AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech.
Funding news
🇫🇷 Equitable Earth raises $14.7 million to advance certification standard for nature-based carbon projects ESG Today
🇳🇴 reTyre raises €7m for low-carbon bike tyres using ocean materials The Fish Site
🇺🇸 Ammobia raises $7.5m to scale low-cost ammonia production technology critical to energy resilience Global Newswire
🇬🇧 Black Bull Biochar secures £4 million for biochar expansion Bioenergy News
🇬🇧 UK’s Verna raises $4M to turn biodiversity reports into AI restoration Tech Funding News
🇫🇮 Finland’s Mö Foods raises €2.4 million to scale oat-based cheese alternatives Be Beez
🇩🇪 SenseUP raises $3.5m to advance dsRNA-based biopesticides that address cost, stability hurdles AgFunderNews
🇦🇺 Agronomics invests A$3m in All G to support lactoferrin production Investing
🇬🇧 Ex-GE execs’ Bloemteknik bags £2.5M to make smart lights the brain of vertical farms Tech Funding News
🇦🇺 Y Combinator leads $1.2 million pre-seed funding for GrazeMate AgFunderNews
🇫🇷 French BioTech Spore.Bio secures multi-million-euro Google.org funding and launches AI-native research unit EU Startups
M&A, IPOs & partnerships
🇩🇪 🇺🇸 BASF to acquire biological insect control solutions group Red River Farm Network
🇺🇸 🇨🇭 SAP and Syngenta announce partnership to scale AI-assisted agriculture SAP
🇺🇸 Impossible Foods partners with better-for-you startup EQUII FoodNavigator
Funds, grants & accelerators
🇺🇸 New $10 million fund to accelerate food is medicine adoption in the United States Rockefeller Foundation
🇺🇸 Superorganism raises $25m to back biodiversity startups TechCrunch
🇺🇸 SEMCAP Food & Nutrition announces $125 million close of inaugural fund Global Newswire
People moves
🇩🇪 Bühler Group appoints Samuel Schär as CEO as leadership transition takes effect Protein Production Technology
Other news
🇦🇷 Future Biome ceases operations LinkedIn
🇺🇸 Beyond Meat launches Beyond Immerse protein drink Beyond Meat
🇬🇧 Microsoft in record deal for soil carbon credits as data centres surge Reuters
🇸🇪 Hooked Foods files for bankruptcy after seven-year push to crack plant-based seafood Protein Production Technology
🇮🇳 Varaha signs major offtake agreement with Microsoft for biochar carbon removal in India AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 Del Monte Foods to sell core businesses Food Business News
