Head of Media & Research @AgFunder - dedicated to funding the next food & agriculture revolution.
Last week, Planetary Resources, a startup with the audacious mission to mine asteroids for natural resources like water, announced a partnership with one of the Big 6 agribusinesses Bayer.
I recently sat down with Sam Kass, former White House chef and advisor to the Obama Administration on nutrition policy. Kass is now a partner at Acre Venture Partners, a food and ag technology venture capital firm.
When drones arrived on the scene as a relatively accessible technology that could provide insights and perform tasks from above, several industries, including agriculture, got very excited.
Investment into agriculture technology startups fell 20% year-over-year in the first half of 2016, as 307 funding deals collected $1.75 billion.