| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.02.2026 | UBEES Secures €8M to Power Global Regenerative Pollination | UBEES, a French agri-tech pioneer, has raised €8 million to revolutionize global agriculture. It deploys smart beekeeping and data analytics. The goal: optimize crop pollination, boost yields, and protect vital biodiversity. This Series A f... |
| 03.02.2026 | UBEES secures €8M to support global expansion of regenerative pollination | UBEES, a company specialising in beekeeping applications for regenerative agriculture, has closed an €8 million Series A funding round, co-led by European funds Starquest and Capagro, with participation from Newtree Impact. The financing wi... |
| 13.10.2025 | Phagos Leads Charge Against Antibiotic Resistance with €25M Boost | Paris-based Phagos secured €25 million in Series A funding to propel its AI-driven bacteriophage therapies. This biotech pioneer confronts antimicrobial resistance, a critical global health crisis. Phagos initially focuses on animal health,... |
| 13.10.2025 | Ecorobotix secures USD 150 million to accelerate growth |
Central to Ecorobotix’s momentum is its Plant-by-Plant AI technology, which can distinguish and treat each individual plant with unmatched precision, using a spray footprint of just a few centimeters. This approach reduces the use of pesti... |
| 11.10.2025 | CEE Startup & Tech Weekly: Major Funding Rounds From Estonia to Greece | CEE ~
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| 08.10.2025 | Paris-based Phagos raises €25 million to create a sustainable alternative to antibiotics | Paris-based biotech company Phagos has raised €25 million in a Series A funding round co-led by CapAgro, Hoxton Ventures, CapHorn and Demeter, with additional participation from Acurio Ventures, Citizen Capital, Entrepreneur First, Founders... |
| 08.10.2025 | Phagos gets €25M boost to combat bacterial diseases | Paris-based Phagos has closed a €25 million Series A funding round, four years after its founding. The round was co-led by CapAgro, Hoxton Ventures, CapHorn and Demeter, with participation from Acurio Ventures, Citizen Capital, Entrepreneur... |
| 17.09.2025 | Nofence: Over $35 Million Series B Secured For Virtual Fencing Technology | Nofence has closed its Series B funding round with over €30 million (more than $35 million), making it the most significant agtech investment in Europe in 2025. Lead investor European Circular Bioeconomy Fund was joined by Capagro, Nysnø Cl... |
| 14.04.2023 | Over £80 billion went to Agritech in Europe in the last 20 years – will there be enough high-quality food for all? | The United Nations predicts that by 2050 the world population will rise to almost 10 billion. With such a large number of inhabitants, in addition to issues related to education, living space, availability of basic services, etc., the quest... |
| 06.10.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: The Rounds bags $38m for waste-free e-grocery, Jay-Z invests in pizza robot startup Stellar | This week brought a win for more sustainable grocery delivery with The Rounds’ Series A fundraise. Meanwhile, investment in restaurant robots increased with Jay-Z’s funding for pizza robot truck Stellar and new capital for Hyper Food Roboti... |
| 15.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: PepsiCo. & ADM partner on regen ag, Biden bets on cultivated meat | This week, PepsiCo. and ADM made a major announcement that could boost regenerative agriculture practices in the US, while President Biden signed an executive order impacting cultivated meat. France’s Capagro launched a $200 million agrifoo... |
| 09.09.2022 | Paris-based Capagro launches second fund at €200M; makes first investment in Cuure | Paris-based Capagro, an AgriTech and FoodTech company, announced on Thursday that it has launched its second fund, the Capagro Agri-Food Innovation Fund II (Capagro II), at €200M. This launch comes five years after closing the first Europea... |
| 09.09.2022 | Paris-based Capagro unveils €200 million fund to back agritech startups in Europe | The global agritech investment increased by 85 per cent in 2021 compared to 2020, reaching approximately $52 billion and agritech and food tech investment in Europe totalled $9.2 billion.
Betting big on the segment, Paris-based agri tech co... |
| 28.07.2021 | BREAKING: Colvin lands $53m Series C funding to digitalize cut flower industry | Colvin, a tech platform serving the floriculture industry, has raised €45 million ($53.1 million) in a Series C round led by private equity firm Eurazeo with participation from agrifood-focused VC Capagro, both of which are based in Paris.
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| 28.07.2021 | Colvin lands $53m Series C funding to digitalize cut flower industry | Colvin, a tech platform serving the floriculture industry, has raised €45 million ($53.1 million) in a Series C round led by private equity firm Eurazeo with participation from agrifood-focused VC Capagro, both of which are based in Paris.
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| 28.07.2021 | Online flower and plant delivery service Colvin raises €45 million | Barcelona-based online flower and plant delivery service Colvin has raised €45 million in a Series C round. With the fresh bouquet of funding, the company plans to enter new European markets within the coming months as well as continue inve... |
| 16.06.2021 | ecoRobotix raises USD 14.7 million in latest Series C funding | |
| 16.06.2021 | ecoRobotix raises USD 14.7 million in latest Series C funding | The funding of USD 14.7 million was led by Swisscom Ventures together with Verve Ventures and was strongly supported by existing ecoRobotix investors, including CapAgro, 4FO Ventures and BASF Venture Capital. With the proceeds, ecoRobotix w... |
| 09.01.2020 | ‘Vive la AgRobolution!’ Naïo Tech raises €14m Series A to build more agri-robots | The French agri-robotics manufacturer Naïo Technologies has raised a €14 million ($15.6 million) Series A funding round, one month after grabbing headlines by hosting its fourth International Forum of Agricultural Robotics, known by its Fre... |
| 07.11.2019 | The 10 most active investors in food tech in Europe in 2019 | At a time when technology has touched almost everything in our day to day lives, the food industry is one that remains untapped in many markets. However, it has gradually picked up pace just like the other sectors. Several companies have fo... |
| 12.12.2018 | Why is Europe Behind in Food Tech Investment? | European food tech startups are on course to have raised between €750 million to €1 billion in 2018, according to different estimates. That will be around a 40% decline on 2017 funding levels.
When you take out 2017’s largest deals — includ... |
| 12.12.2018 | Why is Europe Behind in Food Tech Investment?
But wait; European Food Tech Innovation is Thriving?
Later-Stage Funding Challenges
Distinct Startup Investment Ecosystems
Different Cultures, Differe... | European food tech startups are on course to have raised between €750 million to €1 billion in 2018, according to different estimates. That will be around a 40% decline on 2017 funding levels. |
| 12.10.2018 | Capagro leads a SEK 20 million round in BoMill | Paris, France, 12 October 2018 — Capagro is investing SEK 15,6 million in Malmö, Sweden-based BoMill AB, which has developed high-speed grain sorting equipment. Industrifonden together with previous owners are also participating in the shar... |
| 31.05.2018 | ecoRobotix Raises $10.7m Series B Led by BASF, Capagro to Take Weeding Robot Across Europe | ecoRobotix, a Swiss farm robotics startup, has raised $10.7 million in Series B funding in a round led by European agrifood tech investor Capagro and the venture arm of German chemicals business BASF. The round also attracted existing inves... |
| 30.05.2018 | Weeding robots startup ecoRobotix raises CHF 10.6 million | |
| 14.03.2018 | Nestlé Backs New European AgriFood Tech VC Five Seasons Ventures, Launching with €60m Fund | Five Seasons Ventures, a new European VC focusing on agrifood tech investments has launched its first fund, announcing a first close on €60 million ($74.3m). Backers include Nestlé, the European Investment Fund, Fondo Italiano d’Investiment... |
| 07.11.2017 | Capagro: Farmers Are Ready to Invest In Robotics But Selling Won’t Be Easy | Capagro is a French agrifood tech VC firm that got started with a bang in late 2014, making nine investments in 12 months, eight of those in the first three months after its founding.
In October, the fund announced the second close of its C... |
| 20.10.2017 | French Agrifood Tech VC Capagro Doubles Fund to €124m | Capagro, a French agrifood tech VC firm, has announced a second close of its Capagro Innovation Fund adding €66 million, ($78 million) and bringing the fund’s total to €124m ($147m).
The fund was founded in 2014 with €37.5 million ($44.4 mi... |
| 28.09.2017 | The State of AgriFood Tech Startups in Europe | Editor’s Note: Thomas van den Boezem is program manager at StartLife, a Netherlands-based incubator for agrifood tech startups, cofounded by world-leading agriculture university Wageningen University & Research. StartLife has a portfoli... |
| 12.08.2015 | How New French Agtech VC CapAgro Made 9 Investments in 12 Months | When you think about the venture capital firms pursuing the global agtech sector, you are most likely to think about the U.S. than other parts of the world. But a relatively new, Paris-based venture capital firm has been hard at work over t... |
| 05.01.2015 | Olygose Raises €5M in Funding | Olygose, a Venette (Compiègne), France-based nutrition company, raised €5m in funding.
Backers included CapAgro, Vives II and its existing shareholders Emertec 4, business angels and family offices. In conjunction with the funding, Jérôme S... |
| - | Online flower and plant delivery service Colvin raises €45 million | Barcelona-based online flower and plant delivery service Colvin has raised €45 million in a Series C round. With the fresh bouquet of funding, the company plans to enter new European markets within the coming months as well as continue inve... |
| - | Parisian dark store grocer La Belle Vie rings up €25 million, sets out on Tour de France | While some of those “other” grocery and essential items players hailing from Germany and Spain might grab headlines, for better or for worse, on a rather regular basis, France isn’t planning on being left out of the game anytime soon. In so... |
