Innovator Spotlight: Tobias Peggs of Square Roots on Their Platform to Empower the Next Generation of Farmers

by vine-admin | Aug 27, 2019 | Featured Stories, Guest Post, Indoor Agriculture, Innovator Spotlight

By Wes Melville Tobias Peggs is the CEO of Square Roots, an urban farming company based in Brooklyn, NY with a mission to bring local, real food to people in cities around the world by empowering next-gen leaders in urban farming. Their scalable “farmer-first”...

Innovator Spotlight: PowWow, Water Management Made Easy

by vine-admin | Jul 23, 2019 | Agriculture, Featured Stories, Innovator Spotlight

The technology developed by PowWow in collaboration with the University of California was deployed at an almond orchard near Davis part of a 6,000 acre deployment in 2018. Names from left to right: Stanley Knutson, Director of Software Development at PowWow, Ricardo...

Pharm Robotics

by vine-admin | Jul 18, 2019 | Agriculture, Featured Stories, Innovator Spotlight

Pharm Robotics is an agtech startup that is developing a robotic injection system for the dairy business. Its goal is to help dairy farmers deal with labor shortages and become more economically sustainable by automating the shot delivery process for cows.  We spoke...

Innovator Spotlight: Replate on Solving Food Waste and Food Insecurity

by vine-admin | Jun 18, 2019 | Featured Stories, food waste, Innovator Spotlight

Maen Mahfoud, Founder and CEO of the food rescue tech non-profit Replate, started Replate in 2016 while a student at UCB. Maen was inspired to start Replate when he realized that food insecurity in San Francisco was similar to what he saw as a child in his native...

InSight Labs – From Quality Control for Breweries to Tomato Processors This Non-invasive, Real-time Food Analysis Solution is Ready to Shake Up the Food System

by vine-admin | May 16, 2019 | Agriculture, Innovator Spotlight

InSight Labs uses a combination of spectroscopy and chemometric analysis to identify and measure food quality characteristics. InSight Labs’ technology can replace more expensive, time-consuming and destructive analysis methods with real-time, actionable information...

From Drones and Mining to Tractors and Farming, Persistence Data Mining (PDM) Applies Their Hyperspectral Imaging and Data Technology to Solving Soil Health Issues

by vine-admin | Apr 26, 2019 | Agriculture, Innovator Spotlight

Persistence Data Mining (PDM) is a software analytics firm that uses hyperspectral imaging to measure soil nutrients. PDM’s technology can increase producer profits while reducing fertilizer overuse, which is a major cause of water pollution. The firm was founded in...