AgriFood Signals: Uber’s $14.8bn bid for Delivery Hero, Hippo Harvest banks $30m, agentic AI for ag

AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news 🇺🇸 Marc Lore says Wonder is gearing up for an IPO after raising $650 million at a $9 billion valuation Fortune 🇸🇬 Rize lands $31m to help rice farmers cut methane emissions, water usage AgFunderNews 🇺🇸 Hippo Harvest raises $30m for greenhouse expansion Food and Drink International 🇩🇰 Danish biotech startup Visibuilt raises €3.34M seed to scale mycelium-based construction binder Arctic Startup 🇮🇱 Israeli AgTech startup Nanovel wins €2.5 million EU grant for citrus-harvesting robots Y Net Global 🇺🇸 Leaps By Bayer backs Sabanto to bring ‘practical autonomy to more farms’ AgFunderNews 🇸🇦 Uvera attracts Morgan Stanley, LAB7 and Core Vision in seed round Wamda M&A, IPOs & partnerships 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 Uber agrees €13bn deal to acquire Delivery Hero Financial Times 🇬🇧 Winnow acquires leading food waste technology player Lumitics, grows APAC footprint WIT 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 Bakery ingredients supplier AAK to scale Savor’s carbon-based fats Food Dive 🇨🇭 🇮🇱 Syngenta partners with Israeli Groundwork BioAg in up to $50 million agriculture deal CTech 🇺🇸 Walmart, General Mills partner with ADM to help U.S. farmers adopt regenerative agriculture practices ESG Today Funds, grants & accelerators 🇸🇪 Norrsken Evolve formalises Dutch presence following €62 million fund close EU Startups 🇪🇸 Catalyxx wins €20M+ EU backing for first commer-cial chemicals plant Tech.eu Other news 🇨🇭 🇺🇸 Syngenta sues BASF for infringing US herbicide patent Reuters 🇮🇳 Cropin launches OrbitAI agentic AI platform for agriculture Justo Global 🇺🇸 Plenty shrinks Chesterfield campus vision following Chapter 11 bankruptcy Vertical Farm Daily 🇺🇸 The world’s largest meat company abandons its climate and deforestation goals Inside Climate News 🇦🇺 Creditors vote to put food waste startup Goterra in liquidation Startup Daily 🇺🇸 This act targets Savor’s ‘lab-created’ butter – here is the Bill Gates-backed startup’s response Green Queen