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| 25.08.2026 | ADM Converts Iowa Tanks for Precision Fermentation Egg Protein: Demand Up 550% Amid Bird Flu | By Otis D. Sheehan
Published: Aug 25 2026, 4:45 PM EDT
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| 20.08.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Farmbot unearths fresh funding, Homestead Capital nabs $150m, Gates backs ‘HeatSmart’ cassava | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇩🇪 Oceanloop secures up to $44 million to scale land-based giant grouper farming Aquafeed
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| 19.08.2026 | Fungus Grown in Old Brewery Now Matches Beef Price; Sustainable Meat Reaches Chef Kitchens | By Mike Gonzales
Published: Aug 19 2026, 1:20 PM EDT
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| 13.08.2026 | Offbeast develops ‘world’s first’ beef-plant hybrid whole cuts | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Offbeast.]
Baltimore-based Offbeast has developed a manufacturing process designed to integrate into existing meat-processing lines enabling firms to create whole cuts of ... |
| 13.08.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Ranch tech startup Ranchbot nets $15m, Target hires chief AI officer, plant cell culture megadeal | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Ranchbot Raises Over US$15 Million Series B and establishes U.S. Holding Company to Accelerate... |
| 12.08.2026 | Agritech and Foodtech Surge: AI and Biotech Redefine Global Food Systems | Agritech and foodtech markets are booming. Significant capital infuses AI, biotech, and sustainable solutions across the global food system. Ambrook closed a $30M Series B for farm financial management software, reaching 8,000 customers. Pl... |
| 06.08.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Eatable Adventures launches accelerator, Ambrook raises $30m, LIVEKINDLY acquires Dalco | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 Plantible raises $35m in debt, equity, to increase RuBisCO protein production fivefold AgFunderNe... |
| 05.08.2026 | Black Sheep Foods bets on ‘TVP 2.0’ as hybrid meat gains traction | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Black Sheep Foods]
Black Sheep Foods—a startup formed at the peak of the alt-protein boom to make plant-based lamb—has reinvented itself as a B2B supplier of next-gen TVP ... |
| 30.07.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Wild Bio acquires F1 Seed, ADM Capital raises $48m | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇫🇷 French future food fermentation project enters next phase with $22m in govt funding Green Queen
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| 23.07.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Trump tariffs on Canada, McCormick + Unilever merger, Coca-Cola’s Fairlife hacked | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇯🇵 BlackRock, Temasek’s decarbonization partners leads $87 million round in sustainability solutions... |
| 16.07.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Uber’s $14.8bn bid for Delivery Hero, Hippo Harvest banks $30m, agentic AI for ag | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 Marc Lore says Wonder is gearing up for an IPO after raising $650 million at a $9 billion valuati... |
| 10.07.2026 | Record Heat, Solar Production and Climate Litigation | Ready to catch up on sustainability news? This month we dive into the ICJ declaring the Paris Agreement legally binding, the drop in factory farming investments, record-breaking heat in the Nordics, and the rise of solar as the EU’s biggest... |
| 09.07.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Chipotle’s next agrifood cohort, John Deere settlement, fruit-harvesting robots | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇬🇧 Cambridge AI robotics group Dogtooth scores £14m investment UKTN
🇳🇱 Aardaia bags €5M to build the... |
| 08.07.2026 | AgriFood Tech Reshapes Global Food Systems | The agri-food tech sector surges with significant capital. InvestEco closed its largest sustainable food fund at C$106 million. Major corporations like Nestlé abandon artificial colors. Bayer consolidates its glyphosate operations. Startups... |
| 08.07.2026 | Agrifood Tech Booms: Innovation Fuels Sustainable Food Systems Amid Market Shifts | Agrifood technology surges with fresh capital. Startups secure major funding across diverse sectors. Plant-based innovation, AI in agriculture, and sustainable practices drive growth. Strategic mergers reshape the industry landscape. Regula... |
| 02.07.2026 | AgriFood Signals: InvestEco closes fourth fund, Bayer consolidates US glyphosate arm, Nestlé ditches artificial colors | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇳🇱 The Protein Brewery says FDA GRAS setback won’t derail US plans as it raises $20.5m Series B exte... |
| 26.06.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Bayer wins roundup case, CEO change at Vow, Reservoir acquires Contain | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇬🇧 Omni raises £11m Series A to fund US entry and an “Ozempic-style” dog supplement The Checkout
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| 11.06.2026 | AgriFood Signals: EIF commits $29m to Irish agrifoodtech, Aphea.Bio and Bayer team up, GLP-1 pills | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇪🇸 Samsung backs industrial robotics startup Theker in €85m round Sifted
🇫🇷 Innovafeed raises $59m, ... |
| 04.06.2026 | AgriFood Signals: $30m for meatpacking tech, Rabobank sells Foodbytes, job cuts at Aleph Farms | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇬🇧 Apoha, a startup building AI models for creating new materials, emerges from stealth with $36 mil... |
| 01.06.2026 | Natural Food Colors: Phytolon's $23.6M Fuels Market Shift | Phytolon closed a $23.6 million Series B funding round. This capital accelerates the commercialization of its advanced fermentation-based natural food colors across the U.S. A strategic investor led the round, reflecting strong market confi... |
| 28.05.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Elbit acquires Bluewhite, more funding for virtual fencing, Anheuser-Busch awards $80k grant | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇮🇱 Phytolon closes $23.6 million Series B to commercialize its innovative natural food colors PR New... |
| 21.05.2026 | AgriFood Signals: More Microsoft carbon deals, a $200m greenhouse in Mexico, rubber from dandelions | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇩🇪 Munich’s Feldwerke secures €12 million revolving credit facility to build 100 MW agri-PV portfoli... |
| 19.05.2026 | Oishii Leads Vertical Farm Revolution with Major Funding | Oishii, the vertical strawberry farm innovator, secured $150 million in Series C funding. This capital fuels aggressive expansion. It advances robotics and automation across its Smart Farm model. Oishii blends Japanese farming with modern e... |
| 14.05.2026 | AgriFood Signals: S2G Investments bags $1bn, Oishii makes first close of Series C, Corteva picks crop protection HQ | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 Oishii closes $150 million in Series C financing Horti Daily
🇬🇧 Resurrect Bio expands Series A to... |
| 07.05.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Corteva names seed spinout, Vori bags $22m for AI grocery, FMC sells India biz | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 AI grocery startup Vori raises $22 million to help independent retailers compete with Walmart and... |
| 30.04.2026 | AgriFood Signals: US farm bill passes, Halter goes off-grid, Earlybird closes deeptech fund | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇩🇪 Primogene bags $4.8m to lunch enzymatic breast milk biomolecules for infant formula Green Queen
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| 23.04.2026 | AgriFood Signals: USDA and Palantir deal, fresh funding for Afresh, Amazon’s $30m carbon credit deal | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
Afresh pulls In $34m funding round VC News Daily
Planetary nets $28m to scale fermentation infrastru... |
| 16.04.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Nestlé & Soil Capital regen partnership, Unilever buys Grüns, John Deere lawsuit | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇫🇷 Agriodor raises €15 million to expand scent-based crop protection globally Tech.eu
🇻🇳 TechCoop’s ... |
| 09.04.2026 | Agrifood Signals: Havra nets $113m for fresh produce ERP, ZBiotics GM probiotic expands to hospitality sector | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 Havra raises $113 million to bring AI-native ERP and embedded finance to the international perish... |
| 02.04.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Circulate Capital closes $220m fund, All G GRAS approval, Unilever & McCormick | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇫🇷 Standing Ovation nets $34m, gears up for US launch of casein via precision fermentation AgFunderN... |
| 31.03.2026 | Standing Ovation nets $34m, gears up for US launch of casein via precision fermentation | French startup Standing Ovation has raised a €25 million ($28.5 million) Series B round and secured an additional €5 million ($5.7 million) in non-dilutive funding to scale dairy proteins via precision fermentation.
The round was jointly le... |
| 26.03.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Danone buys protein maker Huel, Miraterra Soil bags $16m, Grab buys Food Panda Taiwan | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇮🇳 Indian food delivery startup Swish secures $38m series B Tech in Asia
🇮🇳 AgriM series B funding: ... |
| 19.03.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Solugen nabs $36m for nitrogen fertilizer, Corteva & Resurrect Bio partner, the ‘Wikipedia’ of farming | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇨🇦 Solugen raises $50M to scale organic nitrogen fertilizer production in Canada iGrow News
🇺🇸 Preci... |
| 12.03.2026 | AgriFood Signals: First close for Aqua-Spark Africa fund, Anchr nabs funds for AI in food distribution | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇬🇧 Tropic bags $105m to scale gene-edited bananas, deploy TR4 resistant bananas in 2027 AgFunderNews... |
| 05.03.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Syngenta ditches paraquat, TARGAN bags $100m for animal health, AeroFarms for sale | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 TARGAN secures $100m growth financing from Symbiotic Capital GK News
🇦🇺 PlasmaLeap raises $20m to... |
| 26.02.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Pepper raises $50m, Mars’ new impact fund, Syngenta IPO hints | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 Pepper raises $50m in Series C funding FinSMEs
🇫🇷 Precision fermentation startup Verley raises $3... |
| 19.02.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Egypt eGrocer Breadfast banks $50m, Kubota invests in spray ‘bot, Trump’s glyphosate order | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 inKind raises $450m in funding FinSMEs
🇪🇬 Breadfast moves closer to IPO with $50 million pre-Seri... |
| 12.02.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Dicamba reinstated, Bayer gets Stryax green light, SP Ventures closes $50m | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇮🇩 Green Rebel Foods raises $12.5m to expand plant-based meats Asia Business Outlook
🇮🇳 Armed with $... |
| 05.02.2026 | AgriFood Signals: UAE’s Kitopi nabs $50m, new Defra investments in UK ag, Carbon Robotics launches AI model | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 SEMCAP Food & Nutrition makes $55 million investment in Good Culture SEMCAP
🇮🇳 Indian food fi... |
| 28.01.2026 | Planetary explores collaboration to unlock low-cost mycoprotein production in India | Swiss fermentation company Planetary is exploring a collaboration with leading sugar producer Dhampur Bio Organics (DBO) to make mycoprotein in India at industrial scale at below $1/kilo.
“Subject to final agreements and regulatory approval... |
| 23.01.2026 | Exclusive: UPSIDE Foods looks beyond cultivated meat to life sciences with cell culture media spin-off Lucius Labs | Cultivated meat pioneer UPSIDE Foods has launched Lucius Labs, a new division specializing in cell culture media for the life sciences industry.
UPSIDE Foods has not responded to a request for comment, but CSO Bob Newman, PhD, explained in ... |
| 22.01.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Yield Energy launches farm-based grid platform, new $500m farmland fund | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇫🇷 MYCOPHYTO closes €16m Series A to accelerate industrial scale-up and international expansion iGro... |
| 08.01.2026 | AgriFood Signals: Corteva & BP partner on biofuels, Grit Road launches second fund for midwest agtech | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇩🇰 Bactolife raises $35m Series B to commercialize novel category of gut health ingredients: binding... |
| 18.12.2025 | 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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| 11.12.2025 | 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... |
| 10.12.2025 | Breaking: Believer Meats ceases operations, but ‘setback’ does not mean cultivated meat sector is doomed, insists AMPS | Cultivated meat startup Believer Meats—which is in the unique position of having both a large-scale production facility and regulatory approval to sell its wares in the US—has ceased operations, its HR director has confirmed.
In a LinkedIn ... |
| 04.12.2025 | AgriFood Signals: BSF bags $20m, Nestlé advances regen ag, SF sues ultraprocessed food firms | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇬🇧 UK Firm BSF Enterprise bags $20M to scale up cultivated meat & leather Green Queen
🇺🇸 Ripple ... |
| 27.11.2025 | 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 ... |
| 20.11.2025 | AgriFood Signals: Biocentis raises $19m for insect control, Monarch Tractor in trouble, choc giant partners with NotCo on AI | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇮🇳 Tractor Junction Raises $22.6m Series A to scale rural vehicle marketplace, fintech business AgFu... |
| 13.11.2025 | 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... |
| 06.11.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Funding for insect protein, Believer Meats USDA approval, Pow.Bio scales continuous biomanufacturing | 💰 Fundraise highlights: Land-based salmon farming operation First Water and insect farmer nextProtein announced notable raises, along with Ceres and Source.ag.
🍗 Spotlight on cultivated meat: Britain’s Hoxton Farms filed for regulatory appr... |
| 30.10.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Fork & Good acquires Orbillion Bio, $100m regen ag fund, Beyond Meat in court | Cultivated meat producer Fork & Good acquired Orbillion Bio (which also makes cultivated meat) this week in the latest consolidation move for the space.
In agrifinance, two asset management firms, Astarte and Toesca, have partnered on a... |
| 23.10.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Bezos Earth Fund sets up $30m AI ‘challenge,’ Nutropy nets $8m | In another sliver of good news for alternative protein, French biotech startup Nutropy raised funds this week and now has plans to launch its animal-free cheese in the next couple of years.
Elsewhere, the Bezos Earth Fund announced a $30 mi... |
| 09.10.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Corteva, Bayer announce new partnerships, Air New Zealand backs nature carbon credits | This week: slow in fundraises, heavy in partnership announcements: Air New Zealand and My Native Forest; Corteva and Profluent Bio; DoorDash and Serve Robotics, to name a few.
In other news, the European Parliament is backing a ban on terms... |
| 02.10.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: SwarmFarm Robotics nabs $30m, DoorDash delivery ‘bots, new carbon fund from Cibus | More robots are rolling into the agrifoodtech space, with new funding rounds from SwarmFarm Robotics and Terra Robotics, while US delivery giant DoorDash unveiled a new food delivery ‘bot.
Elsewhere, Jennifer Garner’s Once Upon a Farm filed... |
| 26.09.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Uber invests in drone delivery, EU to delay deforestation rule, Oracle AI ag tool | This week, Uber made moves to expand its food delivery network via an investment in delivery drone platform Flytrex, while numerous alt-protein companies announced funding rounds.
The European Union also made headlines with a proposal to de... |
| 19.09.2025 | CEE Startup & Tech Weekly: New €500M Fund, SEON’s Over €67M Raise, and DRUID AI’s Global Push | Central and Eastern Europe ~
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| 18.09.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: European agrifood funding bonanza; conservation projects from Danone, McDonald’s; Corteva breakup hints | The week brought a seemingly endless stream of fundraising announcements from European startups across the food system, from AI-for-restaurants company Nory to robotic organic farms from NeoFarm.
In agrifood corporate land, Danone North Ame... |
| 11.09.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Eat Just’s new alt-chicken, regen ag certification for coffee, PepsiCo + National Geographic | Eat Just, best known for plant-based eggs and cultivated meat, has made its first foray into plant-based meat.
This week also saw funding announcements from alt-silk-maker AMSilk, wasabi vertical farming company NextAGE, and biotech startup... |
| 04.09.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Kraft Heinz breaking up, eGrocery outfits raise funds, alt meat startups sue Texas | Quick delivery had a good week for funding, with raises from “super app” Rappi and Indian platforms Citymall and FirstClub.
Elsewhere, alt-protein companies are suing Texas thanks to the state’s cultivated meat ban, and Apeel Sciences is su... |
| 28.08.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Maalexi, Vox AI raise funds, Keurig Dr. Pepper buys Peet’s, 2026 Farm Robotics Challenge | Agriculture-focused fintech startup Maalexi landed funding this week to scale operations in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, while conversational AI startup Vox AI bagged capital to bring its tech to restaurant drive thrus.
The bi... |
| 21.08.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: John Deere + The Reservoir, AI-powered regen ag, ‘Zipotle’ delivery | Ag equipment giant John Deere announced this week it will be the exclusive OEM partner of The Reservoir, an ag robotics incubation hub slated to open in October in California.
India-based agtech startup Cropin, meanwhile, is applying some A... |
| 14.08.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Zepto and Hyphen raise funds, Proterra acquires AcreTrader, ex-eFishery CEO detained | Indian eGrocery service Zepto raised more funding this week via a Series G round that bumped its total capital over the $2 billion mark. In the US, Hyphen (the folks behind Chipotle’s automated makeline) raised another round, as did animal-... |
| 14.08.2025 | Cultivated fish co UMAMI Bioworks unveils marine bioactives: ‘We focus resources where we can create near-term commercial traction’ | UMAMI Bioworks—a Singapore-based startup specializing in cultivated seafood—has expanded its cell cultivation platform to produce marine bioactives, starting with Polydeoxyribonucleotide (PDRN), a high-value ingredient used in skincare, wou... |
| 08.08.2025 | Meatly CEO on cultivated petfood: ‘We want to prove this can be mass market” | While investor sentiment has soured on cultivated meat, UK-based startup Meatly has set out to prove—on a shoestring—that the unit economics can add up, and that petfood, rather than human food, is the place to start.
Dogs aren’t overly con... |
| 07.08.2025 | 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... |
| 06.08.2025 | UK FoodTech Leader Better Nature Secures Key Funding, Targets Global Protein Market | UK FoodTech innovator Better Nature secured €1.2 million funding. This capital boost fuels its rapid growth. The company dominates the UK tempeh market, holding 38.1% share. Its "supercharged protein" tempeh, a fermented soybean p... |
| 06.08.2025 | London’s FoodTech startup Better Nature bites into UK’s €3.7 billion chicken market with €1.2 million funding boost | British FoodTech startup Better Nature, which specialises in clean-label tempeh products, has secured €1.2 million in fresh funding, following an impressive quarter in which it saw a 128% increase in sales.
The capital injection comes mainl... |
| 31.07.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: FBN bags $50m for AI farming, Beyond Meat dumps ‘meat,’ Oishii heads to Japan | Farmers Business Network—better known to the grower community as FBN—this week secured $50 million from GV, Temasek, and other high-profile investors to build out its AI platform for ag intelligence. Saudi Arabia-based food delivery service... |
| 28.07.2025 | Sydney to Host AltProteins 25, Featuring Top Experts on Alternative Proteins and Food Innovation | On October 14, 2025, the AltProteins 25 conference will take place at the Sofitel Wentworth in Sydney. This marks the fourth edition of Australia’s premier event focusing on alternative proteins and the broader future of food systems. The c... |
| 24.07.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Fresh funds for Quorn, Mara Renewables, NZN; Barry Callebaut explores plant cell culture | This week mycoprotein pioneer Quorn secured an £18 million ($24 million) cash injection from its Filipino parent company, Provectus Algae netted new funds to scale its seaweed growing platform for livestock methane reduction, and Mara Renew... |
| 17.07.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Remora Robotics nets $16m, Big Idea Ventures’ new cohort, Austria proposes cultivated meat ban | Soil science company Regrow this week announced it will make inroads into Brazil via a partnership with Embrapa, the country’s leading ag research organization. Foodtech accelerator Big Idea Ventures, which has widened its aperture beyond i... |
| 10.07.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Mars launches ‘sustainability fund,’ Bunge & Viterra merge, Olo goes private | Summer’s hot but the funding is not—at least not this week in agrifoodtech, where just a handful of capital raises graced the headlines. On the other hand, M&A saw a surge of activity, including the completion of the heavily delayed mer... |
| 03.07.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Climeworks raises $162m, Danone acquires Kate Farms, Del Monte files Ch. 11 | This week, Swiss direct air capture (DAC) startup Climeworks raised $162 million to scale up its carbon capture technology and Polish startup Proteine Resources netted $11.2m to build an autonomous insect protein factory.
On the CPG front, ... |
| 01.07.2025 | Planetary's Bold Leap into Fungi-Based Protein: A New Era Begins | In a world increasingly hungry for sustainable food solutions, Planetary SA has made a significant move. The Swiss biomanufacturing company has acquired Libre Foods, a Barcelona-based startup renowned for its fungi-based meat alternatives. ... |
| 30.06.2025 | Planetary Expands into Fungi-Based Protein with Acquisition of Libre Foods | Swiss biomanufacturing company Planetary SA has acquired the core assets of Libre Foods, a Barcelona-based startup specialising in fungi-based meat alternatives. This acquisition includes Libre’s brand, intellectual property, commercial agr... |
| 26.06.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Climatiq raises $11.7m, Doktar bags $8.7m, Planetary acquires Libre Foods | 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 N... |
| 12.06.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Coco Robotics bags $80m, Tastewise secures $50m, Tebi raises $34m | This week, Sam Altman-backed last-mile delivery robots startup Coco Robotics raised $80m, Israel’s Tastewise closed a $50 million round to scale its AI platform for food companies, and Amsterdam-based Tebi landed funds to develop an all-in-... |
| 04.06.2025 | Perfect Day urges court to toss deceptive marketing lawsuit over animal-free dairy | Perfect Day has urged a court in the District of Columbia to toss a lawsuit alleging it is misleading consumers about its animal-free dairy products.
The complaint* focuses on beta-lactoglobulin, a whey protein (brand name ‘ProFerm’) that P... |
| 08.05.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Aquaculture co Laxey raises $146m, Hoofprint Biome lands $15m | This week, Icelandic land-based salmon farmer Laxey secured capital for the next phase of its sustainable salmon operation, while Hoofprint Biome raised money to address methane emissions with microbiome engineering.
In acquisitions, Syngen... |
| 25.04.2025 | HowGood & Watershed re-envisioning agrifood sustainability reporting through new partnership | Sustainability intelligence tracker HowGood said this week it will expand its partnership with enterprise sustainability platform Watershed to provide a “comprehensive sustainability reporting platform” to “any company with a significant fo... |
| 24.04.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Rebel Foods nets $25m, 51toCarbonZero secures $4m, GreenGrahi raises $3.8m | The week brought good news for India as IPO-bound Rebel Foods secured $25 million, insect-based animal feed developer GreenGrahi raised $3.8 million, and D2C nutrition brand Good Monk closed a $2 million pre-A deal.
Elsewhere, British susta... |
| 18.04.2025 | Perfect Day hit with lawsuit from organic, anti-GMO groups over animal-free dairy claims | Perfect Day, a startup pioneering the production of whey proteins via precision fermentation, has been hit with a lawsuit alleging it is misleading consumers about its animal-free dairy products.
The complaint* focuses on beta-lactoglobulin... |
| 17.04.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Mombak lands $17m in debt, ClearCOGS secures $3.8m, OlsAro bags $2.8m | This week carbon-removal-focused startup Mombak raised capital to expand reforestation efforts in the Amazon, Chicago-based restaurant predictive analytics provider ClearCOGS closed a seed round, and Swedish startup OlsAro raised funds to e... |
| 10.04.2025 | The death of cultivated meat has been greatly exaggerated, says report as Vow predicts it will soon be ‘unit margin positive’ | In 2021, chemical engineer and engineering consultant Dave Humbird PhD published a widely-publicized techno-economic analysis (TEA) concluding that cultivated meat faced intractable challenges at food scale. Four years later, claims a new r... |
| 10.04.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: First Water nets $43m, INTAKE raises $9.2m Series C, AgroStar bags $6.7m | This week, salmon-farming startup First Water raised $43 million, while precision fermentation company INTAKE closed a $9.2million Series C deal, and Accel India lead a $6.7 million round for ag marketplace AgroStar.
On the corporate side, ... |
| 03.04.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Fairmat raises $57m, Fiberdom lands $3.9m, Carbon Robotics unveils AutoTractor | The week brought good winds for European startups, as France-based Fairmat closed a $57 million B round to recycle carbon composites, Finnish Fiberdom secured $3.9 million to drive plastic-free material innovation, and Sweden’s Algae Factor... |
| 20.03.2025 | 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... |
| 06.03.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Restaurant tech provider Odeko nabs $126m, agrifintech Techcoop raises $70m | This week, restaurant tech provider Odeko raised a whopping $126 million and Vietnamese agrifintech platform Techcoop closed a Series A round.
Elsewhere, British cleantech startup Epoch BioDesign raised $18.3 million to make recycled plasti... |
| 27.02.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: uFraction8 bags $4.3m, Prosus to acquire Just Eat, Yamaha enters agtech space | This week Scottish startup uFraction8 raised a $4.3 million seed round to expand microfluidics-based tech for bioprocessing, Prosus announced a $4.3 billion plan to acquire Just Eat Takeaway.com, and carbon credits platform Arbonics partner... |
| 20.02.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Spore.Bio bags $23m for rapid on-site microbiology testing, Imperia raises $10.5m | This week French startup Spore.Bio raised a $23 million Series A to expand its rapid, on-site microbiology testing capabilities, Spain’s Imperia raised $10.5 million to expand its supply chain management SaaS platform across Europe, and Ham... |
| 13.02.2025 | 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... |
| 06.02.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Avisomo secures $5.2m, BiocSol snaps $4.6m, PlantBaby raises $4m | This week, Norwegian vertical farming startup Avisomo secured $5.2 million, Belgian sustainable crop protection startup BiocSol snapped up $4.6 million, and US-based PlantBaby raised $4 million for its alt-milk for kids.
Meanwhile Israeli s... |
| 30.01.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Liberation Labs raises $50.5m, OCELL nabs $10m, Pluri to make lab-grown cocoa acquisition | This week precision fermentation biotech Liberation Labs closed a $50.5 million convertible note that will enable completion of a new plant, while Bonsai Robotics secured $15 million in Series A funding to advance its agricultural AI soluti... |
| 23.01.2025 | 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... |
| 09.01.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: India’s Botanic Healthcare bags $29m, Fermata secures $10m, Plenty facing value cut | The new year started with new fundraises from India-based nutraceutical startup Botanic Healthcare and agriculture-focused data science company Fermata.
Meanwhile, Ohalo teamed up with farmers in Florida to develop a “disease-resistant stra... |
| 12.12.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Nexus W2V raises $140m, Haber nets $44m, Planet A Foods bags $30m | As US legislation evolves across the waste-management industry, Nexus W2V, a leading developer of waste-to-value infrastructure projects, announced the closing of an anchor $75 million structured equity commitment from Orion Infrastructure ... |
| 05.12.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Mondelez invests in cocoa tech, a $350m regen ag fund launches | Is biotech “the next industrial revolution?” The United States Department of Defense appears to think so, as it has injected millions into multiple agrifoodtech startups including The Every Co and Liberation Labs.
And actually, biotech was ... |
| 28.11.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: AI-powered protein, plant-based food dyes, and maggot robots | It’s Thanksgiving in the US, which usually means family, friends, and food waste: ReFED estimates that 316 million pounds of food will go to waste this holiday. However, the think tank also has some tips for how households can help curb thi... |
| 21.11.2024 | 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... |
