by Travis Martin | Feb 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Investors are drinking the Kula-aid. Kula Bio, a startup company focusing on developing biofertilizers to compete with synthetic options, has raised $50M in a fundraising round. How it works: The company produces Kula-N, a sustainable nitrogen fertilizer that touts...
by Travis Martin | Jan 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Everything’s bigger in… California? At least when it comes to funding rounds for indoor, vertical farming. Retail giant Walmart was among the latest investors pouring millions into Plenty Unlimited—which just became the most-funded vertical farming operation ever. The...
by Travis Martin | Jan 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Uber for agriculture is just around the corner, and Agtonomy is making it happen. Using a mobile phone app, a farmer can assign a job to one of his or her tractors, which is basically like calling an Uber driver to the farm to do the work. As demonstrated by John...
by Travis Martin | Jan 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Aigen’s carbon-keeping, weed-whacking robots just got an extra dose of fuel—and we’re not talking extra fun in the sun. After a $4M seed round, the company’s solar-powered, autonomous robots are on the fast track to help farmers manage weeds and plant propagation down...
by Travis Martin | Jan 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
TerraMagna of Brazil just made it rain in its most recent funding round. The startup secured $40M in debt and equity financing, in a round led by SoftBank and Shift Capital. Background: Farmers don’t have much liquidity and often rely on commercial loans from their...
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