agriculture

How robotics and AI helped Hippo Harvest land $21M to grow lettuce

The indoor farming startup uses repurposed warehouse robots to grow produce for Amazon Fresh.

Bluewhite rakes in $39M for robots-as-a-service that can be retrofitted to drive any tractor

Agriculture has a long heritage of being constantly disrupted by technology, an evolution that has continued to play out until today. In one of the latest developments, an Israeli startup called Bluew

Pluton Biosciences takes its carbon-fixing microbes to market with a fresh $16.6M

Pluton Biosciences is hard at work identifying beneficial microorganisms and putting them to work in agriculture, and just raised a $16.5 million Series A round to commercialize its most promising fin

Wikifarmer uses its agricultural knowledge base to bring people to its marketplace

Meet Wikifarmer, an agriculture-focused startup based in Athens that has an interesting two-sided strategy. On the one hand, Wikifarmer is a source of knowledge with high-quality content translated in

John Deere at CES? Yes, with a robotics-based fertilizer system and a new electric excavator

Consumer tech is at an inflection point right now, with slowing growth in developed markets and economic depressions pulling emerging markets back when it comes to investment and usage. Into that vacu

Stripe-backed Eion digs up $12M Series A to help farms capture carbon with green rock dust

Agriculture can cut emissions in only so many ways. That’s why there’s growing interest in enhanced rock weathering — the use of minerals to absorb carbon dioxide.

Eratani supports Indonesia’s farmers through the entire growing process

About 29% of Indonesia’s workforce is in the agriculture sector, but many small farmers face challenges like low access to working capital. Eratani is an end-to-end management system that helps them

Farmers are key to Lithos Carbon’s quest to remove gigatons of carbon

Lithos Carbon raised a $6.3 million seed round to bring promising geochemistry techniques out of the lab and into the field.

InnerPlant grows with new John Deere-backed millions for sustainable farming

InnerPlant helps farmers reduce the amount of chemical pesticides needed or harvests lost to pathogens.

Cultured meat startup Prolific Machines unveils its ‘Henry Ford approach’ to cell growth

Its technology is a way to grow and control cells without the need for any of those expensive recombinant proteins for cell production.

Gotham Greens just raised $310M to expand its greenhouses nationwide

That’s not a typo. $310 million, with a zero at the end. This latest round brings Gotham Greens’ total funding up to $440 million since its 2009 launch. The nine-digit raise was led by BMO Impact

Klim harvests $6.6M seed to get more farmers growing greener

Berlin-based agriTech startup Klim is in a hurry to get farmers adopting so-called ‘regenerative’ methods — which are touted as less harmful to soils and biodiversity than convention

Agritech company Cropin launches its cloud platform to digitize the agricultural industry

Backed by investors including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and CDC Group, Cropin is set on digitizing the agricultural industry. Today, the company announced the launch of Cropin Cloud, a clo

Puna Bio’s extremophile microbe menagerie survives and revives depleted soil

The farming industry spends tons of money on artificial means of reinvigorating soil, but an all-natural solution may already exist: beneficial microbes that have evolved to thrive in extreme environm

Mermade Seafoods swims in cell agriculture waters to make cultivated scallops

Mermade Seafoods' circular approach uses biowaste to feed algae, which is then used as the growth media to feed the cells. The company calls this interpretation of aquaponics “cytoponics."

Ex-Novastar partner Niraj Varia takes on new challenge as CEO of Kenyan agtech iProcure

Niraj Varia spent the last eight years at Novastar Ventures, a global VC with hubs in Nairobi, Lagos and London, having joined it at inception and rising through the ranks to become partner. Under his

Crop One, Emirate open ‘world’s largest vertical farm’ in Dubai

Passengers on Emirates and other airlines will be able to eat the leafy greens, which include lettuces, arugula, mixed salad greens and spinach on their flights starting this month.

Vertical farming founder is reimagining agriculture from the ground up

Welcome back to Found, the TechCrunch podcast that brings you the stories behind the startups. This week’s guest, Bowery Farming founder and CEO Irving Fain wants you to taste the best strawberr

Fyto combines automation, robotics so aquatic ‘superplants’ can grow almost anywhere

The company's pilot program showed that farms are able to generate 10 to 20 times more protein per acre and use five to 10 times less water than other crops, like alfalfa.

Agrotools farming for M&A with new $21M funding round

Brazil-based Agrotools analyzes over 1,300 layers of data from multiple sources to provide information on what is happening with agriculture suppliers and customers.
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