💰 €70+ million agrifood fund

💶 Pymwymic’s Healthy Food Systems Impact Fund II, backed by over 250 private and seven institutional investors, closed with €71.5 million to support agrifood companies advancing sustainable farming, food waste reduction, and regenerative agriculture solutions.

🍤 Indoor shrimp farming company Oceanloop secured a €35 million loan from the European Investment Bank to scale its RAS technology and support its German and Spanish expansion plans, as it aims to provide a sustainable, traceable, and welfare-focused alternative to imported shrimp.

🍭 LA-based sour candy company Final Boss Sour, which makes candy using dried fruit and sour acids, raised $3 million in a seed funding round led by Science Inc. to expand its operations.

💸 Eatable Adventures invested €2 million in seven agri-food startups, all focused on sustainability, resource efficiency, and social impact within the food tech sector, including Beadroots, which develops algae-based hydrogels to boost water efficiency, and Mama Science, which creates biodegradable packaging to extend food shelf life.

🌾 Belgian startup Protealis raised €1.2 million from the Flemish Agency for Innovation & Entrepreneurship to scale its UpCoat soy seed coating technology that applies nitrogen-fixing bacteria to soybean seeds, enhancing yield and protein content for European farmers without synthetic fertilisers.

🍫 California Cultured secured investment from Puratos' venture arm Sparkalis to scale its cell-cultured chocolate production. It is working to make chocolate more sustainable, ethical, and high-quality by growing cacao cells in controlled environments.

🫘 UK startup Nukoko secured investment from ingredients giant Döhler to scale its cocoa-free chocolate made from fava beans, as it transitions from pilot-scale to industrial-scale production by 2025.

🐜 High-tech insect farming company Oberland Agriscience secured a loan from Peritus Capital, and plans to reach full capacity at its new Halifax facility by 2025, producing 3,500 tons of black soldier fly larvae protein and 9,000 tons of frass. 

💰️ The Campbell Soup Company and Kind Snacks both received funding from the US Department of Agriculture to launch projects to promote regenerative agriculture, with Campbell’s focusing on sustainable practices among California tomato growers and Kind supporting almond farming through climate-smart initiatives.