Dutch startup SolarDew raises €800K to scale solar-powered drinking water tech

SolarDew, a Dutch developer of innovative solar-powered water purification technology, recently raised €800K in funding from Connect the Drops, a Dutch investor in early-stage startups in the water se…

A North Dakota startup raised $10 million from ranchers and neighbours to build the operating system for beef cattle
A North Dakota startup raised $10 million from ranchers and neighbours to build the operating system for beef cattle

701x, a Fargo-based agricultural technology company, has closed an oversubscribed Series B round exceeding $10 million, funded entirely by local investors from North Dakota and Minnesota and rancher-customers across the United States. No venture capita…

PerPlant raises €1M to put AI cameras on tractors, and 200,000 hectares in the bank
PerPlant raises €1M to put AI cameras on tractors, and 200,000 hectares in the bank

The Copenhagen agtech has already mapped nine times more European farmland than every Danish agricultural drone combined. Two well-known Nordic investors want the United States next. The pitch behind PerPlant is one a farmer can grasp in a sentence: a …

Cropin scales global AgTech analytics with Sisense-powered intelligence
Cropin scales global AgTech analytics with Sisense-powered intelligence

When it comes to feeding the planet, the old ways of farming are running up against hard limits. Climate volatility, supply-chain disruption, and the sheer complexity of managing crops across dozens of countries have made data-driven agriculture not ju…

Feldwerke pulls a €12M revolving credit facility behind a 100 MW agri-PV roll-out
Feldwerke pulls a €12M revolving credit facility behind a 100 MW agri-PV roll-out

The Munich-based developer behind Germany’s largest agri-PV facility plans to build 100 MW across the next 18 months. The new debt line is the working-capital plumbing that turns a 250 MW pipeline into deliverable projects. Munich-based agri-PV develop…

Agriodor raises €15 million to expand scent-based crop protection globally

FrenchAgriodor, an agritech company developing crop protection solutions based onnatural plant scents, has raised €15 million in Series A funding to accelerateits international expansion and the deplo…

Agriodor raises €15M led by Crédit Mutuel Impact to scale its insect-repelling fragrances
Agriodor raises €15M led by Crédit Mutuel Impact to scale its insect-repelling fragrances

The Rennes-based INRAE spin-off uses blends of volatile organic compounds to repel or attract pest insects without harming pollinators, soil, or human health. Its first product, for sugar beet aphids, received French regulatory authorisation in March 2…

Austrian food-waste startup Afreshed acquires German rival Etepetete in DACH consolidation play
Austrian food-waste startup Afreshed acquires German rival Etepetete in DACH consolidation play

German consumers throw away 4.4 million tonnes of food every year, worth roughly €6 billion. Austrian startup Afreshed just bet that the solution is consolidation, not competition, acquiring Munich-based rival Etepetete and raising a mid-seven-figure s…

DSV and Renaissance Philanthropy set out to rewire crop resilience innovation

Deep Science Ventures (DSV), a UK-based deeptech venture creator, and Renaissance Philanthropy, a nonprofit fueling a 21st-century renaissance by increasing the ambition of philanthropists, scientists…

Halter raises $220M at $2 billion valuation as virtual fencing for cattle goes global
Halter raises $220M at $2 billion valuation as virtual fencing for cattle goes global

A cow wearing a GPS collar doesn’t sound like a $2 billion idea. But for the ranchers who have strung virtual fences across 60,000 miles of American pastureland in under two years, it apparently is. Halter, the New Zealand-born agtech company, announce…