AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech.
Funding news
🇺🇸 Applied Carbon locks In $72m Citi financing for Texas-based biochar Carbon Herald
🇱🇹 Biomatter raises $18M Series A to accelerate AI-powered enzyme development Vestbee
🇺🇸 Circularity Fuels closes $7M to turn dairy waste into jet fuel Axios
🇳🇿 NZ agtech Aimer Farming raises $1.8M to bring grass-tracking tech to beef farmers Dealroom
🇸🇾 Syrian foodtech Percent Labs closes seed round at over $1 million valuation Wamda
M&A, IPOs & partnerships
🇦🇹 🇺🇸 Chapul acquisition: REPLOID signs $12m term sheet Insect Industry Report
🇺🇸 Amyris bets on sweet proteins with Oobli acquisition AgFunderNews
Funds, grants & accelerators
🇺🇸 Just Climate raises $540 million for agriculture-focused decarbonization solutions fund ESG Today
🇨🇭 redalpine closes oversubscribed $250M early-stage fund Startup Ticker
🇺🇸 MIT-led team receives funding to develop next-generation alternatives to modern weed killers MIT
🇺🇸 Bezos Earth Fund joins Yield Lab Institute’s Global Cattle Innovation program as ‘catalytic funder’ AgFunderNews
People moves
🇺🇸 Dana Worth joins Upside Foods as president LinkedIn
🇺🇸 Jim Kaskade appointed CEO of Bushel LinkedIn
🇺🇸 Beyond Meat sales chief to resign later this month Street Insider
Other news
🇫🇮 Solar Foods’ Solein gains positive EFSA opinion as Fazer prepares EU launch Food Ingredients First
🇮🇷 🇫🇷 Iran denies it was behind cyberattacks on French supermarkets AgFunderNews
🇳🇱 Meatable’s research gets a second life through 80-terabyte donation to New Harvest Protein Production Technology
🇺🇸 The Good Food Institute lays off 6 US staff amid funding challenges Green Queen
🇩🇰 21st.BIO files EU novel food application for animal-Free BLG and calls for a fast-Track approval route Vegconomist
