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June 27, 2012 05:00 pm GMT

Software Is Feeding The World: Agriculture Startup Solum Raises $17M Led by Andreessen Horowitz

solum logoSolum, a startup building tools for a more data-driven approach to agriculture, has raised $17 million in Series B funding.The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, and partner John O'Farrell will be joining the Solum board. The company's PR team sent me a copy of the blog post that O'Farrell has written about the funding, where he reveals that his team's nickname for the startup was "Software Eats Dirt." Solum isn't just a software company, but I guess O'Farrell couldn't resist echoing his partner Marc Andreessen's famous editorial on "Why Software Is Eating The World". (And as you can see from my headline, I couldn't resist, either.) O'Farrell says Solum presents another opportunity for a Silicon Valley company to transform an industry:

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