AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech.
Funding news
🇮🇳 Indian food delivery startup Swish secures $38m series B Tech in Asia
🇮🇳 AgriM series B funding: raises $17.3m for marketplace growth Focus Agritech
🇨🇦 Miraterra Soil: $16 million raised for AI-driven soil intelligence platform expansion Pulse2
🇦🇺 Cauldron Ferm raises $13.25m in Series A2 funding round FoodBev Media
🇮🇹 Italy’s Foreverland unwraps €6 million to sweeten the European expansion of its cocoa-free chocolate alternative EU Startups
🇳🇱 BBLeap raises €5M to bring plant-level precision spraying to arable farms globally The Next Web
🇳🇱 Amsterdam-based SOUS raises €4 million to become the AI-powered sous chef for restaurant growth EU Startups
🇦🇺 Twiggy Forrest-backed emissions agtech Rumin8 raises $4.3 million for Kiwi plans Startup Daily
🇫🇮 Elea & Lili bags $2.9m to scale microplastic-free material for diapers & farming Green Queen
🇸🇪 Volta Greentech raises €1.7m from Axel Johnson Group for European Feed Additive Launch iGrow News
🇦🇺 Scanabull raises $1.1M to bring instant cattle weighing to NZ’s beef supply chain Sprout Agritech
M&A, IPOs & partnerships
🇫🇷 🇬🇧 Danone to buy protein products maker Huel for close to $1.15 billion, sources say Reuters
🇸🇬 🇹🇼 Grab to acquire Foodpanda Taiwan for $600m Tech in Asia
🇺🇸 Generate Capital sells greenhouse operator Equinox Growers to Taylor Farms Private Equity Hub
People moves
🇺🇸 BinSentry welcomes new VPs of milling, product Feedstuffs
🇺🇸 Wonder hires CFO ahead of potential 2027 IPO Restaurant Dive
🇺🇸 Lundberg Family Farms names new CEO Progressive Grocer
🇺🇸 Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) appoints Vonnie Estes to board of directors LinkedIn
Other news
🇺🇸 Upside Foods loses bid to block Florida’s cultivated meat ban in key US appeals ruling Protein Production Technology
🇰🇷 South Korea unveils national plan to democratise AI access down to every farmer AgTechNavigator
🇺🇸 Brightseed unveils “world-first” clinically validated AI platform for plant bioactives discovery Nutrition Insight [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Brightseed.]
🇺🇸 California to consider creating ‘not ultraprocessed’ food label Food Dive
🇬🇧 Unilever confirms food merger talks with McCormick FoodNavigator
