AgriFood Signals: BSF bags $20m, Nestlé advances regen ag, SF sues ultraprocessed food firms

Cultivated leather from BSF.
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AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech.

Funding news

🇬🇧 UK Firm BSF Enterprise bags $20M to scale up cultivated meat & leather Green Queen

🇺🇸 Ripple Foods secures $17m to support product expansion and appoints new CEO FoodBev Media

🇦🇺 WA livestock methane startup Freemantle Seaweed raises $2.2 million in crowdfunded Seed round Startup Daily

🇨🇱 Frankles raises $1M led by Südlich Capital Latamlist

Image credit: Nestlé

M&A, IPOs & partnerships

🇺🇸 🇨🇭 Provivi, Syngenta strike major Brazil deal on pheromone pest control AgFunderNews

🇺🇸 FFAR, EDF and Cornell launch initiative to advance finance & insurance solutions FFAR

🇫🇷 🇻🇳 Nestlé deepens Vietnam commitment with state partnership to advance regenerative, low-emission farming AgTech Navigator

🇨🇭 Tetra Pak strengthens fermentation technology with Bioreactors.net acquisition Vegconomist

🇺🇸 Genvor advances peptide-based agricultural R&D through partnership with Tuskegee University iGrow News

Funds, grants & accelerators

🇸🇬 Prefer gets SG$400K grant from Enterprise Singapore’s Startup SG LinkedIn

Cargill chair and CEO Brian Sikes. Image credit: Cargill

People moves

🇺🇸 Indigo Ag appoints Ignacio Martinez as interim CEO LinkedIn

🇬🇧 Fieldwork appoints Industry Titan Seth Crawford as chair Fieldwork Robotics

🇳🇱 Just Eat Takeaway chief to step down weeks after Prosus deal Financial Times

🇺🇸 Cargill chair and CEO Brian Sikes joins Deere & Company’s board of directors Yahoo Finance

A delivery ‘bot from foodora. Image credit: foodora

Other news

🇺🇸 San Francisco sues nation’s top food manufacturers over ultraprocessed foods NPR

🇫🇷 Judicial liquidation for Ÿnsect as insect farming sector ‘struggles to become competitive’ AgFunderNews

🇺🇸 Reservoir Farms, Sonoma launches as new automation and ag-tech hub for local viticulture Wine Business

🇨🇿 foodora becomes ‘first’ in Czech Republic to pilot robot deliveries Retail Systems

🇧🇪 Biotalys receives regulatory approval by U.S. EPA for EVOCA Biotalys

🇺🇸 Instacart sues NYC over grocery delivery worker laws Grocery Dive

🇳🇴 Grieg Seafood adopts Aquaticode’s AI technology to sort salmon The Fish Site

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