Covid-19 helped speed up expansion to the B2C market for Mei Sai, China’s most valuable agrifood tech unicorn founded by a farmer’s son 

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Episode keywords: E-commerce, Agriculture & Fishery, B2B, B2C, Food & Beverage, Logistics & Supply Chain, Marketplaces & Platforms, Big Data & Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Covid-19

Combining fintech and e-commerce, Nongguanjia started by monetizing land circulation, to help hundreds of millions of Chinese farmers get financing and thrive.

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Episode keywords: Agriculture & Fishery, B2B, E-commerce, Lending, Marketplaces & Platforms, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, China, Startups, Investment, Fintech, land circulation, Farming

Yuanfudao’s second tranche of its Series G funding follows the $1bn it raised in March, bringing its valuation to $15.5bn

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/chinas-yuanfudao-now-the-worlds-most-valuable-edtech-with-22bn-new-funding

Episode keywords: Edtech, Kids & Technology, Training & Coaching, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Big Data & Analytics, K12, Covid-19, CITIC PE, GIC, Temasek, Greenwoods Investment, Trustbridge Partners, DST Global, Danhe Capital, DCP, Ocean Link, Hillhouse Capital, IDG Capital, Boyu Capital

Small, affordable crop-spraying robots can help farmers save on labor costs and protect humans from exposure to harmful chemicals.

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Episode keywords: Agriculture & Fishery, Robotics, Computer Vision, Geospatial Tech, Recognition Tech, Paul Voutier, Grow Asia, agritech, Trendlines, Southeast Asia, Drones, Farming, Startups, Investment

Salicrop is raising Series A funding to support the commercialization of its non-GMO seed treatment  

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/salicrop-protects-food-crops-against-soil-salinity-boosting-yields

Episode keywords: Agriculture & Fishery, Soil, Biotechnology, Salicrop, Dotan Borenstein, Rimonim Fund, India

The medtech cuts the time spent on finding candidates for medical research by 90% and last month secured €2m in seed funding to take its software overseas

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/iomed-delivering-structured-extractable-patient-big-data-and-helping-spains-covid-19-response

Episode keywords: Medtech, Healthcare, B2B, Productivity Software, Pharmaceutical, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data & Analytics, Automation, Adara Ventures, Easo Ventures, Covid-19, coronavirus, Speedinvest

Pintek is expanding into Islamic finance with new Sharia-compliant loans for students at Islamic schools and universities.

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/pintek-fintech-offers-wide-variety-of-loans-to-improve-indonesians-access-to-education

Episode keywords: Edtech, Lending, Students, Fintech, B2C, Banking, Big Data & Analytics, Automation, Marketplaces & Platforms, Mobile, Shariah, Islamic finance, Accion, Global Founders Capital, P2P, Indonesia, Investment, Startups

Instead of investing money, the venture studio gets hands-on, co-running companies with top scientists and their cutting-edge research

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/early-charm-ventures-taking-research-from-the-labs-to-the-real-world

Episode keywords: Investment, B2B, Agriculture & Fishery, Manufacturing, Ocean Economy, Enterprise Tech, Industry 4.0, Medtech, Pharmaceutical, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Big Data & Analytics, Biotechnology, Computer Vision, Hardware, Materials, aquaculture, Early Charm Ventures, Deeptech, USA, VakSea, Minnowtech, Gaskiya Diagnostics, DiPole Materials, Covid-19

Now called Wanwu Xinsheng, the startup recycles over 70,000 used electronic goods in China daily, clocking over RMB 2bn of transactions every month.

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Episode keywords: Sustainability, B2B, B2C, Consumer Products, E-commerce, C2B, Circular Economy, O2O, Marketplaces & Platforms, Big Data & Analytics, Mobile, JD.com, 5G, Tencent, Alibaba, recycling, unicorn, startup, investment, funding, China

Nutrinsect expects insect-based foodstuffs to supplement meat to satisfy the ever-growing hunger for protein  

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Episode keywords: Alternative Proteins, Sustainability, Agriculture & Fishery, Circular Economy, Food & Beverage, Smart Agrifood Summit, Insect Farming, Orizon T