This week German startup Climatiq secured $11.7m to embed carbon intelligence into daily business operations and Turkish farm digitization startup Doktar secured $8.8m to expand AI-driven agtech globally.
Elsewhere, PepsiCo teamed up with NotCo on new product development, and Swedish investor Norrsken Foundation committed $352 million to back ventures using AI to solve challenges in climate, health, food, education and society.
Startup funding
🇩🇰 Startup Too Good To Go weighs $350m funding round Bloomberg
🇳🇿 Halter to beef up US expansion following $100m raise led by BOND, $1b valuation AgFunderNews
🇩🇪 Berlin-based Climatiq secures $11.7m to embed carbon intelligence into daily business operations Silicon Canals
🇹🇷🇳🇱 Doktar secures $8.7m to scale impact-driven, integrated agtech globally Reuters
🇬🇧 Antler Bio raises $4.3M in round led by The First Thirty Tech.eu
🇧🇷 🇺🇸 Symbiomics Secures Strategic Investment from Corteva to Collaborate on Biologicals Innovation Morning Ag Clips
🇧🇪 Belgian startup Koppie emerges from stealth to disrupt alt-coffee market with single-ingredient offering AgFunderNews
M&A, IPOs & partnerships
🇨🇭🇪🇸 Planetary acquires Libre Foods to supercharge fungi-based innovation at scale Protein Production Technology
🇫🇷🇧🇪 Danone further invests in gut health and next-generation biotic research with the acquisition of The Akkermansia Company GlobeNewswire
🇺🇸 Globalstar and CERES TAG partnership support livestock industry amid new world screwworm threat Globalstar
🇨🇭🇦🇹 Kern Tec teams up with Stella for new vegan chocolate featuring upcycled apricot kernels Protein Production Technology
🇨🇦 Odd Burger partners with Vegan Supply to expand retail distribution of its plant-based CPG line Cision
🇨🇱🇺🇸 PepsiCo teams up with NotCo on NPD Just Food
Funds, grants & accelerators
🇸🇪 Swedish Norrsken Foundation commits $350 million to back the future of ‘AI for good’ in climate, health, food, education and society EU-Startups
🇩🇰 Denmark’s Cellugy gets $9.5m EU funding for fossil-free skincare materials Green Queen
🇨🇦 New investment to strengthen Canada’s specialty soybean market and boost plant-based innovation Trading View
Other News
🇬🇧 Large-scale microalgae plant powered by ‘biosolar leaf’ tech will be operational in 2027, says Arborea AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 Shiru invites brands to harness its AI platform to explore ‘natural’ GLP-1 activation: ‘The opportunity is immense’ AgfunderNews
🇬🇧 UK alt-milk brand Mighty Drinks seeks new owners after entering administration Vegconomist
🇺🇸 Texas seventh state to ban lab-grown meat National Hog Farmer
🇺🇸 Atlantic Natural Foods to Conduct Court Approved Bid Process Street Insider
🇨🇭 Switzerland’s $100bn deeptech engine comes Into focus Tech.eu
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 Creating biotech for the post-deforestation era: SMEY launches NOY, a ‘Neobank of Yeasts’ for cultivated oils Tech.eu
🇲🇾 Malaysia to boost venture capital with tax incentives Bloomberg
🇮🇳 Plant-Based startup Prot targets India’s protein deficiency with category-first block Green Queen
🇧🇷🇩🇪 Researchers develop ‘vegan meat’ based on sunflower flour EurekAlert
🇨🇱 V-Label LATAM launches ‘Todo Vegan’ app to help Latin Americans find certified vegan products Vegconomist
🇨🇭🇨🇿 Nestlé cuts jobs at Czech factory amid falling demand for plant-based meat Just Food
