AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech.
Funding news
🇺🇸 Plantible raises $35m in debt, equity, to increase RuBisCO protein production fivefold AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 Ambrook raises $30m Series B after growing to more than 8,000 farm customers iGrow News
🇮🇳 India’s Arboreal bags $24m to scale yeast proteins, next-gen sweeteners & more Green Queen
🇮🇳 Mitti Labs raises $9.5 million series A to expand AI platform for water-efficient rice farming City Biz
🇪🇸 InsectBiotech raises $8.3m to scale BSFL production in Andalusia, Spain AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 Ted Leonsis-backed Proxy Foods AI raises $6M Biz Journals
🇦🇺 Agscent raises $5M for Smell AI Daily Straits
🇮🇳 Inaara NeoFoods raises US$2.4 million seed round to scale AI-driven farm-to-formulation plant protein platform Protein Production Technology
🇮🇹 Italy’s Aflabox raises €1.35 million to scale AI-powered portable aflatoxin detection across Africa and Europe EU Startups
🇺🇸 Upstream Biotechnology raises seed funding for ‘on-demand’ crop defense tech AgFunderNews
M&A, IPOs & partnerships
🇺🇸 🇳🇱 LIVEKINDLY Collective agrees US$7.2 million Dalco acquisition to expand European manufacturing Protein Production Technology
🇫🇷 🇨🇳 Limagrain licenses genome-editing technologies from Qi Biodesign Seed World
Funds, grants & accelerators
🇺🇸 Nature Conservancy awarded grant for grassland conservation project Agri Pulse
🇪🇸 Eatable Adventures launches NOVO accelerator to bring AI, biotech and robotics into agrifood Protein Production Technology
🇬🇧 UK Govt awards £2.35m for Ponda-led project to scale wetland-based biomaterial crops Green Queen
People moves
🇮🇳 Syngenta appoints Eladio Robles as India managing director Global Agriculture
🇺🇸 Beyond Meat appoints OFI executive as chief operating officer The Plant Based Mag
Other news
🇺🇸 Indoor ag heavyweight 80 Acres Farms to cease operations AgFunderNews
🇮🇩 eFishery investors receive $21.6m as liquidators assess Aqua Bridge proposal Deal Street Asia
🇮🇱 Aleph Farms plans 2027 cultivated beef launch in Singapore after securing green light from regulators AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 GMO labeling rule must change by 2028 DTN Progressive Farmer
🇺🇸 🇫🇷 Micropep kickstarts global regulatory registration of its peptide-based biofungicide AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 C16 Biosciences debuts fermented cocoa butter equivalent, its first food ingredient Vegconomist
🇺🇸 Beyond Meat leans into Europe, Canada, as US sales continue to slide AgFunderNews
