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Agritech Startups Secure Record Funding to Accelerate Global Regenerative Agriculture Rollouts
Venture capital flows toward soil-restorative technologies as the regenerative-agriculture market is forecast to quadruple to USD 57 billion by 2033.
San Francisco, Calif. – November 19, 2025
Regenerative agriculture—farming that rebuilds soil organic matter and captures carbon—moved from pilot plots to prime time this month as venture investors poured more than USD 30 million into specialized agritech startups on two continents. The deals, led by Berlin-based platform Klim and supported by follow-on grants in North Africa, signal accelerating commercial demand for technologies that verify carbon sequestration and cut input costs for growers.
Market pressure is mounting. According to a November 2025 report by Grand View Research, the global regenerative-agriculture market is valued at USD 14.55 billion this year and is projected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 18.7 percent, reaching USD 57.16 billion by 2033 . Analysts attribute the surge to tightening Scope-3 emissions rules for food brands and a 12-percent year-over-year rise in synthetic-fertilizer prices that is eroding farm margins.
Klim’s USD 22 million Series A round, disclosed November 14 and led by BNP Paribas, is among the largest European agtech deals of 2025. The company’s digital platform already guides 3,500 farmers across 700,000 hectares in adopting cover-cropping, reduced tillage, and diversified rotations while issuing third-party-verified carbon credits traded by corporate partners such as Kaufland and Aryzta .
“Soil is the cheapest, most scalable carbon-capture infrastructure on Earth,” said Robert Gerlach, Klim co-founder and CEO. “This capital lets us embed financial services directly into the transition plan—farmers receive partial grants, agronomic coaching, and a guaranteed buyer for every tonne of CO₂e they sequester.”
Meanwhile, Morocco’s “Sand to Green” start-up closed a supplementary USD 50,000 innovation grant in May 2025, bringing total fundraising to USD 1.05 million since its 2021 launch. The Casablanca-based company couples agro-forestry layouts with sensor-driven irrigation to restore degraded semi-arid soils and has pilot projects underway for expansion into Senegal and Tunisia .
Investors are betting that early movers will lock in long-term, high-margin revenue from carbon credit royalties and software subscriptions. A 2025 opportunity matrix published by Farmonaut pegs projected annual returns for digital-agriculture startups at 15–35 percent, the highest bracket within the sustainable-food value chain . “Regenerative models generate measurable co-benefits—water retention, biodiversity, input savings—that traditional offsets can’t match,” said Lina Patel, agtech analyst at Earthshot Ventures, one of Klim’s new backers.
Policy tailwinds are reinforcing economics. The European Union’s Carbon Removal Certification Framework, entering final trialogue negotiation this quarter, is expected to classify soil-carbon credits as fully compliant offsets by 2026. In the United States, the USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities has committed USD 3.1 billion since 2022, creating a ready market for data platforms that can quantify additionality at field level.
About Klim
Klim is a climate-tech company headquartered in Berlin that finances the transition to regenerative agriculture through a proprietary digital platform, carbon-credit marketplace, and on-farm agronomic support. Founded in 2020, Klim operates across Germany, France, and Eastern Europe and plans to use its Series A proceeds to enter North American markets by Q3 2026.
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