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Builders VC and others back SweetAg’s bid to modernize the agricultural lending process

The company raised $7.4 million to bring its AI-based agrifintech platform to more agricultural lenders around the US.

Agrifintech

Agtech

Orbit Ventures on innovation theater, AI to turbocharge emerging markets, and the risks of Blitzscaling

Blitzscaling relies on an investor base to support the next round and the next round, says William Bao Bean. “And the only thing that is for sure in emerging markets is that the capital is going to disappear on a regular basis.”

Agrifintech

Agtech

Builders VC and others back SweetAg’s bid to modernize the agricultural lending process

Orbit Ventures on innovation theater, AI to turbocharge emerging markets, and the risks of Blitzscaling

‘One of the fastest-growing CPG brands in America…’ David Protein owner hits $2.25bn valuation on $250m Series B

AgriFood Signals: Remembering Wendell Berry, Farmland LP’s new fund, Dairy Queen robots

CropX acquires NIR spectroscopy firm SCIO in biggest deal yet, eyes profitability in 2027

MOA Foodtech nets $3.8m to scale AI-powered biomass fermentation platform

🎥 Orchard Robotics CEO: Growers ‘shouldn’t have to be data analysts’

With young farmers struggling, PepsiCo explores ways to keep agriculture ‘a viable and attractive livelihood’

🎥 TRIC Robotics scales to 1,500 strawberry acres with 15-robot fleet

🎥 From 2D images to 3D worlds: Bonsai bets on AI-powered farm robotics

🎥 Carbon Robotics: $100m+ revenue, new machine and a path to IPO

🎥 ‘The whole system is now more investable’: Reservoir makes the case for ag robotics

Exclusive: Plantd converts a construction waste problem into revenue with new biochar line

AgriFood Signals: Reservoir & Deere partnership, 80 Acres Farms lawsuit, new blended finance for Africa

Livestock management app Breedr plans expansion after $27m raise led by Partech’s impact arm

Facet Amtech bets on multifunctional catalyst to disrupt ammonia production

Can smarter surveillance help poultry farms catch bird flu earlier?

TerraBlaster raises $12.5m for real time NPK soil mapping at tractor speed

BREAKING: UPSIDE Foods terminates $50m bid for Believer Meats’ US site but “remains interested in the facility”

Century-old Keystone Cooperative joins Alloy Partners’ venture studio for animal, human and planetary health

Natural Capital gaining ‘increasing recognition’ from more institutional investors: report

AgriFood Signals: Farmbot unearths fresh funding, Homestead Capital nabs $150m, Gates backs ‘HeatSmart’ cassava

dsm-firmenich takes Protopia yeast protein to industrial scale, targets fishmeal and whey

IIF to launch its farm investment platform across Canada following new capital raise from Verdex

Mafix raises $5.4m to activate silicate rock into climate-smart fertilizer

Superbrewed Food expands beyond bulk protein with postbiotic launch

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