In a recent article in Silicon Republic, John Kennedy covers the role of Ireland in ag and food innovation.
A fund set up by the Government’s Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and Finistere Ventures in 2017 set out to make Ireland an ‘agritech island’, with another €20m set aside for global start-ups.
Feeding 10 billion without increasing greenhouse gas emissions—the technology investment opportunity
Agriculture and food production are the single largest contributors to human green house gas emissions. I the latest of our blog series in partnership with Pitchbook Data, Finistere Ventures Managing Partner Arama Kukutai and Senior Advisor Kyle Datta opine on the role of agtech within the efforts to reduce the impact of food production on… Read More ▸
Finistere Ventures: The next wave of evolution in crop protection & input management
In 2017, Finistere Ventures and PitchBook partnered to build and share the most comprehensive data set on agtech investment in the industry. We are extremely proud of how this partnership has grown and developed over the years, spawning three comprehensive reports covering global, regional, stage and sector-based agtech investment trends/key developments, and garnering collaborations from… Read More ▸
Spencer Maughan Co-authors Australian AgTech Landscape Report for University of Sydney
Finistere partner Spencer Maughan worked closely with the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney to author a report on the opportunities and challenges in the Australian AgTech sector. Key Findings: Australia’s AgTech investment market is small, at an early stage and not keeping pace with global peers A breadth of AgTech segments… Read More ▸