AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech.
Funding news
🇬🇧 Tropic bags $105m to scale gene-edited bananas, deploy TR4 resistant bananas in 2027 AgFunderNews
🇱🇹 Vilnius-based Saltz.app secures €20M to enhance food distribution across Europe Vest Bee
🇨🇭 Swiss startup Seprify secures $15.7m to replace titanium dioxide with cellulose materials Green Queen
🇨🇭 Inter IKEA Group backs Seprify’s €13.4M Series A to scale cellulose materials platform Tech.eu
🇸🇪 Swedfund invests in resource efficiency and climate resilience for smallholder farmers in India Swedfund
🇺🇸 Anchr raises $5.8M to modernize food distribution Axios
🇬🇧 Cytotrait bags £3M to bring organelle engineering to wheat, maize and potato farms Tech Funding News
🇬🇧 Broccoli side-stream startup UPP secures funding as automation and ingredient platform advance toward commercialization Protein Production Technology
M&A, IPOs & partnerships
🇺🇸 Shinkei Systems acquires first processing plant to scale seremoni grade fish nationwide Perishable News
🇺🇸 Cultivo signs major agreement with Octopus Energy Generation, expanding U.S. grasslands and carbon removal partnership to $100m Access Newswire
🇯🇵 bitBiome and Kyoritsu Seiyaku partner to develop biotechnology solutions for animal health Animal Health News
Funds, grants & accelerators
🇨🇭Targeting water innovation, Swiss VC Emerald Technology Ventures hits €100 million for Global Water Fund II EU Startups
🇳🇱 $48m first close for Aqua-Spark Africa aquaculture fund The Fish Site
🇰🇪 Hungary funds $5 million solar irrigation expansion in Western Kenya Ecofin Agency
🇦🇺 The NSW government is getting into startup lending with a $20 million commercialisation fund Startup Daily
People moves
🇸🇪 Millow appoints new CEO, brings inventor full-time Plant Based Mag
🇮🇱 Novella names Antonio Martinez Descalzo as CEO to lead expansion PR Newswire
🇳🇱 Time-travelling Milkman appoints Matthijs Sillevis Smitt as CEO as Oleocream enters commercial scale-up Protein Production Technology
Other news
🇩🇰 Danish firm Insectum targets Ghana’s feed market with $2.9M insect protein plant Ecofin Agency
🇺🇸 California Cultured bets on $3k reusable plastic bioreactors to transform economics of cultured cocoa AgFunderNews
🇬🇧 Wilbe opens White City lab in London to remove infrastructure bottlenecks for science startups Tech.eu
🇺🇸 Wisecode unveils non-UPF shield for a new way to define ultra-processed foods Green Queen
🇺🇸 Crop Diagnostix launches RNA-based crop health early-warning system AgFunderNews
