🌴 Sustainable Tropical Fat and Oils

🇸🇬 Singapore-based waste-to-biogas firm KIS Group secured a $23 million, eight‑year debt facility from Zurich-based impact investor responsAbility to expand its biogas projects in Indonesia.

🐓 Animal microbiome startup BiomEdit, based in the US, raised an $18.4 million Series B round led by Anterra Capital, with participation from Nutreco, AgriZeroNZ, Elevate Ventures, and Betagro Ventures. It will use the funds to support the commercial launch of its first synthetic biology-based probiotic product, BE-101, targeting necrotic enteritis in broiler chickens.

🥗 US hummus brand Little Sesame secured $8.5 million in a Series A funding round led by InvestEco Capital to expand production capacity by 400%, open a new manufacturing facility, and strengthen partnerships with regenerative chickpea farmers.

🇦🇺 Eclipse Ingredients, based in Australia, secured $7 million, including $2.9 million from the Australian government’s Food and Beverage Accelerator and backing from AgFunder. It will use the funds to scale its precision fermentation platform for producing human lactoferrin, with plans to launch its first product by 2027.

🍫 Toronto-based functional snack brand Awake Chocolate raised CAD $8 million (approx. $6 million USD) in a funding round led by Btomorrow Ventures, with participation from BDC Capital, to support its expansion across North America.

🥤 British CBD drinks brand Goodrays raised €5.7 million in a Series A funding round, with participation from Guinness Ventures, celebrity backers including Vernon Kay, Tess Daly, Ed Leigh, and Ben Skinner, as well as new and existing institutional investors, to accelerate growth, innovation, and international expansion.

🐕 Pet nutrition startup HEY HOLY, based in Germany, closed its oversubscribed Series A round with €5.7 million. The round was led by Five Seasons Ventures, with participation from Slingshot Ventures, Feast Ventures, and others, and it will use the funds to scale its breed-specific, vet-developed dog food formulas and expand its digital and product offerings.

🐮 Carbery’s West Cork–based Farm Zero C project secured €700,000 from the Systemic Climate Action Collaborative to deploy next-generation methane-reducing technologies on 10 additional dairy farms to develop a replicable blueprint for profitable and sustainable dairy farming.

🔢 Irish startup ODOS secured €680,000 in a funding round led by Capsa Food, with participation from TTAF by CLAVE and Angels, to scale its platform that helps agri-food businesses measure, report, and reduce their environmental impact.

🍳 Sun Bear Biofuture has been awarded a £375,000 grant from Innovate UK to explore using British Sugar’s side streams as feedstock for its sustainable tropical fat and oil alternatives, supporting the scale-up of production and upcoming commercial sales.

🥬 The Queen of Greens initiative, which brings affordable fresh produce to low-income areas in the UK, received government funding to develop a targeted mapping tool to improve access for social housing residents in UK food deserts and assess the health impact of such interventions.

🇦🇷 Argentina-based ag biologicals startup Puna Bio closed its Series A funding round with new backing from the Gates Foundation, which joined earlier investors Corteva Catalyst and At One Ventures to help the company expand globally and develop climate-resilient crop solutions using extremophile-based seed treatments.