Arama Kukutai, managing director of San Diego-based Finistere Ventures a life science venture capital firm, states that agriculture is one of the investing world’s best kept secrets. Finistere Ventures is raising a $150 million fund to invest in agricultural technology across the food, energy and sustainability sectors. In the past venture capital and agriculture have not been linked very often because few firms understood the sector well enough to recognize good investment opportunities, however this is quickly changing. Venture funded companies are emerging developing new technologies in response to the rising demand for food as competition to traditional corporate players, and there are huge investment opportunities to be realized in this space. To read more about emerging technologies in the agriculture sector being developed to help meet the global demand for food and the investment opportunities they represent:
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