Agrifood Tech

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Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Inari rakes in $144 million to scale production of lab grown, climate resilient seeds

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Smallholder Agriculture | Shefali Anand

Investors bet on drones to lift agricultural productivity and women’s livelihoods in India

Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Supply Change leads Celleste Bio’s $4.5 million round to make lab-grown cocoa ingredients

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Dealflow | Snehal Shah

Bain Capital Double Impact bets on sustainable agriculture with buyout and merger

Agrifood Tech | Jessica Pothering

Lok Capital invests $6.2 million in drone startup Marut Drones

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Smallholder Agriculture | Jessica Pothering

Farmworks secures investment to link Kenya’s farmers to markets

Female Invest founders | Credit: Female Invest

Gender Smart | Jessica Pothering

Rubio Impact Ventures backs companies driving women’s financial empowerment and sustainable foods

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Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

RSF Social Finance lends $13.5 million to sustainable food and recycling enterprises

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Creative Economy | Dennis Price

The key ingredient in Siete Food’s $1.2 billion exit to Pepsi: Authenticity

Agrifood Tech | Lucy Ngige

German alt-protein startup Formo lands $61 million for animal-free cheese

Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Incofin’s Nutritious Foods Financing Facility backs three social enterprises in Africa

Oceans | Jessica Pothering

Agrion inks $50 million to fight water and coastal pollution from sugarcane in Brazil

Agrifood Tech | Lucy Ngige

Omnivore leads financing for Scimplify’s biotech products in India

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India | Roodgally Senatus

India’s Agrizy scores $9.8 million to digitalize agricultural processors

Agrifood Tech | Jessica Pothering

Investors commit $11 million to catalyze financing for nutritious food in Africa

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Impact Investing | Lucy Ngige

Monarch Tractor lands $133 million to deliver self-driving e-tractors to farmers

Smallholder Agriculture | Lucy Ngige

Wangara Green Ventures backs Sommalife to expand market access to shea farmers in Ghana

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Impact Tech | Roodgally Senatus

Tender Food scores $11 million for plant-based alternative meats

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Dealflow | Lynnley Browning

Solugen lands a $214 million federal loan guarantee to scale sustainable chemicals production

Low-carbon transition | Roodgally Senatus

Downforce Technologies raises $4.2 million to measure carbon stored in soil

Agrifood Tech | Lucy Ngige

Kenyan agri-data provider Gro Intelligence shuts down

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Agrifood Tech | Lucy Ngige

ResponsAbility invests in India’s FarMart to streamline food supply chains

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Agrifood Tech | Roodgally Senatus

PeakBridge Growth Fund raises $187 million to bring technology to food ventures

Smallholder Agriculture | Roodgally Senatus

Rize scores $14 million to reduce emissions and boost livelihoods for rice farmers

Agrifood Tech | Lucy Ngige

Kenya’s iProcure, used by a million farmers, is the latest African funding crunch casualty

Agrifood Tech | Roodgally Senatus

S2G Ventures and At One Ventures back Miraterra to help farmers monitor soil health

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Agrifood Tech | Lucy Ngige

Renew Capital invests in Farm to Feed to curb food waste in Kenya

Agrifood Tech | Alejandro Enamorado

Opportunities across the investment spectrum to recycle and reduce food waste

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Smallholder Agriculture | Jessica Pothering

SunCulture raises $27.5 million to expand solar irrigation for smallholder farmers

Agrifood Tech | Jessica Pothering

Seso inks $26 million to address US farm labor shortages

Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Mad Capital raises $14 million in blended capital for regenerative farmland transitions

Agrifood Tech | Roodgally Senatus

KAS snags $3 million for low-cost production of aquaculture ingredient

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Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Hippo Harvest scores $21 million for greenhouse-grown produce

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Agrifood Tech | Jessica Pothering

Spain’s Heura raises €40 million for ‘clean’ plant-based meat

Agrifood Tech | Jessica Pothering

Aquaconnect raises $4 million to link India’s fish farmers to supplies and markets

Agrifood Tech | Jessica Pothering

IGS scores £22.5 million to build a giant vertical farm in the UAE

Dealflow | Lucy Ngige

KisanKonnect’s raises $3.7 million to combat food waste and boost farmers in India

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Agrifood Tech | Roodgally Senatus

FA Bio secures £5.3 million for sustainable bioproducts from ‘superior’ microbes

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Climate Finance | David Bank

In community with food, champions of regenerative agriculture gather in Kauai (videos)

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Climate Finance | Jessica Pothering

The impact entrepreneurs and investors putting the UN’s food framework into action

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Agrifood Tech | Lucy Ngige

Investors commit $1.7 million to Aquarech to support fish farmers in Kenya

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Agrifood Tech | Jessica Pothering

Planet Farms raises $40 million for vertical farms in Italy and the UK

Aigen co-founders, Rich Wurden and Kenny Lee | Photo by Aigen.

Agrifood Tech | Roodgally Senatus

Aigen raises $12 million to build solar-powered robots for crop management

Europe | Jessica Pothering

Austria’s Inoqo helps grocery stores report Scope 3 emissions

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Dealflow | Lucy Ngige

Kern Tec lands $12.8 million to make dairy alternatives from upcycled produce