June 16, 2020 No Comments AgTech, BlueYard Capital, business incubators, entrepreneurship, Europe, Extra Crunch, fundraising, GreenTech, seed stage startups, Startups, Sweden, TC, Venture Capital
European VC firm Pale Blue Dot plans to fund 40 ‘planet-positive’ startups Pale Blue Dot, a newly outed European venture capital firm focused on climate tech, announced this week the first closing of its debut fund at €53 million. Targeting pre-seed and seed stage startups, the firm says it will consider software […]
May 20, 2020 No Comments Accion Venture Lab, africa, Agriculture, AgTech, apollo, Articles, Bayer, ceo, e-commerce, entrepreneurship, Europe, farmcrowdy, Flourish Ventures, Hello Tractor, IBM, kenya, Lagos, machine learning, Nairobi, Nigeria, Private Equity, Stanford University, Startup Battlefield, Startup Battlefield Africa 2018, Startup company, TC, TechCrunch, The Climate Corporation, Twiga Foods, United Kingdom, United States
Kenya’s Apollo Agriculture raises M Series A led by Anthemis Apollo Agriculture believes it can attain profits by helping Kenya’s smallholder farmers maximize theirs. That’s the mission of the Nairobi based startup that raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Anthemis. Founded in 2016, Apollo Agriculture offers a mobile based […]
January 22, 2020 No Comments agricultural robot, Agriculture, AgTech, Artificial Intelligence, ceo, Co-founder, farmwise, gadgets, Hardware, harvest, Pyka, Robotics, robots, Startups, strawberry, TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020, traptic, weed
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 (and soy) are a test bed for sophisticated robotic solutions to problems farmers have had for millennia. Learn about the cutting […]
December 24, 2019 No Comments Aerospace, Agriculture, AgTech, Artificial Intelligence, autonomous flight, drones, farming, gadgets, Hardware, Prime Movers Lab, Pyka, Recent Funding, Robotics, Startups
Pyka and its autonomous, electric crop-spraying drone land M seed round Modern agriculture involves fields of mind-boggling size, and spraying them efficiently is a serious operational challenge. Pyka is taking on the largely human-powered spray business with an autonomous winged craft and, crucially, regulatory approval. Just as we’ve seen with DroneSeed, this […]
October 28, 2019 No Comments africa, AgTech, ceo, Co-founder, e-commerce, eCommerce, fast moving consumer goods, Finance, FMCG, Food, Goldman Sachs, jumia, jumo, kenya, Nairobi, online retail, online retailer, Rocket Internet, series B, supply chain, TC, Twiga Foods, United States, west africa
Kenya’s Twiga Foods eyes West Africa after M raise led by Goldman Kenya’s Twiga Foods has raised a total of $30 million from lenders and investors led by Goldman Sachs. The B2B food distribution company financed $6.25 million of the funding in convertible debt and $23.75 million in equity, classified as a […]
December 21, 2018 No Comments africa, AgTech, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Column, Hello Tractor, IBM
IBM Africa and Hello Tractor pilot AI/blockchain agtech platform Jake Bright Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa. More posts by this contributor Africa Roundup: Terragon’s Asia acquisition, Twiga Foods’ $10M raise, SimbaPay’s China payment service Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 […]
November 16, 2018 No Comments africa, AgTech, Amazon, ceo, Column, consumer products, e-commerce, fast moving consumer goods, Finance, financial services, IBM, marketplace, Nigeria, online retail, supply chain, Tanzania
Africa’s agtech wave gets million richer as Twiga Foods raises more capital Jake Bright Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa. More posts by this contributor Nigerian data analytics company Terragon acquires Asian mobile ad firm Bizense Africa Roundup: Local […]
November 15, 2017 No Comments africa, AgTech, Column, eBay, Safaricom, Shopify
Africa Roundup: Lori Systems wins BFX Africa, Andela raises M, Jumia lends to SMEs, Safaricom launches incubator  Logistics transportation company Lori Systems won best of show at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield Africa after gaining majority votes of the event’s 15 judges. The Kenyan based venture pitched its platform to optimize all points of […]
September 29, 2017 No Comments AgTech, biodegradable, ETH Zurich, Food, gadgets, Science, TC
This edible sensor could help keep food fresh  Making sure fresh food is kept at the right temperature during transit is a harder problem than one might think — but the Swiss are on the job. Not only did they create robo-fruit to mix in with the real ones, but another research […]
July 25, 2017 No Comments Agriculture, AgTech, Artificial Intelligence, Fundings & Exits, Prospera, Startups, TC
Agtech startup Prospera, which uses AI and computer vision to guide farmers, harvests M Â Tel Aviv-based startup Prospera has raised a $15 million Series B to expand the scope of its technology, which uses computer vision and artificial intelligence to help farmers analyze data gathered from their fields. The round was led […]
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