Farmers Business Network (FBN) looks back on 10 years
Dec 18, 2023 · In 2014, Charles Baron and Amol Deshpande were concocting an idea that was practically unheard of in agriculture. “The goal was to put the world of agriculture at the farmers’ fingertips and empower them through information, technology and a network,” Baron tells AgFunderNews. Farmers Business Network, commonly known as FBN, was born of ...
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Pivot Bio blazes past $100m revenue mark, appoints a new CEO
Aug 29, 2023 · Bio-input startup Pivot Bio blazes past $100m revenue mark, appoints a new CEO. Nitrogen innovator Pivot Bio ‘s revenue hit a milestone by surpassing the $100 million mark, the company reports in its FY2023 results. US farmers are now using Pivot Bio’s microbe-based, nitrogen-fixing product in place of synthetic nitrogen on 5 million acres ...
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Klim raises ‘massively oversubscribed’ Series A, adds financial services layer to its insetting platform. November 12, 2024. Jennifer Marston. Germany-based Klim will introduce a financial services layer to its insetting platform to aid in the transition to regenerative agriculture.
Applications open for AgFunder’s GROW Impact Accelerator 2024
December 13, 2023. Elaine Watson. Applications are now open for agrifoodtech founders to join the fifth cohort of the AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator. [Disclosure: AgFunder is the parent company of AgFunderNews.] Launched in 2019, the global accelerator invests in founders with innovative technologies across climate impact, human and planetary ...
Diving into Tepbac: Why AgFunder invested
May 1, 2023. Angela Tay. Editor’s Note: Aquaculture startup Tepbac recently landed a $2.25 million pre-Series A round led by Aqua-Spark, AgFunder and Son-Tech Investment. Angela Tay, senior investment associate at AgFunder Asia, explains why AgFunder chose to invest. Disclosure: AFN’s parent company is AgFunder.
Online ag marketplaces: An entry point for farmers into
May 4, 2021 · As internet connections spread further into rural areas and smart devices penetrate the world’s largest agricultural markets, more opportunities to use technology for the benefit of farmers are being unlocked. According to BlueWeave Consulting, the total value of the global digital farming market is expected to reach $10.2 billion by 2025.
What happened to those GM spider goats with the silky milk?
September 2, 2019. Richard Martyn-Hemphill. This really was an extraordinarily wacky and perhaps controversially ‘Homo Deus’ news story — GM goats who had been transplanted with a spider’s silk-making genes to transform their milk into something much less drinkable and much more silky. Yet this was all years ago now.
Babylon Micro-Farms: 'Bigger doesn't mean better in vertical …
Apr 3, 2023 · US-based Babylon Micro-Farms has raised $8 million in Series A funding to expand its business providing remotely-managed vertical farming technology.; Venture South led the round with participation from Virginia Venture Partners, Hull Street Capital, and New Theory Ventures, among others.; The Richmond, Virginia-based startup has also received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
Tepbac lands $2.25m from AgFunder & others
Apr 20, 2023 · Vietnam-based Tepbac has raised a $2.25 million pre-Series A round.; Tepbac makes an IoT-enabled hardware and data system for shrimp farmers, and also runs an aquaculture media platform. Aqua-Spark, AgFunder and Son-Tech Investment participated in the round.; Tepbac will use the funding to scale its suite of technologies to help farmers simplify shrimping operations, save costs and improve ...