| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.02.2026 | Norway’s Kilter secures €6.5 million to scale autonomous precision weeding technology; prepares for Series B | Kilter, a Norwegian AgTech startup developing autonomous precision weeding solutions, has secured €6.5 million in new financing and a strategic investment from Kubota Corporation, an Osaka-based manufacturer of agricultural machinery and a ... |
| 19.02.2026 | Resurrect Bio Raises $8.1 Million Initial Close Of Series A Led By Corteva | Resurrect Bio announced the $8.1 million initial close of its Series A funding round, led by Corteva through its Corteva Catalyst platform. Additional participants in the round include Calculus Capital, Pymwymic, UKI2S, SynBioVen, and AgFun... |
| 24.06.2025 | The Future of Food: Innovation and Sustainability in Plant-Based and Dairy Industries | The food industry is evolving. It’s a race against time, a quest for sustainability, and a battle for consumer hearts. Two players are making waves: Rival Foods in the plant-based sector and Yili Group in dairy. Both are harnessing innovati... |
| 18.06.2025 | Rival Foods Raises €10M to Scale Production of Clean-Label Plant-Based Whole Cuts | Dutch food-tech scale-up Rival Foods has raised €10 million in a Series B funding round led by pension investor APG on behalf of ABP. PYMWYMIC and ROM Utrecht Region also participated, while existing shareholder PeakBridge provided follow-o... |
| 06.02.2025 | OneThird Launches Expanded Quality Control Platform to Prevent Produce Waste and Save Costs across the Supply Chain | OneThird is an AI-powered food tech innovator tackling the $1 trillion annual food waste crisis
OneThird's industry-first, AI-powered platform combines a full set of quality control parameters within the fresh produce supply chain to save l... |
| 31.01.2025 | OneThird's €3.5M Series A: A Fresh Approach to Food Waste | In a world where food waste looms large, OneThird emerges as a beacon of hope. This Dutch foodtech company has just secured €3.5 million in Series A funding. The mission? To slice through the staggering waste in the food supply chain. With ... |
| 30.01.2025 | OneThird raises €3.5M Series A to reduce waste with freshness scanner | OneThird, a foodtech built to tackle food waste, has raised a €3.5M Series A funding round and tappointed Henrike Langbroek as Chief Executive Officer.
The funding round was led by Dutch-based Invest International with participation from pr... |
| 28.11.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: AI-powered protein, plant-based food dyes, and maggot robots | It’s Thanksgiving in the US, which usually means family, friends, and food waste: ReFED estimates that 316 million pounds of food will go to waste this holiday. However, the think tank also has some tips for how households can help curb thi... |
| 27.11.2024 | KITRO Secures Additional Funding to Combat Food Waste |
Founded in 2017 by hospitality insiders, KITRO is a Swiss company embarking on a global challenge to harness the power of data to save valuable resources and bring back the value to all food, so that it is appreciated and not wasted.
With ... |
| 09.11.2024 | The Legal Landscape of AI and Copyright: A Shifting Terrain | In a world where technology evolves at lightning speed, the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright law is a battleground. Recent developments, particularly the dismissal of a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, illuminate ... |
| 07.11.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Indoor ag unicorn Bowery shuts down, Pymwymic launches second fund | Outside the US election (which could impact agrifood in multiple ways), the big news of the week was Bowery ceasing operations. Once a leader of the indoor ag pack, the company has now closed up shop and laid off its 187 workers.
In brighte... |
| 10.04.2024 | Weenat's Innovative Approach to Combat Water Scarcity | German agritech company Weenat has secured an impressive $8 million in Series C funding for its groundbreaking meteorological sensors that aid farmers in water conservation efforts. With water scarcity becoming an increasingly pressing issu... |
| 09.04.2024 | Weenat raises $8M Series C for meteorological sensors in soil | German agritech Weenat has raised an $8M Series C round for its meteorological sensors that help farmers conserve water.
The funding will enable Weenat to expand across Europe.
Water scarcity and management is a major environmental challeng... |
| 28.09.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Paine Schwartz launches $1.7bn agrifood fund, Cricket One unveils new plant, Infarm ‘declared bankrupt’ | Agrifood’s biggest news this week is PE firm Paine Schwartz closing its $1.7 billion food- and agribusiness-focused fund. Fund VI is “exclusively focused on sustainable investments” in food and agribusiness, and the firm has already deploye... |
| 27.09.2023 | Strategic investors acquire significant stake in Vivent | |
| 16.08.2023 | ‘Boil the weed inside out’: RootWave launches high-frequency, ‘regen ag-friendly’ weed zapper for orchards | Growers may differ on their methods of weed management, but most would agree outsmarting those weeds is one of the toughest tasks in the business for organic farmers and conventional row croppers alike.
Chemicals such as Glyphosate were sup... |
| 26.04.2023 | Invest-NL, Oost NL and Invest International invests €20M in Amsterdam’s Pymwymic: Know more | Amsterdam-based Pymwymic, an impact investment firm, announced on Tuesday, April 25, that major institutional investors Invest-NL, Oost NL, and Invest International has joined its Healthy Food Systems Impact Fund II.
With a joint investment... |
| 23.03.2023 | OneThird 'spoiled' in €2.75 million late seed funding round | Enschede-based OneThird announced it has raised €2.75 million in a late-seed funding round which will help scale its tech and enter new markets, supporting fresh food supply chains in Europe and the US.
The round was led by Dutch-based impa... |
| 23.03.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Oatly raises $425m, Cocoon Bioscience bags $16 million to turn moths into bioreactors | This week, loss-making Oatly raised $425m as it “moves towards reaching financial self-sufficiency,” Cocoon Bioscience bagged $16 million to turn moths into bioreactors, and Klimato secured €4.2 million ($4.5 million) to expand its platform... |
| 23.03.2023 | Dutch-based OneThird bags €2.7M to help prevent food waste by predicting shelf life | The Netherlands-based OneThird, an AI-powered foodtech startup working to prevent food loss and food waste, announced on Thursday that it has secured €2.75M in a late-Seed round of funding.
With this, the company’s total raised capital come... |
| 23.03.2023 | OneThird Raises $3 Million to Tackle the $1 Trillion Lost to Food Waste Annually | OneThird, an AI-powered food tech company created to address the annual loss of one-third of all food produced due to spoilage "One-third of global food produced annually is lost or wasted. Global food waste has an enormous environment... |
| 20.09.2022 | By reducing pesticides, Trapview traps €10 million to speed up transition to more sustainable farming practices | Slovenia-based pest insect monitoring and forecasting platform Trapview has raised €10 million in a Series B funding to accelerate the commercialisation of its digital insect monitoring and forecasting solutions. The round was led by Europe... |
| 08.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: $40m for crop intelligence, using tobacco for cultivated meat, Netherlands’ meat ads ban | This week, crop intelligence platform Taranis secured more capital for its aerial imagery and AI tech and BioBetter landed funds to turn tobacco into growth factors for cultivated meat. Online grocer Motatos bagged new capital, Uber and Nur... |
| 14.12.2021 | How cold storage could be an antidote to Africa’s hefty food imports | For Julian Mitchell, it is unconscionable that Kenya spends so much money importing food. In the first six months of 2021, Kenya spent $909.4 million on food imports—while 30% to 40% of locally-grown crops each season are wasted due to inef... |
| 25.08.2021 | Soil biology specialist Biome Makers bags $15m Series B funding | US-based soil testing startup Biome Makers has raised $15 million in a Series B round led by Prosus Ventures – a VC affiliate of South African internet giant Naspers. Other investors joining the round included Spanish firms JME Ventures and... |
| 24.03.2021 | Precision farming startup Augmenta raises $8M Series A round on its way to automating crop fertilization and reducing pollution | Company:
On March 23, 2021, the automation farming startup Augmenta announced closing its $8M Series A round with the support of tractor manufacturer CNH Industrial N.V., EU impact investor Pymwymic, as well as previous investors Marathon V... |
| 23.03.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Tractor retrofitter Augmenta raises $8m in Series A round led by CNH Industrial | Augmenta — a Paris-headquartered startup which retrofits tractors with ‘smart’ tech capabilities — has raised $8 million in Series A funding, co-founder and CEO George Varvarelis told AFN.
Capital goods company and manufacturer of agricultu... |
| 27.01.2021 | StartLife And Pymwymic Facilitating Growth Of Disruptive Agrifoodtech Startups |
Worldwide the food supply chain is in dire need of innovations that aid the transition to a healthier and sustainable food system. Agrifoodtech startups with high potential solutions are now given an extra hand to get from pre-revenue sta... |
| 10.09.2020 | Automated pest control startup Trapview nets $4.4m from impact investors, Japan’s Kubota | Trapview, a pest insect monitoring and forecasting platform first developed by Slovenian company Efos, has just raised €3.7 million ($4.38 million) in ‘Series A2’ funding.
The round saw investments from two European impact investors: Italy’... |
| 28.05.2020 | Brrrief! InspiraFarms closes Series B to roll out solar powered cold storage units across Africa | Expanding the cold chain across the African continent is both necessary and hard. A better network of cold storage facilities is necessary to drive down food waste and enable wider access to fresher produce. And it’s difficult due to high i... |
| 22.01.2020 | Zap! This UK startup just raised €6.5m to commit electricide on weeds | RootWave, a UK startup developing ways to kill weeds with ever more precise zaps of electricity, has raised a €6.5 million ($7.2 million) Series A investment round. V-Bio Ventures and the Rabo Food & Agri Innovation Fund led the round, ... |
| 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... |
| 24.04.2019 | Dutch Biotech Startup Ceradis Secures €9m for New Biofungicide | It has taken the team of scientists at Ceradis more than a decade to develop a line of earth-friendly agriculture products. Now, with several on the market, the Dutch company has raised €9 million ($10 million) to commercialize a new biofun... |
| 10.04.2018 | UPDATE: InspiraFarms Adds €2.5m to Series A for Cold Storage and Processing Tech in East Africa and Central America | **First Published April 5, 2017. Updated April 10, 2018 to reflect second close of Series A round. **
InspiraFarms has added €2.5 million ($3.1m) to its Series A round of investment from existing investors, bringing the company’s total Seri... |
| 26.09.2017 | Fairphone takes $7.7M to push for change across the electronics value chain | European mobile device maker Fairphone, which designs modular smartphones with the aim of supporting repairability and encouraging sustainability, has taken in new investment of €6.5 million ($7.7M). It says it’s hoping to use the financing... |
| 22.09.2017 | Fairphone raises €6.5 million for its ethical fair-trade smartphones | Fair-trade smartphone maker Fairphone has raised €6.5 million led by impact investors Pymwymic and The DOEN Foundation.
The Amsterdam-based company, which previously raised €9 million through crowdfunding, makes modular smartphones with mos... |
| 06.04.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Agersens Raises $2m for Fenceless Farming Tech, Ecoation’s Disease Detection Tool Raises $1m, more | Agersens, a virtual fencing startup for livestock producers, has raised $2 million in seed funding, in a round arranged by Bell Potter brokerage. Agersens’ eShepherd product is an IoT GPS-based animal wearable device that enables farmers to... |
