M&G Investments Makes $75M Investment in Biobest
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Biobest is on quite a run. Directly on the heels of closing on €120 million ($126.8 million) and announcing its acquisition of Brazilian biologicals leader Biotrop in September 2023, the pollination and integrated biologicals leader announced it has now gained another $75 million investmen
Read moreNewLeaf Symbiotics Closes $45M Series D
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Agricultural biotech leader NewLeaf Symbiotics (NewLeaf) has closed a fully funded $45 million Series D led by new investor Gullspång Re:food, with participation from Otter Capital Partners LP, S2G Ventures, Leaps by Bayer and other unnamed backers. NewLeaf is a pioneer and global
Read moreAgtonomy Closes $22.5M Series A Led by Momenta
Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media With the amount of hard work that goes into agricultural production, I’m fairly certain that if farmers and managers were granted one wish it would be for the ability to clone themselves. Agtonomy is a software and services company working toward granting this wish by enabling agricu
Read moreClever Carnivore Raises Oversubscribed $7M Seed Round
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Historically, Chicago has been a leading meatpacking center. Now, Clever Carnivore, the city’s first cultivated meat company, has closed on an oversubscribed $7 million Seed round to make a (cultivated) sausage, as it were. The round was led by global alternative protein investor
Read moreGIC Leads $46M Series C for India’s Vegrow
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media India is a top global producer of many agricultural products, ranking second in fruit and vegetable production only to China, producing 102.48 metric tons of fruit and 200.45 metric tons of vegetables according to the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. It also is a yo
Read moreChipotle’s $50M VC Fund Backs AI-Powered Robots and Fertilizer Made Using Artificial Lightning
Photo credit: Chipotle Mexican Grill By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cultivate Next, the $50 million venture capital fund of Chipotle Mexican Grill, makes early-stage investments in strategically aligned startups with the potential to advance the company’s aggressive growth plans and further its mission to cultivate a
Read moreFrontier Climate, Lithos Carbon Enter $57.1M Enhanced Weathering Purchase Agreement
Photo credit - Lithos Carbon By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded by Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta, McKinsey and the many businesses using Stripe Climate, Frontier Climate is an advanced market commitment to buy an upfront $1 billion-plus in permanent carbon removal between 2022-2030. Toward this goal, it
Read morePure Harvest Acquires RedSea’s CEA Facility in Saudi Arabia
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media UAE-based sustainable, tech-driven agribusiness Pure Harvest Smart Farms (Pure Harvest) and climate smart tech developer RedSea have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for Pure Harvest to acquire RedSea’s existing six-hectare controlled environment agriculture (CEA) production facility in Sau
Read more15 Minutes With… Emily Whiston, Global Segment Leader at EnviroLogix
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting News (Note: This interview was first published in our sister publication, Unconventional Ag News) What’s the best way to make progress? Test the parameters of your current situation and adjust accordingly. And how best to do that in the grain industry? Look to the expertise of a business
Read moreReport: Food, Water, and Climate Change: Solutions for Tackling This Critical Nexus
Contributed by Citi GPS: Global Perspectives & Solutions “Too often we fail to mention the role that subsidized water plays in underestimating the threat that the farming sector is facing, given that 70 percent of freshwater withdrawals annually are used by the agriculture sector,” said Adam Bergman, Managing Director,
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