by vine-admin | Jun 27, 2022 | Agriculture, Announcement, Aquaculture, Artificial Intelligence, Featured Stories, Indoor Agriculture, Technology
Written by: Leanna Sweha, JD Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) – growing food in greenhouses and indoors – is a relatively new industry that is seeing exponential growth in the United States. CEA facilities are popping up all over the world....
by vine-admin | May 16, 2022 | Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Event, Featured Stories, Indoor Agriculture, Technology
Written by: Leanna Sweha, JD Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) promises safe, high-quality produce grown with less water and chemical inputs, as well as reduced labor, packaging, and transportation costs. These efficiency factors are driving significant...
by vine-admin | May 2, 2022 | Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Event, Featured Stories, food waste, Indoor Agriculture, Technology
Written by: Leanna Sweha, JD Investment in agtech reached a record high last year. According to Crunchbase data, investors made nearly $5 billion in 440 funding deals to VC-backed startups in 2021. That’s a fifty percent increase over the $3.3 billion invested in...
by vine-admin | Jun 22, 2018 | Agriculture, Featured Stories, Innovator Spotlight
By Leanna Sweha The VINE (The Verde Innovation Network for Entrepreneurship) mission is to help sustainable food and agriculture innovators access the connections and resources they need to build, launch and grow their innovations. As a part of our efforts we are...
by vine-admin | Jun 19, 2018 | Agriculture, Featured Stories
By Amy Wu, originally published in The New Food Economy Now, a new generation of startups led not just by women, but by minority women specifically, is seeking to solve agriculture’s problems with tech innovation. I am back in Salinas, California. It is spring, and...