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
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
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
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
