AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech.
Funding news
🇩🇪 Primogene bags $4.8m to lunch enzymatic breast milk biomolecules for infant formula Green Queen
🇨🇦 Montreal cell-based dairy company Opalia closes $3.2m seed round with commercial pilots already underway Vegconomist
🇺🇸 Fermeate raises $2m to deliver “step change” in precision fermentation economics with optogenetics AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 Advanced growing resources raises $2m from NASA and NSF to diagnose crop afflictions a week earlier iGrow News
🇳🇱 Green Boy invests in Fudi Protein: the next generation of plant-based protein via alfalfa Street Insider
🇦🇷 AgrofoodBIC invests in Argentine bioinputs startup Nunatak Protein Report
M&A, IPOs & partnerships
🇺🇸 Prodalim acquires Better Juice to add natural sugar reduction technology to its ingredient solutions portfolio Pulse 2.0
🇨🇦 Appetronix acquires salad assembly robotics co Cibotica AgFunderNews
Funds, grants & accelerators
🇩🇪 Earlybird closes its largest fund yet at €360M to back AI, infrastructure, and deeptech startups Tech Funding News
🇦🇺 Queensland government launches $30 million sowing the seeds of farming innovation fund iGrow News
People news
🇺🇸 Driscoll’s names Wyard Stomp chief operating officer and expands Shaily Sanghvi’s Role to lead global strategy Business Wire
🇺🇸 Manus names Baljit Ghotra senior vice president of innovation and operations Manus
Other news
🇺🇸 Farm bill passes house: ag organizations weigh in Morning Ag Clips
🇳🇿 Virtual fencing goes fully off-grid with Halter’s satellite launch AgDaily
🇺🇸 Food giants hit with consumer lawsuit calling ultraprocessed ingredients addictive Food Dive
🇱🇹 InSoil to issue first large scale batch of soil carbon credits InSoil
🇺🇸 Agtech company Pivot Bio marks major expansion in St. Louis area AgDaily
🇸🇬 Friends & Family Pet Food launches cultivated meat pet food in Singapore retail, as nutrition demand reshapes the category Protein Production Technology
