The Week in AgriFoodTech: Remora Robotics nets $16m, Big Idea Ventures’ new cohort, Austria proposes cultivated meat ban
Soil science company Regrow this week announced it will make inroads into Brazil via a partnership with Embrapa, the country’s leading ag research organization. Foodtech accelerator Big Idea Ventures, which has widened its aperture beyond its original alt-protein focus of late, announced its new cohort, and some folks in Austria are on a mission to ban cultivated meat.
Funding news
🇺🇸 BiomEdit raises $18.4m Series B to expand designer probiotics platform AgFunderNews
🇳🇴 Remora Robotics nets €13.9 million to scale AI net-cleaning capacity The Fish Site
🇦🇺 Eclipse Ingredients secures funding for its ‘capital-light’ spin on making human lactoferrin AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 Acre Venture Partners bets on GenAI for NPD with Zucca investment: Tech will become ‘core to commercialization’ in CPG AgFunderNews
🇮🇳 Lo! Foods raises $3.5m Deal Street Asia
🇪🇸 Spanish startup ODOS raises €680k for sustainability in the agri-food sector with their data-collection platform EU Startups
🇦🇷 Gates Foundation invests in Puna Bio to bring extremophile-based ag biologicals to Africa AgFunderNews
M&A, IPOs & partnerships
🇺🇸 🇧🇷 Regrow Partners with Embrapa to Advance Climate-Smart Agriculture in Brazil Regrow
🇺🇸 🇯🇵 DENSO Acquires Axia Vegetable Seeds to Advance AgriTech Strategy iGrow News
Funds, grants & accelerators
🇺🇸 Spearhead Bio Awarded NSF Tech Transfer Grant to Accelerate Development of Improved Corn Varieties Newswise
🇺🇸 Big Idea Ventures Announces Seven Innovative Startups in Latest Global Food Innovation Fund II Cohort Yahoo Finance
People moves
🇺🇸 FMC Corporation Names Brian P. Angeli As President Of North America Global Agriculture
🇩🇪 Supervisory Board of Bayer AG extends contract of CEO Bill Anderson Bayer
🇺🇸 Trump nominates Callahan for USTR chief ag negotiator Agri-Pulse
Other news
🇺🇸 Climate friendly beef? ALDF sues USDA for records over ‘misleading’ Beef Checkoff environmental claims AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 Misfits Market launches household goods category Grocery Dive
🇦🇹 McDonald’s Austria Removes McPlant from Menu, Citing Decline in Consumer Interest Vegconomist
🇺🇸 FDA to Revoke 52 Obsolete Standards of Identity for Food Products FDA
🇫🇮 Solar Foods signs LOI to supply up to 1,650 tons of Solein protein annually for health and performance market Protein Production Technology
🇦🇹 Austria Presents Petition to Ban Cultivated Meat at European Parliament Cultivated X
🇪🇺 EU Commission Proposes Banning Meat-Like Terms on Plant-Based Labels Green Queen
🇺🇸 Texas investigating Skittles maker Mars for failing to remove artificial food dyes Food Dive
🇺🇸 USDA Cancels More Support for Regional Food Systems Civil Eats
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