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These Maryland companies have teamed up to help grow oysters in deeper water — with the help of solar energy
Two Maryland companies have teamed up to design a solar-powered barge that could bring oyster farming into deeper parts of the Chesapeake Bay, improving the estuary’s oyster output and perhaps easing conflicts with watermen and waterfront landowners. The two companies — Maritime Applied Physics Corp. and the EcoLogix Group — are developing a rig mounted […]
Coastal farmers in Maryland and across Mid-Atlantic being driven off their land as salt poisons the soil
With seas rising, farmers along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts increasingly suffer from one of the initial impacts of climate change: saltwater intrusion. The plague of salt is arriving not just from storms and tide but also underground, where it can migrate undetected until crops shrivel. @F3TechMD #agtech #agritech #agribusiness #f3tech Source: Coastal farmers in […]
Agtech sector grows to decade high with $1.6B in Q3
VCs throughout the world invested $1.6 billion in agtech companies last quarter, bringing the year’s total to $4.2 billion. Although the capital raised in Q3 marks a 14% drop from Q2, the sector has already hit a decade high for annual deal value, with the total through Sept. 30 surpassing the full-year amount for 2019. […]
Maryland Commerce, Maryland Business Innovation Association Launch the “Maryland Business Innovation Challenge”
The Maryland Department of Commerce is partnering with the Maryland Business Innovation Association (MBIA) to launch the Maryland Business Innovation Challenge (MDBIC), a unique program which will bring together the state’s corporate community with local innovators to solve real-time business challenges. @F3TechMD #agtech #agritech #agribusiness #f3tech Source: Maryland Commerce, Maryland Business Innovation Association Launch the […]
F3 Tech Accelerator awards $25K to EnergyLink3
After five founders stepped up to pitch (virtually) during demo day this week, leaders of the F3 Tech Accelerator announced Boyds, Maryland-based EnergyLink3 as the winner of $25,000 in funding. It capped a four-month program providing resources to the startups, who are working on problems in F3 Tech’s focus areas of agriculture, aquaculture and the […]
Energy Start-up ACTIVEcharge Completes First Pilot Of Its Self-Powered Wind Turbine Sensor Technology
ACTIVEcharge has completed its first public pilot test of its unique self-powered wind turbine monitoring system at the Talbot County Biosolids facility 100kW wind turbines which were supported by the EPA in 2011. The Talbot County government, Tieder Controls and F3 Tech worked to expedite the installation of the technology to aid ACTIVEcharge in its […]
F3 Tech Announces 2020 Accelerator Final Award Event
The F3 Tech Accelerator Program Final Award Event will take place virtually on Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 12:00 PM EST. The five promising new companies will provide a 10-minute presentation to a panel of five judges. One finalist with the greatest ability to obtain investment and generate revenue will be awarded $25,000. Learn more. […]
Solar Oysters Creates High-Tech Way to Farm Oysters
Solar Oysters, one of F3 Tech’s Accelerator companies, has created a high-tech, revolutionary way to farm oysters. “A normal oyster farm is about 300,000 oysters per acre,” says Mark Rice, a manager at Solar Oysters LLC, which has been testing production on smaller barges in the waters near Solomons Island. Watch the interview here. @F3TechMD […]
The Future of the Shore: Farm, Fish and Food with ESEC’s Mike Thielke
Watch the interview with our Executive Director, Mike Thielke, for The Talbot Spy. He talks about what F3 Tech is doing to promote and help finance startups in finding capital and developing plans to scale up their businesses to help position Maryland and the Eastern Shore as a national leader in commercializing #innovations and technology […]
F3 Tech & Cybersecurity Association of Maryland Announce December Cybersecurity Ag Symposium Keynote Speakers & Schedule
According to a Private Industry Notification article targeted to the agricultural industry, the Federal Bureau of Investigation Cyber Division warned the food and agriculture sector that it is increasingly becoming vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks. The report warns farmers to be aware of and understand the cyber risks associated with using modern Information and Communication Technologies […]
