# Oishii, SPARX Asset Management, Nomura Real Estate Development, MISUMI Group, Mizuho Bank, S2G Investments, Solum Partners, IFAD, Mitsubishi Electric, VeriGrai… Oishii, SPARX Asset Management, Apollo Agriculture, Kaleidofin, Corteva, Vylor

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Podcast: [AgTech Digest](https://stenobird.com/podcast/agtech-digest-6718128)
Published: 2026-05-15T14:00:00+00:00
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📺 Watch on YouTube and Spotify Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring AI moving from hype to commercial reality, Oishii's $150M Series C tranche and S2G's $1B fund targeting the missing middle of agricultural finance, five AI precision tool launches in a single week from Mitsubishi Electric, VeriGrain, Doriane, GrubMarket, and BASF, a strong Q1 earnings wave, and an editorial take on why decision delivery is becoming the new competitive standard. Let's get started! Here’s a Quick Snapshot of What’s Making Headlines: Analysis: AI in AgTech: from hype to commercial reality — smaller median rounds, stricter scrutiny, and success now defined by scale-dependent data moats and measurable ROI Funding: Oishii closes first $150M tranche of Series C led by SPARX Asset Management, bringing lifetime funding to $370M; S2G Investments closes $1B Solutions Fund I targeting the Missing Middle of agricultural finance AI Launches: Five AI precision tools ship in one week: Mitsubishi Electric on soil carbon, VeriGrain on nutrient recommendations, Doriane on plant breeding, GrubMarket on food distribution, and BASF on herbicide formulation Partnerships: Planet Labs signs two-year satellite contract with Czech Republic covering 25,000 farm holdings; US Sugar launches largest commercial autonomous tractor fleet in American sugar across 255,000 acres Development: IFAD signs $59.75M loan with Burkina Faso for six-year agricultural resilience project reaching 60,000 rural households; Apollo Agriculture and Kaleidofin close Kenya's first private-sector smallholder securitisation across 23,839 farmers Earnings: ICL sales up 14% to $2B; Bayer Crop Science EBITDA up 17.9%; Village Farms Adjusted EBITDA up 118%; Anaergia third consecutive p…

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