| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.07.2026 | Cargill Ventures eyes renewed dealmaking as agrifoodtech resets | After two years focusing on managing its existing portfolio, Cargill Ventures is gearing up for renewed activity. The corporate venture arm has recently made two as-yet-unannounced investments—one in a global fund and another in the next-ge... |
| 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, ... |
| 09.06.2026 | Innovafeed Raises €51 Million To Accelerate Commercial Growth Of Insect-Based Nutrition Ingredients | Innovafeed, a producer of sustainable insect-based ingredients for animal nutrition, pet food, and agriculture, announced a €51 million funding round as it transitions from industrial scale-up to commercial expansion. The financing was larg... |
| 08.06.2026 | Europe's AI Revolution: Billions Fuel Tech Boom, Factorial Leads $2.5B Charge | European tech is booming. Billions in capital flow weekly into innovative startups. AI innovation powers this massive surge. Workforce management giant Factorial just secured $150 million in Series D funding. Its valuation hit $2.5 billion.... |
| 08.06.2026 | European tech weekly recap: Over €2.3B invested in the tech ecosystem in the first week of June | Last week, we tracked more than 55 tech funding deals worth over €2.3 billion and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
📊 The top three industries that raised the most were analytics (€862.2 m... |
| 05.06.2026 | Innovafeed raises $59m, scales production, cuts R&D headcount as insect ag hits “industrialization phase” | French insect ag firm Innovafeed has raised a €51 million ($59 million) round and unveiled plans to consolidate activities at its commercial-scale black soldier fly larvae production facility in Nesle, France.
The move is part of a reorgani... |
| 26.03.2026 | Insect ag recalibrates after a brutal shakeout: Where are the key players now? | The insect ag industry is littered with the corpses of startups who found out the hard way that scaling biological systems is not as easy as it looks, prompting a wave of think pieces suggesting its days are numbered.
Despite the sector’s w... |
| 06.03.2026 | TOP 100: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space in 2026! | Ahead of International Women’s Day 2026 on March 8, this year’s theme, “Give to Gain”, highlights the power of generosity, collaboration, and shared responsibility in advancing gender equality. The campaign encourages individuals, organisat... |
| 29.12.2025 | Foodtech at a crossroads: recalibration, regulation, and harsh reality | “Two years ago we were talking about the winter being over in the next summer, but it feels like we are entering the ice age,” observes Plantible cofounder Tony Martens in this year’s AgFunderNews festive vox pop. “M&A and exit pathways... |
| 18.12.2025 | Oberland Agriscience scales up amid insect ag shakeout, appoints CEO: ‘We’re seeing very positive market pull’ | Canadian insect ag startup Oberland Agriscience has started shipping commercial quantities of protein and frass from its facility in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and appointed food industry veteran Jon Getzinger as CEO as it moves into a new phase... |
| 04.11.2025 | Breaking: Danish insect ag firm ENORM declared bankrupt after failed reconstruction process | Danish insect ag co ENORM has been declared bankrupt after spending six months in a court-supervised restructuring process.
ENORM, which raised €50 million ($57 million) from backers including Danish ag co-op DLG in 2022, opened a factory i... |
| 15.10.2025 | South African insect ag co Inseco calls it quits amid power cuts, pivots: ‘We ran out of time’ | South African insect ag startup Inseco has ceased operations and sold its assets to industry partners after experiencing a series of setbacks.
Founded in 2018 by Jack Chennells and Simon Hazell, Inseco raised a $5.3 million seed round in 20... |
| 29.09.2025 | Ÿnsect wins more time to restructure under court-supervised process; Innovafeed’s US plans ‘very much alive’ | The commercial court supervising French insect ag pioneer Ÿnsect as it restructures its operations has extended the observation period until January 12, 2026. Fellow French insect ag firm Innovafeed, meanwhile, says its plans to build a lar... |
| 30.01.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Liberation Labs raises $50.5m, OCELL nabs $10m, Pluri to make lab-grown cocoa acquisition | This week precision fermentation biotech Liberation Labs closed a $50.5 million convertible note that will enable completion of a new plant, while Bonsai Robotics secured $15 million in Series A funding to advance its agricultural AI soluti... |
| 27.11.2024 | Asia dominates global aquaculture production but Europe still holds most of the VC investment: report | VC investment into aquaculture startups broke records last year, according to new data from PitchBook that highlights $1 billion invested in the sector in 2023.
However, there are signs that 2024 numbers for both deal value and deal count w... |
| 14.11.2024 | Innovafeed secures $11.8m USDA grant for insect-based fertilizer, fine tunes process at Decatur pilot plant | French insect ag firm Innovafeed has secured an $11.8 million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the Fertilizer Production Expansion Program (FPEP) to support bug-based sustainable fertilizer production in t... |
| 14.11.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Grubhub sold in $650m deal, Elicit Plant bags $47m, gene-edited wine | After years of looking for a buyer, food delivery giant Just Eat Takeaway.com has finally sold Grubhub, which it acquired for $7.3 billion in 2020, to New York-based delivery restaurant group Wonder.
Over on the funding side of things, Elic... |
| 23.08.2024 | Innovafeed co-brands with Jiminy’s, Arch | CHICAGO — Innovafeed, ag-tech company and producer of black soldier fly for animal and plant nutrition, has announced a partnership with pet food brands Jiminy’s and Arch Pet Food to roll out its “Powered by Hilucia™” co-branding. Jiminy’s ... |
| 22.08.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Climate tech co Root Global lands $8.8m, Innovafeed does pet food, Regrow does layoffs | This week, funding rounds went to Germany-based climate tech startup Root Global, high-protein foods maker David, and a hand full of others in food and agriculture.
Elsewhere, insect protein maker Innovafeed launched some high-profile partn... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Rise of Regenerative Agriculture and Insect Protein: A Sustainable Future**
** | ** In the landscape of modern agriculture, two trends are emerging as beacons of sustainability: regenerative agriculture and insect protein production. These movements promise to reshape how we think about food production, environmental im... |
| 23.07.2024 | Innovafeed expands insect facility | NESLE, FRANCE — Insect producer Innovafeed announced the completion of its third phase of expansion on its facility in Nesle. According to Innovafeed, the expansion enables it to ramp up production capacity.
The first phase of expansion on ... |
| 18.04.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Mosa Meat cooks up $43m raise, Spiber bags $65m for sustainable fashion | The big foodtech funding news this week is a new raise from Netherlands-based cultivated meat startup Mosa Meat — also known as the creator of the world’s first cultivated beef burger. Fellow Dutch company and cultivated meat creator Meatab... |
| 09.04.2024 | From novelty to necessity? The evolution of insect farming | On paper, insect farming ticks all the right boxes. Black soldier fly larvae (BSFL), mealworms and crickets can transform food and agricultural waste into high-quality protein, oil and fertilizer at record speed with a fraction of the input... |
| 18.10.2023 | Brief: Tyson bets on insect protein with strategic investment in Protix | Tyson Foods is making a two-fold investment in insect protein startup Protix to increase production for animal feed ingredients, aquaculture and pet food.
Through an undisclosed direct equity investment, Tyson will take a minority stake in ... |
| 27.09.2023 | Surprisingly Large Sums Have Gone Into Bug Farming Startups | 16 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Eat more bugs.
That is the last thing on most of our to-do lists. Startup investors, however, seem to think otherwise.
At least that’s the impression one gets looking at insect cultivation-related f... |
| 25.01.2023 | With $3bn in deals, top 10 climate x agrifoodtech startups prove themselves a vital part of climate tech ecosystem | Climate tech investment landed in the spotlight in 2022.
While other sectors (e.g., eGrocery, food delivery) saw valuations nosedive and VC dollars dwindle, climate tech investment “hovered at historic highs,” according to PWC’s State of Cl... |
| 26.09.2022 | InnovaFeed nabs $250 million, Dataguard tops up with €61 million and more than €1.4 billion was invested in European Tech last week | Last week we tracked more than 110 tech funding deals worth over €1.4 billion, and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
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| 22.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Swiftly bags $100m for grocery tech, Pano’s $20m to fight wildfires with AI | This week, retail and grocery tech startup Swiftly bagged a mega-round while front-of-house restaurant software startup Zenchef cooked up new financing to expand its presence. In agtech, Pano raised funds to fight wildfires with AI and Land... |
| 21.09.2022 | Innovafeed Raises USD$250M in Series D Financing | Innovafeed, a Paris, France-based company focused on production of insects (Hermetia Illucens) for animal and plant nutrition, raised US$250M in Series D funding.
The round, which brings total cumulative financing to US$450m, was led by Qat... |
| 21.09.2022 | Brief: French insect farm InnovaFeed scoops up $250m led by Qatar, plans expansion to US | French insect protein startup InnovaFeed has raised $250 million Series D round of financing. Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, led the investment. InnovaFeed will use the new funds to expand to the US, starti... |
| 21.09.2022 | Paris-based Innovafeed bags €252M to build insect farms for high quality animal feed | Paris-based Innovafeed, an insect-breeding (Hermetia Illucens) platform for animal and plant nutrition, announced on Tuesday that it has secured $250M (approximately €252M) in a Series D round of funding led by Qatar Investment Authority (Q... |
| 20.09.2022 | InnovaFeed nabs $250M to extend its vertical insect farms to the U.S. | InnovaFeed, a vertical insect farm operator that’s rearing insects for animal and plant nutrition, has raised $250 million in a series D round of funding led by Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund.
While countles... |
| 29.03.2022 | 'Everything we do is geared towards making insect protein affordable...' European edible insect firms Ÿnsect and InnovaFeed outline US ambitions | InnovaFeed, which specializes in black soldier flies, is planning to build a large-scale production facility in Decatur, Illinois; while Ÿnsect, which specializes in Buffalo and Molitor mealworms, has just acquired Nebraska-based mealworm... |
| 08.02.2022 | The Lowdown: ADM & InnovaFeed’s insect protein partnership | French insect farming startup InnovaFeed and US agribusiness giant ADM have entered into a strategic partnership agreement which will see the two collaborate on insect protein production.
The Paris-based startup will supply its black soldie... |
| 06.01.2022 | The Holidays in Agrifoodtech: Acquisitions, automation & cultivated meat close out 2021 | The AFN team took a bit of a break during the festive season, so today’s agrifoodtech news roundup covers the top headlines from the past few weeks.
Foodtech funding continued apace throughout the holidays, with B2B surplus food marketplace... |
| 26.08.2021 | Data Snapshot: Insect ranches, vertical ag among 2020’s top-funded ‘Novel Farming’ startups | AFN‘s parent company AgFunder released the latest edition of its annual Farm Tech Investment Report earlier this month, which showed that funding for agritech startups last year saw its biggest annual increase in since 2018.
According to th... |
| 25.11.2020 | French biotech startup InnovaFeed receives $167 million | French biotech startup InnovaFeed receives $167 million
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According to the press release, InnovaFeed, a bi... |
| 20.11.2020 | French biotech company InnovaFeed launches world’s largest insect protein production site in France; raises €140M | With an aim to participate in the rise of sustainable food systems by addressing the increasing demand for natural, healthy, and competitive raw materials, French biotech company InnovaFeed has partnered up with the US-based food processing... |
| 01.12.2018 | InnovaFeed Raises €40m in Funding | InnovaFeed, an Evry, France-based biotechnology company producing insect-based protein for the feed industry, raised €40m in funding.
The round was led by Creadev, with participation from international investors.
The company intends to use ... |
| 12.02.2018 | InnovaFeed Raises €15M in Funding | InnovaFeed, an Evry, France-based biotech company producing insect-based protein for the feed industry, raised €15m in funding.
The round was led by Alter Equity with participation from Finovam Gestion, IRD Group’s Nord Création, and Sipare... |
| - | InnovaFeed | “A natural and sustainable solutionto feed tomorrow's world Insect rearing intended for animal and plant nutrition A unique technology serving an innovative and sustainable agro-industry Innovafeed is a biotechnology company, and leading in... |
| - | InnovaFeed | “Innovafeed, a biotechnology company specialising in the breeding of insects for animal and plant feed.” |
| - | InnovaFeed | “nnovafeed, a biotechnological company specialized in the breeding of insects for animal and vegetable feed.” |
