The soil analytics provider took its total funding to $19m in a round featuring agricultural investment, data and media platform AgFunder.

Agricultural technology, media and investment platform AgFunder has taken part in a $13m series A round for US-based soil analytics software provider Trace Genomics.

Venture capital firm Stage 1 Ventures led the round, which also featured hedge fund Viking Global Investors.

Founded in 2015, Trace Genomics provides technology that uses DNA sequencing and machine learning to analyse soil samples in order to inform farmers about which crop varieties would grow in certain soil and give information on which nutrients or microbes…