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| Feb 5, 2025 | Какими цифровыми сервисами пользуются агрохолдинги? | Редакция журнала Поле.РФ узнала у представителей крупнейших российских предприятий, какими цифровыми сервисами они пользуются, а также есть ли у них собственные продукты, которые они готовы выводить на рынок. Собственные решения, как правил... |
| Nov 28, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: AI-powered protein, plant-based food dyes, and maggot robots | It’s Thanksgiving in the US, which usually means family, friends, and food waste: ReFED estimates that 316 million pounds of food will go to waste this holiday. However, the think tank also has some tips for how households can help curb thi... |
| Oct 28, 2024 | Autonomous tech is coming to farming. What will it mean for crops, workers? | |
| Dec 29, 2023 | Top 10 AgTech Startups in Canada | Canada is one of the largest agricultural producers and exporters globally. It is also considered among the most pioneering and technologically advanced countries in the world when one talks about agriculture. In 2016, the agriculture and a... |
| Oct 5, 2023 | How has big data changed farming? | Innovative startups include Intelia, Taranis, Conservis, and Sentera
As the world becomes increasingly connected, with more data flowing in than ever before in history, every company in every industry absolutely needs to capitalize on it; t... |
| Feb 9, 2022 | Users of John Deere Operations Center™ Can Integrate Their Data With FarmCommand Platform From Farmers Edge | Farmers Edge Inc. (“Farmers Edge” or the “Company”) (TSX: FDGE), a global leader in digital agriculture, today announced an agreement that will allow users of its FarmCommand® digital agriculture platform to integrate their data with their ... |
| Nov 18, 2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Monarch Tractor’s $61m round, JBS’s cell meat bet & Bayer-Microsoft match | This week, The Week in Agrifoodtech includes news of a major strategic partnership between one of the world’s biggest agribusiness companies and one of the world’s biggest software companies; while the world’s number one meat processor made... |
| Aug 30, 2021 | Canadian Cleantech Innovation: Confronting the Climate Crisis | If you look up the term “Canadian Cleantech” on any search engine, you’ll quickly notice that there’s no shortage of daily news content covering the advancements, projects, and funding being funneled into cleantech innovation efforts curren... |
| Mar 3, 2021 | Brief: Farmers Edge completes $99m Toronto IPO, shares jump 18% | Canadian digital ag company Farmers Edge has completed its IPO on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and is now trading under the ticker symbol FDGE.
It raised just over C$125 million ($98.7 million) in gross proceeds, with underwriters getting a ... |
| Mar 3, 2021 | Brief: Farmers Edge completes $99m Toronto IPO, shares jump 18% | Canadian digital ag company Farmers Edge has completed its IPO on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and is now trading under the ticker symbol FDGE.
It raised just over C$125 million ($98.7 million), with underwriters getting a greenshoe option t... |
| Dec 24, 2020 | 5 trends that shaped agrifoodtech in 2020 | 2020 has been a year like no other in living memory for the vast majority of us. The Covid-19 pandemic, which began in China at the tail end of last year and gradually engulfed to entire world by the second quarter of this one, has brought ... |
| Dec 9, 2020 | SDTC Invests $24.8M to Support Nine Canadian Cleantech Projects | Did you know that Canada is first place in the G20 for innovation in clean technology? For two years in a row now, 12 Canadian companies have been highlighted on the Global Cleantech 100 List, 10 of which were funded by Sustainable Developm... |
| Oct 27, 2020 | Top 10 AgTech Startups in Canada | Canada is one of the largest agricultural producers and exporters globally. It is also considered among the most pioneering and technologically advanced countries in the world when one talks about agriculture. In 2016, the agriculture and a... |
| Oct 15, 2020 | Carbon harvest: Indigo Ag, Nori announce first corporate carbon credit buyers | Indigo Ag has revealed a long list of corporate buyers for its carbon credits, including finance giants Barclays and JPMorgan Chase, e-commerce enabler Shopify, and tech veteran IBM.
Boston Consulting Group, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Give... |
| Oct 14, 2020 | No more rotten tomatoes: Improving agricultural logistics through technology | Editor’s note: Dmytro Lennyi is agritech practice leader at Intellias, a software engineering and consulting firm based in Lviv, Ukraine, that assists enterprises with software development. This article reflects the guest author’s views, an... |
| Oct 9, 2020 | Farmers Edge partners with Radicle to launch ‘data-fueled’ carbon credit program | Carbon credit markets are fast becoming the accessory du jour for agtech companies.
Joining the list are Farmers Edge and Radicle. The Canadian duo recently announced a partnership to create what they describe as a new high-tech carbon cred... |
| Sep 11, 2020 | How to unleash agtech in the fight against climate change | Editor’s note: Michael Campos is an associate at Prime Impact Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US. This article reflects the views of the guest author and not necessarily those of AFN.
Over the last ten years, we’ve seen an unprecedented r... |
| Jan 14, 2020 | Robots, hemp, drastic weather: Farmers Edge’s Wade Barnes shares 2020 ag predictions | Since founding Farmers Edge in 2005, Wade Barnes has had a front-row seat to the evolution of agtech. Now operating in six countries with $103 million in venture funding, Forbes recently named the Canadian outfit as one of the 25 “Most Inno... |
| Dec 19, 2019 | EXCLUSIVE: Canadian telecoms giant Telus acquires Decisive Farming | Telus, the Canadian telecommunications company, has acquired Canadian farmtech startup Decisive Farming, AFN can reveal.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed but Remi Schmaltz, CEO of Decisive Farming, confirmed the transaction.
“Yes, Decis... |
| Aug 26, 2019 | Farming is the world’s most important career — that’s why it needs a new image | Editor’s Note: Karn Manhas is founder and CEO of Terramera, an agbiotech startup focused on improving the sustainability of farming. Here he writes about the importance of promoting the farming industry as an appealing and impactful career ... |
| May 2, 2019 | Canada AgriFood Tech Market Map: 166 Startups Growing Canada’s Agricultural Sector | Just as it has for most of its history, the ample and multi-leveled agricultural and agri-food sector of Canada continues to play a fundamental role in the country’s economy.
Experts predict that all agricultural and agri-food exports from ... |
| Oct 11, 2018 | Farmers Edge and Global Ag Risk Partner on Data-Driven Crop Insurance for Farmers | Farmers Edge and Global Ag Risk Solutions are teaming up to combine Farmers Edge field-centric data with Global Ag’s customized insurance products to create a new data-driven insurance model for crop farmers.
Mutual customers of Farmers Edg... |
| May 8, 2018 | UPDATED: Court Dismisses Claims Against Ag Data Startup Farmobile by Farmers Edge | *Updated 5/8/2018 14:22 EST to include response from Farmers Edge.
A two-year-long lawsuit filed against US ag data startup Farmobile by Canadian precision agtech company Farmers Edge has ended in victory for Farmobile after the US District... |
| Mar 27, 2018 | EXCLUSIVE: VanderSat and Swiss Re Partner to Bring Crop Insurance to Untapped Markets | In another sign of the growing link between agtech and insurance, Dutch remote sensing startup VanderSat has partnered with Swiss Re, the world’s second-largest reinsurer, to create new insurance products fueled by the startup’s unique data... |
| Feb 13, 2018 | Farmers Edge Partners with Global Reinsurer to Bring Farmers Custom Data-Backed Insurance Products | Farm management and agronomy software platform Farmers Edge announced today a four-year deal with major global reinsurer PartnerRe, to bring customized insurance products to its users.
Under the terms of the agreement, PartnerRe and Farmers... |
| Jan 15, 2018 | EXCLUSIVE: Biotech Dominates THRIVE Top 50 in AgTech List | Biotech and predictive analytics startups dominate the Salinas, CA-based THRIVE AgTech’s Top 50 list of agtech companies shaping the future of agriculture for 2018.
The largest technology category on last year’s list, “big data analytics,” ... |
| Nov 30, 2017 | Farmers Business Network just raked in a whopping $110 million in Series D funding | Farmers Business Network has raised $110 million in new venture funding to support a business that may sound boring to some Silicon Valley technologists but which appears to have addressed a unmet need: it’s a social network for farmers tha... |
| Nov 9, 2017 | Remote Sensing Market Map: 20 Remote Sensing Startups and the Varied Data That Fuels Them | Editor’s Note: Igor Ivanov is chief commerical officer of Gamaya, a Swiss agtech startup developing proprietary hyperspectral imaging technology, using drones, to provide farmers insights about their fields. He offers a survey of the leadin... |
| Nov 1, 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... |
| Oct 13, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: GrubHub Buys Eat24 for $288m, Mealkit IPO All Over Again, $3.2m Goes to Maize Research, more | Danforth Lands $3.4 million Grant For Maize Research
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center has been granted $3.4 million over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve the productivity of maize. The project led by ... |
| Mar 2, 2017 | Astro Digital Raises $16.65m Series A for Aggressive Satellite Launch Plan | Satellite imaging startup Astro Digital has raised $16.65 million in Series A funding from a group of family offices, including existing investors.
Agriculture is a key sector of focus for Astro Digital, which counts farm management softwar... |
| Jan 27, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Farmers Edge, Ynsect, AgriProtein on Global Cleantech 100, Terravion Partners with FarmSolutions, Pegasus Ag to Invest in Indoor Ag Hub, more | Farmers Edge, Ynsect, AgriProtein Named to 2017 Global Cleantech 10
Global precision ag and data management solutions provider Farmers Edge, and two insect farming businesses AgriProtein and Ynsect, have all been named in the 2017 Global Cl... |
| Jan 19, 2017 | AgFunder Innovation Awards 2016 Winners Announced | Today we are excited to release the winners of the inaugural AgFunder Innovation Awards.
Startup activity in food and agriculture technology is growing dramatically; at AgFunder we’ve come across over 5k companies since 2014. At the same ti... |
| Dec 30, 2016 | The Carbon Contract: How Ag Data Can Enable Robust Carbon Markets | Editor’s Note: Wade Barnes is CEO of Farmers Edge, the precision agriculture and ag data management platform. He is regularly invited to speak on the impact of advanced technologies, emerging carbon markets and the role these play in our ev... |
| Dec 22, 2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: HelloFresh Raises $88m Series G, Algrn Bio Raises Seed Round for Hypoallergenic Peanuts, more | Farmers Edge, the precision ag company, raised a new round of capital with Fairfax Financial, the investment company of Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa. The funding provided an exit for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which invested i... |
| Dec 20, 2016 | Kleiner Perkins Exits Farmers Edge as ‘Canada’s Warren Buffet’ Buys Stake – exclusive | Fairfax Financial, the investment company of Prem Watsa, has invested in Canadian digital precision agriculture company Farmers Edge, injecting new capital into the company as well as buying Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ stock. The ... |
| Oct 5, 2016 | How Does Agtech Fit an Impact Investing Thesis? | Editor’s Note: I recently attended SOCAP, the largest conference for the impact investing community, and was excited to note a growing enthusiasm on the potential for food and agriculture technology to promote positive change in the world. ... |
| Sep 27, 2016 | Canadian government invests $45 million in cleantech companies | Sustainable Technology Development Canada announced that it’s investing a total of $45 million to 17 cleantech initiatives across Canada.
The funding includes $39.6 million dedicated to 14 specific projects, and $5.5 million in three cleant... |
| Sep 22, 2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: IKEA Invests in Terramera, AST (AgFunder Alum), Brightfarms, Farmers Edge, Cool Planet, more | Brightfarms, the greenhouse operator, closed a $30.1 million Series C led by growth equity firm Catalyst Investors and joined by existing investors WP Global Partners and NGEN Partners. According to the company, this funding is the largest ... |
| Jul 4, 2016 | Monsanto’s Gene-editing Partnership, FarmersEdge Sues Farmobile, World Economic Forum Recognizes 2 Agtech Startups, more | Monsanto and TargetGene Partner on Gene-Editing Technology
Monsanto and TargetGene Biotechnologies, a genome-editing company using RNA-guided gene-editing techniques, have entered into a license agreement granting Monsanto an exclusive lice... |
| Jun 9, 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... |
| May 26, 2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Antimicrobial Startup Raises $1.3m, Food E-Commerce Raises $131m, Farmers Edge Raises $3m, more | PURE Bioscience Raises $1.27m for Antimicrobial Tech in Warrant Exercise
Antimicrobial tech developer PURE Bioscience has raised $1.27 million from the recent exercise of 2.8 million warrants that expired May 23, 2016. The funding will be u... |
| Mar 24, 2016 | What Makes Good Ag Big Data? | Agriculture technologies using data to offer farmers insights on their operations are gathering pace. In 2015 precision agriculture startups, which all use data in some way, raised $661 million, according to AgFunder’s annual agtech investi... |
| Mar 23, 2016 | Increasing Agtech Partnerships: a Precursor to Consolidation in Precision Ag? | Precision ag partnerships are on the rise. Last week Geosys, the satellite imagery company, struck two deals. The first was with Pessl Instruments, a German weather station manufacturer, and the second was with SST Software, a precision ag ... |
| Mar 20, 2016 | Industry-in-Brief: GMO Labeling Bill Dies, Precision Ag Partnerships Signed, Senate Addresses Honeybee Decline, more | GMO Labeling Bill Dies in Senate Cloture Vote; General Mills to Begin Labeling GMO Ingredients
A GMO labeling bill designed to preempt states from enacting their own GMO labeling laws failed to secure the 60 votes necessary for cloture on C... |
| Jan 29, 2016 | Farmers Edge Receives CAD$58M in Funding | Farmers Edge, a Canadian provider of precision agriculture and independent data management solutions, received CAD$58m in funding.
The round was led by existing investors Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ Green G... |
| Jan 28, 2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 28, 2016 | Pindrop secured $75M; Farmers Edge received $41.2M; NewVoiceMedia landed $30M new round of funding
Finova Financial, a West Palm Beach, Florida- and San Francisco, CA-based self-proclaimed socially responsible online lender, raised a seed f... |
| Jan 27, 2016 | Farmers Edge Raises $41m On Quest to Collect Best Ag Data | Farmers Edge, the Canadian ag big data company, has raised C$58 million ($41 million) in equity funding from existing investors. This takes the company’s total fundraising activities to $60 million, according to Wade Barnes, CEO of Farmers ... |
| Sep 24, 2015 | Growth Capital Firm Makes First Agtech Investment in Mature European Precision Ag Company | After about five years researching the sector, a Swiss growth capital fund has made its first investment into agtech, selecting a rare, mature precision agriculture company from Austria called Pessl Instruments.
Growth capital investment fi... |
| Aug 27, 2015 | Fundings in Brief : A Rare Agriculture Fund of Funds, Aquaculture PE and Farmers Edge Funding | Farmers Edge Receives Funding from Real Estate Company Osmington
Data Management Services Provider Farmers Edge has closed an investment deal with private commercial real estate company Osmington, it’s fourth investment partner. The company... |
| Jun 2, 2015 | Precision Ag Player Farmers Edge and Japanese Investment Firm Mitsui Announce New Partnership | Canadian-based precision agriculture provider Farmers Edge recently announced a new partnership with Japanese general trading company Mitsui & Co, Ltd. to help develop its product line and expand its current market reach. As part of the... |
| Nov 10, 2014 | Farmers Edge Receives Investment from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers | Farmers Edge, a Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-based provider of precision agriculture and independent data management solutions, received an investment from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers‘ Green Growth Fund.
The amount of the funding was... |
