4AG Robotics is a British Columbia, Canada-based company that has developed an autonomous harvesting robot for the mushroom industry. The company aims to alleviate labor challenges in the industry by providing a fully autonomous robotic harvester that can scan mushroom beds, identify ripe mushrooms, pick them, trim the stems, and place them into containers. The robot operates autonomously for over 24 hours at a time, maximizing yield for mushroom farms. 4AG Robotics has raised $17.5 million in equity financing from investors including BDC Capital’s Industrial Innovation Venture Fund and InBC Investment Corp.

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AgFunder is a Bay Area VC firm investing in exceptional and bold entrepreneurs who are aiming to build the next generation of great food tech and agtech  companies. AgFunder has $170m AUM and invests pre-seed to Series A with $500k - $5m checks.

AgFunder also runs AgFunderNews (AFN) a publication which has a full time media team, with nearly 5,000 article written.

To learn more we can be reached at info@agfunder.com

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Meet the team at Eratani, a Jakarta-based pioneer and leading B2B agritech company empowering farmers across the agricultural value chain. 

Learn how they're adapting and streamlining while remaining customer focused in the face of 2022's drop in agrifoodtech funding in our Asia-Pacific AgriFoodTech Investment Report ➡ https://lnkd.in/dic38jGm

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Dr Mike Leonard has been replaced by Brian Brazeau on an interim basis - the startup’s third CEO since it spun off from Ginkgo Bioworks in 2019.

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This week, Talus Renewables closed a funding round for its green ammonia system and vegetable waste firm, Cromatic raises $5.3M for outsourcing biotech companies R&D and Aigen secures $12M to scale 'true solar agriculture robots'.

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Congratulations to Nidhi Pant and the team at S4S Technologies named one of the 2023 winners of The Earthshot Prize. 

An #AgFunder GROW portfolio company, S4S Technologies is a near-farm gate food processing platform that  converts farm losses into value-added products for the food and beverage industry. The team will receive a catalytic £1-million prize to support their efforts to scale their innovative climate and environmental solution. 

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