Reports this month that Microsoft would pause its carbon removal activities set off a fresh set of...
Agriculture
Funding for fermentation startups in alt protein—spanning everything from mycoprotein to recombinant casein—fell from $651 million in...
US retail sales of plant-based meat and dairy continued their precipitous decline in 2025, while foodservice presented...
[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Solinftec] Solinftec now has over 300 solar-powered robots to...
Swiss startup Planetary has raised a CHF 16 million ($20 million) Series A equity financing round, supplemented...
Editor’s note: Tim Bucher is the CEO and co-founder of Agtonomy, a physical AI company that partners...
Robotic weeders are evolving quickly. Some zap weeds with lasers, hot oil or electricity, others target them...
David Protein—which launched in 2024 and predicts revenues “north of $300 million” in 2026—has increased manufacturing capacity...
Patagonia‘s nonprofit shareholder Holdfast Collective has announced a $1.55 million commitment to help the Rodale Institute transition...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Klim.] It’s no longer enough to talk about...
Monarch Tractor’s collapse reflects the limits of an ambitious full-stack hardware model in a changing economic climate—not...
[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Verdant Robotics] Ag robotics startup Verdant Robotics has...
Michroma—a startup producing heat- and pH-stable natural colors in fermentation tanks—is aiming to address two of the...
Vivici—a startup producing the whey protein beta-lactoglobulin (BLG) via precision fermentation—has integrated novel tech from Danish startup...
Latam sugar giant Magdalena is diversifying beyond sugar, ethanol and energy to build a biological manufacturing business featuring...
Editor’s note: Cameron Burford is Managing Director of SaaS at Growers Edge, a company providing modern financial...
Singapore-based Polybee has what one investor calls “a rare combination of high technical defensibility and immediate, bankable...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has exempted low-cal sweetener tagatose from ‘added sugar’ labeling requirements...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...