| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.07.2026 | USA Drone Motors emerges from stealth to target gap in domestic drone supply chain | USA Drone Motors has emerged from stealth to build large electric motors, actuators, and electronic speed controllers for agricultural and other heavy-lift drones in southern California.
Founder Jon Facer says he saw an opportunity as US dr... |
| 04.07.2026 | Tech innovation makes global inroads | In a town in Andalusia, Spain, 62-year-old Diaz, a seasoned flower farmer with 36 years of experience, is leveraging agricultural drones to combat the severe impact of climate change on his flower enterprise.
The region has faced frequent h... |
| 01.07.2026 | Agricultural tech costs set to shrink, improve efficiency | Smart agriculture is helping farmers cut costs by leveraging the advantages of supply-chain and policy incentives support from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The price of technology will decrease as scale expands and applic... |
| 15.01.2026 | Can IPO-bound FJDynamics turn its European traction into investor confidence? | Founded by former DJI chief scientist Wu Di, agricultural robotics company FJDynamics is preparing to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Before starting his own venture, Wu worked as vice president of systems engineering at Coresoni... |
| 24.11.2025 | XAG's New P150 Max Agricultural Drone Sets a Higher Bar for Autonomous Operation | HANOVER, Germany, Nov. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- To meet the needs of large-scale and demanding field conditions, XAG has recently launched the P150 Max, a robust and fully autonomous agricultural drone engineered to balance reliability, saf... |
| 13.11.2025 | XAG Unveils P150 Max Drone and R Series Rover at Agritechnica 2025 | HANOVER, Germany, Nov. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- At Agritechnica 2025, the world's leading trade fair for agricultural machinery, XAG unveiled its latest innovations, introducing the P150 Max Agricultural Drone and the R Series Agricultural ... |
| 26.12.2023 | Drone heavyweights DJI and XAG compete to take the lead in China’s agriculture industry | Drone manufacturers DJI and XAG stand shoulder to shoulder in the field of agritech. As of the end of 2022, DJI Agriculture has sold 200,000 drone units globally, closely followed by XAG with a sales figure of 120,000 units. The domestic in... |
| 02.10.2023 | Rantizo raises $6m series A expansion for spray drone services; enjoys ‘exponential growth’ | Spray drone services provider Rantizo has raised a $6 million expansion of its series A round (adding to the $7.5 million announced in 2020) led by Leaps by Bayer, and supported by Fulcrum Global Capital and Innova Memphis.
The capital inje... |
| 22.12.2022 | XAG Drone Supports Panama Farmers Shift Focus to Cost-Saving Sustainability | XAG introduces its P100 Agricultural Drone to farmers in Panama, providing an accessible approach to more profitable and sustainable farming practices. Drone demonstrations and training are conducted on farms nationwide, while trials on see... |
| 10.06.2022 | XAG Brings Drone Innovation to Cambodian Farmers for Sustainable Cassava Production | SIEM REAP, Cambodia, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Drone technology has been recently introduced in Cambodia's cassava cultivations to help small-scale farmers earn better yield while bringing down the costs of farm input. Cassava is the mos... |
| 09.06.2022 | XAG Brings Drone Innovation to Cambodian Farmers for Sustainable Cassava Production | SIEM REAP, Cambodia, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Drone technology has been recently introduced in Cambodia's cassava cultivations to help small-scale farmers earn better yield while bringing down the costs of farm input. Cassava is the mos... |
| 09.05.2022 | XAG promotes drones in Vietnam to boost rice farming while cutting fertilizer use | CAO LANH, Vietnam, May 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the monsoon season starts with ample rainfalls, XAG is actively scaling up the use of its agricultural drones in Vietnam to make rice production more sustainable. Faced with the soaring pric... |
| 27.12.2021 | XAG Reveals New Generation Drones And Robots For Agriculture | XAG Annual Conference 2021 was held in Guangzhou, China with the theme “Step into Agrifuture”, which launched a series of agricultural innovations to empower farmers with more sophisticated autonomous solutions. Five new products, including... |
| 02.12.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Mr Yum, FJDynamics & Back to the Roots bag big fundings | This week, Aussie startup Mr Yum, which makes QR code-based ordering and payments software for hospitality companies, raised one of the Lucky Country’s biggest Series A rounds ever; while farm robotics company FJDynamics scored big money fr... |
| 24.11.2021 | Chinese Agricultural Drone Startup XAG to Debut in STAR Market | On Monday, the IPO application of XAG, a domestic agricultural drone maker, was accepted by the Shanghai Sci-Tech Innovation Board (STAR Market). XAG plans to raise 1.51 billion yuan ($235 million), which would be used for a digital agricul... |
| 10.11.2021 | XAG Launches V40 and P40 Agricultural Drone Globally to Benefit More Farmers | XAG, the trailblazers of agriculture robotics and AI, has geared up to launch its V40 and P40 Agricultural Drone globally, bringing digital agriculture into more rural areas with aging population and weak infrastructure. The XAG V40 and P40... |
| 10.11.2021 | XAG Launches V40 and P40 Agricultural Drone Globally to Benefit More Farmers | GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- XAG, the trailblazers of agriculture robotics and AI, has geared up to launch its V40 and P40 Agricultural Drone globally, bringing digital agriculture into more rural areas with aging populat... |
| 10.11.2021 | XAG Launches V40 and P40 Agricultural Drone Globally to Benefit More Farmers | GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- XAG, the trailblazers of agriculture robotics and AI, has geared up to launch its V40 and P40 Agricultural Drone globally, bringing digital agriculture into more rural areas with aging populat... |
| 07.07.2021 | XAG Low-carbon Farm Robots Exhibited at UK's Cereals Agricultural Show | UK farmers enjoyed leisure-time sitting in deckchairs while drones and robots took on spraying and spreading. That was the joyful scene from XAG's European debut at the Cereals event.
The autonomous P Series Agricultural Drone and R150 Unma... |
| 16.06.2021 | XAG : R150 ground robot debuts to help Japanese farmers overcome aging | ONO, Japan, June 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Seeing the potential of drones in reshaping agriculture, Japanese farmers now expect the first mass-produced, lightweight farm robot XAG R150 to reap a higher yield with quality fruits. As Japan's p... |
| 16.06.2021 | XAG R150 ground robot debuts to help Japanese farmers overcome aging | ONO, Japan, June 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Seeing the potential of drones in reshaping agriculture, Japanese farmers now expect the first mass-produced, lightweight farm robot XAG R150 to reap a higher yield with quality fruits. As Japan's p... |
| 19.05.2021 | Ondas acquires American Robotics for its ‘rugged, real-world’ drones that can fly by themselves | American Robotics, a startup developing rugged, fully autonomous drones for use in industrial and agricultural settings, has been acquired by wireless tech firm Ondas, the two companies have announced. The terms of the deal, including finan... |
| 13.04.2021 | 2020: The year Chinese agrifoodtech funding headed upstream | Editor’s note: Winnie Leung is vice president at Bits x Bites, an agrifoodtech VC firm based in Shanghai, China. Jack Ellis is Asia-Pacific media & research lead at AgFunder and deputy editor of AFN.
Bits x Bites is an AgFunder data par... |
| 17.03.2021 | Brief: Chinese dronemaker XAG raises $46m | XAG, a Chinese manufacturer of agricultural drones and robots, has secured the equivalent of $46 million funding in what it calls a “Series C-plus-plus” round. The funding came from GL Ventures, a VC fund under Chinese asset manager Hillhou... |
| 16.03.2021 | China Digest: Edianyun.com nets $77m; agritech startup XAG raises $46m | Premium
Edianyun.com, an office IT infrastructure service provider, has secured over 500 million yuan ($76.9 million) in a Series E round, while Chinese agritech firm XAG has raked in 300 million yuan ($46.2 million) in a Series C++ round.
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| 04.01.2021 | Chinese ag & food delivery giants join $100m+ raise for ‘adaptive robot’ startup Flexiv | Flexiv, a startup building ‘adaptive robots’ for use across multiple industries including food and agriculture, has raised over $100 million in Series B funding – which it claims is the “largest single-round fundraising ever in the field of... |
| 24.12.2020 | 5 trends that shaped agrifoodtech in 2020 | 2020 has been a year like no other in living memory for the vast majority of us. The Covid-19 pandemic, which began in China at the tail end of last year and gradually engulfed to entire world by the second quarter of this one, has brought ... |
| 16.11.2020 | Agricultural drone maker XAG raises USD 182 million, the biggest-ever round in the sector | XAG, or XAircraft (“Jifei Technology” in Chinese), a Guangzhou-based drone manufacturer specializing in the agricultural sector, on Monday announced that it raised RMB 1.2 billion (USD 182 million), led by Baidu Capital and Softbank Vision ... |
| 16.11.2020 | Chinese Drone Maker XAG Bags USD182.2 Million in Funding, Led by Baidu, SoftBank Vision Fund | (Yicai Global) Nov. 16 -- Chinese agricultural drone maker XAG has completed a CNY1.2 billion (USD182.2 million) round of financing, led by Baidu's venture capital arm and SoftBank's Vision Fund 2.
Sinovation Ventures, Yuexiu Industrial Fun... |
| 16.11.2020 | Chinese drone maker XAG nets $182m funding from Baidu, SoftBank | Ag drone maker XAG has raised ¥1.2 billion ($182 million) in a funding round co-led by Baidu Ventures — the VC arm of Beijing-based internet search company Baidu — and SoftBank Vision Fund II, the Japanese tech giant’s new AI-focused mega-f... |
| 02.02.2020 | Chinese agritech startup XAG announces about $0.75 million fund for drone disinfection operation to fight Coronavirus outbreak | Coronavirus, a virus that cause diseases in mammals and birds, has claimed the lives of more than 300 people in China. As the overall death toll passed 360, the Chinese government expanded a quarantine in Wuhan, the central Chinese city whe... |
| 25.09.2019 | XAG get its drones upgraded with tie-ups with Bayer and Huawei | Imagine farmers checking in on their crops in ultra HD and at lightning-fast streaming speeds… all in the comfort of their own homes.
That reality isn’t too far away, according to dronemaker XAG. That’s especially in light of the company’s ... |
| 28.08.2019 | The Amazon is being decimated. How could tech have prevented it? | It’s all over the news and can be seen from space. The Amazon Rainforest has been burning for three weeks and counting. The 39,000 fires across the biodiversity hotspot this year is a new record, but it’s not one to be celebrated.
While Bra... |
| 17.04.2019 | Chinese agritech starup XAG rebrands with new 2-letter domain XA.com worth over $1.8 million | To grow beyond “startup” and build a lasting brand, startups at some point may need to own the best version .com domain of their .io or.co domain. That’s exactly what XAG, a leading Chinese agritech startup, did. The company announced today... |
| 07.09.2017 | Israeli drone maker Airobotics raises $32.5 million in private funds | By Reuters Staff
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Optimus, a drone manufactured by Airobotics, the Israeli drone maker that says it has recently been granted the first certificate in the world to fly a fully automated drone, with no human operator, is seen durin... |