AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech.
Funding news
M&A, IPOs & partnerships
🇩🇪 🇦🇺 Novonesis Moves to Take Full Ownership of Australian Yeast Specialist MicroBioGen Vegconomist
People moves
🇺🇸 Target taps Lowe’s exec as its first-ever AI chief Chain Store Age
🇺🇸 🇧🇷 JBS heir to become CEO almost a decade after corruption scandal Food Dive
🇺🇸 Olipop taps Electrolit head as next CEO Food Dive
🇺🇸 Kroger names former Walmart executive as first e-commerce chief Grocery Dive
Other news
🇺🇸 “Climate resilience” platform ClimateAi winds down operations AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 BioHarvest Signs $20M–$30M Deal to Grow One of the World’s Costliest Perfume Ingredients in Bioreactors Vegconomist
🇨🇦 Vertical grower GoodLeaf Farms achieves profitability Bluebook
🇺🇸 GRAS overhaul: less onerous than feared, but legal battle likely AgFunderNews
🇺🇸 Beyond Meat Sets 1-for-30 Reverse Split to Hold Onto Its Nasdaq Listing Vegconomist
🇺🇸 New FCC proposal could ‘retroactively ban’ some existing ag spray drones, warns DJI AgFunderNews
🇩🇪 In recent days, the insolvency of Cultimate became official LinkedIn
🇸🇬 Thryve.Earth Signs 635,000-Tonne Carbon Removal Deals With Google, McKinsey and Tencent iGrow News
🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Metaspectral, Planet, partner for planetary intelligence Spatial Source
🇨🇭 Swiss alt meat startup Planted scales fermented whole-cut platform, eyes B2B partnerships AgFunderNews
🇨🇦 Cultivated Food Labs advances faba bean hull-based cocoa alternative AgFunderNews