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Brief: E-grocer Ocado invests $14m in autonomous vehicle startup Oxbotica

With e-grocery adoption skyrocketing due to Covid-19, grocery delivery companies like UK-based Ocado are finding new reasons to seek out innovation.

BREAKING: OneSoil raises $5m to expand services in Europe, North America

EXCLUSIVE: Brazil’s Agrolend raises $1.6m seed funding for farmer fintech solution

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The carbon question: Making global carbon markets work for farmers

Oatly files for New York IPO, but sees China issues on horizon

Brief: Danone recertifies B Corp status, posts ‘even higher’ impact scores

BREAKING: Bushel bags $47m Series C funding as it scales up & eyes new fintech offering

In another world first for Eat Just, its cell-cultured meat is now available for takeout

Brief: Perfect Day adds Leonardo DiCaprio as sustainability advisor

FOOD TECH

Complexity, AI & the future of food: Biometrics & the future of food safety

Atlast raises $40m to make mycelium-based whole cuts

Grab confirms record-breaking $40bn SPAC deal; archrival Gojek nears $18bn merger

Food waste startup Hazel Technologies raises $70m in Pontifax, Temasek-led Series C round

STARTUP FUNDING

2020: The year Chinese agrifoodtech funding headed upstream

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Sprout Agritech’s first-ever venture investment was 400m years (+19) in the making

EXCLUSIVE: Harvest automation startup Tortuga raises $20m Series A to build hundreds of robots

Trax secures $640m from SoftBank, BlackRock for retail robotics & analytics

AGTECH

PastureMap merges with Soil Value Exchange to create Grassroots Carbon

EXCLUSIVE: LatAm agronomic platform Agrosmart acquires BoosterAgro to expand weather support

Brief: Former Monsanto CTO Robb Fraley joins Trace Genomics board

This startup says its new laser-armed weeding robot is already sold out for 2021

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2020: The year Chinese agrifoodtech funding headed upstream

Wefarm gets $11m Series A+ funding, upgrades SMS service to online platform

Why AgFunder invested in URB-E

2020’s agrifoodtech investment story speaks of resilience, maturity & big bets on what comes next

ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION

AppHarvest acquires Root AI to add AI-powered harvesting robots to its workforce

Agtech CVC: BASF Venture Capital on ‘catalyzing change for the chemicals industry’

Bear Flag Robotics scores $7.9m seed round extension

ALT MEAT/PROTEIN

Brief: Impossible Foods prepping to go public at $10bn valuation, sources say

Future Food News Review Podcast: Is cultured meat delicious? Should hydroponically-grown food be organic?

Beyond Meat opens China factory, its first outside US

NOVEL FARMING SYSTEMS

Oishii sees itself as ‘the Tesla of vertical farming.’ Here’s how it’s cracking CEA strawberries

Brief: US vertical farming group AeroFarms joins unicorn club, strikes SPAC deal to go public

Brief: US federal court rules that hydroponic produce can be certified organic

Hydroponics startup Babylon Micro-Farms raises $3m seed capital for US expansion

REGENERATIVE AG

Brief: New Holland, FPT Industrial partner Fontanafredda on carbon-neutral wine

Despite growing interest in soil health & carbon farming, climate tech needs more investment: report

Brief: Biden’s climate plan includes ‘carbon bank’ for farmers who adopt regen practices

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Cargill restructures corporate venture group into newly-centralized unit

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