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| Oct 3, 2026 | Ranchbot Elevates Agtech, Establishes Global Hub in Fort Worth After $15M Series B | Ranchbot secured over $15M in Series B funding. It established a U.S. holding company. Global headquarters now sit in Fort Worth, Texas. This move fuels worldwide expansion. A new global board strengthens governance. The agtech firm offers ... |
| Sep 24, 2026 | AgriFood Signals: Confido raises $55m to help CPGs, Tesco backs Henry Dimbleby’s fund, UPF food labeling | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 Confido raises $55m Series B The SaaS News
🇪🇸 Elian secures €40 million to scale EU plant protein... |
| Sep 3, 2026 | AgriFood Signals: Remembering Wendell Berry, Farmland LP’s new fund, Dairy Queen robots | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇸🇬 Sharpa raises over RMB 4.5 billion [$670 million] as it puts robots to work at Dairy Queen KR Asi... |
| Aug 27, 2026 | AgriFood Signals: Reservoir & Deere partnership, 80 Acres Farms lawsuit, new blended finance for Africa | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 Livestock management app Breedr plans expansion after $27m raise led by Partech’s impact arm AgFu... |
| Aug 25, 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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| Aug 20, 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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| Aug 13, 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... |
| Aug 12, 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... |
| Aug 6, 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... |
| Aug 6, 2026 | Eating Healthier Can Cut German Grocery Bills by $1,519 Annually, Study Finds | By Benjamin Eddie
Published: Aug 06 2026, 11:52 AM EDT
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| Jul 30, 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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| Jul 9, 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... |
| Jul 8, 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... |
| Jun 26, 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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| Jun 24, 2026 | Future Food Quick Bites: Kevin Bacon, Protein Seasonings & Eggless Cocktail Foams | 4 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Kevin Bacon’s Beansday campaign, Devious Foods’s protein seasonings, and The Vegetarian Butcher Collective’s new ... |
| Jun 18, 2026 | AgriFood Signals: Anthropic joins carbon removal coalition, Elanco launches venture arm, AeroFarms acquired | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇳🇱 Vertoro closes €17 million Series B to scale plant-based waste to renewable oil technology One St... |
| Jun 15, 2026 | French alt meat whole cut specialist SWAP Food enters judicial liquidation | Paris-based alt meat firm SWAP Food (formerly UMIAMI) has been placed into judicial liquidation and ceased activities today (June 15) according to emails sent to industry stakeholders this week.
The firm, which was founded in 2020 and has s... |
| Jun 11, 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, ... |
| Jun 4, 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... |
| May 21, 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... |
| May 19, 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... |
| May 14, 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... |
| May 7, 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... |
| Apr 30, 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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| Mar 6, 2026 | Guest article: The alt-meat reset. Scale won’t fix broken unit economics | Christie Lagally is the founder and CEO of Rebellyous Foods, a fast-growing startup that has developed a continuous processing system it claims can slash production costs for plant-based meat, enabling meat alternatives to reach cost parity... |
| Mar 4, 2026 | Future Food Quick Bites: Yeast Protein Bar, Baftas & Milan Fashion Week | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Yeastup and Weena’s yeast protein bar, Forager Project’s Greek yoghurt expansion, and Oatly’s Milan Fashion Week ... |
| Feb 26, 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... |
| Feb 19, 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... |
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| Feb 12, 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 $... |
| Jan 29, 2026 | AgriFood Signals: Syngenta inks clean energy deal, SemCap closes $125m food fund, McDonald’s nixes veggie items | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇫🇷 Aviwell raises €11m to scale AI-driven microbiota platform for sustainable animal nutrition Fish ... |
| Jan 28, 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... |
| Jan 22, 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... |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Mö Foods lands €2.4M to make oat-based cheese alternatives the new global benchmark for taste and sustainability | Mö Foods lands €2.4M to make oat-based cheese alternatives the new global benchmark for taste and sustainability
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With its award-winning oat-based cheese alternatives, Mö moves plant-based from... |
| Jan 8, 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... |
| 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 4, 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 ... |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Oatly Coffees, Barry Callebaut & Listeria Settlement | 3 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Oatly’s iced coffees, La Vie and Cathedral City’s collab, and Danone and Walmart’s listeria settlement. New produ... |
| Nov 20, 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... |
| 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... |
| Nov 6, 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... |
| Oct 30, 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... |
| Oct 23, 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... |
| Oct 16, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Wild Bioscience raises $60m, Starship lands $50m, new EU agrifood grants | Oxford University spinout Wild Bioscience raised a $60 million Series A round this week to develop climate smart crops by using AI to “better understand the lessons learned over millions of years of evolution encoded in plant genomes.”
Robo... |
| Oct 15, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Redefine Steak, Blended Proteins & Beyond Meat | 4 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Redefine Meat’s Asda rollout, Purezza’s new online vegan store, and Beyond Meat’s debt swap. New products and lau... |
| Oct 2, 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... |
| Sep 26, 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... |
| Sep 18, 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... |
| Sep 17, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Mushroom Broth, Planta & Aquafaba Powder | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Two River’s lion’s mane broth, Planta’s acquisition, and animal-free egg legal battles. New products and launches... |
| Sep 11, 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... |
| Sep 4, 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... |
| Aug 28, 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... |
| Aug 19, 2025 | Better Meat Co raises $31m Series A: ‘Some days, building a startup in our sector can feel like being a player in Squid Game’ | Sacramento-based startup The Better Meat Co (BMC) has closed a $31 million oversubscribed Series A round enabling it to increase production of its Rhiza mycoprotein to commercial scale and sell “at prices lower than US commodity ground beef... |
| Aug 14, 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-... |
| 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... |
| Jul 31, 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... |
| Jul 30, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Alpro Kids, 3D-Printed Shawarma & Vegan Meat Labels | 4 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Alpro Kids’ video-game-style campaign, Mighty Drinks’ rescue deal, and South Africa’s plant-based meat labelling ... |
| Jul 24, 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... |
| Jul 17, 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... |
| Jul 16, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: GLP-1 Drink, Plant Points & Cultivated Meat in Space | 4 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers a new GLP-1 alternative drink, Canada’s pea protein bet, and the European Space Agency’s cultivated meat project.... |
| Jul 10, 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... |
| Jul 9, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Oshi Salmon, Apricot Kernel Chocolate & Vegan Eggs | 4 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Next Level Burger’s new menu, Quorn’s £18M injection, and Chocolat Stella’s apricot kernel milk bar. New products... |
| Jul 3, 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, ... |
| Jun 26, 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... |
| Jun 19, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Fungu’it bags $4.6m, indoor saffron farming blooms, GM pigs deemed ‘safe’ | This week, French foodtech Fungu’it raised $4.6 million to transform agricultural by-products using filamentous fungi, while Swedish startup BlueRedGold netted $3.1 million to commercialize indoor saffron production through robotics and aut... |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Protein Lattes, Food Tech Hubs & Tempeh Innovation | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers a host of protein lattes, Better Nature’s tempeh rollouts, and Meatable’s presentation at a Wall Street Journal f... |
| Jun 12, 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-... |
| Jun 5, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: India’s Udaan scores $340m, climate forecaster Jua nabs $11m, FDA launches AI tool | Notable fundraises this week came from Indian B2B trading platform Udaan, Swiss climate-forecasting startup Jua, and Japan-based “hot chain” foodservice startup Wada FoodTech, best known for its automated bento vending machines.
Elsewhere, ... |
| Jun 4, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan RXBar, NotMilk Avena, Pre-Frozen Tofu | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Kellanova’s plant-based RXBars, Vivera’s pre-frozen tofu, and a cultivated seafood tasting event. New products an... |
| May 29, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: David raises $75m, Alt Carbon nets $12m, Deere scoops up Sentera | Agrifood’s biggest round this week was a Series A for protein bar maker David, which also announced it had bought ingredients firm Epogee. Insect-based aquaculture feed producer Volare secured funds to build a new factory in Finland, and In... |
| 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 21, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Oatly x Chris Parnell, Vegan Nutella & Forbes 30 Under 30 | 6 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Nutella Plant-Based’s UK launch, Oatly’s collab with Chris Parnell, and Nestlé’s new biotech centre. New products... |
| 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... |
| May 8, 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... |
| May 1, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Spotlight on textile recycling as DePoly & eeden raise capital, Freight Farms ceases operations | This week saw new developments in alt-textiles: Switzerland-based DePoly secured new capital to open a PET (polyethylene terephthalate) recycling plant, while German startup eeden closed a Series A deal to scale its textile-recycling operat... |
| Apr 30, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Gordon Ramsay x Flora, Hyper Oat Milk & Vegan School Meals | 4 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Gordon Ramsay’s partnership with Becel, a new vegan egg in Italy, and Spain’s plant-based school meal decree. New... |
| Apr 24, 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... |
| Apr 17, 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... |
| Apr 10, 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, ... |
| Apr 9, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Ottolenghi’s Beans, Disneyland & Beyond Meat Doc | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Bold Bean Co’s Ottolenghi collaboration, Beyond Meat’s new documentary, and Miyoko Schinner’s upcoming vegan cook... |
| Apr 3, 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... |
| Mar 27, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Biologicals OG Vestaron raises $20m, Grow Indigo secures $10m | This week, fundraises included one for Grow Indigo—Indigo Ag’s smallholder farmer initiative— as well as those for Israeli foodtech firm Brevel and Netherlands-based Grassa, which is developing grass protein production tech.
Meanwhile verti... |
| 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... |
| Mar 13, 2025 | The Taste of Tomorrow: Plant-Based Meat and Dairy Innovations | The culinary landscape is shifting. The rise of plant-based alternatives is not just a trend; it’s a revolution. The latest reports and innovations highlight a growing appetite for sustainable food options. But how do these products stack u... |
| Mar 13, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Scimplify raises $40m, Grão Direto nets $15m, Elevarm bags $4.3m | This week Scimplify, an Indian startup connecting agriculture and pharma with speciality chemicals, raised new funds, as did grain-trading platform Grão Direto and “photosynthesis boosting” pioneer GigaCrop.
Elsewhere, GlobalData acquired A... |
| Mar 12, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Oat Milk Baileys, Beyond Steak Fillet & An Impossible Burger Challenge | 7 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Diageo’s newest non-dairy Baileys, Beyond Meat’s mycelium steak, and Minor Figures’s ‘Hyper’ oat milk. New produc... |
| Mar 7, 2025 | China’s Culinary Renaissance: A Feast for the Senses at the 2025 China Flavour and Style Exhibition | The 2025 China Flavour and Style Exhibition is set to be a culinary odyssey, showcasing the rich tapestry of Chinese culture through its food, beverages, and art. From March 13 to 16, Singapore EXPO Hall 5B will transform into a vibrant mar... |
| Mar 7, 2025 | Two Sessions: Why China is Betting on Alternative Proteins in Its Annual Political Summit | 6 Mins Read China’s annual Two Sessions summit is underway, and two documents released in the lead-up indicate drummed-up government support for alternative proteins.
As political leaders from across China convene at the annual Two Sessions... |
| Mar 6, 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... |
| Feb 27, 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... |
| Feb 20, 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... |
| 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... |
| Feb 12, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Beyond x NBA, Corn Milk & Carbon Crackers | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Beyond Meat’s new products and cookbook, the US’s first corn milk brand, and a cultivated seafood tasting. New pr... |
| Feb 11, 2025 | MeliBio aims for profitability by year end as it ramps up bee-free honey business in US | MeliBio, a California-based startup developing honey without bees, says it is on course to reach profitability by the year end as it ramps up sales in the US market.
“In 2024 we went from 10 stores to 400, and to get to profitability we nee... |
| Feb 6, 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... |
| Jan 30, 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... |
| 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... |
| Jan 16, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Colossal Biosciences raises $200m, Chipotle invests in methane reduction | This week, Colossal Biosciences, the company trying to bring back the woolly mammoth, raised a whopping $200 million while NatureMetrics, a British startup in nature intelligence and biodiversity monitoring, closed a Series B round.
Outside... |
| Jan 16, 2025 | Burger Wars Heat Up: Why McDonald’s is Losing to Plant-Based Rivals in Europe | 7 Mins Read Sustained high meat prices on both sides of the pond are changing the burger business – for the benefit of people and the planet. But McDonald’s may be too centralised to adapt quickly enough to the changing times.
The world’s l... |
