New in Funding: 🤖 €12M for robotic kitchen assistants

🤖 Hamburg-based GoodBytz secured €12 million Series A funding in a round led by Oyster Bay. It will use the funds to produce 100 of its Robotic Kitchen Assistants, which can make everything from ramen to Caesar salads.

🦟 German agritech startup FarmInsect raised €8 million Series A funding. Its end-to-end solution allows farmers to build their own modular insect farms, supplied with weekly shipments of Black Soldier Fly seed larvae, which are then fattened on site using waste materials, such as fruit and vegetable peels, to produce a high-quality, protein-rich animal feed.

🥯 PopUp Bagels, based in New York, closed an $8 million Series A funding round. Founded because “the bagel could use improvement”, it will use the funds to scale its operations to meet consumer demand.

🌾 French startup Amatera secured €1.6 million pre-seed funding to accelerate development of climate-resilient perennial crops, including a new coffee variety with the “resilience and yields of Robusta and the taste of Arabica”. Here’s why they stood out.

💸 Researchers at New York’s Clarkson University received a grant of $42,000 from The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute to develop sustainable 3D-printed packaging which can detect the freshness of the food it contains.

💰 Better Bite Ventures announced investments into three APAC food tech startups - Singapore’s Fattastic, Australia’s Pivot Eat, which is is working on a novel process to enhance the structure and South Korea’s Everything But. Find out why they invested.