| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.10.2024 | Autonomous tech is coming to farming. What will it mean for crops, workers? | - |
| 19.02.2023 | ChatGPT creator Sam Altman has invested in dozens of companies over the years, from Elon Musk's Neuralink to Reddit | Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has invested in scores of companies over the years. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has invested in lots of tech and energy companies.
He was the lead investor in rounds for companies like Reddit,... |
| 16.06.2021 | Bushel acquires FarmLogs to integrate farm-level and supply chain data | US grain-trading platform Bushel has acquired FarmLogs, a farm management app aimed at row crop operations. Through the takeover, it will be able to connect on-farm management data across tens of thousands of growers responsible for 40% of ... |
| 18.02.2021 | Become more efficient by tomorrow: A guide to farm management systems | Editor’s note: Yulia Poroshenko is founder, and Artem Rudko is key account manager, at AgroHub in Kyiv, Ukraine.
AgroHub uses data to help farmers make better, data-driven business decisions to increase revenue, reduce cost and risk, become... |
| 23.01.2019 | FarmLogs Launches AutoHedge App to Help Farmers Market Their Grain Before Harvest | Decision support software developer FarmLogs has launched what it describes as a first-of-its-kind grain marketing service called AutoHedge for corn and soybean growers.
Based on hedging strategies developed by analyzing over 20 years of co... |
| 17.10.2018 | Q&A with Jesse Vollmar, Cofounder & CEO of Farmlogs | We put together a list of the top YC companies by valuation as of October 2018. You can see that list at https://ycombinator.com/topcompanies.
Here’s a Q&A with Jesse Vollmar, Cofounder & CEO of Farmlogs, one of the companies featu... |
| 16.07.2018 | Why Michigan is the Midwest’s Most Improved Startup Community | PitchBook’s recent report on the 3 critical factors for a strong venture ecosystem — density, resources, and talent — led me on a quest to find where, beyond the typical major cities discussed in the venture world, we see these factors crys... |
| 10.07.2018 | Why Michigan is the Midwest’s most improved startup community | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
PitchBook’s recent report on the 3 critical facto... |
| 10.07.2018 | Why Michigan is the Midwest’s most improved startup community | PitchBook’s recent report on the 3 critical factors for a strong venture ecosystem — density, resources, and talent — led me on a quest to find where, beyond the typical major cities discussed in the venture world, we see these factors crys... |
| 24.05.2018 | My Journey Into Supporting Midwest Startups | I’m a few weeks into my role as Hyde Park Angels’ new Director of Platform, and yet I didn’t plan to be here. |
| 21.01.2018 | «Я хотела быть как Маск — вкалывать по 100 часов». Топ-60 честных советов от выпускников Y Combinator разных лет
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| 15.01.2018 | EXCLUSIVE: Biotech Dominates THRIVE Top 50 in AgTech List | Biotech and predictive analytics startups dominate the Salinas, CA-based THRIVE AgTech’s Top 50 list of agtech companies shaping the future of agriculture for 2018.
The largest technology category on last year’s list, “big data analytics,” ... |
| 12.01.2018 | Advice for First Time Founders | We operate a platform called Bookface for YC founders to connect with each other, ask questions, find intros, and share advice. Recently on Bookface Zach Dixon, cofounder of the gaming company Players’ Lounge (W18), asked a great question:
... |
| 06.11.2017 | Ann Arbor cements its status as a tech hub to watch with first unicorn | Last month, Ann Arbor-based startup Duo Security announced that it had raised a new $70 million round, valuing the company at $1.17 billion. That made Duo Security — which creates a two-factor authentication app for enterprise companies — t... |
| 06.11.2017 | Ann Arbor cements its status as a tech hub to watch with first unicorn | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Last month, Ann Arbor-based startup Duo Security ... |
| 13.09.2017 | 10+ Questions Facing Agriculture and Where to Find the Answers | The agriculture industry is facing a series of intertwined, complex issues over the next several decades. Conventional wisdom suggests that we face a critical supply shortage driven by four key questions:
Can we produce enough food? The wor... |
| 09.07.2017 | 7 YC startups find success in the heartland | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Setting up camp in Silicon Valley may seem like t... |
| 09.07.2017 | 7 YC startups find success in the heartland | Setting up camp in Silicon Valley may seem like the obvious choice for tech startups, and one common way to get there is through an accelerator. Each year, these programs churn out hundreds of freshly minted companies, dispersing seed money... |
| 01.05.2017 | How To Find The Best Support For Your Food & Ag Startup | Editor’s Note: Sarah Nolet is founder and CEO of food and agtech consultancy AgThentic. Here she offers startups advice on how to navigate the growing number of resources for food and agtech startups.
Over the past few years, there has been... |
| 21.03.2017 | How AI startups and tech giants collaborate to do good deeds | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
AI startups have discovered there’s value to part... |
| 20.02.2017 | 2017 YC Annual Letter | Dear YC Community:
In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual letter to the YC community with an update on our progress.
Our mission is to enable the most innovation of any company in the world in order to... |
| 12.01.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Otto Robotics Raises $1.5m, Organic Chicken Processor Raises $2.7m, Diet to Go Raises $500k, more | AgriMetis, a crop protection spin-off from healthcare innovation firm Acidophil, closed a $23.5 million Series B in an oversubscribed round led by Anterra Capital. Learn more about the round and the healthcare VC that joined it in our recen... |
| 12.01.2017 | Top African technology news for January 12, 2017 | 10. SA-based golf course management startup, Tagmarshal, has raised an undisclosed amount in funding
According to Disrupt Africa, Tagmarshal raised the undisclosed amount in a funding round led by Berlin-based investor Christian Vollmann, w... |
| 11.01.2017 | FarmLogs raises $22 million to help farmers improve crop yield with big data | Data-focused crop-management startup FarmLogs has raised $22 million in a funding round led by Naspers Ventures, the VC arm of South African media giant Naspers, with participation from existing investors Drive Capital, Huron River Ventures... |
| 11.01.2017 | FarmLogs raises $22 million to help farmers improve crop yield with big data | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Data-focused crop-management startup FarmLogs has raised $22 million in a funding round led by Naspers Ventures, the VC arm of South Af... |
| 11.01.2017 | FarmLogs raises $22 million to make agriculture a more predictable business | Ann Arbor, Michigan-based FarmLogs has raised $22 million in a Series C round of funding for technology that helps farmers monitor and measure their crops, predict profits, manage risks from weather and pests and more. Naspers Ventures led ... |
| 11.01.2017 | FarmLogs Raises $22M in Series C Funding | FarmLogs, an Ann Arbor, MI-based digital farm management platform provider, raised $22m in Series C funding.
The round was led by new investor Naspers (NPN.SJ) (LSE: NPSN), through Naspers Ventures, woth follow-on participation from existin... |
| 11.01.2017 | FarmLogs Raises $22m Series C as CEO Vows Never to Exit to Agribusiness | FarmLogs, the decision support and ERP software tool for farmers, has raised $22 million in Series C funding in a round led by new investor Naspers Ventures, the venture arm of the South African media group.
Existing investors Drive Capital... |
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| 11.01.2017 | Agtech Startup FarmLogs Harvests $22M From Naspers-Led Series C Round | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Farming has always been a data-intensive business but digital approaches to record keeping are starting to take root with more farmers. Agtech startup FarmLogs aims to capital... |
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| 11.01.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, January 11 | DOLLARS AND DEALS
Everything besides this news and Donald Trump’s scheduled press conference seems beside the point this morning, so here’s some venture data and private equity macro predictions to distract you. (If the topic of Trump, his ... |
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| 12.11.2015 | Jarrod and Marcus – founders of Forbidden Foods | website twitter facebook
Jarrod Milani and Marcus Brown are the co-founders of Forbidden Foods – a rice foods company based in Melbourne, with a vision to “Feed The World With The World’s Best”. They pride themselves on the quality of the s... |
| 24.09.2015 | Growth Capital Firm Makes First Agtech Investment in Mature European Precision Ag Company | After about five years researching the sector, a Swiss growth capital fund has made its first investment into agtech, selecting a rare, mature precision agriculture company from Austria called Pessl Instruments.
Growth capital investment fi... |
| 22.09.2015 | One In Three Farms Is Using FarmLogs To Power Their Yields With Big Data | The American farm may not be the first spot you’d expect to be disrupted by big data, but today’s farmers are already heavily utilizing new technologies to monitor their crops.
Jesse Vollmar, founder and CEO of FarmLogs, told TechCrunch’s J... |
| 31.07.2015 | FarmLogs CEO Jesse Vollmar Will Talk About The AgTech Revolution At Disrupt SF 2015 | The World Bank has laid out the problems society faces in some pretty stark terms. Farmers need to produce 50% more food to feed the 9 billion people who are projected to inhabit the earth by 2050. And, increasingly, these farmers are facin... |
| 22.06.2015 | Turning Water Problems Into Business Opportunities | Tamin Pechet Contributor
Tamin Pechet is the founder of Banyan Water and founder and chairman of Imagine H2O.
California Governor Jerry Brown recently imposed mandatory water restrictions to combat severe drought that “demands unprecedented... |
| 21.06.2015 | Enterprise Software’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity | Aaron Levie Contributor
Aaron Levie is the Chief Executive Officer of Box.
More posts by this contributor
Now the cloud wars (really) begin
The Industrialist’s Dilemma
Outside of the tech industry, an unmistakable trend is sweeping the busi... |
| 17.12.2014 | FarmLogs Nabs $10m Series B From SV Angel, Sam Altman And Others | Nearly 12 months ago, FarmLogs announced it raised a $4 million Series A. And today the company is back with a $10 million Series B to keep pushing farming into the digital age.
The additional funding came from existing investors Drive Capi... |
| 17.12.2014 | FarmLogs Closes $10M Series B Round of Financing | FarmLogs, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based agricultural tech startup, closed a $10m Series B round of financing.
Backers included existing investors Drive Capital, Huron River Ventures, and Hyde Park Venture Partners and new investors SV Angel and... |
| 17.12.2014 | Ann Arbor’s FarmLogs Closes $10M Series B, Plans New Premium Features | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Ann Arbor, MI-based ag tech startup FarmLogs announced today that it has raised a $10 million Series B round of funding. The round included repeat investors Huron River Ve... |
| 17.12.2014 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 17.12.2014 | FarmLogs lands $10M Series B to help manage farms | It’s been a big year for FarmLogs. Fresh off the heels of a $4 million Series A back in January of this year, FarmLogs has just announced that they’ve closed a $10 million Series B bringing total investment to over $15 million since they gr... |
| 17.12.2014 | FarmLogs grabs $10M to help farmers harness web tools and big data | Reimagining the human diet is pretty useless unless we address how we grow and harvest food, something Y Combinator-backed FarmLogs knows all about.
The two-year-old startup provides farmers with web and mobile apps to help them better trac... |
| 17.12.2014 | FarmLogs grabs $10M to help farmers harness web tools and big data | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Reimagining the human diet is pretty useless unle... |
| 11.09.2014 | Navigating The Reality Of Cloud, Mobile And SaaS | Guy Turner Contributor
Editor’s note: Guy Turner is a partner at Hyde Park Venture Partners in Chicago where he invests in early-stage B2B software and tech-enabled services.
The websites of most VCs have a stated investment thesis in SaaS,... |
| 28.03.2014 | 5 AgTech CEOs You Should Know
1. Jesse Vollmar, Farmlogs
2. Jorge Heraud, Blue River Technology
3. Dr. Doron Gal, Kaiima
4. Ethan Brown, Beyond Meat
5. Dave Friedberg, Climate Corp | 1. Jesse Vollmar, Farmlogs
This 25 year-old was recently named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30. Vollmar is no stranger to farm life, having grown up on a farm in Michigan. In 2012, he and partner Brad Koch started FarmLogs, a mobile-based data-s... |
| 16.01.2014 | Mid-western Startup FarmLogs Raises $4M, Signaling VC Looking Over the Valley | Silicon Valley-ers are looking beyond the hills.
FarmLogs, a Michigan-based software startup that provides management tools to increase farmer productivity, has raised $4 million in venture capital. The Series A investment led by Drive Capi... |
| 15.01.2014 | FarmLogs Closes $4M Series A Financing | FarmLogs, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based agricultural tech startup, closed a $4m Series A financing.
The round was led by Drive Capital, with participation from existing investors Huron River Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners and Hyde Park... |
| 15.01.2014 | FarmLogs harvests $4M to make farming more profitable & productive | The only thing that’s perhaps more important than food is the ability to grow it effectively. And today agriculture tech startup FarmLogs has raised a fresh $4 million round of funding to help farms across the country do just that.
FarmLogs... |
| 15.01.2014 | FarmLogs harvests $4M to make farming more profitable & productive | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The only thing that’s perhaps more important than... |
| 15.01.2014 | FarmLogs Raises $4M Series A, Founder Named to Forbes List | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Ann Arbor, MI-based ag tech startup FarmLogs announced today that it has raised a $4 million Series A round of funding. The round was led by Ohio-based Drive Capital, with... |
| 15.01.2014 | Startup Rundown: Frankly Is the Snapchat of Texting, and Farmers Are Using the Internet | Real snazzy. (Shapeways)
Bling out your Citibike Today in things you didn’t know you needed, Tomorrow Lab has partnered with Shapeways to create a gold, 3D-printed Citibike key. In case you’re not an avid Citibike user, “keys” are what Citi... |
| 15.01.2014 | FarmLogs Raises $4M Series A To Further Advance Farming Into The Age of Apps | Just a year after securing $1 million in seed funding, Michigan-based FarmLogs is announcing a $4 million Series A led by Drive Capital. The company says it is looking forward to a big 2014 and the co-founder and CEO tells me the company wi... |
| 15.01.2014 | FarmLogs raises $4M for mobile row-crop management | The startup gets support from Sequoia Capital veterans
One of the most interesting applications of technology—in my opinion (which means a lot to a huge number of people [read: very few])—is agriculture. As the population continues to grow,... |
| 15.01.2014 | FarmLogs (YC W12) Raises $4M Series A To Further Advance Farming Into The Age of Apps | Just a year after securing $1 million in seed funding, Michigan-based FarmLogs is announcing a $4 million Series A led by Drive Capital. The company says it is looking forward to a big 2014 and the co-founder and CEO tells me the company wi... |
| 15.01.2014 | Funding Daily: Farms | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today, a startup that helps farms got funding and... |
| 15.01.2014 | Funding Daily: Farms | Today, a startup that helps farms got funding and we’re tickled piggy-pink about it.
C’mon, it’s a farm startup. In a sea of mobile, big data, security, and social news, a startup that helps farms be more productive is awesome. The company ... |
| 06.01.2014 | Congratulations to the YC founders featured in Forbes' '30 Under 30' | Congratulations to the founders of Coinbase, Stripe, iCracked, Meta, Pebble, Parse, Watsi, Amicus, Prizeo, Humble Bundle, Clever, Panorama, Scribd and FarmLogs for being featured in Forbes as part of the ’30 Under 30′.
See the full list on... |
| 06.01.2014 | Congratulations to the YC founders featured in Forbes’ ’30 Under 30′ | Congratulations to the founders of Coinbase, Stripe, iCracked, Meta, Pebble, Parse, Watsi, Amicus, Prizeo, Humble Bundle, Clever, Panorama, Scribd and FarmLogs for being featured in Forbes as part of the ’30 Under 30′.
See the full list on... |
| 05.07.2013 | “Made In America” | The five-day work week. Chevrolet. Grand Funk Railroad. Steel plants on the shores of Lake Michigan. This is America.
There is a rebirth happening right now. It’s happening all over the country. Pockets of makers here, a consumer electronic... |
| 24.06.2013 | Michigan’s Huron River Ventures Partners Announces $11M Fund For Energy Efficient Startups | “Ann Arbor is the natural startup hotbed,” said Tim. “We intentionally opened our first office in Ann Arbor. That’s the center of talent in the Midwest.”
Huron River Ventures Partners, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based early stage venture capital f... |
| 08.05.2013 | Alexander Stamp – founder of CloudHerd | Alexander Stamp is the founder of CloudHerd which has been pitched as the ‘eBay for livestock’. Alexander graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering and interned with a mining company before being acce... |
| 25.02.2013 | Ag Tech Startup FarmLogs Nets $1M in Seed Funding | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Ann Arbor, MI-based ag tech startup FarmLogs is on a quest to bring farm management into the digital age, and the recent completion of a $1 million seed round lead by Ann ... |
| 28.01.2013 | Y Combinator Alum FARMLOGS SECURES $1 MILLION TO MODERNIZE FARMING INDUSTRY | Michigan-based FarmLogs, a 2012 Y Combinator alum that helps farmers digitally manage their farm to increase profitability, today announced that it has closed a $1 million seed funding round co-led by Huron River Ventures and Hyde Park Vent... |
| 28.01.2013 | FarmLogs Raises $1M in Seed Funding | FarmLogs, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based farm management software company for row crop farming, raised $1m in seed funding.
The round was co-led by Huron River Ventures and Hyde Park Venture Partners, with participation from Hyde Park Angels,... |
| 28.01.2013 | Funding Daily: Dancing on my own | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
I love to dance. This does not mean I am good at ... |
| 28.01.2013 | FarmLogs yields $1M in seed funding | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Farming is not a sector I commonly cover, but the... |
| 07.08.2012 | FarmLogs (YC W12) launches the way farms can store all their data in the cloud | THE world doesn’t necessarily need the gazillion-and-one games that seem available on smartphones. But it could use more apps and services that address the needs of business people with specialized needs. Like farmers.
FarmLogs, a start-up... |
