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Brief: Oatly sues UK farm over PureOaty plant-based milk brand

Glebe Farm owner Phillip Rayner said that “although Oatly are much bigger than us, we do not believe we have done anything wrong.”

Why impact investor Astanor Ventures backed MiiMOSA’s ag financing platform

TerraClear raises $25m to help farmers get rocks out of their fields

Brief: Chinese e-grocery giants Dingdong, Missfresh file for US IPOs

The future of Australia’s agriculture industry is hinged on carbon emissions

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Grow-NY is looking for agrifoodtech startups to apply to win mentorship, $1m prize

Brief: Meat giant JBS pays $11m bitcoin ransom to ‘Russia-linked’ cyberattackers

Move over leafy greens: Seedo Corp is cultivating saffron indoors

Sentera closes $25m Series C round to scale its digital platform for agronomists

FOOD TECH

Brief: Cargill CEO MacLennan says plant-based will ‘cannibalize’ its protein business

Plant-based ‘NUGGS’ maker SIMULATE raises $50m from Ohanian fund, McCain Foods

Brief: Geltor debuts ‘world’s first’ vegan collagen for food & beverage industry

Plant-based ‘whole egg’ startup Float Foods scores seed funding from VCs, corporates

STARTUP FUNDING

Swedish seaweed startup Volta Greentech raises $2m to grow low-emissions livestock feed

Sharebite raises $15m from ESG investors to feed people going back to the office

HR management platform Ganaz raises $7m Series A funding from Trilogy Equity, AgFunder

Better than bees? Arugga nets $4m for its indoor pollination robots

AGTECH

Ginkgo Bioworks partners Asian chemicals giant Sumitomo

Pulses detected: How regional crops could hold the key to Asia’s alt-protein future

After closing $27m maiden fund, Tenacious Ventures seeks to scale-up Australian agrifoodtech

In Europe, the Covid crisis aligned with the start of a new agrifood investment cycle

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Plant-based ‘NUGGS’ maker SIMULATE raises $50m from Ohanian fund, McCain Foods

HR management platform Ganaz raises $7m Series A funding from Trilogy Equity, AgFunder

Kula Bio banks $10m seed funding to fix nitrogen, carbon in the soil

Apeel Sciences acquires ImpactVision to look inside fruit & veg for freshness

ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION

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

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

ALT MEAT/PROTEIN

Quorn maker lists at $5bn valuation; plots US expansion of alt-protein portfolio

Brief: EU drops plans to restrict marketing of plant-based dairy alternatives

Here’s how Eat Just’s GOOD Meat will spend its latest $170m funding

NOVEL FARMING SYSTEMS

Future Food 🎙️: How Bowery reached $2.3bn and is building its biggest farm yet

Bowery bags ‘biggest-ever’ vertical farming raise with $300m Series C

Brief: AquaBounty’s first commercial harvest of its GE salmon will happen this month

CEA Food Safety Coalition launches certification standard for indoor-grown leafy greens

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

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