the world. Founded by ex-Googler Aydin Senkut, the... |
01.08.2019 | Eatsa is dead; long live Brightloom! (And its leading robotic retail & software as a service) | The legendary American novelist Samuel Clemens — far better known by his nom de plume Mark Twain — was once famously called upon to debunk a morbid outbreak of fake news suggesting that he had died on a trip to London, riddled with debts an... |
30.06.2019 | Is agriculture ripe for a Tesla moment? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It’s hard to believe electric vehicles were still... |
30.06.2019 | Is agriculture ripe for a Tesla moment? | It’s hard to believe electric vehicles were still considered the stuff of science fiction as little as 13 years ago.
As documented in the 2006 film Who Killed The Electric Car, the tech needed for battery-powered electric cars has been arou... |
12.03.2019 | Climate Risk Startup Jupiter Raises $23M | Jupiter Intelligence Jupiter Intelligence
Founded: 2017
Headquarters: San Mateo, CA, US
Total Funding: $34M
See full company profile "> , the provider of predictive data and analytics for climate risk, has announced a $23m Series B ... |
04.09.2018 | What’s Next for Agtech? | Editor’s Note: Barclay Rogers is head of business development at Ceres Imaging, a remote sensing startup using multi-spectral imaging from airplanes to provide farmers with insights about their crops including disease prediction, and irriga... |
16.08.2018 | Climate Corp’s Former Head of Product Joins Arable as CEO | Jim Ethington, former head of product at Monsanto’s digital agriculture division The Climate Corporation, has joined agriculture sensor and analytics startup Arable as CEO.
Ethington to taking over the role from Adam Wolf, the company’s co-... |
02.04.2018 | What is the Prototypical Agtech Exit? | The headline-making agtech exits of 2017 generated cautious optimism among investors and stakeholders, but as industry thinking moves along, a new conversation is emerging around what the acquisitions of Blue River Technology by John Deere,... |
26.03.2018 | Syngenta to Acquire Brazilian Farm Management Software Strider as Competition Heats Up in Latin America | **Update: Added comments Dan Burdett, global head of digital agriculture at Syngenta. **
Syngenta plans to acquire Brazilian farm management software platform Strider for an undisclosed sum, pending regulatory review by Brazilian authoritie... |
23.03.2018 | Understory Teams Up With Monsanto to Bring Weather Tech to Argentina | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 3/26/18 9:09 p.m. See below.] Many people look up information about local weather conditions to make low-stakes, everyday decisions, like whether to grab an umbrella ... |
30.01.2018 | Checking in With Climate Corp’s Open Platform Strategy and the Future of Ag Data | Eighteen months ago, The Climate Corporation announced that it was working to build the first open digital platform for agricultural service providers. The digital agriculture company, acquired by Monsanto in 2013, said at the time that its... |
01.12.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: New CEOs Headed to Blue Apron and Chipotle, Cannabis Co. Buys into Blockchain, more | Blue Apron Co-Founder Steps Down from CEO Role
Co-founder and CEO of Blue Apron Matt Salzberg has stepped down from his position at the helm of the struggling meal delivery kit company. Blue Apron’s shares have tumbled by 70 percent since i... |
02.11.2017 | Is St. Louis the Silicon Valley of Agtech? | St. Louis has worked hard to be a magnet for Fortune 500 companies. Nine members of this elite class call the city home, not the least of which is multinational agricultural giant Monsanto.
Walmart has more than 20,000 employees in St. Loui... |
01.11.2017 | Ceres Imaging Raises Additional $2.5m to Support Crop Expansion After Climate Corp Partnership | Ceres Imaging has raised an additional $2.5 million in Series A funding from existing investor Romulus Capital. The Oakland-based company announced a first close of this round on $5 million in May.
This second close brings Ceres total fundr... |
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... |
02.09.2017 | After Harvey, ignore the climate debate and focus on building better, more efficient cities | As Tropical Storm Harvey made its second landfall near the border of Louisiana and Texas this week, New Orleans marked the 12-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
In the intervening years since those storms, the nation has been continuall... |
15.08.2017 | What is Agri-FoodTech? | Agri-foodtech is the small but growing segment of the startup and venture capital universe that’s aiming to improve or disrupt the global food and agriculture industry. AgFunder coined the term in 2017 to define the innovation taking place ... |
28.07.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: AGCO Acquires Precision Planting, CropLogic Going Public, Plant-Based M&A, more | CropLogic to List on ASX After Acquiring Professional Ag Services
New Zealand in-field IoT provider CropLogic is set to go public on the Australian Stock Exchange. The company plans to raise $8 million in exchange for approximately 30% of i... |
18.04.2017 | Midas Brink List Lookback -- Where Are They Now? | Since 2011, when TrueBridge Capital Partners first collaborated with Forbes to produce the Midas List, we’ve created a complementary list of venture capital investors, the Brink List, which recognizes those who haven’t quite made it to Mida... |
25.01.2017 | Alphabet to sell Terra Bella satellite unit to Planet, also talked with Climate Corp. | Sources tell TechCrunch that Google parent company Alphabet is in advanced discussions to sell its Terra Bella satellite business — originally acquired as Skybox Imaging in 2014 — to Planet Labs. Alphabet also considered a sale to at least ... |
26.11.2016 | Funding roundup - week ending 11/26/16 | Oracle acquired Dyn; Tesla completed the deal for SolarCity; Google bought Qwiklabs
Bed Bath & Beyond acquired PersonalizationMall.com, an online retailer of personalized products. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
Personal... |
21.11.2016 | Monsanto’s Climate Corp Makes First Foray into Europe with VitalFields Acquisition | In its first foray into the European market, Monsanto subsidiary The Climate Corporation has acquired VitalFields, an Estonian farm management software company.
The deal is also the first exit for Monsanto Growth Ventures, the agribusiness’... |
18.08.2016 | What do Monsanto’s Plans to Open Up its Digital Platform Mean for the Agriculture Industry? | Monsanto has made the first move towards building a centralized and open digital platform for farmers to access agronomic data and analysis from a range of providers through its subsidiary The Climate Corporation.
Much like how Apple opened... |
07.07.2016 | Why Monsanto Committed to Microsoft Ventures’ Brazilian Digital Tech Accelerator Fund | Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV) has invested in Microsoft Ventures Brazil’s startup accelerator fund BR STARTUPS FIP, which invests across digital technologies and will now target agriculture technology startups. The fund is targeting $92 mi... |
09.06.2016 | How Big Data is Disrupting Agriculture from Biological Discovery to Farming Practices | Editor’s Note: Vonnie Estes is an agtech consultant with a particular focus on building biotech-focused startups. She has worked in business development roles at three of the big 6 — Monsanto, Syngenta, and DuPont — and is a known face in t... |
02.04.2016 | Meet Siraj Khaliq, Partner at Atomico | Co-founder of the Climate Corporation recently joined Atomico to drive VC investments in Europe
There has been a big debate the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or not.
What everyone can agree on, though, is that ther... |
02.02.2016 | Stop, Drop, and Roll: COP21 Signals Agtech’s Role in Reducing GHG Emissions | Editor’s Note: The Center for Carbon Removal in Berkeley, California, is on a mission “to accelerate the development of scalable, sustainable, economically viable carbon removal solutions”.
An initiative of the Berkeley Energy and Climate I... |
06.01.2016 | CloudHealth Technologies Adds New Policy and Automation Capabilities to Award-Winning Cloud Management Platform | BOSTON, MA - (January 6, 2016) – CloudHealth® Technologies, the leader in Cloud Service Management, today announced the addition of new policy and automation capabilities to the company’s award-winning CloudHealth platform. Through the new ... |
12.11.2015 | What is Ag Big Data? How 8 Companies are Approaching it | Big data is a phrase that has integrated the world of technology across industries in recent months and years. It’s about capturing relevant data from the huge number sources collecting it today, and translating that into actionable informa... |
15.09.2015 | The Best Things Come In Threes | Brian Wilcove Contributor
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24.07.2015 | How Monsanto & The Climate Corporation See the Future of Tech in Farming | “These are exciting times, these are challenging times, but the breakthroughs are incredible,” says Erik Andrejko, VP of Science at Climate Corp. When it comes to finding ways to feed our ever-increasing population while combating the effec... |
02.01.2015 | How Big Data Will Transform Our Economy And Our Lives In 2015 | Deven Parekh Contributor
Editor’s note: Deven Parekh is a managing director at Insight Venture Partners where he manages investments in e-commerce, consumer Internet data, and application software businesses on a global basis.
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02.01.2015 | How Big Data Will Transform Our Economy And Our Lives In 2015 | he great Danish physicist Niels Bohr once observed that “prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” Particularly in the ever-changing world of technology, today’s bold prediction is liable to prove tomorrow’s histor... |
05.12.2014 | 15 Chicago Startups to Watch in 2015 | It's been a big year for Chicago tech companies. From IPOs, to successful exits, to a record number of VC investments, Chicago is proving itself as one of the up-and-coming tech hubs in the U.S.
But if Chicago is going to build on the momen... |
12.08.2014 | Agworld secures $6 million Series C funding with plans to expand to North America | Agriculture startups have been gaining momentum globally, and a new raise by one of Australia’s success stories in the space looks to solidify the impact the local industry can have on bringing technological innovations to farm production.
... |
08.07.2014 | Cleantech’s ‘Agriculture Gets Smart’ AgTech report in 600 words | A recent report from the Cleantech Group paints a broad picture of the corporate arms race for big data investments, the ever-evolving data technology, and the challenges involved in harnessing sophisticated data trends. To give you the gis... |
27.06.2014 | Yield Pop acquired by US company | |
07.05.2014 | Top 5 AgTech Summit Takeaways
1. Big Data is blowing up AgTech.
2. Raising money in AgTech is tough…
3. ….but worth it.
4. AgTech exits are exciting, but need to be well timed.
5. It’s not just a... | Miss the AgTech Summit at the Global AgInvesting Conference last week in NYC? Don’t worry–we grabbed a handful of the big takeaways about AgTech innovation in startups for you.
1. Big Data is blowing up AgTech.
You’ve heard it before, and y... |
28.03.2014 | 5 AgTech CEOs You Should Know
1. Jesse Vollmar, Farmlogs
2. Jorge Heraud, Blue River Technology
3. Dr. Doron Gal, Kaiima
4. Ethan Brown, Beyond Meat
5. Dave Friedberg, Climate Corp | 1. Jesse Vollmar, Farmlogs
This 25 year-old was recently named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30. Vollmar is no stranger to farm life, having grown up on a farm in Michigan. In 2012, he and partner Brad Koch started FarmLogs, a mobile-based data-s... |
26.03.2014 | The 2014 Midas List: Fewer New Names And More Explosive Exits | For the third straight year, the number of newcomers to the Midas List has dropped. From 38 new names in 2012 to 25 new names in 2013, the number of entrants to this year’s List dipped even further, to 19. The data from previous years’ Mida... |
12.03.2014 | Space Race 2.0 — why this is a great time to invest in space tech | Whether or not the unfolding political crisis in Ukraine and looming U.S. sanctions against Russia will lead to an outright Cold War scenario remains to be seen, but you can be certain that the global geopolitical scene has changed, yet aga... |
02.10.2013 | ‘World’s most evil corporation’ Monsanto buys weather big data company for $930M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It turns out Monsanto needs a little help with it... |
02.10.2013 | Monsanto acquires The Climate Corporation for $930M | The Climate Corporation built a business on climate data science for agriculture
Biotech giant and evil agribusiness overlord Monsanto announced Wednesday that it is acquiring climate data company The Climate Corporation, formerly known as ... |
02.10.2013 | Monsanto Buys Weather Big Data Company Climate Corporation For Around $1.1B | Today’s big acquisition is a huge agritech exit: Biotech company Monsanto has bought Climate Corporation for approximately $1.1 billion. While the Monsanto press release says $930 million, we’re hearing from investors that the actual price ... |
02.10.2013 | ‘World’s most evil corporation’ Monsanto buys weather big data company for $930M | It turns out Monsanto needs a little help with its mission to create genetically modified, chemically enhanced supercrops that are resistant to everything the planet could throw at them.
The Big Ag giant is purchasing big data company The C... |
05.06.2013 | Founder Stories: Climate Corp’s David Friedberg On Why Leading A Company Is Like Playing Poker | For this week’s Founder Stories, I sat down with David Friedberg of The Climate Corporation to talk about building a business around big data and machine learning. The Climate Corporation collects data and tracks weather patterns on a field... |
10.11.2012 | If, When, And How To Avoid Hiring A CEO | Editor’s note: This is Part I of a two-part guest column written by legendary Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures. In Part II, he will examine the signs that it might be time to hire a CEO. You can follow hi... |
15.06.2012 | The Climate Corporation Closes $50M Funding | The Climate Corporation, a San Francisco, CA-based company that aims to help people and businesses manage and adapt to climate change, has closed a $50m funding.
The round was led by new investor Founders Fund, with participation from exist... |
14.06.2012 | Founders Fund leads $50M Series C in The Climate Corp | The SF start-up providing weather insurance to farmers to expand internationally, new offerings
In today's world, farmers have to pay insurance companies to insure themselves against foul weather, the reason for 90% of lost crops. But the p... |
14.06.2012 | The Climate Corp. storms ahead with $50 million, plans hiring spree in Seattle and San Francisco | The Climate Corp. has raised $50 million in financing to expand its weather insurance program, helping to protect farmers against droughts, heavy rain, freezes and other adverse weather conditions that may arise from climate change. The San... |
14.06.2012 | The Climate Corporation Gets Hot with $50M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Technology pioneer that aims to help all the world's people and businesses manage and adapt to climate change, announced it closed a $50 million round of funding led by new investor Founders Fund.
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14.06.2012 | The Climate Corporation Raises $50M For Big Data Driven Weather Insurance | 
Formerly known as Weatherbill, The Climate Corporation is announcing its $50 million Series C round today, led by new investor Founders Fund and followed on by existing investors Khosla, Google Ventures, NEA, Index Ventures and ... |
10.01.2012 | The Climate Corp. picks Seattle for branch office, looks to cultivate talent to crunch weather data | Over the course of the past 18 months, a number of California tech titans (Facebook, Salesforce.com, Zynga and Hulu) have established new engineering offices in Seattle. Most have arrived for one simple reason: The region’s strong line-up o... |
12.10.2011 | Box, Qumu, Zenprise: Bay Area BizTech News by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Time for our occasional data-driven roundup of local business and technology news. From biggest to smallest:
$81 million—A Series D expansion round formally announced yesterda... |
- | Orrick Advises The Climate Trust in Securing $5.5 Million Investment in Innovative Conservation Finance Fund | An Orrick team advised The Climate Trust in executing a milestone contract with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation – securing a $5.5 million Program Related Investment (PRI) to seed a first-of-its-kind carbon investment fund for climat... |