Telus invests in agriculture tech startup

VANCOUVER – Telus announced today that its investment arm Telus Ventures, along with BASF Venture Capital are among lead investors in a series B investment round for British startup Hummingbird Technologies.Hummingbird is a startup which has become a leader advanced crop analytics, says the press release. Other main investors include Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC) and the British investment firm Downing Ventures.Founded in 2016, Hummingbird developed a technology platform to evaluate the condition of agricultural fields and its “artificial intelligence, deep learning and imagery analytics solution uses proprietary algorithms driven by aerial images captured from satellites, planes and...