AgriFood Signals: SAP & Syngenta partner, BASF buys biocontrol startup, Microsoft’s record deal with Indigo

AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news 🇫🇷 Equitable Earth raises $14.7 million to advance certification standard for nature-based carbon projects ESG Today 🇳🇴 reTyre raises €7m for low-carbon bike tyres using ocean materials The Fish Site 🇺🇸 Ammobia raises $7.5m to scale low-cost ammonia production technology critical to energy resilience Global Newswire 🇬🇧 Black Bull Biochar secures £4 million for biochar expansion Bioenergy News 🇬🇧 UK’s Verna raises $4M to turn biodiversity reports into AI restoration Tech Funding News 🇫🇮 Finland’s Mö Foods raises €2.4 million to scale oat-based cheese alternatives Be Beez 🇩🇪 SenseUP raises $3.5m to advance dsRNA-based biopesticides that address cost, stability hurdles AgFunderNews 🇦🇺 Agronomics invests A$3m in All G to support lactoferrin production Investing 🇬🇧 Ex-GE execs’ Bloemteknik bags £2.5M to make smart lights the brain of vertical farms Tech Funding News 🇦🇺 Y Combinator leads $1.2 million pre-seed funding for GrazeMate AgFunderNews 🇫🇷 French BioTech Spore.Bio secures multi-million-euro Google.org funding and launches AI-native research unit EU Startups Image credit: Syngenta M A, IPOs partnerships 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 BASF to acquire biological insect control solutions group Red River Farm Network 🇺🇸 🇨🇭 SAP and Syngenta announce partnership to scale AI-assisted agriculture SAP 🇺🇸 Impossible Foods partners with better-for-you startup EQUII FoodNavigator Funds, grants accelerators 🇩🇰 Novo Nordisk Foundation backs BioInnovation Institute with €736M to scale life sciences and deeptech innovation Tech.eu 🇺🇸 New $10 million fund to accelerate food is medicine adoption in the United States Rockefeller Foundation 🇺🇸 Superorganism raises $25m to back biodiversity startups TechCrunch 🇺🇸 SEMCAP Food Nutrition announces $125 million close of inaugural fund Global Newswire People moves 🇩🇪 Bühler Group appoints Samuel Schär as CEO as leadership transition takes effect Protein Production Technology Farmer spreading biochar. Image credit: Varaha Other news 🇦🇷 Future Biome ceases operations LinkedIn 🇺🇸 Beyond Meat launches Beyond Immerse protein drink Beyond Meat 🇬🇧 Microsoft in record deal for soil carbon credits as data centres surge Reuters 🇸🇪 Hooked Foods files for bankruptcy after seven-year push to crack plant-based seafood Protein Production Technology 🇮🇳 Varaha signs major offtake agreement with Microsoft for biochar carbon removal in India AgFunderNews 🇺🇸 Del Monte Foods to sell core businesses Food Business News The post AgriFood Signals: SAP Syngenta partner, BASF buys biocontrol startup, Microsoft s record deal with Indigo appeared first on AgFunderNews .