AgriFood Signals: EIF backs Nordic Foodtech VC, NotCo sells Brazilian business, Agronutris in receivership

AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech.

Funding news

🇮🇳 Bertelsmann leads $24m round in Indian food delivery startup Tech in Asia

🇮🇪 Impact Partners invests €7.2 million in Foorban Startup Business

🇪🇸 Strong by Form raises €5.8M to take on concrete with less wood Tech.eu

🇮🇪 Italy’s Biorsaf raises €5.2 million and acquires Cooki to build AI-powered food RegTech platform EU Startups

🇫🇷 Tellia raises $5 million to bring voice AI to farm fields iGrow News

🇸🇬 Singapore agritech startup N&E Innovations raises $1.7 million in Series A Funding Asia Connect Magazine

M&A, IPOs & partnerships

🇨🇱 NotCo sells Brazilian business & reportedly closes Mexican arm amid AI pivot Green Queen

🇮🇳 India’s Udaan to acquire Swiggy-owned LYNK for $53m Tech in Asia

🇺🇸 Grainger acquires AI job site tech firm AWM for $210M to boost inventory management Dealroom

🇨🇭 🇫🇷 Syngenta and Amoéba seal biofungicide deal as cereal growers battle disease and dwindling chemistry options Ag Navigator

🇦🇺 🇳🇱 Nourish Ingredients and SD Guthrie announce partnership to scale Creamilux production in Europe Asia Food Journal

Funds, grants & accelerators

🇫🇮 EIF backs Nordic Foodtech VC with €30M to scale Europe’s agrifood deeptech Tech.eu

🇨🇮 African Development Bank launches up to USD 5.1 billion plan to counter energy and fertilizer shocks Development Aid

🇺🇸 OpenAI Foundation backs effort to bring AI-powered weather services to millions of farmers Aim for Scale

Other news

🇩🇰 Agreena lands 4.45M-ton Kazakhstan carbon deal ESG News

🇺🇸 California approves first statewide non-ultraprocessed food label Food Dive

🇺🇸 Onego Bio partners with Zen Waffles to bring precision-fermented egg protein to high-protein breakfast market Dealroom

🇫🇷 Court-supervised receivership for Agronutris, despite €60 million in public LinkedIn

🇳🇴 Yara inaugurates Europe’s largest carbon capture facility in the Netherlands iGrow News

🇮🇱 Steakholder Foods rolls out 3D-printed whole-cut meat at US supermarkets Green Queen

🇺🇸 New York State Fair’s 800-pound butter sculpture recycled into energy at Western New York Dairy Farm Global Newswire