| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.10.2024 | Autonomous tech is coming to farming. What will it mean for crops, workers? | - |
| 23.02.2023 | Farm With A View: How Drone Technology Is Taking Agriculture To A New Level | The type of drone used to capture highly detailed images of growing crops for further analysisImage via Taranis |
| 29.09.2022 | Empresa focada em monitoramento de precisão para agricultura recebe aporte de US$ 40 milhões | A Taranis, empresa focada em soluções para monitoramento de precisão para a agricultura global, recebeu um aporte de US$ 40 milhões em uma rodada de investimento de série D. A ação foi liderada pela Inven Capital, um fundo europeu focado em... |
| 22.09.2022 | Brief: “Soaring” input costs are accelerating agtech adoption, McKinsey survey finds | Sky-high costs for fertilizer, crop protection products and labor are increasing the number of US farmers turning to agtech tools and products, according to a new survey from McKinsey & Company. The research surveyed 1,300 US crop farme... |
| 12.09.2022 | Max Q: The waiting game | Hello and welcome back to Max Q. In this issue:
An Artemis launch update
Rocket Lab and Sierra Space’s new agreements for space transportation
News from Axiom, OneWeb and more
By the way… TechCrunch Disrupt finally returns — live and in per... |
| 08.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: $40m for crop intelligence, using tobacco for cultivated meat, Netherlands’ meat ads ban | This week, crop intelligence platform Taranis secured more capital for its aerial imagery and AI tech and BioBetter landed funds to turn tobacco into growth factors for cultivated meat. Online grocer Motatos bagged new capital, Uber and Nur... |
| 07.09.2022 | Taranis Raises $40M in Series D Funding | Taranis, a Westfield, Indiana, Tel Aviv, Israel, and Campinas, Brazil-based provider of an AI-powered crop intelligence platform, raised $40M in Series D funding.
The round, which brought total funding to $100m, was led by Inven Capital, wi... |
| 17.11.2021 | Are we on the cusp of a software revolution in farming? | Farming and software might sound like unlikely bedfellows, but a change is on the horizon. Slow moving and deep-rooted value chains in the sector have proven resistant to the adoption of new software, but significant investment in emerging ... |
| 19.05.2021 | Ondas acquires American Robotics for its ‘rugged, real-world’ drones that can fly by themselves | American Robotics, a startup developing rugged, fully autonomous drones for use in industrial and agricultural settings, has been acquired by wireless tech firm Ondas, the two companies have announced. The terms of the deal, including finan... |
| 21.07.2020 | Taranis banks $30m Series C with tech giants Hitachi, Micron among new investors | Agricultural imaging and analytics firm Taranis has raised $30 million in a Series C round co-led by Vertex Growth — an affiliate of Singapore sovereign fund Temasek — and Orion Fund, a subsidiary of Malaysian conglomerate, the Kuok Group.
... |
| 06.07.2020 | Funding for agri-drone companies in a time of corona: futurism or folly? | AgroScout was in the final stages of negotiating a late-seed-stage funding round when coronavirus struck. The Israeli remote sensing startup watched venture dealmaking grind to a halt. But the team managed to eke out $3 million in commitmen... |
| 26.02.2020 | Ten Israeli companies listed among top 50 global agritech and food tech firms in 2020 | Ten Israeli companies were listed among two separate lists highlighting the top 50 companies worldwide in the food tech and agritech (agriculture tech) sectors in 2020, put together by SVG Ventures-THRIVE and published by Forbes this week.
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| 13.02.2020 | Interested in Investing in Early Stage Firms? OurCrowd Has a Long List, Reports 36 Exits to Date | OurCrowd is arguably the leading investment crowdfunding platform in the world. Based in Israel but listing offerings from companies around the world, OurCrowd has seen approximately $1.4 billion in committed funding since inception. Of the... |
| 30.12.2019 | 10 technology trends that will impact our lives in 2020 | Presented by Pegasus Tech Ventures
2020 — it’s when the world will see transformational changes in how technology impacts our lives. Here’s a look at the top technology trends that will influence us. Trend 1: Breakout moment of artificial i... |
| 13.03.2019 | Top startup news for today, Wednesday, March 13, 2019 | Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Wednesday, March 13.
Fintech startup Stash lands $65 million in funding. Stash, a New York City-based micro digital investment platform startup has raised $6... |
| 12.03.2019 | Precision farming startup Taranis unveils enhanced platform for aerial imagery insights into farming | In May 2018, the world population was estimated to have reached 7.6 billion people. It took over 200,000 years of human history for the world’s population to reach 1 billion; and only 200 years more to reach 7 billion. Over the last century... |
| 24.12.2018 | Punching Above Your Wheat: How Israel Became a Hub for Agtech Startups | Editor’s Note: Ofir Schlam is CEO and cofounder of Taranis, the Israel-headquartered imagery analytics tools for farmers. Here he writes about Israel’s agtech startup ecosystem.
Even before the state of Israel’s founding, pioneers emphasize... |
| 07.11.2018 | Daily funding roundup - November 7th, 2018 | Photomath raised $6M; ShipMonk raised $10M; Fraugster raised $14M; Taranis raised $20M
Home Made: Home Made is a hybrid lettings agency, offering the superior end-to-end service of a top high-street estate agent. They are focused on mid to ... |
| 06.11.2018 | Precision farming startup Taranis gets $20M Series B for its crop-monitoring tech | Taranis, an ag-tech startup that uses aerial scouting and deep learning to identify potential crop issues, announced today that it has raised a $20 million Series B led by Viola Ventures. Existing investors Nutrien (one of the world’s large... |
| 06.11.2018 | Taranis Lands $20m Series B to Expand Imagery Analytics Platform for Farmers | Israeli imagery analytics for ag platform Taranis has closed a $20 million Series B round of funding led by Viola Ventures, an Israeli venture firm making its first investment into agtech.
The round also attracted investment from three majo... |
| 06.11.2018 | Precision Agriculture Company Taranis Raises $20M | Taranis, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based precision agriculture intelligence platform, closed a $20m Series B round of financing.
The round was led by Viola Ventures, with participation from existing investors Finistere Ventures, Vertex Ventures, O... |
| 06.11.2018 | Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Tuesday, November 6 | Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Tuesday, November 6.
CSIRO drone spinoff Emesent raises US$2.5 million. Emesent, a drone startup spun out of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Or... |
| 06.11.2018 | Taranis raises $20 million for AI-driven crop insights | A global hunger crisis looms. By 2050, there will be more than 9 billion mouths to feed, and projections indicate that global yield will have to roughly double to meet demand. That’s easier said than done. Currently, about 45 percent of the... |
| 06.11.2018 | Israeli precision agriculture startup Taranis raises $20 million | Tel Aviv-based precision agriculture startup Taranis has raised a $20 million funding round led by Viola Ventures, with participation from existing investors Finistere Ventures, Vertex Ventures, OurCrowd, Eyal Gura and Gal Yarden. Three str... |
| 06.11.2018 | Taranis raises $20 million for AI-driven crop insights | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A global hunger crisis looms. By 2050, there will be more than 9 billion mouths to feed, and projections indicate that global yield wil... |
| 17.05.2018 | Taranis Acquires Aerial Imagery Platform Mavrx | Israeli precision agriculture intelligence platform Taranis is acquiring the assets of Mavrx, the San Francisco-based aerial imagery platform.
Taranis will integrate Mavrx’s aircraft-based ultra-high resolution (UHR) imagery product into it... |
| 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 | Ag Industry Brief: Trump Supports Rural Broadband, Sodexo Gets into Delivery Game, Biotech IPO Back On, more | President Trump Calls for ‘Great, Great’ Rural Broadband
Following a speech at the American Farm Bureau annual convention, President Trump signed an executive order that paves the way for companies to locate broadband infrastructure on fede... |
| 09.11.2017 | Remote Sensing Market Map: 20 Remote Sensing Startups and the Varied Data That Fuels Them | Editor’s Note: Igor Ivanov is chief commerical officer of Gamaya, a Swiss agtech startup developing proprietary hyperspectral imaging technology, using drones, to provide farmers insights about their fields. He offers a survey of the leadin... |
| 10.08.2017 | Israel Agritech Market Map: 400 Startups Putting The Tech in Agritech | For a young nation built on the collectivist agricultural ethos of the Kibbutz movement, it’s perhaps no surprise that Israel’s agricultural technology startup ecosystem is booming.
There are now more than 400 Israel agritech startups worki... |
| 11.05.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Startups Raise Nearly $130m in 2 Weeks | Soylent, the meal replacement drink, has raised $50 million in Series B funding in a round led by GV (Google Ventures) and joined by another new investor, family office Tao Capital Partners. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Lerer ... |
| 05.05.2017 | Singapore: Vertex backs Israeli ag-tech firm Taranis in $7.5m Series A round | Premium
Israeli precision agriculture intelligence platform Taranis has closed a $7.5 million Series A round of financing led by Finistere Ventures, an AgTech venture pioneer, and Vertex Ventures.
Continue reading this story with a subscrip... |
| 04.05.2017 | Israeli agtech monitoring platform Taranis raises $7.5 million Series A | Israeli agtech startup Taranis has closed a $7.5 million Series A round. The investment was led by Finistere Ventures and Vertex Ventures, with participation from existing investors Eshbol Investments, Mindset Ventures, OurCrowd, and angel ... |
| 04.05.2017 | Taranis Closes $7.5M Series A Financing | Taranis, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based precision agriculture intelligence platform, closed a $7.5m Series A round of financing.
The round was led by Finistere Ventures and Vertex Ventures with participation from existing investors Eshbol Investm... |
| 04.05.2017 | Taranis Raises $7.5m Series A for Pest and Crop Disease Prediction Tool | Taranis, an Israeli precision agriculture intelligence platform, completed a $7.5 million Series A round led by Finistere Ventures, an agtech and life sciences-focused venture firm, and Vertex Ventures, an Israeli early-stage IT and healthc... |
| 04.05.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, May 4 | ET CETERA
New money: Heap, an analytics software company, has raised $27 million in Series B funding led by NEA and Menlo Ventures with participation from Initialized Capital and Pear VC. Heap CEO and co-founder Matin Movassate created the ... |
| 02.03.2017 | How Israel is Supporting Export of Agtech Startups and Expertise to US | Editor’s Note: Next week, the 2017 Israel AgTech Innovation Showcase Delegation, organized by The Israel Economic Mission to the West Coast, Israel Economic Mission to the Midwest, and the BIRD Foundation, will take place. The delegation wi... |
| 19.01.2017 | AgFunder Innovation Awards 2016 Winners Announced | Today we are excited to release the winners of the inaugural AgFunder Innovation Awards.
Startup activity in food and agriculture technology is growing dramatically; at AgFunder we’ve come across over 5k companies since 2014. At the same ti... |
| 31.03.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Clearas Water Raises $4m Series B, Drone Tech Startup Raises $1m Seed, Planet OS Raises $5m, more | Algae-based Water Treatment System Raises $4m Series B
Clearas Water Recovery, a startup using algae to remove harmful nutrients from wastewater, has raised $4 million Series B funding from existing investors. They include algae-based exper... |
| 30.03.2016 | Salesforce CEO Joins $2m Seed Round of Crop Disease Prediction Software Taranis | Israeli farm management software Taranis has raised $2 million in seed funding in a round led by crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, and Eshbol Ventures, an Israeli early stage investment firm.
Joining the seed round was Marc Benioff, founder a... |
| - | Taranis | “Taranis helps growers and crop consultants make informed decisions throughout the season using a combination of advanced aerial imagery and AI.” |
| - | Onde estão as grandes oportunidades do Agro? Uma visão de dentro da porteira | Em outubro de 2016 acompanhamos o lançamento do AgriHub, uma rede de inovação em agricultura que conecta produtores, startups, mentores, empresas, pesquisadores e investidores, criando um ecossistema de inovação e empreendedorismo no agrone... |
