AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech.
Funding news
🇺🇸 Livestock management app Breedr plans expansion after $27m raise led by Partech’s impact arm AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 SiFly raises $20 million to scale long-endurance drone production Aviation Week
🇳🇱 VitalFluid raises €17.2M Series A to take plasma crop protection to the US Dealroom
🇺🇸 TerraBlaster raises $12.5m for real time NPK soil mapping at tractor speed AgFunderNews
🇧🇪 Brussels-based MAASH secures €12.15 million to take mycoprotein production to industrial scale EU Startups
🇺🇸 Reservoir announces $10 million multi-year partnership with John Deere to accelerate rugged AI for agriculture American Ag Network
🇪🇪 ÄIO and TFTAK secure €1.94 million to cut microbial oil production costs Protein Production Technology
🇺🇸 ADM secures $2.2m in state tax credits to convert idle Clinton space into precision fermentation site Vegconomist
🇹🇭 Living Roots targets full-stack biologicals with AI-led R&D after latest funding round Ag Navigator
M&A, IPOs & partnerships
🇮🇱 CropX acquires NIR spectroscopy firm SCIO in biggest deal yet, eyes profitability in 2027 CropX
🇺🇸 🇬🇧 BiomEdit acquires England-based company’s technology and pipeline assets Inside Indiana Business
🇺🇸 Century-old Keystone Cooperative joins Alloy Partners’ venture studio for animal, human and planetary health AgFunderNews
Funds, grants & accelerators
🇰🇪 Capital markets shift as $394 million sustainability loan signals new era for African agribusiness finance Africa Sustainability Matters
🇬🇧 AgDevCo Ventures announces a first close at $49m Invest in Ag
People moves
🇺🇸 Western Growers appoints Jonathan Sarager as associate vice president LinkedIn
🇺🇸 Sabanto appoints John Raines to board of directors Farms.com
🇺🇸 BinSentry names Justin Wong as VP of corporate development Feed Stuffs
Other news
🇺🇸 Staffing firm files breach of contract suit against defunct Cincinnati startup 80 Acres Cincinnati Business Courier
🇸🇦 Pure Harvest greenhouse in Haradh, Saudi Arabia, to be sold to NADEC Vertical Farm Daily
🇶🇦 Qatar’s DineNORDER expands into Egypt Wamda
🇺🇸 Tufts opens shared R&D facility for cultivated meat and alternative protein developers Vegconomist
🇺🇸 Impact Foods closes its doors LinkedIn
🇺🇸 UPSIDE Foods terminates $50m bid for Believer Meats’ US site but “remains interested in the facility” AgFunderNews
