AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech.
Funding news
🇮🇳 Bertelsmann leads $24m round in Indian food delivery startup Tech in Asia
🇮🇪 Impact Partners invests €7.2 million in Foorban Startup Business
🇪🇸 Strong by Form raises €5.8M to take on concrete with less wood Tech.eu
🇮🇪 Italy’s Biorsaf raises €5.2 million and acquires Cooki to build AI-powered food RegTech platform EU Startups
🇫🇷 Tellia raises $5 million to bring voice AI to farm fields iGrow News
🇸🇬 Singapore agritech startup N&E Innovations raises $1.7 million in Series A Funding Asia Connect Magazine
M&A, IPOs & partnerships
🇨🇱 NotCo sells Brazilian business & reportedly closes Mexican arm amid AI pivot Green Queen
🇮🇳 India’s Udaan to acquire Swiggy-owned LYNK for $53m Tech in Asia
🇺🇸 Grainger acquires AI job site tech firm AWM for $210M to boost inventory management Dealroom
🇨🇭 🇫🇷 Syngenta and Amoéba seal biofungicide deal as cereal growers battle disease and dwindling chemistry options Ag Navigator
🇦🇺 🇳🇱 Nourish Ingredients and SD Guthrie announce partnership to scale Creamilux production in Europe Asia Food Journal
Funds, grants & accelerators
🇫🇮 EIF backs Nordic Foodtech VC with €30M to scale Europe’s agrifood deeptech Tech.eu
🇨🇮 African Development Bank launches up to USD 5.1 billion plan to counter energy and fertilizer shocks Development Aid
🇺🇸 OpenAI Foundation backs effort to bring AI-powered weather services to millions of farmers Aim for Scale
Other news
🇩🇰 Agreena lands 4.45M-ton Kazakhstan carbon deal ESG News
🇺🇸 California approves first statewide non-ultraprocessed food label Food Dive
🇫🇷 Court-supervised receivership for Agronutris, despite €60 million in public LinkedIn
🇳🇴 Yara inaugurates Europe’s largest carbon capture facility in the Netherlands iGrow News
🇮🇱 Steakholder Foods rolls out 3D-printed whole-cut meat at US supermarkets Green Queen
🇺🇸 New York State Fair’s 800-pound butter sculpture recycled into energy at Western New York Dairy Farm Global Newswire