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| 04.04.2025 | Salad giant Taylor Farms acquires beleaguered AI-powered weeding startup FarmWise | California-based greens grown/salad producer Taylor Farms has acquired ag robotics company FarmWise‘s business in what the former said was “a natural fit for Taylor Farms as the company continues to adopt advanced solutions that benefit the... |
| 21.03.2025 | FarmWise AI-powered weeding tech ‘commercially ready’ despite company restructuring and wind down | FarmWise CEO Tjarko Leifer is optimistic as ever about robotics and automation technology in agriculture, despite this week’s announcement that his company is restructuring and will start winding down operations.
Speaking to AgFunderNews th... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Rise of Farm Robotics: A New Era in Agriculture**
** | ** The agricultural landscape is changing. Like a field awakening at dawn, the farm robotics sector is blossoming, even amid economic challenges. In 2024, the sector has raised nearly $399 million, a drop from the previous year but still a ... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Rise of Farm Robotics: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities in 2024**
** | ** The agricultural landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. Farm robotics is at the forefront of this transformation. In 2024, the sector is grappling with funding challenges but is also witnessing a surge in innovation. As labor costs ris... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Rise of Farm Robotics: Navigating a New Era in Agriculture**
** | ** The agricultural landscape is changing. Like a field being tilled for the first time, the farm robotics sector is breaking new ground. In 2024, despite a challenging fundraising environment, this sector is showing resilience and innovati... |
| 24.07.2024 | The 7 biggest farm robotics deals of 2024 so far | The farm robotics sector has shown some resilience in 2024 and continues to bring innovative products to market, despite the challenging year for fundraising.
In the first half of 2024, the AgFunder-defined Farm Robotics, Mechanization, and... |
| 07.05.2024 | Brief: NVIDIA’s venture arm invests in autonomous weeding startup Carbon Robotics | NVIDIA‘s venture capital arm, NVentures, has invested in US-based Carbon Robotics, best known for its autonomous laser-weeding platform for specialty crops.
A specific dollar amount was not disclosed; Carbon Robotics says this investment to... |
| 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... |
| 08.05.2023 | 70% of specialty crop growers now investing in farm robots, says new Western Growers report | Labor costs and availability issues are driving more investment in automation amongst specialty crop growers, according to a new report from US-based Western Growers Association.
Roughly 70% of growers surveyed for the second annual Special... |
| 09.06.2022 | California-based Farm automation startup FarmWise Labs raises USD 45 million in Series B | 1 JUNE 2022, SALINAS, CALIFORNIA – Farm automation startup FarmWise Labs, Inc. has raised US $45 million in a Series B fundraising round headed by Fall Line Capital and Middleland Capital, with participation from GV and Taylor Farms, a reno... |
| 02.06.2022 | 3 reasons companies are still doing SPAC mergers | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| 02.06.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Synthesis Capital closes $300m foodtech fund, e-grocer Astro bags $60m | Though many “instant” grocery delivery startups are in the midst of layoffs, one company in Indonesia bagged a healthy Series B round this week.
Elsewhere, US ag robotics specialist FarmWise teased a new weeding implement along with its lat... |
| 01.06.2022 | BREAKING: FarmWise’s weeding robots haul in $45m Series B funding from Taylor Farms, others | US ag automation startup FarmWise Labs, which builds weeding robot Titan, has raised $45 million in Series B funding, it announced today.
Fall Line Capital and Middleland Capital co-led the round.
Taylor Farms, one of the top producers of l... |
| 17.07.2021 | Farming is finally ready for robots | 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!
As an investor in the ag-tech space for the last ... |
| 17.07.2021 | Farming is finally ready for robots | All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now.
As an investor in the ag-tech space for the last decade, I would argue that 2020 was a tipping point. The pandemic accelerated a shift that was already underway to... |
| 22.04.2021 | Cultivating AI: AgTech Industry Taps NVIDIA GPUs to Protect the Planet | What began as a budding academic movement into farm AI projects has now blossomed into a field of startups creating agriculture technology with a positive social impact for Earth.
Whether it's the threat to honey bees worldwide from varroa ... |
| 23.02.2021 | FarmWise plans to add autonomous crop dusting to its suite of robotic services | The robotics revolution in farming is set to continue as the autonomous crop cultivation company FarmWise looks to add new capabilities to its autonomous farming equipment.
The San Francisco-based company is currently testing the applicatio... |
| 30.08.2020 | The Peace Dividends Of The Autonomous Vehicle Wars | The technology advances achieved by autonomous vehicle researchers will proliferate across the ... [+] economy in the years ahead.Getty Images |
| 30.12.2019 | 10 technology trends that will impact our lives in 2020 | Presented by Pegasus Tech Ventures
2020 — it’s when the world will see transformational changes in how technology impacts our lives. Here’s a look at the top technology trends that will influence us. Trend 1: Breakout moment of artificial i... |
| 17.09.2019 | FarmWise raises $14.5m Series A to expand its weeding robot service | There are a number of robotics startups in the ag space targeting a variety of pain points throughout the supply chain and many of them have caught Silicon Valley’s eye. One of the biggest drivers of robotics innovation in agriculture is th... |
| 17.09.2019 | FarmWise Raises $14.5M in Series A Funding | FarmWise, a San Francisco, CA-based company that builds autonomous farming robots, raised $14.5m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Calibrate Ventures, with participation from existing investors Wilbur Ellis, Xplorer Capital and Alum... |
| 17.09.2019 | Top tech startup news for today, Tuesday, September 17, 2019 | Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Tuesday, September 17, 2019.
Video creation and advertising startup VidMob has hired an executive from Amazon’s controversial facial recognition team. Humphrey Chen, the ... |
| 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... |
| 27.03.2019 | FarmWise turns to Roush to build autonomous vegetable weeders | FarmWise wants robots to do the dirty part of farming: weeding. With that thought, the San Francisco-based startup enlisted the help of Michigan-based manufacturing and automotive company Roush to build prototypes of the self-driving robots... |
| 28.11.2018 | The Innovators Under 35 Europe 2018 | Technology to eliminate the waste of food, solar strips to regenerate burned skin faster and artificial intelligence that analyzes electrocardiograms as well as a real doctor, among the winning projects
The European community will meet on ... |
| 06.06.2018 | Why this former Microsoft distinguished engineer decided to build weed-zapping laser-armed robots | Georgios Chrysanthakopoulos (dCentralized Photo)
When Georgios Chrysanthakopoulos decided to launch a startup building small, weed-controlling robots, he wanted an enviro-friendly solution for flattening the leafy pests. His solution is not... |
| 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... |
| 07.02.2018 | DEADLINE APPROACHING: Cast Your Vote in the AgFunder Innovation Awards | ***VOTING CLOSED***
It’s that time of year again to recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward with the AgFunder Innovation Awards. These are peer-selected awards based on votes placed by you, our 45... |
| 20.12.2017 | FarmWise Raises $5.7M in Seed Funding | FarmWise, a San Francisco, CA-based maker of adaptive autonomous farming equipment, raised $5.7m in seed funding.
Backers included Playground, Felicis Ventures, Basis Set Ventures and Valley Oak Investments. In conjunction with the funding,... |
| 19.12.2017 | FarmWise Raises $5.7m Seed Round for Vegetable Weeding Robot | - |
| 19.12.2017 | FarmWise Raises $5.7M To Transform Farming | FarmWise, a Lemnos portfolio company, today announced it raised $5.7 million in Series Seed funding to help pilot its autonomous weeding machine. In conjunction, FarmWise has finalized its first pilot contracts with large vegetable growers ... |
| 19.12.2017 | FarmWise Raises $5.7m Seed Round for Vegetable Weeding Robot | FarmWise, an agricultural robotics and IoT startup has raised a $5.7 million seed round to commercialize the company’s automated weeding robot.
FarmWise has developed a weeding robot that uses computer vision to identify weeds and robotics ... |
| 19.12.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, December 19 | WHY NOT MORE?
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Lemonade, a New York-based peer-to-peer insurance company powered by artificial intelligence, raised $120 million in Series C... |
| 27.05.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Trimble Acquires Precision Ag Co, Accelerator Announcements, Do Food Delivery Drivers Need Food Safety Rules? | Trimble to Acquire Müller-Elektronik to Extend its Precision Agriculture Capabilities
Trimble recently inked an agreement to acquire Müller-Elektronik, a German company specializing in implement control and precision farming solutions. Fina... |
