It’s a jam-packed week for agrifoodtech with World Agri-Tech wrapping yesterday and Future Food-Tech kicking off today over in San Francisco. Elsewhere in the world, Indian B2B ecommerce startup Jumbotail raised new funds despite a tough market, while multiple agrifood corporates announced new investment initiatives.
Foodtech funding
🇮🇳 India-based Jumbotail nets $18m amid tough B2B ecommerce market Tech in Asia
🇦🇺 Cauldron raises $6.25m series A to scale continuous fermentation tech AgFunderNews
🇪🇸 Female-led startup Poseidona raises €1.1M for innovative algal protein ingredients Vegconomist
Agtech funding
🇩🇪 Dryad Networks “Internet of the Forest” secures €5.6M for its advanced wildfire detection Tech.eu
🇻🇳 Vietnamese agritech startup Techcoop raises $5m in equity and debt Deal Street Asia
M&A, IPOs & partnerships
🇨🇭 🇮🇱 Syngenta announces partnership with CropX Brownfield Ag News
🇺🇸 Announcing the Food AI Co-Lab, a new collaboration between The Spoon & Future Food Institute The Spoon
🇺🇸 Ever.Ag acquires Adapt-N from Yara North America Global AgTech Initiative
🇺🇸 Save Mart partners with Flashfood Grocery Dive
🇮🇩 EFishery acquihires Indonesian AI-powered IoT startup, to launch AI brand Tech in Asia
🇪🇪 🇸🇪 eAgronom partners with Gardskapital to help Swedish farmers adopt regenerative agriculture practices eAgronom
🇺🇸 🇳🇱 Triplebar Bio teams up with FrieslandCampina Ingredients to make lactoferrin via precision fermentation AgFunderNews
Funds, grants & accelerators
🇺🇸 Acre Venture Partners closes $140m agrifoodtech fund, places bets on ag robotics, AI/ML AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 Corteva launches investment and partnership platform Corteva Catalyst Global Ag Investing
🇺🇸 Targeting $50m, Mad Capital unveils new fund aiming to de-risk regenerative-organic farming AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 Mondelēz launches corporate VC SnackFutures Ventures with an eye on future acquisitions Forbes
🇺🇸 A&T to lead “Ag Tech corridor” project with $1m from National Science Foundation NCAT
People moves
🇬🇧 GrowUp Farms appoints Will Howard as new UK MD and CCO Vertical Farm Daily
🇺🇸 Miyoko’s Creamery founder Miyoko Schinner and filmmaker Jasmine C. Perry join the board of Hip Hop is Green PR Newswire
🇺🇸 Mush Foods taps Padraic Doherty to head sales and business development Restaurant Dive
Other news
🇺🇸 Oobli receives FDA GRAS letter for game-changing precision-fermented sugar alternative Green Queen
🇺🇸 Meatly unveils the world’s first cultivated chicken pet food Tech.eu
🇳🇱 Dutch-based Lgem announces share issuance: ROM InWest becomes new shareholder, Navus Ventures increases investment Silicon Canals
🇨🇦 Eden Aeroponics launches crowdfunding campaign seeks for $100k Vertical Farm Daily
Sponsored
International Fresh Produce Association launches year 3 of its produce accelerator