| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.07.2026 | +++ Red Bull Ventures +++ Kinexon +++ Twelve Labs +++ PropTech +++ Stenon +++ Capacities +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Mittwoch, 15. Juli). #STARTUPLAND: NUR DER FRÜHE VOGEL SPART!
STARTUPLAND – one day, unlimited opportunities... |
| 08.07.2026 | Agritech Leader Stenon Secures €18M: Revolutionizing Soil Management Against Fertilizer Crisis | Stenon secured €18 million ($20.5 million) in Series B funding. The German agritech innovator scales its real-time soil data platform. This combats surging global fertilizer costs. FarmLab empowers farmers. It offers immediate, precise nitr... |
| 06.07.2026 | Andercore erhält 30 Millionen – Stenon sammelt 18 Millionen ein – alqem bekommt 8 Millionen | Im #DealMonitor für den 06. Juli werfen wir einen Blick auf die wichtigsten, spannendsten und interessantesten Investments und Exits des Tages in der DACH-Region. Alle Deals der Vortage gibt es im großen und übersichtlichen #DealMonitor-Arc... |
| 02.07.2026 | Seqana Fuels Soil Health Revolution with €3.2M Investment | Seqana secured €3.2 million in new funding. Pymwymic led the investment round. Existing investors and a bank loan contributed. This capital dramatically expands soil health monitoring. It boosts carbon quantification for agrifood businesses... |
| 01.07.2026 | Stenon bags $20.5m to combat fertilizer price hikes with better nitrogen management | Germany-based Stenon has raised €18 million ($20.5 million) in Series B financing to expand its nitrogen and soil data management platform. Dutch impact investor Pymwymic led the round, which comes as farmers around the globe grapple with m... |
| 29.06.2026 | Seqana Raises €3.2M in Equity and Debt Funding | Seqana, a Berlin, Germany-based developer of a digital Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) platform for soil health and carbon quantification, raised €3.2m in a venture and debt funding round.
The round was led by Pymwymic, with p... |
| 23.06.2026 | Seqana Raises €3.2 Million To Extend Soil Health Measurement Beyond Carbon | Seqana announced that it has raised €3.2 million in funding led by Pymwymic. Existing investors HTGF and Counteract also participated in the round. The financing includes a mix of venture capital and debt capital, including a startup loan f... |
| 22.06.2026 | Flagright erhält 12,5 Millionen – Mona AI streicht 3,8 Millionen ein – Seqana sammelt 3,2 Millionen ein | Im #DealMonitor für den 22. Juni werfen wir einen Blick auf die wichtigsten, spannendsten und interessantesten Investments und Exits des Tages in der DACH-Region. Alle Deals der Vortage gibt es im großen und übersichtlichen #DealMonitor-Arc... |
| 11.06.2026 | AgriFood Signals: EIF commits $29m to Irish agrifoodtech, Aphea.Bio and Bayer team up, GLP-1 pills | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇪🇸 Samsung backs industrial robotics startup Theker in €85m round Sifted
🇫🇷 Innovafeed raises $59m, ... |
| 19.05.2026 | Resurrect Bio Secures $10.3M to Revolutionize Crop Disease Resistance with AI Gene-Editing | Resurrect Bio announced a successful $10.3 million Series A funding close. This oversubscribed round powers its cutting-edge gene-editing technology. The UK-based biotech company targets pervasive crop diseases. It reactivates plants' inher... |
| 14.05.2026 | Resurrect Bio: $10.3 Million Oversubscribed Series A Raised To Accelerate Crop Disease Resistance | Resurrect Bio, a biotechnology company developing disease-resistant crops through gene editing, announced the final close of its Series A funding round at $10.3 million, oversubscribed from the company’s previously announced $8.1 million in... |
| 13.05.2026 | Resurrect Bio expands Series A to $10.3m to scale tech helping plants to defend themselves | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Resurrect Bio]
UK-based Resurrect Bio—a startup equipping crops with genetic defenses against disease—has announced the final close of its Series A round at $10.3 million.... |
| 20.02.2026 | Norway’s Kilter secures €6.5 million to scale autonomous precision weeding technology; prepares for Series B | Kilter, a Norwegian AgTech startup developing autonomous precision weeding solutions, has secured €6.5 million in new financing and a strategic investment from Kubota Corporation, an Osaka-based manufacturer of agricultural machinery and a ... |
| 20.02.2026 | Resurrect Bio Holds $8.1M Initial Close of Series A | Resurrect Bio, a London, UK-based biotechnology company that supports the agriculture sector by equipping crops with genetic defenses against disease, raised $8.1M in the initial closing of its Series A funding.
The round was led by Corteva... |
| 19.02.2026 | Resurrect Bio Raises $8.1 Million Initial Close Of Series A Led By Corteva | Resurrect Bio announced the $8.1 million initial close of its Series A funding round, led by Corteva through its Corteva Catalyst platform. Additional participants in the round include Calculus Capital, Pymwymic, UKI2S, SynBioVen, and AgFun... |
| 19.02.2026 | Resurrect Bio raises $8.1m to unlock plants’ innate disease resistance capabilities | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Resurrect Bio]
– UK-based Resurrect Bio—a startup equipping crops with genetic defenses against disease—has announced the initial closing of its Series A round at $8.1 mil... |
| 09.10.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Corteva, Bayer announce new partnerships, Air New Zealand backs nature carbon credits | This week: slow in fundraises, heavy in partnership announcements: Air New Zealand and My Native Forest; Corteva and Profluent Bio; DoorDash and Serve Robotics, to name a few.
In other news, the European Parliament is backing a ban on terms... |
| 24.09.2025 | Agrifoodtech investment models need ‘a rethink’ | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews parent company is AgFunder.]
A panel of investors at the World Agri-Tech summit in London this week unanimously agreed that the agrifoodtech investment model needs, as moderator Adam Anders put it, “a rethink.”
Pan... |
| 24.06.2025 | The Future of Food: Innovation and Sustainability in Plant-Based and Dairy Industries | The food industry is evolving. It’s a race against time, a quest for sustainability, and a battle for consumer hearts. Two players are making waves: Rival Foods in the plant-based sector and Yili Group in dairy. Both are harnessing innovati... |
| 18.06.2025 | Rival Foods raises $11.6m Series B to scale shear cell tech for plant-based whole cuts | Dutch startup Rival Foods has raised €10 million ($11.6 million) in a Series B round to expand its shear cell technology, a novel approach to texturizing plant-based proteins that can create whole cuts at scale.
The round was led by pension... |
| 18.06.2025 | Rival Foods Raises €10M to Scale Production of Clean-Label Plant-Based Whole Cuts | Dutch food-tech scale-up Rival Foods has raised €10 million in a Series B funding round led by pension investor APG on behalf of ABP. PYMWYMIC and ROM Utrecht Region also participated, while existing shareholder PeakBridge provided follow-o... |
| 10.06.2025 | Exclusive: RootWave bags $15m to expand its chemical-free weeding platform to Europe, US | UK-based RootWave has raised $15 million for its high-frequency electrical weed control technology.
Food and ag VC Clay Capital led the round with participation from Boerenbond Group investment arm Agri Investment Fund, agtech and wine tech... |
| 06.02.2025 | OneThird Launches Expanded Quality Control Platform to Prevent Produce Waste and Save Costs across the Supply Chain | OneThird is an AI-powered food tech innovator tackling the $1 trillion annual food waste crisis
OneThird's industry-first, AI-powered platform combines a full set of quality control parameters within the fresh produce supply chain to save l... |
| 31.01.2025 | OneThird's €3.5M Series A: A Fresh Approach to Food Waste | In a world where food waste looms large, OneThird emerges as a beacon of hope. This Dutch foodtech company has just secured €3.5 million in Series A funding. The mission? To slice through the staggering waste in the food supply chain. With ... |
| 30.01.2025 | OneThird raises €3.5M Series A to reduce waste with freshness scanner | OneThird, a foodtech built to tackle food waste, has raised a €3.5M Series A funding round and tappointed Henrike Langbroek as Chief Executive Officer.
The funding round was led by Dutch-based Invest International with participation from pr... |
| 28.11.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: AI-powered protein, plant-based food dyes, and maggot robots | It’s Thanksgiving in the US, which usually means family, friends, and food waste: ReFED estimates that 316 million pounds of food will go to waste this holiday. However, the think tank also has some tips for how households can help curb thi... |
| 27.11.2024 | KITRO Secures Additional Funding to Combat Food Waste |
Founded in 2017 by hospitality insiders, KITRO is a Swiss company embarking on a global challenge to harness the power of data to save valuable resources and bring back the value to all food, so that it is appreciated and not wasted.
With ... |
| 09.11.2024 | The Legal Landscape of AI and Copyright: A Shifting Terrain | In a world where technology evolves at lightning speed, the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright law is a battleground. Recent developments, particularly the dismissal of a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, illuminate ... |
| 07.11.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Indoor ag unicorn Bowery shuts down, Pymwymic launches second fund | Outside the US election (which could impact agrifood in multiple ways), the big news of the week was Bowery ceasing operations. Once a leader of the indoor ag pack, the company has now closed up shop and laid off its 187 workers.
In brighte... |
| 10.04.2024 | Weenat's Innovative Approach to Combat Water Scarcity | German agritech company Weenat has secured an impressive $8 million in Series C funding for its groundbreaking meteorological sensors that aid farmers in water conservation efforts. With water scarcity becoming an increasingly pressing issu... |
| 09.04.2024 | Weenat raises $8M Series C for meteorological sensors in soil | German agritech Weenat has raised an $8M Series C round for its meteorological sensors that help farmers conserve water.
The funding will enable Weenat to expand across Europe.
Water scarcity and management is a major environmental challeng... |
| 09.01.2024 | FA Bio cierra una ronda de €4M con Ship2B Ventures, Clean Growth y PYMWYMIC | 09/01/2024
Nota de prensa
FA BIO CIERRA UNA RONDA DE €4M CON SHIP2B VENTURES, CLEAN GROWTH Y PYMWYMIC
FA Bio, la empresa bioquímica británica liderada por la cofundadora y CEO española Ángela de Manzanos Guinot, tiene la visión de proteger ... |
| 28.09.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Paine Schwartz launches $1.7bn agrifood fund, Cricket One unveils new plant, Infarm ‘declared bankrupt’ | Agrifood’s biggest news this week is PE firm Paine Schwartz closing its $1.7 billion food- and agribusiness-focused fund. Fund VI is “exclusively focused on sustainable investments” in food and agribusiness, and the firm has already deploye... |
| 27.09.2023 | Strategic investors acquire significant stake in Vivent | |
| 16.08.2023 | ‘Boil the weed inside out’: RootWave launches high-frequency, ‘regen ag-friendly’ weed zapper for orchards | Growers may differ on their methods of weed management, but most would agree outsmarting those weeds is one of the toughest tasks in the business for organic farmers and conventional row croppers alike.
Chemicals such as Glyphosate were sup... |
| 26.04.2023 | Invest-NL, Oost NL and Invest International invests €20M in Amsterdam’s Pymwymic: Know more | Amsterdam-based Pymwymic, an impact investment firm, announced on Tuesday, April 25, that major institutional investors Invest-NL, Oost NL, and Invest International has joined its Healthy Food Systems Impact Fund II.
With a joint investment... |
| 23.03.2023 | OneThird 'spoiled' in €2.75 million late seed funding round | Enschede-based OneThird announced it has raised €2.75 million in a late-seed funding round which will help scale its tech and enter new markets, supporting fresh food supply chains in Europe and the US.
The round was led by Dutch-based impa... |
| 23.03.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Oatly raises $425m, Cocoon Bioscience bags $16 million to turn moths into bioreactors | This week, loss-making Oatly raised $425m as it “moves towards reaching financial self-sufficiency,” Cocoon Bioscience bagged $16 million to turn moths into bioreactors, and Klimato secured €4.2 million ($4.5 million) to expand its platform... |
| 23.03.2023 | Dutch-based OneThird bags €2.7M to help prevent food waste by predicting shelf life | The Netherlands-based OneThird, an AI-powered foodtech startup working to prevent food loss and food waste, announced on Thursday that it has secured €2.75M in a late-Seed round of funding.
With this, the company’s total raised capital come... |
| 23.03.2023 | OneThird Raises $3 Million to Tackle the $1 Trillion Lost to Food Waste Annually | OneThird, an AI-powered food tech company created to address the annual loss of one-third of all food produced due to spoilage "One-third of global food produced annually is lost or wasted. Global food waste has an enormous environment... |
| 20.09.2022 | By reducing pesticides, Trapview traps €10 million to speed up transition to more sustainable farming practices | Slovenia-based pest insect monitoring and forecasting platform Trapview has raised €10 million in a Series B funding to accelerate the commercialisation of its digital insect monitoring and forecasting solutions. The round was led by Europe... |
| 08.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: $40m for crop intelligence, using tobacco for cultivated meat, Netherlands’ meat ads ban | This week, crop intelligence platform Taranis secured more capital for its aerial imagery and AI tech and BioBetter landed funds to turn tobacco into growth factors for cultivated meat. Online grocer Motatos bagged new capital, Uber and Nur... |
| 14.12.2021 | How cold storage could be an antidote to Africa’s hefty food imports | For Julian Mitchell, it is unconscionable that Kenya spends so much money importing food. In the first six months of 2021, Kenya spent $909.4 million on food imports—while 30% to 40% of locally-grown crops each season are wasted due to inef... |
| 25.08.2021 | Soil biology specialist Biome Makers bags $15m Series B funding | US-based soil testing startup Biome Makers has raised $15 million in a Series B round led by Prosus Ventures – a VC affiliate of South African internet giant Naspers. Other investors joining the round included Spanish firms JME Ventures and... |
| 24.03.2021 | Precision farming startup Augmenta raises $8M Series A round on its way to automating crop fertilization and reducing pollution | Company:
On March 23, 2021, the automation farming startup Augmenta announced closing its $8M Series A round with the support of tractor manufacturer CNH Industrial N.V., EU impact investor Pymwymic, as well as previous investors Marathon V... |
| 23.03.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Tractor retrofitter Augmenta raises $8m in Series A round led by CNH Industrial | Augmenta — a Paris-headquartered startup which retrofits tractors with ‘smart’ tech capabilities — has raised $8 million in Series A funding, co-founder and CEO George Varvarelis told AFN.
Capital goods company and manufacturer of agricultu... |
| 27.01.2021 | StartLife And Pymwymic Facilitating Growth Of Disruptive Agrifoodtech Startups |
Worldwide the food supply chain is in dire need of innovations that aid the transition to a healthier and sustainable food system. Agrifoodtech startups with high potential solutions are now given an extra hand to get from pre-revenue sta... |
| 10.09.2020 | Automated pest control startup Trapview nets $4.4m from impact investors, Japan’s Kubota | Trapview, a pest insect monitoring and forecasting platform first developed by Slovenian company Efos, has just raised €3.7 million ($4.38 million) in ‘Series A2’ funding.
The round saw investments from two European impact investors: Italy’... |
| 28.05.2020 | Brrrief! InspiraFarms closes Series B to roll out solar powered cold storage units across Africa | Expanding the cold chain across the African continent is both necessary and hard. A better network of cold storage facilities is necessary to drive down food waste and enable wider access to fresher produce. And it’s difficult due to high i... |
| 22.01.2020 | Zap! This UK startup just raised €6.5m to commit electricide on weeds | RootWave, a UK startup developing ways to kill weeds with ever more precise zaps of electricity, has raised a €6.5 million ($7.2 million) Series A investment round. V-Bio Ventures and the Rabo Food & Agri Innovation Fund led the round, ... |
| 09.01.2020 | ‘Vive la AgRobolution!’ Naïo Tech raises €14m Series A to build more agri-robots | The French agri-robotics manufacturer Naïo Technologies has raised a €14 million ($15.6 million) Series A funding round, one month after grabbing headlines by hosting its fourth International Forum of Agricultural Robotics, known by its Fre... |
| 24.04.2019 | Dutch Biotech Startup Ceradis Secures €9m for New Biofungicide | It has taken the team of scientists at Ceradis more than a decade to develop a line of earth-friendly agriculture products. Now, with several on the market, the Dutch company has raised €9 million ($10 million) to commercialize a new biofun... |
| 10.04.2018 | UPDATE: InspiraFarms Adds €2.5m to Series A for Cold Storage and Processing Tech in East Africa and Central America | **First Published April 5, 2017. Updated April 10, 2018 to reflect second close of Series A round. **
InspiraFarms has added €2.5 million ($3.1m) to its Series A round of investment from existing investors, bringing the company’s total Seri... |
| 26.09.2017 | Fairphone takes $7.7M to push for change across the electronics value chain | European mobile device maker Fairphone, which designs modular smartphones with the aim of supporting repairability and encouraging sustainability, has taken in new investment of €6.5 million ($7.7M). It says it’s hoping to use the financing... |
| 22.09.2017 | Fairphone raises €6.5 million for its ethical fair-trade smartphones | Fair-trade smartphone maker Fairphone has raised €6.5 million led by impact investors Pymwymic and The DOEN Foundation.
The Amsterdam-based company, which previously raised €9 million through crowdfunding, makes modular smartphones with mos... |
| 06.04.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Agersens Raises $2m for Fenceless Farming Tech, Ecoation’s Disease Detection Tool Raises $1m, more | Agersens, a virtual fencing startup for livestock producers, has raised $2 million in seed funding, in a round arranged by Bell Potter brokerage. Agersens’ eShepherd product is an IoT GPS-based animal wearable device that enables farmers to... |
