In what’s been an otherwise fairly quiet week, Germany’s osapiens, which makes ESG compliance tech, scored a Series B round. Smaller fundraises this week include restaurant tech company Batbox, insect protein startup Entocycle, and Millow, which makes minimally processed alternative meats.
Elsewhere, Impossible Foods cleared a safety hurdle in the EU, Deere conducted more layoffs, and autonomous delivery startup Nuro looks to be making a comeback.
Agtech & climate tech funding
🇩🇪 osapiens secures $120M Series B for ESG compliance tech Tech.eu
🇺🇸 Applied Carbon rakes in $21.5m Series A to sequester carbon at scale via biochar AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 Leaf Agriculture raises $11.3m Series A to build ‘the lingua franca’ of ag data AgFunderNews
🇬🇧 Entocycle raises $2.6m for international expansion as new insect facility opens in Leeds Feed Navigator
Foodtech funding
🇺🇸 Batbox secures $7.3M financing, plots US expansion Restaurant Dive
🇸🇪 Minimally processed alt meat startup Millow nets $2.6m EIC grant, plans new facility AgFunderNews
🇮🇱 Blue Tree Technologies nets $2.26m to expand sugar reduction tech for beverages AgFunderNews
M&A, IPOs & partnerships
🇺🇸 🇬🇧 Registrar Corp expands sustainability solutions through Foodsteps acquisition FoodBev Media
🇺🇸 Walmart and Denali expand food waste recycling partnership AgtechNavigator
🇳🇴 🇯🇵 Outdoor brand Helly Hansen releases products featuring Brewed Protein fibers for the first time Spiber
🇺🇸 🇯🇵 Shiru and Ajinomoto team up on AI-powered sweet protein discovery journey AgFunderNews
🇳🇱 🇬🇧 GNT partners with Plume Biotechnology to create “exciting” fermented colors for F&B Vegconomist
Funds, grants & accelerators
🇺🇸 Siddhi Capital raises $135 million growth equity fund Axios
🇺🇸 NIFA invests $7.9M in agricultural microbiome research USDA
🇸🇪 Melt&Marble awarded €2.76M by European Innovation Council Tech.eu
🇵🇱 Polish government backs LabFarm with €2m grant for cultivated chicken Vegconomist
People moves
🇺🇸 Ardent Mills names Tiago Darocha chief operations officer PR Newswire
🇺🇸 Peter Bodenheimer joins PeakBridge as new Venture Partner in the US LinkedIn
Other news
🇺🇸 Deere lays off salaried workers as sales tank Agriculture Dive
🇺🇸 Impossible Burger clears first food safety hurdle in Europe Bloomberg
🇺🇸 Autonomous delivery startup Nuro is gearing up for a comeback TechCrunch
🇨🇳 Angel Yeast brings together innovative consortium to build industrial park for synthetic biology development PR Newswire
🇸🇪 Nutreco opens new facility dedicated to food-grade cell feed for cultivated meat Vegconomist
