The Week in AgriFoodTech
Wild Bioscience raised $60m, Starship lands $50m, and new EU agrifood grants were announced.
- Wild Bioscience, an Oxford University spinout, raised a $60 million Series A round to develop climate-smart crops using AI.
- Robot-maker Starship netted $50 million in fresh funding.
- Ascribe Bio picked up $12 million to expand its crop protection platform.
- The European Union announced a number of grants.
- EcoEnterprises closed its fourth Latam-focused fund.
to develop climate smart crops by using AI to “better understand the lessons learned over millions of years of evolution encoded in plant genomes.”
Author's summary: AgriFoodTech companies raise funds.