AgriFood Signals: Remembering Wendell Berry, Farmland LP’s new fund, Dairy Queen robots

AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news 🇸🇬 Sharpa raises over RMB 4.5 billion [$670 million] as it puts robots to work at Dairy Queen KR Asia 🇺🇸 David Protein owner Medici Brands raises $250m in Series B funding round Food Bev Media 🇺🇸 ProducePay to fuel continued global growth with new round of funding Produce Pay 🇧🇪 Backbone raises €4M for automated food quality and compliance Tech.eu 🇪🇸 MOA Foodtech nets $3.8m to scale AI-powered biomass fermentation platform AgFunderNews 🇧🇪 Beyond Impact leads €2 million Paleo round as myoglobin costs fall 613-fold Vegconomist 🇬🇧 Biomaterials company Ponda closes crowdfunding round at €1.6 million – welcoming 256 new investors EU Startups M&A, IPOs & partnerships 🇺🇸 Keurig Dr Pepper sells equity stake back to Chobani for $800M Food Dive 🇫🇷 Nestlé reaches agreement to divest its mainstream vitamins, minerals and supplements business Street Insider Funds, grants & accelerators 🇺🇸 Farmland LP raises $126m for Fund III Agri Investor 🇦🇺 Viresco buys 22,000ha Australian beef aggregation to seed new farmland fund Real Assets 🇺🇸 Mars Impact Fund invests $13 million in farming communities, scientists, animal well-being ESG Today 🇬🇧 Moa Technology secures £900,000 Defra Funding to develop new blackgrass herbicides Agro Spectrum Asia 🇬🇧 Bindbridge secures c. £400k Defra funding to advance its AI-discovery crop protection pipeline Bindbridge 🇳🇿 NZ backs Hectre’s bid to develop tech that can scan for internal apple defects Ag Navigator 🇫🇷 French govt invests €3.7m in Nūmi to scale up cell-cultured breast milk Green Queen 🇳🇱 Dutch scientists get €4M to turn wasted protein into food IO Plus People news 🇺🇸 Good Culture expands C-suite to strengthen leadership team for continued growth Nosh Other news 🇺🇸 Remembering Wendell Berry Civil Eats 🇺🇸 California passes non-UPF food seal, setting potential blueprint for other states Food Navigator 🇯🇵 SoftBank Robotics accelerates global expansion of “STEAMA” steam cooking robot SoftBank Robotics 🇺🇸 GoSun unveils solar electric tractor, expanding off-grid innovation to farmers Morning Ag Clips