M2R Agrofarm is a Spanish biotech startup that has created its own processes and technology to scale up the industrial breeding and transformation of mealworms, generating protein-rich flours, oils, chitosan and frass for a range of applications including human food, animal feed, agriculture, cosmetics and pharmacy.
The BioInnovation Institute (BII) announced an additional €7.8 million grant, split as €1.3 million per company, for six Danish spin‑outs working on antibody cancer therapies, AI‑powered ultrasound, inflammatory disease treatments, biological pest control, vaccine‑based immunotherapies, and waste‑to‑fuel technology. The funding builds on a prior €500 k grant each, bringing total support to €1.8 million per company and includes continued access to BII’s Copenhagen innovation platform.
Spanish biotech startup MOA Foodtech raised €3.3 million in a funding round led by Swanlaab Innvierte Agri Food Tech and the EIC Fund, with participation from CDTI-Innvierte. The capital will be used to move from product validation to commercial execution, supporting the launch of its MOA Q5 plant‑based meat substitute and broader market rollout.
Sowify, a Spanish agritech startup, introduced its Luca platform, which integrates technical and economic information from farms to support better decision‑making and improve profitability for growers.
Planet Farms partnered with Swiss Life Asset Managers in a joint venture that brings up to €125 million of capital to develop new indoor farms in Europe, marking a shift of vertical farming toward an infrastructure asset class rather than a pure startup model.
Polish startup Creative Bio Lab created Multibac System, a microbial solution aimed at improving tomato growth by enhancing root systems and soil health.
Versatile RobotX, a University of Essex spin‑out based in Colchester, raised over €1.17 million from the British Design Fund, Innovate UK and Defra to move its AI‑driven field robots from trials to commercial deployment, aiming to make advanced agricultural automation affordable for growers worldwide.
Grodi is an AgriTech startup that creates proprietary autonomous robots, artificial vision systems and advanced data analysis tools to monitor the health and yield of crops. The solution is adapted to Mediterranean greenhouse environments, detects risks early, generates geolocated maps and helps reduce losses, optimise resources and improve agricultural profitability.
Italian agritech startup Aflabox raised €1.35 million in a seed round led by Farming Future and supported by Eatable Adventures through the FoodSeed program. The funding will be used to finalize device certification, expand commercial operations in Kenya, Nigeria and Italy, set up a micro‑factory, and improve its AI‑driven field‑intelligence platform for rapid mycotoxin detection.
Romanian fertilizer maker Norofert secured a financing agreement with US fund GEM Global Yield that allows the fund to purchase up to $15 million of shares from major shareholder Vlad Popescu over three years, with the proceeds earmarked for scaling production and expanding into the US and Brazilian markets.