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| Mar 20, 2026 | Private equity in agtech: disciplined, selective, and increasingly hard to ignore | For much of agtech’s investment history, private equity (PE) has been a minor character. Venture capital built the sector, and strategic acquirers–OEMs, agchem majors, food companies –provided the (few and far between) exits. PE has largely... |
| Mar 5, 2026 | With crop protection at a crossroads, it’s time for big ag to embrace its big pharma moment | “The innovation model inside large crop protection companies is broken for early-stage discovery,” says Matt Crisp, a longtime entrepreneur in agrifood and former CEO of Benson Hill. News earlier this month that FMC would explore a sale aft... |
| Aug 18, 2025 | Guest article: A deep dive into the investment thesis for ag biologicals | Gustavo Mamao is head of international business development at IdeeLab, the foremost Brazilian contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) in ag biologicals. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not... |
| Jul 9, 2025 | Miraterra acquires soil DNA startup Trace Genomics: ‘Independent growth wasn’t sustainable’ | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder was an investor in Trace Genomics.] Canadian measurement and insights platform Miraterra made further inroads into soil measurement this week with its acquisition of California-based Trace ... |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Innovation chokehold or ‘meaningless lawsuit’? Agtech weighs in on the Carbon Robotics vs. Laudando & Associates case | Tomorrow, agtech company Laudando & Associates (L&A) will release its L&Aser technology module for laser weeding crops under a global open-source license on developer platform GitHub, following new developments in the legal batt... |
| May 29, 2025 | Why ex-Deere VP Jorge Heraud joined TerraBlaster: ‘This is the number one opportunity in agtech right now’ | “Soil sampling is every farmer’s least favorite task in their already busy schedule,” says agtech luminary Jorge Heraud. TerraBlaster, the California-based agtech startup he recently joined as CEO, aims to make that task less burdensome for... |
| Feb 14, 2025 | Ag biologicals growth could match chemicals within 20 years. Here’s what growers should be asking | “You ought to care about biologicals because it’s going to be a very significant segment — and already is,” Dr. Pam Marrone said during an online talk this week about biological crop products in agriculture. According to Dr. Marrone, who is... |
| Nov 20, 2024 | AgTech Advisory Collective forms to guide agrifood corporates, startups: ‘We’re not your typical consulting firm’ | Agtech consultants have a big business these days as more and more entrepreneurs join the sector and grapple with the complexities of getting to market. So it was only a matter of time before a bunch of them joined forces to better advise s... |
| Aug 31, 2023 | ‘No comment’ from Indigo Ag on valuation nose-dive report | Indigo Ag would not comment on reports that its valuation has plummeted 94% from $3.5 billion two years ago to just $200 million today. Israeli publication CTech cited reports from Israel-based Unic-Tech partnership, which invests in tech u... |
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Parsers VC has collected 11 articles mentioning Upstream Ag Insights, among them “Private equity in agtech: disciplined, selective, and increasingly hard to ignore” (Mar 20, 2026) and “With crop protection at a crossroads, it’s time for big ag to embrace its big pharma moment” (Mar 5, 2026).
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Yes, Upstream Ag Insights is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 9, 2026.