AgriFood Signals: Chipotle’s next agrifood cohort, John Deere settlement, fruit

AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news 🇬🇧 Cambridge AI robotics group Dogtooth scores £14m investment UKTN 🇳🇱 Aardaia bags €5M to build the next generation of crops Tech.eu 🇧🇪 Optiflux raises €2.5mn to fund expansion of fruit quality management tool Fruitnet 🇦🇺 Qantas backs $2 million raise for Brisbane startup using household waste make aviation fuel Startup Daily 🇪🇸 PSP ups investment in AMFresh and Bloom Fresh to grow genetics platform Fruitnet M&A, IPOs & partnerships 🇱🇺 🇪🇸 DVC Partners acquires majority stake in Kimitec to boost international expansion Dealroom 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 AAK backs carbon-to-fats startup Savor Axios 🇺🇸 🇩🇰 🇸🇬 TurtleTree, Novonesis strike partnership to scale up precision-fermented lactoferrin AgFunderNews 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 Pegasus Tech Ventures and Ohayo Dairy Products: a strategic partnership Dairy News Today Funds, grants and accelerators 🇬🇧 Science-first impact fund Greensphere closes $100m vehicle – opens US office Impact Loop 🇩🇰 Climentum launches new climate tech venture fund with €60 million first close ESG Today 🇰🇪 Catalyst Fund secures $30 million to back Africa’s climatetech startups Wamda 🇳🇱 Mosa Meat gets $1M loan from Dutch govt to expand cultivated beef beyond Europe Green Queen 🇺🇸 Chipotle invests in 6 more emerging companies Nation’s Restaurant News 🇸🇬 Singapore puts $5.3m behind food waste upcycling projects Vegconomist Other news 🇺🇸 Shawn M Lange joins Hyphen as SVP go-to-market LinkedIn [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Hyphen.] 🇬🇧 Ocado details exit plan for CEO Grocery Dive 🇺🇸 New Culture targets $50 billion cheese market with new patent Food Navigator 🇺🇸 John Deere owners will get the right to repair their own equipment under a new FTC settlement Morning Ag Clips 🇺🇸 FMC Corporation submits rimisoxafen herbicide dossier to EPA iGrow News