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$100 million for mealworms

$100 million for mealworms

FromEquity


$100 million for mealworms

FromEquity

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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Mar 3, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the number behind the headlines.This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down and focus on a single topic, or theme. This week we're talking agtech, a surprisingly cool bit of the technology startup world. But Chris and Danny and Natasha and Alex were not alone in their quest to take a look into agtech, we brought alone TechCrunch climate editor Jon Shieber for the ride.With his help we got through a number of pretty damn interesting things, including:SESO Labor raising $4.5 million to help farms secure the labor they need, and navigate the American immigration system.Future Acres looking to raise $3 million for its farming robots. And Farmwise, which last raised $14.5 million and has an idea regarding how to rent robot labor to farms.We also chatted about Anuvia's epic $103 million raise that could help boost farm yields while cutting carbon emissions.And Better Origin, which wants to help farmers raise flies to feed to chickens. Which we had a few ideas about.And that's that! We're back on Friday with our long-form, newsy episode. Thanks to everyone checking out our newest show. Oh, and don't forget about TechCrunch Early Stage and TechCrunch Justice. They are going to rock.
Released:
Mar 3, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Equity is TechCrunch’s venture capital podcast. In each episode, we bring you the numbers behind the headlines in Venture Captial. TechCrunch reporter Alex Wilhelm teams up with Danny Crichton and Natasha Mascarenhas to give a window into startup land.