It’s not often that a venture capital firm gets to back a startup again after it has exited — especially one that is still a private company. So when Builders […]
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Back to news homeFarmers use tech too with Charles Baron from Farmers Business Network
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Charles Baron, the co-founder and CMO at Farmers Business Network […]
From shipping container to table: Adapt brings urban mushroom farms to US
Canadian vertical farming startup Adapt AgTech is partnering with Reef Technology to bring its mushroom-growing shipping containers to major cities across the United States, starting with Austin. Reef transforms urban […]
Alphabet X graduates robotic agtech firm Mineral
A little over two years after its public debut, Mineral is becoming its own Alphabet company. The team, which was formerly known as the “Computational Agriculture Project” (no prizes for […]
FlyFeed flies in the face of the global food crisis
FlyFeed claims it signed more than $10 million worth of contracts and closed a $3 million round of investment to launch its first insect farm in Vietnam, in its push […]
To raise a fund, this agtech outfit built a content company first (now it has $60 million to put to work)
Rob Leclerc has the kind of pedigree that investors tend to like. He has a masters degree in computer science from the University of Calgary and a PhD in computational […]
Source makes greenhouses smarter to secure the future of food supply
Agtech startup Source.ag today announced it harvested a $10 million investment to make greenhouses smarter. The founders have set their eyes on a horizon where, driven by climate change and […]
Verdant aims to be the (robotic) king of carrot weeders
Agtech is a massive industry aching to be disrupted by robotics. It’s a big category that’s going to require a number of solutions to various problems, though lately it’s been […]
Early stage Euro VC Backed brings in another €150M, and puts a heavy focus on founder events
London-based early-stage European VC fund Backed is bolstering its position by adding €75M to its Seed fund, while adding another €75M via a new follow-on fund vehicle. The ‘Backed Core […]
Abundant’s new owner looks to revive the apple-picking robot through equity crowdfunding
Last summer, Hayward-based Abundant Robotics abruptly closed up shop. Plenty of startups fail, a phenomenon that certainly applies in the notoriously difficult world of robotics. But the pandemic has proven […]