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Agrifoodtech was the favored destination for climate-focused funding in past 12 months: report

Startups focused on food and water received more climate-conscious capital than those in any other sector over the past 12 months, according to Climate Tech VC.

Brief: Autonomous farming startup Blue White Robotics raises $37m Series B funding

Data Snapshot: 2021 started out as year of the ag-SPAC. How’s that going?

EXCLUSIVE: Intelinair raises $20m to scale digital agronomy product, expand into carbon

Meet the founder: Releaf’s Ikenna Nzewi wants Nigerian palm oil to be the next big thing

Advanced Farm Technologies closes $25m Series B round for its robotic harvesting system

The Week in Agrifoodtech: Cargill, Heineken & Nestlé unveil regenerative ag programs

‘Crowdfarming’ platform Steward raises $8.8m in Series A round

Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Aleph Farms & Mosa Meat

FOOD TECH

Brief: Eat Just nets $97m funding for cultivated meat unit, adds agrifood veterans to leadership

Miyoko’s Creamery CEO on $52m funding, federal court victory & vegan cheese fails

Brief: Heineken explores sustainable barley cultivation in new trial

Debut Biotech is creating next-gen ingredients through ‘cell-free biomanufacturing’

STARTUP FUNDING

Indoor ag startup Iron Ox closes $50m round led by Breakthrough Energy

EXCLUSIVE: Leaps by Bayer leads EarthOptics’ $10.3m Series A for carbon mapping

Brief: Gates Foundation leads $707m investment in Dutch e-grocer Picnic

Singapore plant-based producer Growthwell raises $22m in Creadev-led round

AGTECH

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Data Snapshot: 2020 was a bumper year for agtech M&A – and 2021 could be even bigger

Acumen’s new ag fund ushers commercial capital to farmers’ fight against climate change

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Data Snapshot: 2021 set to break new record for agrifoodtech investment; $24bn raised in H1

Meet the GROW grads concocting climate-smart ag solutions with robots & seaweed

AgFunder raises $21m for New Carnivore alt-protein fund from ADM, Alexandria & others

EXCLUSIVE: ZoomAgri raises $3.3m for ‘vision-as-a-service’ food inspection tech

ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION

AgFunder exit review: John Deere’s $250m acquisition of Bear Flag Robotics

Picnic raises $16m Series A funding despite ‘growing graveyard’ of food robotics startups

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ALT MEAT/PROTEIN

Formo nets $50m for animal-free cheese fermented from microbes

VeggieVictory is making meat alternatives suited to African tastes

India’s Proeon raises $2.4m seed funding to supply plant-based protein industry

NOVEL FARMING SYSTEMS

Cargill & AeroFarms talk indoor cocoa production

Data Snapshot: Insect ranches, vertical ag among 2020’s top-funded ‘Novel Farming’ startups

Brief: Cox Enterprises acquires indoor ag startup BrightFarms

Putting the fin in fintech, XpertSea changes course following $20m Series B round

REGENERATIVE AG

Terviva raises $54m, partners with Danone on regenerative pongamia plant proteins

Groundwork BioAg raises $11m to expand mycorrhizal inputs business

PastureMap merges with Soil Value Exchange to create Grassroots Carbon

WOMEN

EXCLUSIVE: Men urged to use ‘untapped power’ to reduce gender bias against women in agrifoodtech

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