EIF backs Nordic Foodtech VC with €30M to scale Europe’s agrifood deeptech

The European Investment Fund (EIF) is committing up to €30 million to a Finnish venture capital fund that promotes early-stage agrifood technology companies. The EIF backing for the Finnish fund – cal…

PlantVoice is bringing ‘plant intelligence’ to precision agriculture
PlantVoice is bringing ‘plant intelligence’ to precision agriculture

Traditionally, farmers make decisions based on weather forecasts, soil moisture measurements, visual observations, and their own experience in the field. These are valuable sources of information, but…

EcoNomad raises £400K to bring waste-to-energy tech to small livestock farms

UK‑based startup EcoNomad Solutions has received £230,000 in funding from the British Design Fund (BDF) to help small livestock farms cut methane emissions, reduce rising energy and fertiliser costs, …

Computomics raises €6.3M to scale climate-smart plant breeding

Germanagritech company Computomics has raised €6.3 million in Series B funding toscale the commercial deployment of its climate-smart breeding platform. Theround was led by Convent Capital Agri Food F…

German biotech AquaNab secures funding to tackle sea lice with nanoantibodies

Hamburg-basedbiotechnology startup AquaNab has secured investment from Nordic Foodtech VC toadvance its nanoantibody platform for treating and preventing diseases inaquaculture. The investment marks t…

Aflabox raises €1.35M seed to bring food safety testing into the field

Italy-based agritechstartup Aflabox has raised €1.35 million in seed funding to accelerate thecommercialisation and industrial scaling of its AI-powered food safetymonitoring platform. The equity roun…

Aardaia bags €5M to build the next generation of crops

Aardaia, a Wageningen-based agritechstartup developing new crop varieties from wild plants, has raised €5 millionin a seed funding round led by Point Nine. Existing investor FoodLabsparticipated in th…

The other Dyson empire, measured in acres
The other Dyson empire, measured in acres

Inside a glasshouse the size of roughly 20 football pitches, on the flat black soil of Lincolnshire, strawberry plants ride a Ferris wheel. The wheels stand about 5.5 metres tall, and each one weighs close to half a tonne. They turn slowly, all day, ca…

OneSoil secures €1M to expand AI-powered farming assistant

Zurich-basedagritech company OneSoil, which develops AI-driven solutions for precisionagriculture, has secured €1 million in funding from existing investors,including Yury Melnichek, serial entreprene…

Rainbow Crops raises €9.7M to scale AI-powered crop engineering

Belgian agritech startup Rainbow Crops has raised €9.7million in an oversubscribed seed funding round to advance its crop engineeringplatform, expand its application across multiple crops, and grow it…