NEW TECH FOODS

Plant-based ingredients company Roquette has unveiled Horizons, a new foresight platform designed to help food and nutrition businesses anticipate change and navigate uncertainty.

Scottish agri-tech firms Intelligent Dairy Solutions (IDS), a division of Peacock Technology, and Herd Advance have entered a strategic collaboration to accelerate development and commercialisation of next-generation livestock management systems.

AKA Foods has raised $17.2 million in seed funding to launch AKA Studio, a secure AI platform designed to accelerate food product development.

Zurich-based robotics start-up Mimic has raised $16 million in a seed round led by Elaia and Speedinvest, with participation from Founderful, 1st kind, 10X Founders, 2100 Ventures and the Sequoia Scout Fund.

The Bezos Earth Fund is investing $30 million in projects focused on using AI to protect the planet, including more than $2 million on projects to support sustainable protein development.

Oxford University spinout Wild Bio has secured $60 million in Series A funding to advance its AI-powered precision breeding platform.

The Magnum Ice Cream Company (TMICC) has announced a partnership with foodtech firm NotCo to accelerate innovation in the US market.

Discovery Park, Kent’s life sciences hub, has added two high-growth biotech start-ups to its CoLab innovation space.