AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech.
Funding news
🇮🇳 Tractor Junction Raises $22.6m Series A to scale rural vehicle marketplace, fintech business AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 Startup Biocentis raised $19M for genetic insect control Axios
🇳🇱 AKA Foods Secures 17.2 Million Dollars in Seed Funding to launch the world’s first secure AI system for food innovation PR Newswire
🇺🇸 Keychain grabs $10M to disrupt private label supply chains for retail giants Food Business News
🇩🇰 Chromologics raises €7 million to bring its natural colour ingredients closer to market PR Newswire
🇺🇸 Erg Bio Closes $6.5 Million Seed Round to Scale Flexible Feedstock Technology for Manufacturing Synthetic Aviation Fuels and Critical Chemicals GlobeNewswire
🇬🇧 Edinburgh University spinout secures £4.5 million to grow tree-boosting fungal tech The Scotsman
M&A, IPOs & partnerships
🇬🇧 🇮🇪 Senus seals Loamin acquisition to boost land and soil data Think Business
🇨🇭 🇺🇸 Barry Callebaut Partners With NotCo AI to Unlock Next-level Chocolate Innovation Businesswire
🇺🇸 Perennial Partners With Valor Carbon On Soil CDR Acceleration Carbon Herald
🇩🇰 PlanetDairy buys Stockeld tech—but can hybrid dairy win over consumers? AgFunderNews
Funds, grants & accelerators
🇿🇦 African Development Bank approves $310 million financial package for FirstRand Bank to scale up lending to MSMEs, women entrepreneurs and agribusinesses in South Africa African Development Bank Group
🇺🇸 Grow-NY selects $1M grand-prize winner Rochester Business Journal
People moves
🇺🇸 Walmart chief Doug McMillon retiring after more than a decade BBC
🇨🇭 Nestlé announces the retirement of Sanjay Bahadur GlobeNewswire
Other news
🇺🇸 Exclusive: Monarch Tractor preps for layoffs and warns employees it may ‘shut down’ TechCrunch
🇺🇸 Melt Organic brand owner is the winning bidder for Miyoko’s Creamery: ‘We’re surprised and delighted’ AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 US exempts 200+ agricultural products from reciprocal tariffs Grocery Dive
🇺🇸 DailyRobotics enters strawberry harvesting race with robot that can pick 2–3x faster than humans AgFunderNews
🇮🇳 🇯🇵 Alt Carbon Issues Asia’s Largest Verified Enhanced Weathering Credits to Mitsui O.S.K. Lines ESG News
🇺🇸 Eat Just Launches Plant-Based Chicken in Over 3,000 Walmart Stores Vegconomist
🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇺🇸 Bühler’s New Chocolate Challenge Recognizes Three Startups Working to Address Cocoa Industry Volatility Vegconomist
🇩🇪 Barry Callebaut partners with Planet A Foods to expand chocolate alternatives without cocoa Protein Production Technology
🇺🇸 Tyson Foods to Stop Making ‘Climate-Smart’ Beef & Net-Zero Claims After Lawsuit Green Queen
🇬🇧 Tate & Lyle extends its regenerative agriculture programme into Europe Tate & Lyle
🇺🇸 Kroger closing automated fulfillment facilities to bolster e-commerce profitability Grocery Dive
Perennial and AmSpec Group Partner to Expand Reach & Improve Efficiency for MMRV Globally Perennial
🇧🇷 8 countries commit to Brazil-led farmland restoration accelerator at COP30 Environment Journal
🇪🇺 EFSA sets out major updates to novel food application process for 2025 and 2026 Protein Production Technology
