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Glasgow-based SOLASTA Bio secures further investment to support development of its innovative nature-inspired pesticides. A UK agritech specialising in the next generation of green insecticides has secured a further round of investment totalling £4 million to scale up the development of its unique nature-inspired pesticides, the first of their kind to be developed worldwide. Investm...
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Cork-based agritech startup MyGug and its innovative and climate-friendly solution to the challenge of food waste. As a society, we are becoming more and more environmentally conscious, and taking more care in sorting the things we throw away into what can be recycled, what can be taken to a charity shop, what could be upcycled, perhaps, etc. But something that people have always been conscious...
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Innovative agritech startup, Small Robot Company raises £4million to support its mission to maximise food production while reducing the cost on the environment We’re delighted to share the news that Small Robot Company (SRC), a British agritech start-up for sustainable farming, has just raised £4 million in a successful equity crowdfunding campaign with Crowdcube.  Some...
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SOLASTA Bio secures major investment to help commercialise its nature-inspired neuropeptide-based insect control products Fab news to start the week for Glasgow University spinout, SOLASTA Bio, having just secured seed investment of £1.3 million to support ongoing development of its unique nature-inspired pesticides. Established in May 2020 after 4 years of research funded by UKRI BBSRC ...
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The agritech sector in Ireland can stake a claim as a major international agritech player. We take a look at a number of Irish agritech startups that continue to impress. Written by Alastair Cameron, Startacus co-founder, Head of Startup Programmes at Digital DNA HQ, Maserati100, startup champion, freelance trainer.Ireland is steeped in history as a farming nation and economy. 5000-odd years ago,...
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We are delighted to report that Small Robot Company, a British agritech robotics startup for sustainable farming,has raised £1.2 million on Crowdcube equity crowdfunding. It reached its initial funding target of £500,000 within minutes of its launch thanks largely to support from the farming community. The company’s hugely successful campaign received support from far and w...
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FarmEye - The AgriTech startup that has agricultural traceability and sustainability at its very core... In our last agritech feature, we wrote that we were unlikely to run out of agritech startups to write about any time soon, and that’s holding true. More than ever, agricultural traceability and sustainability information are important to customers. And if it’s important to customer...
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Crover - The AgriTech startup that's aiming to reduce grain storage losses by identify grain disease or spoilage at the earliest opportunity We have written quite a bit about the agri-tech sector in recent months, with the likes of Phytoponics, smart beehive monitor ApisProtect, and CropSafe, to name a few. Agri-tech is not only an interesting sector taking care of one of the most important thing...
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The agtech IoT solution from ApisProtect to help beekeepers keep their hives productive and healthy... We have heard again and again about how important bees are to global food production, and yet we have still allowed them to reach the brink of extinction. In Ireland alone, a third of bee species face extinction. Bees contribute €153 billion worth of pollination to the agriculture industry ...
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Using satellite imagery, combined with machine learning techniques, AgTech startup CropSafe are on a mission to accurately detect and predict impending diseases within farmers crops. When three Northern Irish, Co Derry, high-school students launch a satellite and computer vision crop surveying platform during a Hackathon at Queen’s University, Belfast, it's hard not to take notice. When you...
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