VCs see fertile ground in agtech Agriculture startups that raised seed rounds in recent years are blossoming into businesses sought after by later-stage investors. Investment in the agtech space is up sharply this year, driven by a spike of rounds at Series B and later stages, according to Crunchbase data. Altogether, agtech startupsraised more than $320 millionin 2017 so far, a more than three-fold increase over the same period last year.(TechCrunch)