AgriFood Signals: Yield Energy launches farm-based grid platform, new $500m farmland fund

AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news 🇫🇷 MYCOPHYTO closes €16m Series A to accelerate industrial scale-up and international expansion iGrow News 🇦🇪 🇮🇳 Eat App raises $10 million Series B extension to accelerate India expansion Wamda 🇩🇪 Innocent Meat raises €6m to develop automated cell-based meat platform Vegconomist 🇩🇰 Copenhagen’s Octarine Bio adds €5 million to Series A to advance sustainable colour platform EU Startups 🇨🇦 Maia Farms bags $2.7m to scale up mushroom and mycelium ingredients Green Queen 🇬🇧 Anzen Industries raises $2.2M for chemical production innovation Tech.eu 🇬🇧 Corvera secures £1.5m for fmcg AI supply chain tool The Grocer 🇫🇮 NPHarvest nabs €1.2M From Business Finland to turn waste into fertiliser Tech Funding News 🇬🇧 Notpla receives EU funding to develop plastic-free coffee cups Packaging Insights 🇳🇴 Saga Robotics bets big on US vineyards with new GM, fresh capital for UV-C ‘bots AgFunderNews Image credit: InnovaFeed M A, IPOs partnerships 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 NaturAlleva and Innovafeed bet on insect-based ingredients We Are Aquaculture 🇺🇸 SiFly and Taranis launch 2026 field validation program for large-scale crop intelligence iGrow News 🇺🇸 Grubhub parent acquires restaurant rewards app Claim Food Dive Funds, grants accelerators 🇺🇸 Lucerne Capital launches regenerative farmland vehicle targeting $500m Agri Investor 🇺🇸 Gates Foundation-funded pilot empowers East African coffee growers to manage climate change with Helios AI AgTechNavigator 🇨🇭 Blue Earth Capital raises more than $100 million for its impact secondaries strategy Blue Earth Capital 🇺🇸 Tufts University to open innovation hub for future foods using $2.1M grant Vegconomist People moves 🇺🇸 BioTown Biogas announces appointment of Christopher J. Pino as chief executive officer Business Wire 🇨🇭 Barry Callebaut appoints ex-Unilever boss as new CEO Food Navigator Pelican 2 UAS. Image credit: Pyka Other news 🇺🇸 Yield Energy launches farm-based grid flexibility platform PV Tech 🇬🇧 Vegan Food Group splits from VFC Meatless Farm, closes Clive’s Purely Plants Green Queen 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 Just Egg hits Germany through Rewe launch Just Food 🇺🇸 Liberation Bioindustries restructures leadership as Indiana facility nears completion Vegconomist 🇰🇪 🇺🇬 The Toothpick Project s Striga biocontrol seed coating gets regulatory approval in Uganda LinkedIn 🇨🇬 Brazilian ag giant SLC Agricola scales use of unmanned crop sprayers with Pyka AgFunderNews The post AgriFood Signals: Yield Energy launches farm-based grid platform, new $500m farmland fund appeared first on AgFunderNews .