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Virtual fencing is no longer hype. Now it has to prove itself a trustworthy tool

News of Halter’s $220 million Series E earlier this year—a round that valued the New …

Agtech

Livestock/animal ag

Exclusive: Lilac Agriculture raises $2.3m to tackle inoculants’ ‘black box’ problem

The funding will help Lilac Ag advance a platform built to optimize two traits at once: nitrogen-fixing efficiency and competitiveness.

Agtech

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

L-R: Steve Rosenbloom, Natalie DiNicola, Tom Snipes, Barney Geddes and Matt Crisp. Image credit: Lilac Agriculture

‘Bring us your difficult trait problems’: Biographica, Hudson River partner on crop genome editing

Agtech

Deeptech

Dominic Hall, PhD, cofounder, Biographica Image credit Biographica

xFarm Technologies’ acquisition of Sibium Analytics brings it closer to defining agriculture’s data layer

Agtech

Artificial intelligence

EDITOR'S PICK

In ovo sexing hits 40% penetration in the EU. What will it take to crack the US?

Agtech

Deeptech

In ovo sexing tech from Orbem Image credit Orbem

These constraints are holding agrifood back. AgFunder is investing to solve them

AgriFood Signals: Syngenta HK IPO, Terradot and Google do enhanced rock weathering, Corteva split lawsuits

PhytoFoundry emerges from stealth with plant cell culture platform targeting high value bioactives

Robigo Bio eyes commercialization for its ag biologicals with Leaps by Bayer investment

Agtech

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

Exclusive: Spearhead Bio lands oversubscribed seed round for faster, more precise gene editing tech

Agtech

Plant breeding & genetics

Formo scales precision-fermented casein ahead of US debut as narrative shifts from sustainability and ethics to performance

Alternative protein

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

Raffael Wohlgensinger, cofounder and CEO, Formo. Image credit: Formo

Exclusive: Ayana Bio acquires Meati Foods assets for a steal to scale plant cell culture tech with Zenfold in India

Digital ag platform xFarm Technologies expands to sugarcane, biofuels with Sibium Analytics acquisition

Can Culta take Japan’s premium fruit model global?

No, imaging won’t help farmers control plant disease

AgriFood Signals: EIF backs Nordic Foodtech VC, NotCo sells Brazilian business, Agronutris in receivership

How AgFunder is using AI to build a venture firm that remembers

ProducePay eyes profitability as it shifts from capital to data: ‘We think 2027 will be a breakout year’

Knip bets on postbiotics, not commodity protein, as it scales biomass fermentation

NoFence’s new herd management platform points to virtual fencing’s next chapter

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

Agrifintech

Agtech

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

Agrifintech

Agtech

William Bao Bean, Orbit Ventures Image courtesy of William Bao Bean

EDITOR'S PICK

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

Agtech

Artificial intelligence

Paul Mikesell, founder and CEO, Carbon Robotics. Image credit: Elaine Watson

‘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

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

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