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…

Mycoverse raises €2.4M pre-seed to tackle potato late blight in Europe

Mycoverse, an agritechspin-out from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) developing fungal-basedbiological crop protection, has raised €2.4 million in pre-seed equity funding.The round was co-led…

Grodi raises €2.5M led by Swanlaab to advance greenhouse automation

Grodi, a companyfocused on autonomous robotics and computer vision for intensive agriculture,has secured a €2.5 million investment round led by Swanlaab Innvierte Agri FoodTech, with participation fro…

simmetry.ai expands AI training platform following €330K funding

simmetry.ai, asynthetic data company working across agriculture, food and industrial sectors,has secured €330,000 from NBank, the investment and development bank of theGerman state of Lower Saxony. Th…