January 28, 2020
Kepler will build its small satellites at a new manufacturing facility in Toronto
Satellite communications startup Kepler will manufacture its small satellites...
January 22, 2020
Unearth the future of agriculture at TC Sessions: Robotics+AI with the CEOs of Traptic, Farmwise and Pyka
Farming is one of the oldest professions, but today those amber waves of grain...
December 25, 2019
Pyka and its autonomous, electric crop-spraying drone land $11M seed round
Modern agriculture involves fields of mind-boggling size, and spraying them...
December 11, 2019
Price insurance platform Stable protects farmers from price volatility
From a Southwest England farmer’s son comes a risk-management platform,...
September 18, 2019
FarmWise and its weed-pulling agribot harvest $14.5M in funding
Automating agriculture is a complex proposition given the number and variety of...
August 15, 2019
YC-backed Eden Farm wants to cut out the middlemen between farmers and restaurants in Indonesia
Eden Farm is a startup with the ambitious goal of building a food distribution...
August 2, 2019
Biome Makers closes $4M to assess the quality of the ‘gut bacteria’ of a farm’s soil
The agriculture industry faces huge problems of sustainability. The...
May 21, 2019
Bringing tech efficiencies to the agribusiness market, Silo harvests $3 million
Roughly $165 billion worth of wholesale produce is bought and sold every year in...
May 3, 2019
WorldCover raises $6M round for emerging markets’ climate insurance
WorldCover, a New York and Africa-based climate insurance provider to...
May 2, 2019
Grainchain, a blockchain-based platform for commodity sales, launches in Mexico
In the two years since GrainChain launched its distributed ledger-based...