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Hummingbird proud to have signed up to DEFRAs “Food Waste Pledge”, committing to game changing action to halve food waste by 2030. Environment Secretary Michael Gove said: “Congratulations to Hummingbird Technologies for stepping up to the plate and committing to...

From The Startup Microdose Podcast "Will is the founder and CEO of Hummingbird Technologies Ltd. The vision for which came to him on a hospital bed during a two-year fight with cancer. Happily recovered, Will is now realising that vision, using the most advanced...

Hummingbird Technologies will oversee 400,000 hectares of Salic Farmland By Martin Coulter Salic, Saudi Arabia’s agriculture and livestock investment company, has made its debut investment in the UK, leading a £7m funding round for British agritech company Hummingbird...

Hummingbird Technologies will oversee 400,000 hectares of Salic Farmland By Grace Yuan “We use sophisticated analytics, deep learning models, image classification and neural networks to unlock some of the most complex bioinformatic problems known to 21st-century...

Best British Tech Startup competition 2019 Congratulations to Hummingbird Technologies: KPMG’s 2019 Best British Tech Startup Five years of celebrating, connecting and propelling British Tech startups.  From hundreds of applications, down to five finalists and one...

An excerpt from AgFunder News article: A List of Food Tech Startups That Defined 2018 Trends and What to Expect in 2019 Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture Other high-tech innovations surging through the food and agriculture sector include artificial intelligence...

BQ Live - Series A Farming Data Analytics Specialist Raises £3m Hummingbird Technologies, which uses drones and artificial intelligence to enable precision agriculture, has closed a £3m funding round. Hummingbird, the UK’s leading drone and satellite enabled data and...

10th October 2018 – Forbes – How Farmers Are Using Drones and Data To Cut Costs For thousands of years, farming involved making judgments about water, fertilizers or new seeds with the human eye. Today farmers are using machine-learning tools to boost their…

16th March 2018 - Farmers Weekly Interview Tech Company builds clever maps to make sense of crop data Inside a few shabby-chic ex-safe rooms in London’s famous Hatton Garden jewellery quarter, some of the best and brightest minds are refining and polishing a...

15th March 2018 - Prosperity Conference Speech "Across the UK there is a wealth of innovative start-ups redefining what it means to be a farmer or a land manager, and how to farm effectively and sustainably. One company, Hummingbird Technologies uses crop mapping to...

7th March 2018 - AgFunder Dyson Founder Backs Remote Sensing Agronomy Platform Hummingbird in £3m Series A Round Hummingbird, a UK-based remote sensing startup has raised a £3 million ($4.1 million) Series A round to expand its platform on three continents. Investors...

18th February 2018 - The Sunday Times An everyday story of country folk and their drones Agricultural start-ups are helping transform farming with high technology Jamie McInnes married into a farming family four years ago, but he could not believe how much time it...