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…

Eternal.ag raises €8M to automate greenhouse harvesting with AI-powered robots

Eternal.ag, a startup building autonomous harvesting robots for greenhouses, today announced it has raised €8 million in funding from Simon Capital, Oyster Bay Venture Capital, EquityPitcher Ventures …

Wikifarmer raises $7.7M to develop AI tools for the agricultural supply chain

Wikifarmer, a B2Bmarketplace that uses artificial intelligence to connect food businesses withproducers, has raised $7.7 million in funding. The round was co-led byBrighteye Ventures and Piraeus Bank,…

Decoding DNA with AI: Living Models emerges from stealth with $7M

Living Models, a Paris–Berkeleystartup, has raised $7 million in seed funding as it emerges from stealth todevelop foundation models for biology trained on DNA, RNA, and multi-omics dataaimed at impro…

Cytotrait raises £3M for agricultural gene-editing technology

Cytotrait, aspinout from The University of Manchester focused on developing new traits forfood and agricultural applications, has closed a £3 million seed funding round.The round was led by Northern G…

Bindbridge raises $3.8M for next-generation crop protection

Cambridge-basedBindbridge has secured $3.8 million in early-stage funding from Speedinvest andNucleus Capital to advance next-generation crop protection aimed at improvingcrop resilience and agricultu…