AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech.
Funding news
🇺🇸 Confido raises $55m Series B The SaaS News
🇪🇸 Elian secures €40 million to scale EU plant protein production and supply resilience Food Ingredients First
🇺🇸 Lilac Agriculture raises $2.3m to tackle inoculants’ ‘black box’ problem AgFunderNews
M&A, IPOs & partnerships
🇺🇸 FMC Corporation and Tessenderlo Group complete minority equity investment FMC
🇳🇿 Christchurch’s Onside buys Assura to expand its operational software platform for agriculture Otago Daily Times
Funds, grants & accelerators
🇨🇦 $500M fund launched to boost Canadian agtech and vertical farming firms in Southeast Asia Vertical Farm Daily
🇺🇸 Pulse Fund raises $63 million to back climate solutions startups across interconnected sectors ESG Today
🇬🇧 Tesco pledges £20m to Henry Dimbleby’s venture fund for better food The Times
🇺🇸 UMass Amherst launches $120m Future of Food initiative backed by state funding Green Queen
People moves
🇫🇷 Agriodor appoints Cyrille Tardy as CEO Agridor
🇺🇸 Christine (Robbins) Birdsong joins RESERVOIR as head of external affairs LinkedIn
🇪🇸 Rovensa Next appoints Javier de Benito as chief operations officer Agribusiness Global
🇧🇪 Biotalys names Carlo Boutton permanent CEO, reports H1 2026 results iGrow News
Other news
🇮🇳 FSSAI proposes single-phase food warning labels, gives industry one-year transition time India Times
🇺🇸 Non-GMO Project’s non-ultraprocessed label expands to over 300 products Food Dive
🇨🇭 Syngenta claims ‘first new mode of action in biologicals in 20 years’ with microRNA breakthrough AgNavigator
🇬🇧 The PaperFlex Consortium launched to accelerate paper-based flexible packaging innovation Ellen MacArthur Foundation
🇺🇸 Sound Agriculture launches seed-applied biological to preserve yields on high ammonium corn acres AgFunderNews
🇫🇮 VTT closes €3m Plant Ingredient Project with oat fibre patent and legume flavour treatment Vegconomist
🇬🇧 Impossible Foods makes UK retail debut at Tesco… without its flagship heme protein AgFunderNews
🇨🇦Maple Leaf shutting down two of three plant protein manufacturing facilities Real Agriculture
