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| Sep 17, 2026 | AgriFood Signals: Syngenta HK IPO, Terradot and Google do enhanced rock weathering, Corteva split lawsuits | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
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| Mar 19, 2026 | Meister Media Publications Named Finalist in Four Categories for 2026 Azbee Awards for Editorial Excellence | 2026 Azbee Awards for Editorial Excellence
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| Dec 11, 2025 | AgriFood Signals: USDA’s $700m regen pilot, FoodLabs Fund III, ‘critical phase’ for UK glyphosate | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇸🇪 Swedish BioTech company Melt&Marble secures €7 millon to scale designer fats in beauty and fo... |
| Nov 13, 2025 | AgriFood Signals: GoPuff nets $250m, Microsoft, Land O’ Lakes partner on AI, M&A for carbon markets, COP30 protests | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 🇬🇧 Gopuff, the Instant Commerce Leader, Raises a $250 Million Funding Round Led by Eldridge Indus... |
| Oct 2, 2025 | John Buck Honored at Biostimulant Innovator of the Year Award Dinner presented by Valent BioSciences and CropLife | John Buck Receives Biostimulant Innovator of the Year Award presented by Valent BioSciences and Meister Media Worldwide
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Buck of Buck Farms honored through celebration of innovation award dinner in Dubli... |
| Aug 14, 2025 | First-Ever Biostimulant Innovator of The Year Award Honors Groundbreaking Growers | Meister Media Worldwide
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The award recognizes growers who are setting new standards for integrating biostimulants into practical, results-driven cropping systems.
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| Aug 7, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Aerofarms raises equity, TerraBlaster bags $4m, Rihanna backs Africa’s female climate founders | While summertime usually makes for a low volume of funding rounds, there is plenty of other activity happening in agrifoodtech. Several funds and grants made headlines, including Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation, which is backing women cli... |
| May 23, 2025 | With nearly $6bn raised since 2012, biological control funding is volatile yet buoyed by resilient early-stage activity | “Some conventional pest control products aren’t working as well anymore or are being regulated out of existence,” says Chris Taylor, partner at agrifoodtech advisory firm The Mixing Bowl and author of the frequently cited Crop BioControl La... |
| May 22, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Butternut Box fetches $100m, OroraTech raises $42m, Converge lands $22m | This week British pet-food delivery service Butternut Box fetched over $100 million, German startup OroraTech extended its Series B to scale satellite-powered wildfire detection, and London-based Converge raised funds to decarbonize concret... |
| May 15, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Xoople secures $129m, Farmley raises $40m, Foodiq bags $11m | Among several agrifoodtech startups securing funding this week were Spanish “earth intelligence” startup Xoople, Indian snacks brand Farmley, and Finnish food manufacturing startup Foodiq. Indian quick-delivery darling Zepto was also back i... |
| Apr 30, 2025 | Growers Edge eyes expansion with fresh $25m: ‘It’s a strong validation of our new team, direction, and strategy’ | Agrifintech startup Growers Edge has raised $25 million in the first close of a new financing round.
S2G Investments, Cibus Capital, and Lowercarbon Capital co-led the round with participation from Otter Creek, iSelect, and ValueAct Capital... |
| Apr 21, 2025 | Meister Media Named Finalist for 2025 Azbees Awards of Editorial Excellence, Receives Honors in Five Regional Categories | Meister Media Worldwide Azbees Awards of Excellence 2025
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| Mar 10, 2025 | NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR THE 2025 CROPLIFE AG TECH AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE | Meister Media Worldwide
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Recognizing Innovation and Leadership in Ag Tech for 18 years
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| Feb 13, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech:Tidal Vision completes $140m B round, Oobli raises $18m, Agteria bags $6.2m | The week brought money flows on the agbiotech front, as chitosan solutions developer Tidal Vision announced a Series B round, sweet protein innovator Oobli teamed up with ingredient giant Ingredion, and Stockholm-based Agteria raised a seed... |
| Jan 23, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: ‘Carbon ratings’ agency BeZero Carbon raises $32m, alt-cheese maker Willicroft shuts down | Some of the biggest agrifoodtech deals of the week include London-based BeZero Carbon closing a $32 million Series C round to expand global carbon ratings services, French farm robotics startup company Aisprid raising $10.4 million, and far... |
| Nov 21, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Traveling APAC’s road to recovery with SarvaGram, TurtleTree, Vow & more | Investment in Asia-Pacific (APAC) agrifoodtech has bounced back, a point well-illustrated by this week’s headlines: India-based rural fintech platform SarvaGram and Malaysian farm-to-restaurant platform Secai Marche both closed rounds, whil... |
| Oct 12, 2024 | BE WTR: A Wave of Change in Water Sustainability | In a world grappling with water scarcity and environmental degradation, BE WTR emerges as a beacon of hope. This Swiss-based company is not just another player in the bottled water market; it’s a revolution. With a recent CHF 39 million inv... |
| Oct 10, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Alt meatball alert as La Vie cooks up $27m, baCta lands funds for natural rubber | France gave us some hope for meat alternatives this week when Paris-based La Vie announced a €25 million ($27 million) raise for its vegan meatballs.
In climate tech, Germany’s forward earth raised money for its environmental management sof... |
| Oct 1, 2024 | Brief: Agrospheres lands additional Series B funding to ‘take a giant leap forward’ in bringing biopesticides to market | Crop protection solutions provider AgroSpheres has made a final close of its Series B fundraise, bringing total Series B funding to $37 million.
Zebra Impact Ventures led this latest round through its Regenerative Growth I strategy run in p... |
| Sep 12, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: New climate tech deals in Europe, banks urged to stop funding livestock | The latest beef in the livestock sector is around big banks funding it. This week, an open letter went out to JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America saying its lending practices conflicted with its climate commitments.
Europe was full deals for c... |
| Aug 6, 2024 | AI could be ‘the next thing’ to move agronomic recommendations forward, says ag retailer survey | Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to improve things like agronomic recommendations and input application accuracy, but it’s not likely to replace the actual agronomists, says the 2024 CropLife/Purdue Precision Survey.
The two groups ha... |
| Aug 1, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: osapiens nabs $120m for ESG tech, Impossible clears EU hurdle, layoffs at Deere | 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, ... |
| Jul 18, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Biotech co Digestiva closes $18m round, Syntetica bags $4.5m for nylon recycling | The week was dotted by a handful of early-stage rounds for the likes of food biotech Digestiva, nylon recycling company Syntetica, personalized supplements maker Bioniq, and several others. Funds-wise, ag and food investor Tiverton closed i... |
| Jun 6, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: eFishery snaps up $30m, impact VC Pollination launches $150m fund | This week, aquaculture supply chain startup eFishery announced a new $30 million loan from HSBC Indonesia to expand its platform to more smallholder fish and shrimp farmers. Impact investor Pollination unveiled a new climate-focused fund, a... |
| May 24, 2024 | Syre's $100 Million Series A Funding and Expansion Plans | Syre, the textile impact company, recently secured a whopping $100 million in Series A funding to fuel its ambitious plans for gigascale textile-to-textile recycling plants. The company, founded by Vargas and H&M Group, is on a mission ... |
| May 23, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Textile impact company Syre raises $100m, Nestlé launches brand for GLP-1 consumers | This week, Syre, a “textile impact company” started by Vargas and H&M Group raised a massive Series A to fund its forthcoming textile-to-textile recycling plants. In foodtech, UK-based Nory announced new capital to bring more AI into th... |
| Apr 25, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pula raises $20m for ag insurance, SOSV’s new planetary health fund, Impossible’s new ranch | Kenyan agri-insurance firm Pula recently made headlines with a $20 million raise that will help more smallholders around the world secure their crops. Also this week: VC firm SOSV closed a new fund for deep tech and planetary health, and Sw... |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Biological progress or bathtub brews? The state of US crop biologicals in 2024 | Bathtub brew. Snake oil. Bugs in a jug. For years, companies developing biologicals — a form of crop protection derived from naturally occurring substances like microbes, peptides, and plants — have labored under the shadow of these labels,... |
| Feb 22, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Captain Fresh reels in $25m, Trace Genomics lands $10.5m, new beef at Beyond Meat | Plenty of funding rounds to be had this week, from sustainable seafood company Captain Fresh to soil insights startup Trace Genomics, a UAE-based cloud kitchen company and an agrifintech outfit from India.
Elsewhere, Syngenta and Lavie Bio ... |
| Feb 15, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Spacegoods and Cellva raise new funds, Inspire Brands buys delivery tech startup | This week, functional mushroom brand Spacegoods, cultivated pork fat maker Cellva, and insect-breeding-as-a-service startup FreezeM announced new funding rounds. US restaurant giant Inspire Brands, which owns Arby’s, Dunkin’, and a host of ... |
| Feb 1, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: New capital for eco-chocolate, Leon co-founder launches fund, Delivery Hero & Deliveroo break up | Two fundraises this week highlight the growing interest in more eco-friendly, ethically produced chocolate, with US-based Voyage Foods and Germany’s Planet A both announcing new rounds. Elsewhere, Henry Dimbleby, best known as the co-founde... |
| Jan 11, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: eGrocer Picnic bags $388m, GeoSalmo reels in $14m, Kost Capital launches foodtech fund | The year starts strong for eGrocery with Dutch startup Picnic landing a multi-million round. While the eGrocery sector has struggled throughout the last couple years, Picnic likely stands out to investors thanks to the free delivery, electr... |
| Jan 9, 2024 | 3 challenges agtech startups can overcome with equipment leasing | For agtech startups, 2023 was a tough year for fundraising. They secured $4.6 billion in funding during the first three quarters of 2023, but that number is down significantly from the $10.7 billion raised last year and $12.2 billion in 202... |
| Dec 21, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: New Forests fund makes $300m first close, the EU invests in alt protein | This week — the last before the AgFunderNews team takes a holiday break — saw several announcements for new funds and grants, including a $300 million first close for New Forests fund and the proposed €50 million ($55 million) the European ... |
| Dec 18, 2023 | 10 years of Farmers Business Network, from ‘tremendous fear and uncertainty’ to a ‘tremendously exciting future’ | In 2014, Charles Baron and Amol Deshpande were concocting an idea that was practically unheard of in agriculture.
“The goal was to put the world of agriculture at the farmers’ fingertips and empower them through information, technology and ... |
| Nov 2, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Beyond Meat does layoffs, Fibmold lands $10m for alt plastic, Athian & Elanco team up | Beyond Meat announced this week it will cut 19% of its workforce after a weak third quarter. In agtech, sustainable materials company Fibmold raised funds for a plastic alternative and Bioomix announced a raise for its microbial ag solution... |
| Oct 13, 2023 | Ag-tech startup Aigen, which sells solar-powered weed-thumping robots, lands $12M | Aigen co-founders Rich Wurden, left, and Kenny Lee. (Aigen Photo)
Aigen raised $12 million in fresh cash, providing a boost for the company rolling out a solar-powered robot that uses advanced computer vision models to spot and kill weeds.
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| Aug 11, 2023 | AI on the farm: Ag-tech startups help zap weeds, fertilize crops — but still face challenges with data | Aigen, which recently unveiled a new self-driving robot, is led by co-founders, Rich Wurden, left, and Kenny Lee. (Aigen Photo)
Engineers are bringing their talents in artificial intelligence and machine learning to the farm.
The Pacific No... |
| Aug 3, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Konscious Foods snags $26m for alt-seafood, Ocean 14 Capital reels in $33m | Top agrifoodtech news this week was all about the ocean. Plant-based seafood-maker Konscious Foods announced new funding, as did impact investor Ocean 14 Capital. Other funding rounds from the week included coffee tech, agribusiness marketp... |
| Jul 27, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Builders Vision to invest $1.1bn in climate, Walmart & other corporates expand regen ag | Agrifoodtech funding this week was rather abysmal in terms of the number of deals announced. But there were plenty of new funds, including a $1.1 billion climate-focused one from VC Builders Vision. Meanwhile, Israeli startups and investors... |
| Jul 6, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: GOOD Meat, UPSIDE make first US sales of cultivated meat, Farmy raises $11m | Between the US Fourth of July holiday and lousy economic environment, startups were mostly quiet on the fundraising front this week. However, plenty of other news surfaced, including the first sales of cultivated meat in the US, a new clima... |
| Apr 27, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Restaurant order app me&u bagged $30m, Remilk approved for Israeli markets, biomaterials bonanza | This week, me&u officially announced a Series C close and alt-dairy startup Remilk got approved in Israel to enter commercial markets with its products. Several biomaterials startups made headlines with fundraises, partnerships and othe... |
| Apr 20, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Canopy raises $60m to help forests, CropX nets $30m for farm management | This week, non-profit organization Canopy raised funds to help restore forests and farm management platform CropX landed $30 million. Restaurant tech platform Odeko secured $53 million, while a new CRISPR-based research project kicked off a... |
| Dec 22, 2022 | The week in agrifoodtech: BigBasket bags $200m, Kodama’s forestry funding, more restaurant tech layoffs | Amid a slew of smaller funding announcements, India-based eGrocer BigBasket secured a $200 million mega-round this week. In agtech, deals from Grow Indigo and others were all about insect farming, forestry and capturing more carbon. Foodtec... |
| Dec 19, 2022 | Is There A Practical Way To Utilize Mixed “Plastic Waste? | |
| Jul 26, 2022 | Агрокибернетик и космический фермер: профессии, которые заставят пожалеть, что вы не пошли работать в агро | В представлении большинства сельское хозяйство — отсталая отрасль. Это не так.
К 2050 году производство сельскохозяйственных культур должно практически удвоиться, чтобы накормить всех. Пока же в мире сотни миллионов голодающих, и с ростом н... |
| Apr 13, 2022 | We must scale US agtech innovation to fight the looming food, energy crisis | Editor’s note: The following editorial is a joint ‘call to arms’ for the agrifoodtech community. The authors, listed at the end of the article, represent decades of experience in global agribusiness and are now leading efforts to rapidly sc... |
| Jan 8, 2022 | We’re one step closer to self-farming farms | The most exciting gadget of the year isn’t a TV that displays NFTs or a foldable tablet computer or anything related to the metaverse. It’s an autonomous tractor.
More specifically, it’s the self-driving John Deere 8R tractor that can plow ... |
| Apr 11, 2020 | Customized technology can assist smaller farms to sustain their operations | Editor’s note: Jeanae DuBois is director of growth marketing at Shift3 Technologies, a mobile and web app developer based in Fresno, US.
Traditional farming technology is developed with large companies and large farms in mind because that’s... |
| Aug 27, 2018 | How Agtech Has Quietly Transformed Agriculture During the Downturn | Editor’s Note: Barclay Rogers is head of business development at Ceres Imaging, a remote sensing startup using multi-spectral imaging from airplanes to provide farmers with insights about their crops including disease prediction, and irriga... |
| May 16, 2018 | Bayer is Not Shying Away from Monsanto’s Controversies with Post-Merger Exec Team | Bayer has started making practical moves towards combining its business with Monsanto’s ahead of the completed merger, which it expects will close by the end of the quarter.
Last week the German company announced the executive leadership te... |
| Nov 10, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Perdue to Re-Evaluate GMO Reg Changes, Fish 2.0 Announces Winners, Bosch Partners on Driverless Tractor, more | Ag Secretary to Withdraw and Re-Evaluate GMO Regulation
US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced plans to withdraw Obama-era revisions to biotechnology regulations involving genetic modification and editing. The Secretary took the... |
| Aug 10, 2016 | Farmers Business Network Raises $20m Series B-2 from Campbell Soup’s New Investment Fund | Farmers Business Network has raised $20 million in venture funding in a round led by food company Campbell Soup’s new $125 million food and agriculture investment fund Acre Venture Partners.
The round is an extension to the startup’s $15 mi... |
| Feb 15, 2016 | 6 Takeaways from the PrecisionAg Innovation Series in St Louis: a Grower’s Perspective | Steve Pitstick
Editor’s Note: Steve Pitstick manages Pitstick Farms in Maple Park, Illinois and focuses on growing row crops.
Pitstick uses a variety of technology on his land and recentlyPitstick attended and spoke at the recent PrecisionA... |
| Mar 19, 2015 | Farmers of the future will utilise drones, robots and GPS | Today’s agriculture has transformed into a high-tech enterprise that most 20th-century farmers might barely recognise.
After all, it was only around 100 years ago that farming in the US transitioned from animal power to combustion engines. ... |
