Catch 22 Recent AgriFood Fundraising Headlines
🚜 Carbon Robotics secured $70 million in a Series D funding to expand its autonomous LaserWeeder platform internationally
💸 Agrolend raised $53 million in a Series C funding round led by Creation Investments Capital Management, LLC and Syngenta Group Ventures
🇮🇳 Stellapps Technologies Private Limited secured $26 million Series C funding to expand its "mooMark" brand, focusing on tech-powered, low-capex contract manufacturing and private labelling
🍻 Best Day Brewing raised $22.5 million to expand consumer awareness, reach a larger audience, and support its retail distribution growth plans.
🇫🇷 HUBCYCLE, which specialises in transforming food industry by-products into affordable, sustainable ingredients, closed a €15 million Series A round.
☀️ FarmDroid secured €10.5 million to promote sustainable farming by reducing labour costs, pesticide use, and improve efficiency in open-field farming
💰 Business Finland awarded €10 million in R&D funding to two Finnish projects, FoodID and FinBioFAB
📲 MealMe, Inc. raised $8 million Series A funding to expand its retail ordering API
🇳🇿 Ruminant BioTech secured additional funding to advance its methane-inhibiting bolus for reducing livestock emissions.
🇬🇧 MicroLub raised £3.5 million for its plant-based microgels, which replace fats and oils in food products
🥙 Artah Nutrition raised nearly £3 million to drive growth and product development
🍩 Drumroll Snacks received $3 million from 7 Mile Brands for its low-sugar, high-protein baked donuts
🍣 Revo Foods and Paleo have formed a new partnership, backed by €2.2 million in EU funding, to create plant-based salmon alternatives
🏭 The Healey-Driscoll administration and MassTech awarded $2.1 million to Tufts University to establish the FEAST centre, which will offer cutting-edge facilities for prototyping and collaboration with academic and business partners to advance research in cellular agriculture.
🥘 Foodsi, a marketplace for surplus food from restaurants and stores, raised €1.2 million in a seed extension round
🌿 Rare Earth Global raised £1 million to expand its platform for industrial hemp products
🥊 Mr. Charlie's secured investment from former heavyweight boxing champion and entrepreneur Mike Tyson
🍯 MeliBio secured a strategic investment from Future Food Fund by Oisix to scale distribution of its plant-based sweetener, Mellody®.
🫛 Maya Jama has become an investor and co-owner of Sproud, which uses yellow split peas to create a high-protein, allergen-free milk alternative
🧫 Meatable and Sticta Biologicals received a grant from the The Good Food Institute to create a genome-scale metabolic model for porcine cells
🍙 OCEANIUM secured funding from Innovate UK and BBSRC to develop Project SeaFibre
6️⃣ Big Idea Ventures has invested in six startups
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