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Agtech CVC: Leaps by Bayer on adopting an impact lens for corporate venturing

The agrifood industry wondered how Bayer would approach venture investing after its acquisition of Monsanto. Derek Norman talks with AFN about the company’s turn to impact investing.

EXCLUSIVE: Food testing startup SwissDeCode nets $4.2m from VisVires New Protein, EIT Food

Spirited away: How the alcohol-free trend is stirring up the liquor aisle

Why AgFunder invested in Purissima

GROW Impact Accelerator invites applications from startups fostering food sustainability

STARTUP FUNDING

Phospholutions raises $10.3m Series A for sustainable fertilizer tech

Vietnam’s biggest fish exporter launches venture unit, invests in cultured seafood startup Avant

Startup Spotlight: Advantir wants to make your ice cream more creative, convenient & contactless

BlueNalu sets sights on Asia after raising cultured seafood’s biggest round yet

COVID-19

BRIEF: Deliveroo raises $180m in pre-IPO funding at $7bn valuation

Algae rancher Qualitas Health nets $10m to move into alt-protein

Startup Spotlight: YPC targets office & care home canteens with kitchen robotics

Our experience launching an agtech fund in the midst of a global pandemic

FOOD TECH

BRIEF: On-demand delivery apps Getir & Glovo get $100m+ apiece in ‘dark store’ drive

Cargill open-sources Splinter, its ‘blockchain-like’ supply chain software

Brazilian blockchain startup Ecotrace gets funding for traceability tech

With a fresh $31m, Too Good To Go wants to make saving food as easy as throwing it away

AGTECH

BRIEF: Verdesian Life Sciences acquired by AEA Investors in exit for Paine Schwartz

Bear Flag Robotics scores $7.9m seed round extension

Farmers, landowners join CashRent’s seed round to level farmland rental playing field

Telus expands agtech reach with lead in AgriWebb’s $23m Series B round

@AGFUNDER

Bear Flag Robotics scores $7.9m seed round extension

Why AgFunder invested in Purissima

GROW Impact Accelerator invites applications from startups fostering food sustainability

Ag marketplace DeHaat banks $30m in Naspers-led Series C round

ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION

How White Castle is embracing automation with robot employee Flippy

Ocado spends $287m in retail robotics double-swoop

SwarmFarm raises $3.2m to grow its open platform for ag robotics

ALT MEAT/PROTEIN

Starting with cultured kangaroo dumplings, Vow is on a mission to diversify the world’s protein sources

TurtleTree Labs launches B2B unit to develop cost-efficient culture media & growth factors

Maw & more: Avant nets $3m funding to expand cultured seafood range

NOVEL FARMING SYSTEMS

The EU just approved mealworms for human consumption. Will Ÿnsect take the bait?

Biological innovation is key to the economic & environmental sustainability of CEA

Quantum dot startup UbiQD raises $7m Series A for electricity free CEA lighting

Agrifoodtech firms are flocking to Singapore, with Perfect Day the latest to land

REGENERATIVE AG

BRIEF: A Greener World adds to growing list of ‘regeneratively grown’ food labels

EXCLUSIVE: FarmLab thinks it can get 1m farmers to sequester 1bn tonnes of CO2 by 2025. Here’s how

How Grassland 2.0 plans to give technical & financial support for the adoption of grassland ag

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