Farmers Business Network Raises $15M

What does Farmers Business Network do?

Farmers Business Network, is a startup which connects farmers for sharing knowledge and gain trusted insights about their inputs, farms, practices etc.

It is an independent and unbiased farmer to farmer agronomic info network. Its mission is improving the livelihood of farmers by making the data accessible and useful. Farmer Business Network uses data science and machine learning for providing members with an unbiased and unprecedented insight about each of their fields, which is powered by data points from our networks. It provides farmers the product performance and predictive analysis which is based on the real world performance data.

How much Farmers Business Networks was funded?

Farmer Business Network has raised $15M in Series B funding on May 19^th, 2015 from the investors DBL Investors, Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Previous funding

• $5.6M in Series A funding on April 10, 2014 from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
• $3.3M in  Series A funding on June 1, 2014 from DBL Investors.

What is next for Farmer Business Network?

Farmer Business Network plans to use the new investment to grow its platform nationally and to work with more farmers, providing them the tools they require for sharing their knowledge on a huge scale.

The funding will allow the Farmer Business Network to reach even more farmers in more crops so that they can make the best decision for their land.
More about Farmer Business Network

Farmer Business Network was founded in 2014 by Charles Baron and Amol Deshpande. It has its headquarters in San Carlos, California. It is a startup which consists of independent and trusted farmer to farmer network. It is built by farmers and for farmers, and connects the best decision for farmer’s land and profits.

The members of this startup receive a comprehensive yield benchmarking, performance and agronomic analytics based on the real world data.