Farmers know how hard it is to predict yield accurately. High-value crops like grapes or almonds…
Category: Venture Capital
PlateIQ cooks up $4 million for restaurant management platform
As any fan of Kitchen Nightmares may know, the restaurant business is not for the faint…
An eBay for grain-trading, FarmLead, raises $6.5 million Series A
Farmers work to feed the world. Yet somehow, corn, wheat and rice sales are still happening…
Y Combinator has a new AI track, and wants startups building ‘robot factory’ tech to apply
Y Combinator Partner Daniel Gross today announced that the accelerator-turned-venture-fund will offer its first “vertical” track exclusively…
Equity podcast: The return of IPOs and Tesla’s billion-dollar bet
One down, many more to go! The first episode of TechCrunch’s latest podcast, Equity, our venture capital-focused podcast…
Reduced Energy Microsystems pits startup chip chops against industry giants
Whether or not you like the so-called Internet of Things, the fact is that we do…
AliveCor unveils an AI stroke prevention platform, inks $30 million from Omron and the Mayo Clinic
Medtech startup AliveCor announced this morning it has pulled in $30 million from Omron Healthcare and…
Makeblock raises $30 million for robot-building kits for kids
Remember when kids could simply play with their toys? They still can. But parents are increasingly…