$100 million for mealworms

Hello and welcome back to

Equity

, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numberhttps://twitter.com/cgates123s behind the headlines.

This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down and focus on a single topic, or theme. This week we’re talking agtech, a surprisingly cool bit of the technology startup world. But

Chris

and Danny

and Natasha

and Alex

were not alone in their quest to take a look into agtech, we brought alone TechCrunch climate editor Jon Shieber

for the ride.

With his help we got through a number of pretty damn interesting things, including:

• SESO Labor raising $4.5 million

  to help farms secure the labor they need, and navigate the American immigration system.

• Future Acres looking to raise $3 million

  for its farming robots. And Farmwise, which last raised $14.5 million and has an idea regarding how to rent robot labor to farms

  .

• We also chatted about Anuvia’s epic $103 million raise

  that could help boost farm yields while cutting carbon emissions.

• And Better Origin, which wants to help farmers raise flies to feed to chickens

  . Which we had a few ideas about.

And that’s that! We’re back on Friday with our long-form, newsy episode. Thanks to everyone checking out our newest show. Oh, and don’t forget about

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