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Brief: Solinftec & Growmark collaborate on new farm robot for field management

They’re building a robotic system that can monitor crop health and feed data-informed insights back to farmers.

Why the ‘net water positive’ goal matters for major agribusiness corporates

Shell & Sound Ag partner to explore carbon credit potential of nitrogen reduction

AgFunder captures increasing, urgent investor demand for agrifoodtech with $60m Fund IV first close

Sponsored

GROW unveils market expansion platform for agrifoodtech ventures with Mondelēz & Thai Wah

Livestock app Breedr bags $16m Series A funding as it moves into farmer finance

African B2B e-commerce platform Wasoko raises $125m in Series B round

Catalyst Fund selects 4 agrifood-focused startups to join its latest fintech cohort

Brief: Brown steps down as Impossible Foods CEO, replaced by Chobani’s McGuinness

EUROPE & MIDDLE EAST

The Week in Agrifoodtech: Licious nets $150m, Bear Robotics raises $81m

Data Snapshot: Why less late-stage investment in Europe isn’t necessarily bad news

Q&A: How AgDevCo will use $90m from CDC, others to boost Africa’s mid-size agribusinesses

Chinese tech giant Tencent leads funding for Future Crops’ soil-based vertical farms

FOOD TECH

Bezos Earth Fund pledges $17m to Colombia’s Future Seeds plant gene bank

As regenerative agriculture takes root, let’s hold corporates accountable

Climate tech will become the next big VC thesis for Latin America

Spinning alt-meat like cotton candy, Tender Food banks $12m seed capital

STARTUP FUNDING

IUNU raises $24m Series B funding to bring ‘true autonomy’ to CEA

EXCLUSIVE: Shell, Merck Animal Health back regenerative agtech Vence for carbon & traceability capabilities

SupPlant raises $27m to bring irrigation tech to climate-embattled farmers

Why 3 top greenhouse growers are backing Source Ag’s bid to democratize Dutch CEA nous

AGTECH

Bowery, Plenty announce strawberry plans on same day as competition heats up

Q&A: Amplified Ag’s female leaders discuss the future of CEA & container farming

Brief: Xi highlights alt-protein as central to Chinese food security

Meet the Female Founder: How EIO’s Tamara Leigh became a powerhouse in dairy tech

@AGFUNDER

AgFunder captures increasing, urgent investor demand for agrifoodtech with $60m Fund IV first close

Brightseed discovers compounds in waste hemp hulls that could help fight fatty liver disease

Brief: Greenlight Biosciences completes $1.2bn merger to list on Nasdaq, closes up 5%

Retailo raises $36m Series A funding from AgFunder, Graphene & others

ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION

Bowery’s strawberry bot buyout

Meet the founder: Tevel’s Yaniv Maor talks field trials with flying robots

Brief: Robo-delivery startup Nuro raises $600m from Google, Kroger

ALT MEAT/PROTEIN

Impossible Foods sues Motif FoodWorks over heme patent

Meet the Female Founder: The Mushroom Meat Co’s Kesha Stickland on what it takes to make clean-label protein

Mycorena closes $27m in Europe’s largest alt-protein Series A

NOVEL FARMING SYSTEMS

ADM & InnovaFeed’s insect protein partnership examined

Vertical farming operator Kalera pursues SPAC listing at $375m valuation

Q&A: VestedWorld’s Euler Bropleh on the opportunity of investing in ‘the basics’ in Africa

Plenty raises $400m from Walmart, others in vertical farming’s largest funding to date

REGENERATIVE AG

CIBO & Bushel partner to make carbon farming ‘economically viable’ for US growers

EXCLUSIVE: Hone brings on impact investor following $4.7m Series A for realtime soil carbon testing

Moss.Earth is using NFTs & crypto carbon credits to fight climate change in the Amazon

WOMEN

Data Snapshot: Female founders in agrifoodtech have steadily multiplied since turn of century

Meet the Female Founder: Helaina’s Laura Katz on scaling its breastmilk alternative

Our list of 701 women in agrifood is growing, but are we making progress?

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