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🎧 Agtech robotics firm FarmWise just raised another $45 million

The rest of the startup universe may be struggling to bring in funds, but it’s still a good time to get a robotic raise.

🎧 Future of AgTech w/Kevin Lang | Episode 70 | Future of XYZ

EPISODE 70: With billions of investment dollars pouring in to the agricultural technology space and innovations that leverage input data, machine learning, platform analytics, digital twins, and more–agtech is quickly becoming the future of farming. Tune in to learn how tech is helping growers with yield management, predictability, carbon analysis and certification, disease remediation, labor deployment and so much more.

🎧 How to Boost Your Crypto Portfolio Through DeFi

As crypto trading becomes increasingly prevalent, so too does the opportunity to maximize returns using various technology-driven tactics. One such tactic is the concept of yield farming, the process of using decentralized finance (DeFi) to maximize returns. Brad Yasar is the CEO, and Co-Founder of EQIFI, a decentralized finance (DeFi) investment platform powered by a regulated bank.

🎧 What is Urban Farming? | Vincent Wei, Co-Founder, Archisen, Singapore based Agritech Co, focussed on Urban Farming

Urban farming has been around for decades. Now, it’s becoming more popular as people are realizing the need to reduce food miles and the environmental impact of raising animals, and the use of fertilizers and pesticides. While it sounds great in theory, the reality of farming in urban areas is not as easy.

🎧 #26: African AgriTech – Early opportunities for technology to scale Agriculture across Africa

Overview: Today, we discuss the opportunity for Agriculture technology to make a difference in Africa. We’ll start with some context of African Agriculture, discuss AgriTech in developed and emerging markets, analyze Agritech players across Africa & end with our overall outlook. This episode was recorded on Apr 4, 2021.

🎧 Vinayak Raman Sharma On Sustainable Farming In India

How can an effective communication strategy boost the prospects of sustainable farming in India and why is it so important to communicate the idea of sustainable farming? Anisha Nayar Dhawan talks to Vinayak Raman Sharma, President and Business Head, Seedworks International Private Limited, about the power and technique of sustainable farming and how it can impact agri scenario in India.

🎧 Josh Lessing, CTO, AppHarvest – AgTech farming (and the robot picking your produce)

Climate change, a growing global population, and land degradation are depleting the natural resources we rely on to grow our food — causing massive volatility and instability in our food supply chain. But it’s not all agricultural doom and gloom. In the heart of Appalachia, in Kentucky, is an agtech company called AppHarvest that operates acres upon acres of glass-encased, high-tech greenhouses.

🎧 Regenerative Farming: Harmonising Environmental and Financial Incentives

In this Seedcamp Deep Dive, Carlos speaks with author and farmer Sarah Langford and Sward’s Co-founder and CEO Reuben Saxon about the crucial role of regenerative farming in food supply and carbon capture. Carlos kicks the conversation off with an insightful review of Sarah’s upcoming book “Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution.

🎧 Ashish Malik on Agritech Using Bees | The CSE Podcast Ep21-S2 (Earth Day 2022)

In a special episode for Earth Day, the CSE’s Barrington Miller is joined by Ashish Malik, CEO of Bee Vectoring Technologies (CSE:BEE), to discuss this agriculture technology company’s use of commercial bees as a more sustainable alternative to traditional pesticides. The conversation also addresses the growing demand for agriculture across the world due to population growth.

🎧 S2 | E3 | Why IoT and Agritech are the Perfect Match | Sumanta Talukdar & Richard Osterloh – Gardin

In S2 episode 3, we get into the world of Vertical Farming🌱🌿, connecting with Sumanta Talukdar -CEO and Richard Osterloh – Lead Embedded Systems Engineer at Gardin Agritech🌱 who explore the global need for Vertical Farming and why IoT will play a significant role now and onto the future. Sit back, relax and be the first to discover… 🌱 Why IoT has become such an integral part of agritech.

🎧 Intersection of Ag and Tech: Emerging Trends in 2022

Agtech investor and strategist Seana Day provides a deep analysis into what we can expect to see from the agtech ecosystem in 2022. Tracking 1,500+ agtech companies, Seana reveals what she sees as the top trends for the future year – such as a fintech/agtech crossover, more mergers/acquisitions, expansion of asset utilization and more. Tune in to journey with Seana as she explores the opportunities and challenges for agtech in 2022 and beyond.

🎧 Prabir Mishra Talks About Real World Use Cases of NFTs in Agriculture Industry | Web3Verse 01

There is still a lot of confusion about how things in Web 3.0 function and how Entrepreneurs can make use of it to bring change in the real world.  When we say – NFTs, Cryptos and DeFi, there is a general impression that these instruments must be significant only in the virtual world.  But Prabir Mishra in this episode of Web3Verse erases this notion and throws light on how the blockchain technology is not limited to the digital application, but can be very much used to solve the real world problems.

🎧 Corporate Venturing & “Girl Power”: Marlin Siahaan of TMI

In our first episode devoted to the corporate venture capital or CVC segment in Indonesia, the CEO of Telkomsel Mitra Inovasi (TMI), Marlin Siahaan, shares a number of examples of value-add that parentco Telkomsel has created in collaborating with TMI portfolio companies such as Finaccel, Halodoc, Evermos and Sekolah.

🎧 Ep 400: How Technology Can Improve Farmers’ Lives

Sean: What is Zagana’s vision as a company? Josh: I’ll start with our purpose. Our purpose is to uplift lives using technology. So technology comes a lot into play. You have the logistics process where you bring the produce from point A to point B. Number two is how you will be able to prolong and maintain the produce.

🎧 Madhura Chakrabarti, PhD of Syngenta on PAFOW Live with Al Adamsen

Session Title: Employee Listening: How a Multi-Channel Approach can Meet both Business & Human Needs Speaker: Madhura Chakrabarti of Syngenta, PhD Theme: Data Science Follow Madhura on Linkedin: Learn more about our digital events and the people data for good movement: www.pafow.net To ongoing learning, creativity, and compassion for the human experience!

🎧 What’s the role of government in agtech ecosystems? Salvatore Lavallo, Abu Dhabi Investment Office

It’s fair to say most entrepreneurs (and farmers!) aren’t big fans of government rules and regulations for fear of being slowed down by red tape and bureaucracy. However, the political environment in which a startup develops can have a big impact on its ability to find investment and support, especially in agtech, where ecosystems are still very new for most countries.

🎧 India’s agritech market: The opportunities and challenges for Aussie startups

As the Managing Partner of Omnivore – the largest and oldest player in the Indian agritech venture scene – Mark Kahn understands what it takes to really ‘make it’ after building a venture capital firm from the ground up that’s pioneered agritech investing in India. Omnivore boasts a portfolio of more than 25 agritech startups in an economy where agriculture and agribusiness account for a quarter of India’s GDP.

🎧 160. Middle Tech AgTech: Lincoln Day on Helping Build Kentucky’s AgTech Industry

Lincoln Day is Middle Tech’s newest team member, creating content and news in the AgTech space (specifically in Kentucky). Lincoln is the founder of Stalk Commodities, a Kentucky based company working to automate crop harvesting processes. We’re pumped to welcome Lincoln to the team and are excited to help facilitate conversation around Kentucky’s booming AgTech ecosystem as we work to make it “the AgTech capital of the world”.

🎧 AJVC Unfiltered 44: Can DeHaat Plant the Seeds for India’s Agricultural Revolution?

Last fortnight, DeHaat posted a 2x jump in revenue, growing to 350Cr, hot on the heels of the largest fundraise announcement for an Indian agritech. For more details visit –

🎧 Saying farewell to Insight, connecting the microbiome and the brain, and a book on agriculture in Africa

What we learned from a seismometer on Mars, why it’s so difficult to understand the relationship between our microbes and our brains, and the first in our series of books on the science of food and agriculture First up this week, freelance space journalist Jonathan O’Callaghan  joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the retirement of NASA’s Mars InSight lander.

🎧 #78 – Case Syngenta – Importância e boas práticas de Employee Experience.

Na 78ª edição do Gestão de Pessoas vamos falar sobre: “Case Syngenta: Importância e boas práticas de Employee Experience” com a Daniella Bonança, Global Head of Employee Experience. Dentre os temas debatidos estão: 1. Por que o employee experience é tão importante? 2. Rotinas e boas práticas da Syngenta no tema.

🎧 Leaders on a Mission – Adam Anders, Managing Partner of Anterra Capital, on building a pioneering AgTech venture fund, Ep 44

In this episode, I am joined by Adam Anders, Managing Partner of Anterra Capital, a high-impact venture fund backing entrepreneurs building a healthier food system. Adam talks through his career journey, from humble beginnings on a farm in a tiny rural town in Australia to cofounding Anterra Capital with an innovative investment thesis empowering farmers to feed the world while restoring the health of our environment. Adam discusses the current innovation landscape and looks at future opportunities to help sustain the world’s growing population.

🎧 Why It Matters: Solving the agritech marketing challenges

According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), small farmers produce a third of the world’s food. But despite that, farmers are still finding it difficulties to sell their crops. Shaad Hamid, General Manager, GrowthOps Singapore shares why agritech companies are facing challenges in the marketing front and the role GrowthOps have in helping a business through complex challenges. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

🎧 How John Deere is Guiding Farmers Into a New Era of Hi-Tech Agriculture

Agriculture is an age-old industry. New technologies, such as self-driving tractors, stand to increase efficiency and profitability and to fill gaps in lacking labor, but some farmers still hesitate to embrace it. Today, Jon Ebert, manager of public and industry relations in North America for John Deere, explains to host Brian Rowley how he’s using creative storytelling to illustrate the value advanced technologies bring to the trade.

🎧 Later-Stage Agtech Startup Lessons #1 – Michael Gilbert, Semios

In this 3-part series, we’ll share the lessons from agtech startup founders who have grown their agtech companies from idea to at least 100 employees. We’ll be examining what’s worked (and hasn’t), differences between agtech and other industries, and what the founders have learned along the way about the industry and themselves.

🎧 Growth lessons from building Bijak, a B2B Agritech marketplace ft. Founder, Nukul Upadhye

As per the recent data by Tracxn, there are 1338 AgriTech startups in India. However, with 118.7 million farmers, who contribute to a mere 17-18% of Indian GDP, many problem statements are left to be solved at a larger scale. In March 2020, we interviewed Vaibhav Domkundwar from Better Capital, where he mentioned their then-recent investment in Bijak – their first interaction with the founders and their thesis behind the investment.

🎧 How to Reinvent the Economics of Agriculture Using Blockchain Technology

Agriculture is essential in the fight against the climate crisis, not only for mankind but for the survival of the Earth. Therefore, it’s crucial that we transform the agricultural system through building infrastructure using technology and creating a connection to the human economy and ecological health through our economic activity.

🎧 INSIGHTS #64 – Future of Agritech: The evolution of Agritech in India

Taking cues from a top-down structural approach, the Agritech industry has many layers to it. On top of them however, like every other major industry, Financial services is also a critical part of Agritech. However, it is largely unorganised and has plenty of room for disruption. Most farmers in the country do not have access to credit-based lending facilities and startups like Samunnati are attempting to fill that gap.

🎧 Ep599: Dganit Vered | CEO, Smart Agro R&D Partnership

Bio: An experienced investor in Agritech and Food tech companies. Until recently was a Venture Partner at Entrée Capital, responsible for AgriTech and FoodTech investments. Invested in 4 Agritech startups. An active Chairwoman of the board at ViAqua and board members in additional startups. Dganit brings over 20 years of senior management experience as Intel Israel CS site manager and VP R&D with Perrigo and Hazera.

🎧 Jonathan Webb, CEO, AppHarvest: AgTech Farming for Our Planet’s Future

Amid the verdant rolling hills of central Kentucky, in the heart of Appalachian coal country, you’ll find 60 acres of a massive, glass-encased structure. Inside, you’ll find row after row of tomatoes. The bounty — sold in grocery retailers like Kroger, Publix, and Walmart — is grown and harvested to precision using data, AI, and robotics by an AgTech company called AppHarvest.

🎧 #585 – Return of the Trade Show Jedi

Dave and Chris talk about the return to trade shows and how things are the same. Also AgTech, open source boards, self driving cars, and engineering shortages.

🎧 WBSP322: Grow Your Business by Understanding Sage X3’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion

Discrete manufacturing space is crowded with several solutions. But there are only a few that are really good at process manufacturing and agriculture verticals. The process manufacturing has unique nuances with requirements such as traceability, sub-lots, sub-batches, and formulation management. These verticals also have unique reporting and audit requirements.

🎧 Women Leaders & Innovators in Agtech

Today we speak to Amy Wu, Founder and Creator of From Farms to Incubators, a multimedia platform that uses documentary, video, photography, and the written word to tell the stories of women leaders and innovators in agtech. It has a mission of highlighting women in food, farming, and farmtech, especially women of color.

🎧 How To Become Funding Ready – With Tushar Kansal

Founder and CEO of Kansaltancy Ventures, Tushar is an accomplished professional with expertise of financial and business advisory, fund raising & creation of docs/collaterals for venture capital funding.  Tushar is also a venture advisor with Loyal VC, the INSEAD-led Canadian VC Fund, having a core portfolio of over 200+ investments in more than 60+ countries.

🎧 HRH Prince Khaled bin AlWaleed | The Mo Show 58.5 | Series C Upside Foods, Food Security, Nutrition, Twitter acquisiton

This is part 2 with HRH Prince Khaled Bin AlWaleed, an entrepreneur, investor, and the Founder and CEO of KBW Ventures. Together, they discuss fitness, food security, Elon Musk and a variety of other topics. Prince Khaled is optimistic about a future with innovative solutions such as cellular agriculture and electric vehicles.

🎧 Neue Lösungen für die Landwirtschaft, Happybrush erhält 4 Millionen Euro

Agtech, Agritech, Agrartechnologie – der Einsatz von Technologie in der Landwirtschaft, im Gartenbau und in der Aquakultur hat mehrere Namen. Doch dahinter verbirgt sich immer dasselbe Ziel: Ertrag, Effizienz und Rentabilität verbessern und ökologische und ethische Herausforderungen meistern.  Der Markt dafür in Deutschland ist groß.

🎧 Agritech Trends & Opportunities in Cambodia

Agriculture is the pillar of the country. In Cambodia, agriculture contributes almost 27% of Cambodia’s GDP and around 31% of the workforce is employed in this sector. With the recent trade agreements such as China and Korea’s FTA and the UK’s Generalised Scheme of Preference (GSP), top agricultural export products are anticipated to immensely increase their export demand.

🎧 142: How to Real Estate Farm

Grab your pitchfork and shovel! It’s time for some real estate farming. Real estate geo farming is one of the tried and true marketing plans that so many agents overlook in their business, but it still holds up in the modern real estate landscape. Unlike cold calling and door knocking, geo farming can be done strategically and successfully without making you feel like a sleazy salesman.

🎧 Meesho planning an IPO; Ninjakart launches agritech fund; CredAvenue turns unicorn; Apollo.io raises $110 mln from Sequoia

Meesho is preparing for an IPO as early as 2023, Reuters reports, citing an internal company document it has seen. According to Reuters, the Bangalore company is working to be ready for a listing by the end of 2022 and is evaluating both Indian and US exchanges. Ninjacart, an agri-tech platform provider, has launched a $25 million fund.

🎧 Chef Irene Shiang Li | How to Turn Passion & Play Into Impact & Success

When Chef Irene Li opened a food truck, mei mei, with her siblings, hoping to have fun together, build something cool, and reimagine Chinese comfort cuisine with a playful, modern twist, what happened next took everyone by surprise. Mei Mei exploded, becoming the talk of the town within months. They soon found themselves looking for space and opening a full-service restaurant that was perpetually abuzz.

🎧 Astor Perkin’s AgTech Panel April 2021

Astor Perkin’s AgTech panel.

🎧 Unlocking the Power of Pricing Analytics to Optimize Your Pricing with Kevin Coppinger

Kevin Coppinger is currently the Director of Analytics in Ferrellgas. He is passionate about leading groups that turn large data into an asset, providing leadership the opportunity for insights and actions. In this episode, Kevin shares his analytics journey as he talks about the importance of data in providing better service and becoming a better service provider in the field.

🎧 Compondo a Tese – 24.12.2021

Atenção (disclaimer): Os dados aqui apresentados representam minha opinião pessoal. Não são de forma alguma indicações de compra ou venda de ativos no mercado financeiro. Pix já equivale a mais de 80%

🎧 Ne pas mourir de faim face au tsunami démographique Asiatique

La démographie est de loin l’indicateur le plus mésestimé dans nos analyses sur le futur. Et pourtant, même si elle est incertaine, les tendances qu’elle nous donne devraient largement dicter nos décisions.  C’est d’ailleurs en grande partie le cas dans la vivacité des segments de marché passionnants que sont l’Agritech et la Foodtech.

🎧 Robots for Smart Agriculture — Eric Adamson, CEO of Tortuga AgTech

Led by CEO Eric Adamson, Tortuga AgTech aims to raise agricultural margins and reduce hard human working conditions by delivering innovative robotic crop pickers to farmers throughout the world. Below are two excerpts from the podcast. “Our aim is to solve the farm’s hardest problem, which we view to be the crushing labor of manual hand harvesting by creating robotic crop pickers, which we believe will then fundamentally shift the rest of the industry because when you relieve the pressure point of the system everything else changes naturally.

🎧 EP#48 Ritu Verma – Seeding startups that are building for the next billion, challenges faced as a GP and the importance of collaboration in venture

In this episode, Ritu Verma (Co-founder & Managing Partner, Ankur Capital), joins our host Digjay, to talk about her path leading up to venture capital, thesis & vision at Ankur Capital, learnings from past investments in Agritech & Healthtech, common blind spots faced by founders in the 0-1 phase, Learnings from Fund I, challenges faced as a GP, collaborating with fellow VCs & more.

🎧 Waste Not, Want Not: A Future Without Food Waste

Every year, even as millions struggle with food insecurity, about a third of all the food produced for humans in the world is thrown away, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. That not only means wasting water and energy resources. The food, rotting in landfills, also emits methane gas linked to climate change.

🎧 Heineken’s holistic approach to ESG

In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we sit down with Jan-Willem Vosmeer, Global Manager of Sustainable Development and Stakeholder Engagement at The Heineken Company. He talks about how the brewer is working with suppliers to reduce emissions, the challenges of working in a water-intensive industry, and how to make agriculture sustainable.

🎧 184: AgTech M&A with Bushel and Farmlogs Founders, Jake Joraanstad and Jesse Vollmar

This week we talk to two agtech founders – Jake Joraanstad, the CEO and co-founder of Bushel, and Jesse Vollmar, the CEO and co-founder of FarmLogs – about the recent news of Bushel acquiring Farmlogs. Bushel is an independently owned software company and leading provider of software technology solutions for growers, grain buyers, ag retailers, protein producers and food companies.

🎧 Translating Agtech – E10

Really great conversation with Sarah Nolet, founder of both the agtech focused VC firm Tenacious Ventures and AgThentic an agtech strategy and advisory firm, as well as the host of the “AgTech…So What?” podcast. We discussed the how agtech in the US and Australia differ, the importance of translating values and points of view between tech entrepreneurs and farmers, why we need measurement and verification in regenerative agriculture, the importance of getting the business model right in complex supply chains like agriculture, what the most promising technologies are in agtech and more.