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Plant-based lamb pioneer Black Sheep Foods bags $5.3m funding from AgFunder, others

The US alt-protein startup will launch its product in more Bay Area restaurants following its October 2021 debut.

Upside Foods’ acquisition of Cultured Decadence: All about the cell lines

Q&A: VestedWorld’s Euler Bropleh on the opportunity of investing in ‘the basics’ in Africa

Data Snapshot: Brazil remains a farm-tech funding trailer – but agfintech is picking up the pace

Brief: Plenty raises $400m from Walmart, others in vertical farming’s largest funding to date

Brief: India to offer subsidies of up to 100% to encourage farm drone adoption

Q&A: Upward Farms wants to attract more microbes to vertical ag environments

In Kenya, Apollo Agriculture is building a pathway to commercial farming

With a fresh $40m in the bank, TerraMagna is bringing ‘buy now, pay later’ to Brazilian farmers

FOOD TECH

Korean ‘smart farm’ startup GreenLabs targets global expansion following $140m mega-round

The Week in Agrifoodtech: Consumer foodtech players Flipdish, Yumi & La Vie raise large rounds

Japan’s IntegriCulture scores $7m from AgFunder, others for ‘outside-factor-free’ cell ag

Faeth raises $20m from Khosla, AgFunder to battle cancer with food

STARTUP FUNDING

With $60m in fresh funding, Arya is eyeing a $20bn slice of India’s grain market

Data Snapshot: India’s most active funding category last year? Midstream Tech

Agrolend aims to connect Brazilian farmers with much-needed credit after $21m raise

In first Africa investment, Aqua-Spark backs Lake Harvest to spur local farmed fish production

AGTECH

Bowery’s KKR-led $150m credit facility may hint at robust business model, industry inflection point

Meet the founder: Tevel’s Yaniv Maor talks field trials with flying robots

Aigen gets $4m from NEA, AgFunder to boost farm sustainability with solar robots

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@AGFUNDER

Plant-based lamb pioneer Black Sheep Foods bags $5.3m funding from AgFunder, others

Meet the founder: Tevel’s Yaniv Maor talks field trials with flying robots

Japan’s IntegriCulture scores $7m from AgFunder, others for ‘outside-factor-free’ cell ag

Faeth raises $20m from Khosla, AgFunder to battle cancer with food

ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION

Brief: Robo-delivery startup Nuro raises $600m from Google, Kroger

Investor Q&A: Why Toyota Ventures invested in Burro’s farm robots

Botmaker Burro banks $11m Series A funding in Toyota, S2G-led round

ALT MEAT/PROTEIN

Starfield scores $100m in China’s biggest alt-protein round to date

Brief: Benson Hill acquires soy processor for $102m

Brief: Beyond Fried Chicken to make US nationwide debut at KFC

NOVEL FARMING SYSTEMS

Indonesian aquatech startup eFishery nets $90m in Sequoia, SoftBank-led Series C

Meet the founder: Dream Harvest’s Zain Shauk thinks vertically farmed crops ‘make business sense’

Brief: Infarm raises $200m Series D from Qatar sovereign fund, others at $1bn+ valuation

Vertical farming is headed for the ‘trough of disillusionment.’ Here’s why that’s a good thing.

REGENERATIVE AG

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Collaboration & innovation key to developing farmer-focused carbon markets

FBN launches $25m regenerative ag pilot fund

Crop biologicals market predicted to hit $19bn value by 2026 – but chemicals to continue growth

WOMEN

Q&A: VestedWorld’s Euler Bropleh on the opportunity of investing in ‘the basics’ in Africa

OKO Finance is delivering crop insurance to cushion Mali’s farmers from climate change

HerVest’s digital savings app gives Nigeria’s female farmers a financial on-ramp

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