🦠 High-Value Fats with Microbes

💵 Mad Capital closed its Perennial Fund II at $78.4 million - over seven times the size of its first fund - to provide loans helping US farmers transition to regenerative-organic practices, with backing from The Rockefeller Foundation, Builders Vision, the Schmidt Family Foundation, and more than 100 other investors.

💸 AI-powered restaurant management platform Nory raised $37 million in a Series B round led by Kinnevik, with participation from Accel and other existing investors, bringing its total funding to $62.6 million to enhance its platform and drive US expansion.

🐄 Norwegian virtual fencing company NoFence raised over $35 million in an oversubscribed Series B round led by the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, with participation from Capagro, Nysnø Climate Investments, Climate Innovation Capital, Speedinvest, and existing backers, to expand its GPS-enabled livestock collar technology across Europe and the US.

🌯 Brainr, a European startup digitising food manufacturing with its AI-powered platform, secured €11 million in a seed funding round led by C2 Capital Partners to expand across global food sectors.

☀️ Germany-based Agri-PV company feld.energy raised over €10 million seed funding. The round was led by HV Capital with participation from Future Energy Ventures, AENU, and Angel Invest, and it will use the funds to scale its dual-use solar and farming systems.

🇦🇺 Australian plant-based protein manufacturer Harvest B raised $3.5 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by Mandalay Venture Partners with support from Breakthrough Victoria, Alberts Impact Ventures, the Investible Climate Tech Fund, and Investible Club, to scale its operations.

🍳 Singapore-based Terra Oleo emerged from stealth with $3.1 million in funding from investors including ADB Ventures, The Radical Fund, Elev8.vc, Better Bite Ventures, and a strategic palm oil player, while also being named to Breakthrough Energy’s 2025 Fellows cohort to scale its precision-fermented, waste-derived alternatives to palm oil and cocoa butter.

🌻 Dutch startup Time-Travelling Milkman raised €2 million pre-Series A funding from Sparkalis, Evercurious, and Oost NL to commercialise its sunflower-seed-based fat alternative Oleocream, starting with next-gen cream cheeses and desserts.

🇩🇰 Denmark’s Summ Ingredients secured €1.7 million from EIFO, BoxOne, Kost Capital, and Planetary Impact Ventures to launch its multifunctional fermented protein FermiPro, designed to add umami and kokumi to food products, to market this autumn.

🍄 Romanian startup Terra Wave secured a €1.2 million EU innovation grant to scale its proprietary fermentation technology for producing next-generation fungi-based proteins for meat, plant-based, and pet food applications.

🧫 Indian cultivated meat startup Biokraft Foods raised ₹2 crore (around $230,000) in a pre-seed funding round led by GVFL to advance its 3D bioprinting technology and bring its cultivated chicken to market.

🧉 SOLVEAT signed a joint development and commercial agreement with multinational beverage giant CBC Group to create functional soft drinks infused with its patented natural herbal formulations, leveraging CBC’s Gat Foods subsidiary for manufacturing and global distribution.