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🇮🇱 Israel — Bites raises $40M Series A [Foodservice]
Bites has developed an AI-powered platform that turns company procedures into bite-sized training videos delivered to frontline workers' phones in their own language. Customers include Shake Shack, Unilever and Coca-Cola.
Lead: PeakSpan Capital
Follows: Vertex Ventures, Horizon Capital, Rittenhouse Ventures, Lyra Ventures

🇮🇳 India — Ace Blend raises $9.91M Series A2 [CPG]
Ace Blend makes nutrition and supplement products, with ingredient partners including DSM and TCI. Revenue grew 300% in FY26 with a 46% repeat purchase rate.
Lead: 3one4 Capital
Follows: Fireside Ventures (existing)

🇺🇸 USA — Sunshine Buns raises $7M Series A [CPG]
Utah’s Sunshine Buns makes fully baked, individually wrapped frozen cinnamon rolls with 8g of protein each that warm up in 45 seconds.
Lead: Not disclosed
Follows: Not disclosed

🇸🇬 Singapore — N&E Innovations raises AUD 2.4M Series A [Ingredients]
N&E Innovations turns cashew husks into antimicrobial ingredients that keep produce fresh up to four times longer. Customers include Singapore Airlines and supermarket chain Sheng Siong.
Lead: Tundra Capital
Follows: SGInnovate, The Radical Fund, Archipelago VC, SG7 Group; existing investors Cercano, SEEDS Capital, Elev8 Capital and Qian Hu Corporation

🇯🇵 Japan — IntegriCulture raises ¥100M (~$635K) [Alt-Protein]
Tokyo’s IntegriCulture develops scalable cell-cultivation systems for producing cultivated meat and cosmetics ingredients. This funding is part of a planned ¥700M (~$4.5M) Series A extension, with ¥375M raised so far.
Lead: Niigata Venture Capital (Regional Revitalisation Niigata Fund II)
Follows: Not disclosed for this ticket

🇧🇷 Brazil — Vereda raises R$30M (~$5.5M) Seed [Crop Inputs]
Vereda connects agricultural input manufacturers directly with farmers, cutting out traditional distributors. Founded in 2025, the company uses AI-powered sales agents and WhatsApp to help farmers purchase inputs, potentially reducing costs by over 30%. Funding will support expansion across Brazil.
Lead: Canary and Valor Capital Group (co-leads)
Follows: a16z Speedrun

🇪🇬 Egypt — NoorNation raises $1.05M Seed [Agtech]
NoorNation develops solar-powered energy and water systems for farms and off-grid communities. Its flagship LifeBox provides electricity and water for irrigation and desalination. Funding will support expansion of its solar irrigation services and help farmers transition away from diesel-powered pumps.
Lead: Not specified
Follows: Linah Farms, Catalyst Fund, KBW Ventures

🇳🇱 Netherlands — FLTRD raises €500K+ [CPG]
FLTRD develops a food-scanning app that helps shoppers identify ultra-processed foods and make healthier purchasing decisions. It covers 150,000+ products across seven Dutch supermarkets, has 35,000+ users, and is expanding to Belgium.
Lead: 4impact capital
Follows: FMCG angels, including Jeroen Lubbers

🇪🇸 Spain — BIOM raises €2M [Crop Inputs]
BIOM (Bioinspired Materials), a Barcelona UPF spinout, develops microbial agrifood products, including Qsystem against Xylella in olives and almonds. CEO Inés Arteaga.
Lead: Swanlaab Innvierte Agrifood Tech Fund
Follows: BeAble Capital (existing)

🇺🇸 USA — Adaviv receives strategic investment (undisclosed) [Agtech]
MIT spinout Adaviv develops crop monitoring technology that helps growers detect plant health issues, optimize labor and improve yields. Funding will support commercial expansion into Uruguay and Peru.
Lead: Verdex Capital (Calgary)
Follows: N/A — single named investor

🇩🇪 Germany — Senara opens a second site in Maastricht, backed by LIOF [Alt-Protein]
Senara grows milk from mammary cells. With an investment from Limburg development agency LIOF, it is planning a second site in Maastricht, targeting cosmetics as an early market.
Lead: LIOF
Follows: N/A

🇺🇸 USA — Terradot closes $34M term loan [Agtech]
Terradot develops enhanced rock weathering technology that removes atmospheric CO₂ by spreading finely crushed silicate rock on agricultural land. The financing will support deployment of ~1 million tons of crushed rock across 60,000 hectares of farmland in the US and Brazil by the end of 2027.
Lead: HASI (HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital)
Follows: N/A — single lender

🍫 Mondelēz is taking a majority stake in Undercover Snacks. The New Jersey brand makes chocolate-covered and frosted quinoa crisps. It will run on its own inside Mondelēz North America Ventures, with founder Diana Levy staying on as CEO. Terms were not disclosed, and closing is expected in Q1 2027.

🥛 Formo and Those Vegan Cowboys got the first FDA “no questions” letter for precision-fermented casein. The joint GRAS filing covers animal-free casein at up to 25% in cheese alternatives. Both companies will now sell their ingredients separately in the US.

🐶 Ivy Farm can sell cultivated Wagyu as a pet food ingredient in the UK. This is the second company to get UK approval for cultivated meat in pet food, after Meatly’s chicken in 2024.

⚖ David Protein antitrust case over EPG is dismissed. After buying Epogee, which makes the patented fat replacer EPG, David stopped supplying other brands, and customers sued.

🇦🇺 Australia’s Stacked Farm is taking vertical farming to the US. Stacked Farm spent 10 years refining its technology and proving its business model before scaling. The company plans to open a large-scale farm in Southern California in 2028 and two US facilities annually thereafter.

🥔 Row 7 launched a potato chefs say tastes like roast chicken. Chef Dan Barber's Row 7 and Cornell University spent over a decade developing Poulette, a potato bred for its rich, savory flavor reminiscent of roast chicken. Crossed from a rare French heirloom and a Cornell line, it's now available at 60 Whole Foods stores across NY, NJ and CT for $6 a bag.

🇩🇪 IC Dinner Frankfurt, during Fi Europe
📆 Wednesday 18 November 2026, 7–9 PM CET
📍 TapHouse Frankfurt, Mendelssohnstraße 51, Westend, a short walk from the Festhalle/Messe U-Bahn
🤝 Cohosted with Tomas Turner (Co-founder & CEO, Cosaic) and Gilai Nachmann (Head of Innovation, Arla)
🎫 $9 reserves your seat. You cover your own food and drinks. 12 seats, founders and operators only, no investors, Chatham House rules.
Request a seat.

🔥 Fireside Chat with Antoine Hubert, cofounder of Ÿnsect, where he built the first industrial insect vertical farm and raised over $400M, and is now cofounder of Agriloops.
📆 Friday 20 November 2026, 5:00–6:05 PM Israel time (4:00–5:05 PM CET), online
🔒 CEOs only, no investors, not recorded. $10 to hold a seat. Grab a spot.

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🧶 A London “restaurant” serves only knitted food. Artist Kate Jenkins knitted, crocheted and stitched every dish at Kate’s Knitalian, from lasagna to pistachio cannoli and tiramisu, and fitted the Air Contemporary gallery with gingham tablecloths and a gelato fridge. None of it is edible.

🧁 Scientists want you to eat a blue muffin and time your poo. A University of Southampton citizen science project led by Prof Jon Swann is investigating whether gut transit time is linked to cognitive performance. Once your poo turns blue, you play online problem-solving games.

💍 More than 1,000 artists drew The Fellowship of the Ring as a flipbook. Led by animator Andy Bailey, they spent over a year on a hand-drawn, shot-for-shot version of the whole three-hour film: 120,000 pages. One flipbook to rule them all.

With love,
Alex Shandrovsky and Kat Tarasova

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