AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech.
Funding news
🇺🇸 SEMCAP Food & Nutrition makes $55 million investment in Good Culture SEMCAP
🇮🇳 Indian food firm The Whole Truth raises $51m series D Tech in Asia
🇦🇪 UAE’s Kitopi raises $50m in growth capital led by EvolutionX Cairo Scene
🇺🇸 GrubMarket raises $50m in Series H funding at $4.5B valuation iGrow News
🇮🇩 Indonesia’s Jago Coffee raises $12.5m as BEENEXT, Intudo double down Deal Street Asia
🇫🇷 UBEES secures €8m to support global expansion of regenerative pollination Tech.eu
🇺🇸 Omeat becomes evergreen, raises $6m to bring cultivated meat to US & Singapore Green Queen
🇬🇧 Sparxell Raises $5m in new funding round to scale its plant-based colour tech Fashion Network
🇶🇦 Qatar’s Hydrovest raises $275K to scale agritech production and expand into the UAE Wamda
M&A, IPOs & partnerships
🇨🇳 China’s Meituan snaps up Dingdong to deepen push into fresh grocery retail SCMP
🇺🇸 General Mills partners with Euralis to accelerate regenerative agriculture in sweetcorn production New Food Magazine
🇺🇸 Verity and Bushel integrate platforms for farm data traceability Street Insider
Funds, grants & accelerators
🇬🇧 Henry Dimbleby has grape expectations for new wrapping The Times
🇬🇧 From precision-bred hemp to Sunshine Tomatoes: £21.5m to drive farm innovation in England UK Govt
🇺🇸 US invests $15.2m in Vietnam tilapia project to boost soybean exports AgtechNavigator
People moves
🇺🇸 Hello Tractor appoints Susan NjihiaSusan Njihia as chief of staff LinkedIn
🇬🇧 Climate Impact Partners appoints chief growth officer ESG Dive
🇮🇹 Ferrero names insider to head WK Kellogg after $3.1B purchase Food Dive
Other news
🇺🇸 Carbon Robotics built an AI model that detects and identifies plants TechCrunch
🇨🇦 Nutrien re-aligning to bring wholesale and retail crop input businesses together Real Agriculture
🇺🇸 Court rules Texas food label censorship law is unconstitutional Animal Legal Defense Fund
🇺🇸 Starbucks bets on robots to brew a turnaround in customers BBC
🇧🇷 Rovensa Next strengthens its global innovation capabilities with a new pilot fermentation plant in Brazil Agribusiness Global
🇳🇬 Nigeria plans to integrate 14 million smallholder farmers into the cassava bioethanol value chain African Agribusiness
🇺🇸 GHG Protocol rolls out first global standard for land-sector emissions and carbon removal Carbon Herald
🇺🇸 EPA advances farmers’ right to repair their own equipment Morning Ag Clips
🇮🇳 Government to launch multi-lingual AI tool Bharat-VISTAAR for agriculture sector India Times
🇪🇺 EU adopts first-ever standard for carbon removal projects ESG Today
🇺🇸 Savor launches PCB division to bring carbon-derived fats to cosmetics Personal Care Insights
