Land O’Lakes has launched a challenge for tech innovators to develop a complete drone solution — including both hardware and software — for farmers. Land O’Lakes, which has partnered with HeroX and the University of Minnesota for the challenge, will award $150,000 across a single grand prize and a pair of runners-up who meet the […]
Venture capital funding in the agtech market slowed in 2016, falling by 30 percent to $3.2 billion versus 2015 levels, and interrupting three consecutive years of rising investments, according to AgFunder, a San Francisco-based online investment platform for agtech. The pullback, which hit bioenergy, drone technology, and food delivery startups the hardest, unfolded amid the […]
Ann Arbor, Michigan-based, FarmLogs has begun 2017 having realized multiple achievements including raising its largest funding round to date of $22 million in a Series C, bolstering its influence to more than one-fifth of U.S. row crop acres under management, and expanding its footprint with a new office in Des Moines, Iowa. Jesse Vollmar, FarmLogs […]
Thymox, a clean technology company dedicated to animal health, crop protection, and environmental disinfecting, is determined to replace “bad chemicals” used in agriculture with non-toxic and environmentally-friendly alternatives. Investors are on-board, and have returned to back the Sherbrooke, Quebec-based startup in a Series B round as Thymox readies greater distribution, new partnerships, and greater potential […]
