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 climate founders in Africa via Gather Ventures.
Elsewhere: It’s earnings call week, AI chatbots do regenerative agriculture, Just Egg lands in the UK, and vertical farming company Aerofarms bags new funds.
Funding news
🇺🇸 BioConsortia secures $15M to scale nitrogen-fixing seed treatment product New Ag International
🇺🇸 Soil health analytics startup TerraBlaster closes oversubscribed $4m pre-seed round AgTech Navigator
🇪🇬 Suplyd raises $2 million pre-Series A to build next-gen restaurant infrastructure Wamda
🇬🇧 Better Nature raises $1.5M to fight chicken with tempeh after ‘best-ever’ quarter Green Queen
🇸🇪 Flox raises nearly $1M to redefine human-wildlife coexistence Tech.eu
🇺🇸 Nomura backs Terviva to boost SAF feedstocks and reforest degraded land Protein Production Technology
🇺🇸 AeroFarms raises equity to fund pre-construction activities for second farm Business Wire
Funds, grants & accelerators
🇰🇪 Rihanna-backed fund to boost women-led climate startups across Africa Tech in Africa
🇬🇧 Cambridge Innovation Capital commits £100M to University of Cambridge spinouts Tech.eu
🇺🇸 Atlantic Fish Co. awarded $300K+ NSF grant Alt-Meat
🇺🇸 MAVRK Capital Inc. announces first close of second fund iGrow News
🇺🇸 Foundations launch $50 million adaptation and resilience fund for communities facing climate risks Climateworks
People moves
🇺🇸 Lindberg wins confirmation as USDA’s top trade official Agri Pulse
🇺🇸 Switch Bioworks expands leadership team PR Newswire
Other news
🇺🇸 US senators ask FDA to ban dairy-like terms on plant-based product labels Green Queen
🇳🇱 Albert Heijn becomes “first” global supermarket to disclose methane emissions Vegconomist
🇺🇸 Juicy Marbles & Friends launches whole-cut plant-based salmon Plant Based News [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Juicy Marbles.]
🇺🇸 Right to repair granted? John Deere launches digital self-repair tool for $195 per tractor AgWeb
🇺🇸 Funding to precision ag jumps 71%, outpaces ag biotech for the first time since 2017: Pitchbook AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 Advancing Eco Agriculture launches first AI chatbot for regenerative agronomy Crop Life
🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Cargill secures initial victory in erythritol anti-dumping case vs China, but move has unintended consequences AgFunderNews
🇮🇳 🇬🇧 Cropin picks UK to combine AI and regen in €700k potato project AgReads
🇬🇧 DoorDash acquisition drives losses for Deliveroo UK Tech News
🇩🇪 🇺🇸 Bayer ‘turning over every stone’ to ‘significantly contain’ glyphosate litigation by end of 2026 AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 Beyond Meat brings in chief transformation officer, cuts more jobs, following another grim quarter AgFunderNews
🇬🇧 Plant-based egg alternative Just Egg launches into the UK with Ocado listing The Grocer
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