Even the company that developed the system at the heart of the country’s Iron Dome missile defense system, mPrest, is branching out into precision agriculture. And there are companies such as Taranis, which is active in markets far and wide, including the U.S., Russia, Argentina and, indeed, India. Read more on CNBC...
Read MoreA relative newcomer is CropX, which is a company that not only produces the software but also purpose-made soil sensors, which it says can easily be placed by growers. It’s in its first year of being applied commercially and has chosen to do so in developed markets such as the U.S. and Europe, says CEO Tomer Tzach. Read more on CNBC...
Read MoreSo, given this Internet of Things play, it is particularly interesting to hear that Cargill, a huge multinational in the food, agriculture, financial, and industrial products and services space is partnering with Consumer Physics to deliver a new joint offering: Reveal. Reveal is a real-time forage analysis service that puts the formerly hard to attain Cargill forage lab analysis in the palm of a hand. Read more on Network World...
Read MoreThe first company according to capital raised to date is Cybereason, which only recently, just after “The Wall Street Journal” published its rating, completed a $100 million financing round, thereby providing some justification for its selection. The second, illusive Networks, has raised $30 million to date, and the third, Argus Cyber Security, which is riding the smart car wave, has also raised $30 million to date. Read more on Globes...
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What do satellites, virtual reality, and drones have in common? They are all part of the growing sector of frontier tech, which has caught the world’s imagination. Once the prowess of mega-nerds and futurists, big business is starting to pay attention. And it is no wonder; frontier tech is defined by disruptive technologies and altering change to innovation-starved industries. Essentially, frontier tech is any technology that will change the way human life will look in ten, twenty, even fifty years. Making the Impossible Possible Mega giants like Richard Branson and Elon Musk are getting deeper into the tech of the future, but the sector is democratizing as more diverse and first-time investors gain access to individual investments through equity crowdfunding platforms like OurCrowd and private opportunities. Major businesses are looking to acquire the best of frontier tech, which can mean lucrative rewards for investors. Remarkably, investment in defiant tech startups is not dependent on the usual reliable estimates and market forecasts. Taking up the challenge of how to create the link from how we envision the future to making...
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