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
🇬🇧 Myota raises $4.5m to supply clinically backed fibre blends to F&B industry The Grocer
🇸🇦 Terraxy raises $3 million to scale desert greening and soil regeneration technology in Saudi Arabia iGrow News
🇦🇺 Coast 4C secures oversubscribed US$2.5 million seed round to scale smallholder seaweed farming in Southeast Asia Aquaculture Asia Pacific
🇬🇧 Fieldwork Robotics secures investment from Seed Innovations Fruitnet
M&A, IPOs & partnerships
🇬🇧 🇮🇱 Tropic acquires leading global plant propagation business Rahan Meristem Fresh Fruit Portal
🇫🇷 🇦🇺 Danone buys Australian dairy producer Made in Protein Push Bloomberg
🇺🇸 Zume Pizza technology is acquired by Flippy owner Miso Nation’s Restaurant News
🇺🇸 Reservoir acquires Contain to accelerate rugged physical AI agtech startups Dealroom
🇳🇱 Schouten buys fellow Dutch plant-based meat player to expand Europe footprint Green Queen
Funds, grants & accelerators
🇬🇧 UK: New £53 million investment for growing innovation Horti Daily
🇧🇪 Zymofix receives €1.9M grant FinSMEs
🇱🇺 🇯🇵 European and Japanese impact firms team up to launch $75m blue economy fund Impact Loop
People moves
🇦🇺 CEO shakeup at Vow amid restructure at lab-grown meat startup Forbes
🇬🇧 Former brand chief returns to lead The Vegetarian Butcher Collective Vegconomist
Other news
🇺🇸 Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against the maker of Roundup weedkiller AP News
🇬🇧 British EUDR? UK government to introduce anti-deforestation rules Food Navigator
🇫🇷 Micropep Technologies files for regulatory approval of Promisin biofungicide in Brazil and Paraguay iGrow News
🇦🇺 Goterra administrator seeks buyer as founder warns of insect ag sector ‘contagion’ AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 Seaweed yarn maker Keel Labs files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Yahoo Finance
🇺🇸 Liberation Bioindustries pauses construction again as it seeks funds to complete US biomanufacturing site AgFunderNews
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