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Crunch Network
Harvesting next-gen technologies for the farm
It’s entirely possible — even probable — that the evolutionary, cutting-edge developments in the 21st century world of agriculture over the past few years have slipped under your radar. Fair enough, you’re busy. We get that. But that doesn’t mean that a massive and relatively stealthy disruption isn’t happening as we speak. Read More
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Crunch Network
Driving new revenue sources through a digital ag revolution
Ever since the acquisition of the first “Ag Unicorn,” a flood of new digital agriculture startups has been trying to turn investor interest into market traction. Bayer’s recent $62 billion bid to buy Monsanto to create a global agrochemical giant and China National Chemical’s proposed $43 billion acquisition of Syngenta show that the big ag players are hungry for growth… Read More
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Blue River Technology Takes In Another $10M For Its Agriculture Optimizing Robots
Blue River Technology, which uses robotics and computer vision to optimize agriculture by, for instance, determining which lettuces to thin out of a row and which to keep, has closed a $10 million Series A-1 funding round, led by Data Collective Venture Capital — topping up a $3.1 million Series A it raised back in 2012. Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors also joined the round as… Read More
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Blue River Technology Raises $3.1 Million To Build Robots To Replace Chemical Herbicides
Computer vision/robotics company Blue River Technology announced today that it has raised a $3.1 million Series A round of funding from Khosla Ventures. Steve Blank, Ulu Ventures and Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs also participated. Blue River is designing weed elimination robots for agriculture. No, the company’s not making marijuana crop destructobots — these machines will… Read More
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