| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.09.2022 | Robo-Farmers: Solinftec's Solar-Powered Robots Will be Offered to US Farmers Soon | Joaquin Victor Tacla, Tech Times 20 September 2022, 07:09 am
With the help of the e-commerce platform Farmers Business Network, a business with the financial support of a wealthy Brazilian family will provide US farmers with robots that spr... |
| 03.05.2022 | Agtech de monitoramento de lavouras recebe aporte de US$ 60 milhões | A Solinftec, startup que utiliza inteligência artificial e SaaS (software como serviço) para realizar o monitoramento de lavouras no agronegócio, recebeu um aporte na estrutura de debêntures conversíveis em ações no valor de US$ 60 milhões ... |
| 02.05.2022 | Solinftec Sangs $60M As Agtech Investment Continues To Grow | 11 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Investors are not backing away from plowing more green into startups that help grow more greens.
After a record year of funding in 2021, Solinftec is the latest agtech startup to lock down a sizable... |
| 02.05.2022 | Brief: Lightsmith Group leads $60m round for digital farm management startup Solinftec | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Solinftec. Brazil- and US-based farm management startup Solinftec has secured a $60 million growth investment round to expand its precision agriculture platform. Lightsmith Group... |
| 02.05.2022 | Solinftec Sangs $60M As Agtech Investment Continues To Grow | 9 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Investors are not backing away from plowing more green into startups that help grow more greens.
After a record year of funding in 2021, Solinftec is the latest agtech startup to lock down a sizable ... |
| 22.03.2022 | A new agtech robot enters the crop monitoring category | I’ve suddenly found myself writing a lot about agtech of late. Maybe it’s because spring officially sprung over the weekend – or perhaps it’s that pesky impending environmental collapse that’s frequently top of mind.
Whatever the case, I’ve... |
| 26.01.2022 | Data Snapshot: Brazil remains a farm-tech funding trailer – but agfintech is picking up the pace | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new r... |
| 24.01.2022 | With a fresh $40m in the bank, TerraMagna is bringing ‘buy now, pay later’ to Brazilian farmers | Brazilian ag fintech startup TerraMagna recently raised $40 million in funding from Japanese tech giant SoftBank and other investors.
The round included $30 million in debt financing and a $10 million equity component.
SoftBank Latin Americ... |
| 17.11.2021 | BREAKING: CHS & Growmark launch $50m VC fund to invest in ‘breakthrough’ agtech | US agricultural cooperatives CHS and Growmark have combined forces to establish a VC fund that will invest in “breakthrough technologies” that can advance the farming industry, they announced today.
Both companies will be equal partners in ... |
| 17.11.2021 | CHS & Growmark launch $50m VC fund to invest in ‘breakthrough’ agtech | US agricultural cooperatives CHS and Growmark have combined forces to establish a VC fund that will invest in “breakthrough technologies” that can advance the farming industry, they announced today.
Both companies will be equal partners in ... |
| 23.08.2021 | Brazil’s Solinftec launches digital grain trading tools in US, Canada | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Solinftec.
“The grain business is so analog today. A lot of work is still done by spreadsheet, phone call, and whiteboarding,” Bret Sitzmann, head of ecosystems and grain at Soli... |
| 05.08.2021 | AgFunder exit review: John Deere’s $250m acquisition of Bear Flag Robotics | Editor’s note: Bear Flag Robotics, an agtech startup focused on automation, has been acquired by John Deere for $250 million. Bear Flag Robotics was a portfolio company of agrifoodtech VC AgFunder, which is AFN’s parent company. Here, AgFun... |
| 05.08.2021 | AgFunder exit review: John Deere’s $250m acquisition of Bear Flag Robotics | Editor’s note: Bear Flag Robotics, an agtech startup focused on automation, has been acquired by John Deere for $250 million. Bear Flag Robotics was a portfolio company of agrifoodtech VC AgFunder, which is AFN’s parent company.
Here, AgFun... |
| 17.05.2021 | In a first for agtech, Solinftec secures $27m climate bond funding | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Solinftec.
Brazilian farm management platform Solinftec has raised 140 million reals ($26.6 million) in the form of a Green Agribusiness Receivables Certificate (CRA-Green). CRAs... |
| 17.05.2021 | BREAKING: In a first for agtech, Solinftec secures $27m climate bond funding | Disclosure: Solinftec has received investment from AgFunder, which is AFN’s parent company.
Brazilian farm management platform Solinftec has raised 140 million reals ($26.6 million) in the form of a Green Agribusiness Receivables Certificat... |
| 04.02.2020 | Solinftec raises $60m as the Amazon of LatAM leads record-breaking Series B | Editor’s Note: Solinftec is an AgFunder portfolio company. We invested in an extension of its TPG-led Series A round in 2017 as one of our first investments, beginning if our global portfolio.
Brazilian digital agtech company Solinftec has ... |
| 03.02.2020 | Agtech anuncia rodada de US$ 40 milhões liderada pela Unbox Capital | A Solinftec, startup focada em agricultura digital, anunciou o investimento de US$ 40 milhões em uma rodada Série B liderada pela Unbox Capital, empresa de investimento, que tem os acionistas controladores do Magazine Luiza como investidore... |
| 19.09.2019 | 5 things being talked about in Brazil | Editor’s Note: Vonnie Estes is VP of Technology at the Produce Marketing Association (PMA) and a regular contributor to AFN – see her previous posts here. PMA represents companies from every segment of the global produce and floral supply c... |
| 10.09.2019 | Why Indiana is becoming a leader in agbioscience innovation | When people think of startups in the life sciences and biotech space, images of Silicon Valley often appear in their minds. But as entrepreneurs increasingly face challenges in building a company in the pricey and overcrowded West Coast reg... |
| 21.03.2019 | 2019 AgFunder AgriFood Tech Innovation Awards Winners Announced | The winners of the 2019 AgFunder AgriFood Tech Innovation Awards were announced on Wednesday, March 20 at the ReThink Innovation Week in San Francisco, CA.
Last year, we awarded 12 startups in 12 categories across Farm Tech, Supply Chain, a... |
| 13.02.2019 | 60 AgriFood Tech Startups Nominated for 2019 AgFunder Innovation Awards – Vote Now! | *VOTING EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 1, 9AM ET!*
We’re very excited to open our Third Annual AgFunder AgriFood Tech Innovation Awards, where we recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward.
Our nomination comm... |
| 29.11.2018 | Brazilian Digital Ag Startup Solinftec to Invest $50m Establishing US Operations | Solinftec, a Brazilian digital agriculture company and an AgFunder portfolio company, announced today that it plans to invest $50.6 million to establish its US headquarters near Purdue University, creating 90 jobs in 2019 and up to 334 high... |
| 19.07.2018 | AgFunder Advisor Kip Tom Nominated US Food & Ag Ambassador to the United Nations | Kip Tom has been nominated to serve as the US Ambassador to the United Nations for Food and Agriculture.
Tom, who runs Tom Farms in Leesburg, Indiana with operations in Argentina, served on President Donald Trump’s agriculture advisory comm... |
| 12.07.2018 | Brazil Agtech Market Map: 338 Startups Innovating in Agricultural Powerhouse | Editor’s Note: Francisco Jardim is founding partner of Brazilian agtech venture capital firm SP Ventures. Working with Centro Universitário FEI, and with the help of his colleagues, Agtech Garage, Pulse, Usina, Esalqtec, and Agrihub, here J... |
| 22.02.2018 | AgFunder Starts Investing in FoodTech and Agtech | The top-line numbers suggest that the agrifood tech industry is flooded with capital, but the reality is that there are still very few investors dedicated to agrifood tech, especially at the early stages of Seed to Series B. While AgFunder ... |
| 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... |
| 25.10.2017 | Big Data for Ag Platform Gro Intelligence Raises Series A Round from TPG, Data Collective | Nairobi and New York-based agricultural data startup Gro Intelligence has raised an undisclosed Series A round led by TPG Growth, an arm of the $70 billion global private investment house TPG, with Palo Alto VC Data Collective and family of... |
| 24.07.2017 | TPG ART Invests in Brazilian Digital Ag Startup Solinftec | Editor’s Note: AgFunder joined this Series B round of funding later in 2017.
Global private equity group TPG has invested in Brazilian digital ag company Solinftec through its Alternative and Renewable Technologies growth equity platform TP... |
| - | Agtech de monitoramento de lavouras recebe aporte de US$ 60 milhões | A Solinftec, startup que utiliza inteligência artificial e SaaS (software como serviço) para realizar o monitoramento de lavouras no agronegócio, recebeu um aporte na estrutura de debêntures conversíveis em ações no valor de US$ 60 milhões ... |
| - | Agtech anuncia rodada de US$ 40 milhões liderada pela Unbox Capital | A Solinftec, startup focada em agricultura digital, anunciou o investimento de US$ 40 milhões em uma rodada Série B liderada pela Unbox Capital, empresa de investimento, que tem os acionistas controladores do Magazine Luiza como investidore... |
| - | The future of farming: how Brazilian agtechs can multiply and change the sector for good | The number of Brazilian startups focused on agribusiness – the agtechs – grew 40% in 2020 compared to the previous pre-pandemic year, according to the Radar AgTech Brasil 2020/2021 report, a document prepared in partnership by Brazilian Agr... |
| - | Empresa brasileira de Agricultura Digital é indicada ao AgFunder Innovation Awards 2018 | A Solinftec, empresa líder em Agricultura Digital no Brasil, com sede em Araçatuba, foi indicada ao prêmio AgFunder Innovation Awards 2018, na categoria de “Startups Internacionais Série A – Mais Inovadoras”. A premiação é o Oscar do AgTech... |
