🇳🇴 Vertical farming startup Avisomo bags €2 million ($2.1 million) seed round. Mirova, affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers dedicated to sustainable investment, led the round. 🇫🇷 Ag robotics startup Naïo Technologies raises $33 million. Financial terms of the deal are undisclosed. 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 Germany’s Doehler Ventures invests in UK Clean Food Group to support the scale up of the latter’s “bioequivalent alternative” to palm oil. Benvolio Group and Rotor Capital led the round, which will enable Malk to continue its retail expansion.
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🇺🇸 Alternative milk brand Malk Organics secures $9 million Series B. Unovis, AgFunder and others participated in the Series A round. 🇺🇸 Black Sheep Foods raises $12.3 million for plant-based lamb. Ten Coves Capital led the round for the restaurant management platform. 🇺🇸 MarginEdge will more than doubles its funding with $45 million Series C. However, Oda has lost unicorn status, partly due to market forces currently leveling the online grocery sector. 🇳🇴 Online grocery store Oda (née Kolonial) raises €150 million ($158 million) from Summa Equity, Verdane & others. Restaurant tech company MarginEdge and AgFunder portfolio company Black Sheep Foods also raised money, as did forest tech platform Gaia AI and ag robotics startup Naïo Technologies. Two more Queens restaurants had their liquor licenses suspended yesterday.Despite losing its unicorn status, Norwegian online grocer Oda bagged a sizable round this week. La Vara, one of Brooklyn’s best Spanish restaurants, has also returned for outdoor dining. Reservations are available through the restaurant’s website. Danny Meyer’s Gramercy Tavern has reopened for outdoor dining this week with an abridged version of its menu, according to a spokesperson for the restaurant. Tickets ($150 each) are available in pairs from Eventbrite.
Dinner includes a 15-course tasting menu from chefs Jeff Miller and Yoni Lang, who previously worked at Uchi in Dallas and Uchiko in Austin, Texas.
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Sushi newcomer Rosella will be offering a Saturday night dinner series at Rooftop Reds in the Brooklyn Navy Yard ahead of its full debut this fall. In August 2019, Acquaviva opened a second location of the popular restaurant on the Upper East Side, at 406 East 73rd Street, near First Avenue, which remains open. Even rarer, she built the restaurant’s menu solely around Georgian dishes, rather than infusing it with Russian and Eastern European ones, as well. Chef-founder Maia Acquaviva was among the first to bring that country’s flavors to the East Village. Oda House turned heads when it opened on the corner of Fifth Street and Avenue B back in 2013, not just for its picturesque khachapuri, but also because it was one of the rare Georgian restaurants in Manhattan. The restaurant has not cited a reason for shutting down but confirmed the closure to EV Grieve in a message over Facebook. Beginning on Sunday and as recently as Tuesday, crew members were spotted loading the restaurant’s tables, chairs, and other furniture into a moving truck. Oda House, a popular restaurant known for its stuffed cheese breads and other Georgian fare, had its last day of service on Saturday, August 1. One of Manhattan’s last remaining Georgian restaurants has permanently closed, local blog EV Grieve reports. Oda House closes its East Village location after 7 years
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