May 19, 2023|Agtech, News, Portfolio Company

ChrysaLabs Raises $15 Million to Unearth Soil Data Using AI

Montréal agtech startup ChrysaLabs, which provides soil-testing technologies, raised a $15-million CAD round. Leaps by Bayer, TELUS Ventures, and BDC Capital are among new investors.

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May 19, 2023|Agtech, News, Portfolio Company

Vive Crop Protection Receives First Canadian Registration

Vive Crop Protection Inc. is excited to announce its first Canadian product registration with the introduction of AZteroid™ FC3.3 fungicide. AZteroid FC3.3 protects potatoes against several diseases.

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May 5, 2023|Agtech, News, Portfolio Company

Clocking up a week’s work in just one day

An inside look at how SwarmFarm Robotics partnered with an Australian farm to revolutionize how they operate, with robots completing tasks in a fraction of traditional farm labour hours.

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April 21, 2023|Agtech, News, Portfolio Company

Vivid Machines secures US $4.3M seed financing

Emmertech participates in the US $4.3M seed round for Vivid Machines. The company has developed technology that gives the fruit supply chain accurate real-time crop data down to the plant level.

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SwarmFarm Robotics founders stand in front of the autonomous tracker they invented in a field of crop

February 14, 2023|Agtech, News, Portfolio Company

SwarmFarm Robotics raises $12M AUD Series A

Emmertech co-leads the initial $12M AUD Series A fundraise with Swarm Farm Robotics, an automated agricultural technology company in Queensland, Australia.

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January 16, 2023|Agtech, News, Portfolio Company

Intelliculture chosen for John Deere’s 2023 Startup Program

Emmertech portfolio company, IntelliCulture, and Saskatchewan-based, Precision AI, are two of eight companies selected in the John Deere 2023 Startup Collaborator Program.

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The Ground Truth Ag field trial team on a farm near Holdfast, Saskatchewan in August 2022.

November 29, 2022|Agtech, News, Portfolio Company

Ground Truth Agriculture Inc. closes $4 million seed round

Ground Truth Agriculture Inc. announced the close of a $4 million seed round. The funding round was led by Conexus Venture Capital Inc. and includes $2 million from its agtech-focused Emmertech fund.

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October 27, 2022|Agtech, News, Portfolio Company

AGTECH ACCELERATOR Cohort 1 yield incredible success

The AGTECH ACCELERATOR shared the results of its inaugural cohort, which saw unprecedented success, in the first half of 2022! The AGTECH ACCELERATOR brings together both agriculture and technology to accelerate the growth of Canadian agtech startups built to solve global problems.

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September 6, 2022|News, Portfolio Company

Curatio merges with medtech startup from down under

Vancouver digital health startup, Curatio, has announced it has merged with Sydney, Austrailia’s RxMx to form RxPx. Learn more here.

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