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| Mar 23, 2026 | 🎥 The good, the bad, and the ugly of agrifoodtech investing… in conversation with Adam Bergman | “I expect that in 2026 there will be the largest number of agtech and foodtech bankruptcies, restructurings, and fire sales to date,” predicted Adam Bergman at EcoTech Capital in a recent essay entitled The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good: The ... |
| Dec 18, 2025 | AgriFood Signals: BinSentry bags another $25m, Lloyds backs regen ag, Zepto IPO | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 North American agtech BinSentry clinches $25M from CIBC Innovation Banking Global Ag Investing
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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 27, 2025 | AgriFood Signals: Just Climate lands $375m, another mega-raise for eGrocer Picnic | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇳🇱 Dutch online grocery store Picnic raises €430M Tech.eu
🇮🇳 AgroStar raises $30 million in funding ... |
| Mar 20, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Benson Hill files for bankruptcy, Vytal Global bags $15.5m, Paulig invests in Elaniti | This week, seed innovation company Benson Hill announced it is filing for voluntary chapter 11 petitions, while German startup Vytal Global raised $15.5 million to bring its reusable food packaging to the US. Meanwhile, Paulig Group’s ventu... |
| Sep 11, 2024 | An Iconic Brand Is Trying to Change Its Name — and Expand Beyond the Product It Introduced Over a Century Ago The name change is "subtle-yet-important," says Campbell's CEO. | The 155-year-old Campbell Soup Company, the first to bring canned soups to the market, wants to drop the "Soup" part of its name and go by just the Campbell's Company. Shareholders can vote on the suggested name change in November... |
| Sep 6, 2024 | The Rise of Plant-Based Innovations: A New Era in Food Technology | The food landscape is shifting. Traditional staples are evolving into plant-based alternatives. This transformation is not just a trend; it’s a revolution. Companies are racing to innovate, and the stakes are high. The latest developments i... |
| Sep 5, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: GALY lands $33m for lab-grown cotton, EarthOptics & Pattern Ag merge, new CFO at Tyson | Meat and diamonds aren’t the only items getting the “lab grown” label these days. Add cotton to that list, with US plant cell culture startup GALY announcing a Series B raise this week.
Meanwhile, what do soil data and predictive agronomy h... |
| Mar 21, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: India’s Jumbotail nets $18m, new investment plans for Corteva, Mondelēz & others | 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 ma... |
| 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 ... |
| Oct 12, 2023 | Bytes to Bites part three – Wellness wired: Leveraging AI to digitize nutrition and health | Editor’s Note: Eva Everloo is senior investment analyst and Dr. Anđela Martinović is scientific analyst at agrifood tech investor PeakBridge.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the authors’ own and do not necessarily reflect t... |
| Oct 12, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Investors fund agri-waste to energy, more precision fermentation, coffee capsule recycling | The largest round this week went to India’s SAEL, a company converting agricultural waste into renewable energy. Other notable fundraises went to precision fermentation, AI imaging for agriculture, restaurant tech in Latin America, and cult... |
| Jun 8, 2023 | Dundee’s Ace Aquatec Lands Investment and Makes Board Shifts | The funding comes from cleantech investor Earth Capital Limited (ECL), and will be used to expand Ace Aquatec’s product portfolio and presence in various markets.
Ten jobs are also expected to be created through this investment in engineeri... |
| Nov 14, 2022 | Vow’s first cultured meat product close to Singapore unveiling after $49.2M Series A | Another cell-based meat company is poised to have its meat products introduced in restaurants.
Vow’s first product brand, Morsel, which was created from its cultured meat technology, will go into Singapore restaurants by the end of this yea... |
| Sep 14, 2022 | BREAKING: PeakBridge Growth Fund II holds first close on €100m, makes first 2 investments | Agrifoodtech investment manager PeakBridge VC has completed the first close in its PeakBridge Growth II fund in partnership with Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity. The fund will start to deploy its first €100 million ($100 million), begin... |
| May 5, 2022 | How a fruit producer is adapting to climate change with genetics | The team at International Fruit Genetics (IFG) is no stranger to ‘customizing’ crops. The Bakersfield, California-based company uses natural breeding techniques to come up with its cultivars, which it then licenses to growers and fruit bran... |
| Aug 20, 2020 | Agtech Sector Blooms As More Dollars and Startups Rush In | 188 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Farming has been around for thousands of years, but investments and startup activity in agricultural technology, commonly known as “agtech” or “agritech,” have only exploded over the past five year... |
| Aug 20, 2020 | Agtech Sector Blooms As More Dollars and Startups Rush In | 157 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Farming has been around for thousands of years, but investments and startup activity in agricultural technology, commonly known as “agtech” or “agritech,” have only exploded over the past five year... |
| Nov 28, 2017 | Investing expert sees big opportunities in aquaculture | Philippe de Lapérouse sees myriad investment opportunities in aquaculture.
De Lapérouse is managing director of HighQuest Partners, based in St. Louis, Missouri. Formerly an investment banker, he has more than 30 years of experience advisin... |
| Sep 1, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Farm Income Up for 1st Time Since 2013, Innophos $125m M&A, Arable Capital Raises $300m, more | Farm Income Up For the First Time Since 2013
Net income for US farmers is predicted to increase this year for the first time in four years, according to the USDA. Crops, livestock, and dairy are set to see a 3.1% bump which the USDA attribu... |
| Mar 17, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Climate Ventures 2.0 Extends Deadline, UC Merced Launches New AgTech Education Initiative, GAI AgTech Moves to Boston, more | Climate Ventures 2.0 Accelerator Extends Application Deadline
The Climate Ventures 2.0 application deadline has been extended to March 31, 2017. With just two weeks to go, apply for the chance of a $25,000 GoodCompany Ventures Impact Grant,... |
| Jun 23, 2016 | [Podcast] Moore & Warner’s Kolb Talks Agtech Adoption, Farmer Mentality, and How to Disrupt Ag | [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/270519798″ params=”auto_play=false&show_artwork=true&color=34d472″ width=”100%” iframe=”true” /]
Ahead of speaking at GAI AgTech Week, AgFunderNews‘ editor Louisa Burwood-Taylor cau... |
| Jun 16, 2016 | Food Protection and Defense Institute: Combating Food Fraud with Technology | Food fraud and safety is a growing global concern that’s capturing the attention of an increasing number of resources worldwide, including the Department of Homeland Security.
In 2008, China experienced over 6,000 infant illness events and ... |
| Apr 20, 2016 | How Private Equity Giant KKR and Sundrop Farms Are Spending $100m on Indoor Agriculture | In December 2014, global private equity firm KKR invested $100 million in Sundrop Farms, a UK indoor agriculture company currently growing produce in Australia. At the same time, Sundrop Farms announced a deal to supply tomatoes to Australi... |
| Aug 6, 2015 | Fundings in Brief: Food E-Commerce Delivers $4.7m as TIAA-CREF Breaks Farmland Fund Record | This week saw the launch of two food e-commerce related fundings, two new agriculture funds, and a big play on chocolate.
Turkish Online Food Delivery Service Meal Box Nabs $3.4m Venture Capital Financing
Based in the world’s fifth largest ... |
| Jun 16, 2015 | Private Equity Investors Set Their Sights on Food & Agriculture | Editors Note: AgFunderNews recently had the opportunity to speak with Mitchell Presser, a GAI Innovation Advisory Board Member and Head of U.S. Mergers and Acquisitions for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, regarding his perspective on the re... |
| Jun 12, 2015 | California State Water Board Chair Provides Insight into California’s Historic Drought | Editors Note: AgFunder recently sat down with Felicia Marcus, Chair of the California State Water Resources Board. Marcus will be leading a discussion on Living in the Reality of the California Drought at GAI Agtech Week on June 22-24, 2015... |
| May 13, 2015 | Canadian AgTech Sector Ripe for Opportunities | Editors Note: Joseph Regan is a managing partner at Bioenterprise Capital, a Canadian VC firm investing in agriculture technology. He was recently a panelist on Making the Case for AgTech in the Portfolio at the Global AgInvesting Conferenc... |
| Apr 30, 2015 | Investor Insight: Philippe de Lapérouse on Investing in Agriculture and AgTech | Editor’s Note: AgFunder recently sat down with Philippe de Lapérouse, the Director of HighQuest Partners’ Global Food and Agribusiness Practice. Philippe is the Chairman of the Global AgInvesting (GAI) conference series, and delivered the o... |
| Apr 16, 2015 | VC Q&A: Omnivore’s Mark Kahn on AgTech Investing | Editors Note: AgFunder recently sat down with Mark Kahn, founding partner of Omnivore Partners, a VC firm investing in early stage agriculture and food technology companies in India. Mark will be a panelist on Making the Case for AgTech in ... |
| Oct 31, 2014 | GAI and Larta announce GAI AgTech Week conference | The world of AgTech has been on fire, seeing $401 million in deals in the first half of this year compared to $277 million in deals for all of last year. In response to this demand the two biggest players in the ag conference space, Global ... |
| May 7, 2014 | Top 5 AgTech Summit Takeaways
1. Big Data is blowing up AgTech.
2. Raising money in AgTech is tough…
3. ….but worth it.
4. AgTech exits are exciting, but need to be well timed.
5. It’s not just about investment, but actually a global interest. | Miss the AgTech Summit at the Global AgInvesting Conference last week in NYC? Don’t worry–we grabbed a handful of the big takeaways about AgTech innovation in startups for you.
1. Big Data is blowing up AgTech.
You’ve heard it before, and y... |
| Apr 30, 2014 | Meet Hortau, One of Many Agtech Companies at the Global AgInvesting Conference | This week, farming business is taking over the Waldorf in New York City, and brings with it investors, experts and innovators of the ag space.
The Global AgInvesting Conference is holding the event for its sixth year, and is hosting 115 spe... |
| Pontifax AgTech Leads $90M Series B for Crispr Technology to be Used in Better Fruits & Vegetables | By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media |
