New in Funding: 🍗 French startup's €100M funding in 3 years

🍗 French plant-based whole-cut chicken producer Umiami secured a further €32.5 million Series A funding, bringing its total raised to date to over €100 million, and will use the funds to scale production, accelerate European distribution and set up its US operations. Here’s what they achieved in 3 years.

🇦🇺 Australian precision fermentation company Eden Brew raised $24.4 million Series A funding to scale what it calls a “world-first” animal-free casein micelle, which helps it replicate the sensorial and nutritional properties of animal dairy.

📲 Hospitality tech startup Blackbird Labs, based in New York, raised $24 million Series A funding in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz. It will use the funds to scale its restaurant loyalty platform, which gives operators a way to learn diners’ personal preferences so they can “serve guests in an unparalleled fashion”.

🚜 Bay Area-based Bonsai Robotics secured $10.5 million seed funding to outfit heavy farming equipment with its vision-based technology, creating automatic harvesters to replace the ongoing shortage of farm labourers.

🇪🇸 The Spain Foodtech Program, led by Eatable Adventures, is supporting four startups, including vertical farming automation company Néboda and algae production waste upcycler Poseidona, with €10 million over three years to scale their operations.

🔬 Pow.bio, based in California, secured $9.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Re:Food and Thia Ventures. The startup promises to “change the future of precision fermentation” with its “smarter, not bigger” bioreactors which will “unlock economic viability”.

💸 Spray drone services provider Rantizo raised a further $6 million series A funding to expand its nationwide operator network and go after what it sees as a “$10-11 billion market opportunity”. It currently works across 30 states with more than 20% of the nation’s top 50 ag retailers.

☕️ Incapto, based in Barcelona, raised €6 million in a funding round led by P101. It offers a subscription system for specialty coffee beans, along with an automatic coffee machine which allows consumers the convenience of coffee pods without generating waste.

🇪🇸 Spanish startup Recycap Technologies secured €155,000 to further develop its Recycap Automated Coffee Technology (REACT™) system, designed to completely remove coffee grounds from both aluminium and plastic coffee capsules so they can be disposed of in standard recycling bins.

🍪 Allergy-friendly snack company Whole & Free Foods LLC, which makes Every Body Eat snack thins, crispbread crackers and cookies that are free from the top 14 allergens, received $50,000 from the Emerging Brands Alliance to help scale its manufacturing.