AgriFood Signals: Syngenta HK IPO, Terradot and Google do enhanced rock weathering, Corteva split lawsuits

AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news 🇪🇸 Cofides takes a stake in Elian with an injection of 40 million Democrata 🇨🇱 Loads secures $15m credit facility from Addem Capital Latam List 🇬🇧 MicroLub bags $10m to swap fats with water & proteins without losing flavour Green Queen 🇺🇸 Helios AI launches global hunger exposure index with $3m strategic investment Ffom W23 Global EIN News 🇺🇸 Exclusive: Spearhead Bio lands oversubscribed seed round for faster, more precise gene editing tech AgFunderNews 🇺🇸 Robigo Bio eyes commercialization for its ag biologicals with Leaps by Bayer investment AgFunderNews M&A, IPOs & partnerships 🇨🇭 Syngenta files for Hong Kong IPO, aiming to raise at least $5 billion, sources say Reuters 🇺🇸 BASF mandates investment banks for planned IPO of Agricultural Solutions BASF 🇨🇭 🇧🇷 Digital ag platform xFarm Technologies expands to sugarcane, biofuels with Sibium Analytics acquisition AgFunderNews 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 Exclusive: Ayana Bio acquires Meati Foods assets for a steal to scale plant cell culture tech with Zenfold in India AgFunderNews 🇺🇸 New Green Ammonia Buyers Alliance will aggregate demand from food producers to jointly procure the clean fertiliser Hydrogen Insights 🇺🇸 Terradot and Google launch world’s largest enhanced rock weathering project iGrow News Funds, grants & accelerators 🇫🇷 SWEN Capital Partners raises €125m for regenerative ag fund Agri Investor 🇺🇸 NSF agtech engine in North Dakota launches startup seed fund to advance early-stage agtech innovation American Ag Network People news 🇺🇸 Builders Vision announces six members to inaugural Board of Directors LinkedIn 🇨🇭 Thomas De Smet joins SentiaNova as chief commercial officer LinkedIn Other news 🇺🇸 States sue to block Corteva’s split over alleged PFAS liability Ag Daily 🇰🇪 🇺🇬 “Grow Eastern Africa” Project launched to increase agricultural productivity and climate resilience Kpluss 🇩🇪 Bioweg to build Europe’s largest bacterial cellulose plant Chem Manager Online 🇬🇧 PhytoFoundry emerges from stealth with plant cell culture platform targeting high value bioactives AgFunderNews 🇺🇸 Vylor confirms breakthrough wheat technology will launch in 2027 Crop Life 🇺🇸 Wonder deploys first automated makeline Restaurant Dive