Agriculture technologies

After raising $550,000, this Ukrainian startup wants to bring drones to US farmers

FarmFleet is developing a “Robotics-as-a-Service” marketplace for farmers and their service providers. This will create new opportunities to perform or manage a variety of field operations involving drones and robots, optimize and adapt them to “changing weather conditions, limited resources and seasonal peak periods.” FarmFleet’s platform initially focuses on the use of spraying drones. The …

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German and Ukrainian associations launch “Digital Partnership” (first event on March 10)

Leveraging its assets in the fields of IT and digital solutions, Ukraine offers many opportunities for successful business partnerships. Many emerging startups as well as established companies from this country already operate internationally.  To develop this potential through bilateral exchanges, the German Eastern Business Association, NRW.Global Business (the North Rhine-Westphalia trade and investment agency), and the German-Ukrainian Chamber of …

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Lviv business school and New York accelerator aim to promote FoodTech in Ukraine

How will Ukraine, which has been historically known as the “breadbasket of Europe” because of its major production of agricultural products, including especially wheat, seize the opportunities of the revolution occurring today in advanced countries in the field of food technologies? As new startups and innovators are disrupting how food is produced, distributed, sold and …

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How technology is changing Ukrainian agriculture for better

Vast stretches of flat land. Rich, black soil. A temperate climate. Ukraine is a country ideal for agriculture, where many of the world’s staple crops flourish. But, starved of investment since Soviet times, Ukraine’s farmers still see far lower yields per hectare than their European neighbors. While the sector now accounts for over 30 percent of …

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Ukrainian drone maker aims to protect American crops “with 600% return on investment”

Earlier this month Kray Technologies, a US-headquartered startup with Ukrainian roots, secured an undisclosed amount of funding, as confirmed to Ukraine Digital News by Andrey Dashkiev, COO of the company. The funding came from Ukrainian investment company Chernovetskyi Investment Group (CIG) and three individual investors, including Ruslan Savchyshyn.

EBRD provides $5 million loan to Ukrainian poultry producer for more efficient and eco-friendly processes

The EBRD is providing a $5 million loan to the Ukrainian poultry producer Dniprovska Agri Group (DAG) for the construction of a biomass boiler, which will improve the company’s operational and environmental performance. Located in Nikopol in the south of the country, the family-owned DAG is Ukraine’s third-largest poultry producer and is also active in oilseed …

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International investors back Ukrainian drone maker to modernize agriculture

Earlier this month DroneUA, a Ukrainian integrator of unmanned technologies, attracted an undisclosed amount of funding from several individual investors from the UK, Poland and Moldova. The investment went through Agricultural Systems Studio, a Kiev-based agritech software integrator which represented the investor pool. The funding will be used to create what the investors hope will become the …

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Ukrainian agritech startup with global goals secures $150,000

1991 Open Data Incubator, Ukraine’s first incubator for Open Data projects launched in early 2016, closed its first deal last month, with business angel Alexey Svirid committing to invest $150,000 in Agry Eye (or ‘Agri Eye’). The funding will be provided in several tranches. The startup has been valued at $1 million post money, according to Ukrainian tech …

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Ukrainian startup aims to help small farmers work more efficiently

A new tech startup from Ukraine aims to improve the efficiency of small farmers with help from out-of-this-world technology – the GPS satellite network. Michael Utkin, 36, is the founder of eFarmer, which has harnessed the GPS satellite-based navigation system to optimize the use of farm machinery on the ground. “My mission in life is to …

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Ukrainian leaf measurement startup ranked among “world’s 20 hottest startups”

Kyiv (Kiev)-based startup Petiole, whose mobile technology can perform plant leaf area measurements, has been ranked in the top 20 of the world’s hottest startups in 2015 by CNBC. The plant leaf area is measured in less than one second. “This is 1,000 times faster than using graph paper and 100 times faster than scanning and processing …

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