Q&A: FarmWise Thrusts AI Into Spotlight With Mechanical Weed Management
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media FarmWise, a U.S.-based smart-farming company behind an AI-driven weeding solution, has partnered with RDO Equipment, a dealer of intelligently connected ag equipment from brands like John Deere. The collaboration is designed to expand FarmWise’s precision weeding and cultivation footprint to veg
Read moreQ&A: Silicon Valley’s SVG Ventures Partners With Japan’s Kagome for $50M Sunrise Fund
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media SVG Ventures has partnered with Tokyo-based Kagome, a global fruit and vegetable company specializing in all things tomatoes, to launch the $50 million Sunrise Agrifood Tech Fund. With a vision to catapult innovation in agri-food tech, the fund will back cutting-edge technologies around the world
Read moreBig Tech’s Meta Makes Long-Term Climate Bet With BTG Pactual Timberland Strategy
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media As Climate Week unfolds in New York, carbon credits are swirling. Big Tech play Meta Platforms, parent company of Facebook, has joined the fray, betting big on BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group for the delivery of 1.3 million nature-based carbon removal credits over the next decade-plus and
Read moreMandalay Venture Partners Extends AI Streak With Investment to Reduce Food Waste
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Australian agtech and food-tech venture capital firm Mandalay Venture Partners is extending its winning streak with artificial intelligence (AI) across the food value chain. Representing its maiden downstream investment in the agri-food tech sector, Mandalay Venture Partners is backing Restoke.ai,
Read moreSolasta Bio Eyes Commercialization After Securing $14M Series A Round
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media U.K.-based ag-biotech startup Solasta Bio, which helps growers protect crops with nature and peptide-based insecticides, has secured $14 million in an oversubscribed Series A fundraising round. Led by Forbion through its BioEconomy fund strategy, the round also included an investment from sustaina
Read moreAg Seed Company Corteva Forms JV With Gene-Editing Play, Invests $25M for Ag Innovation
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media In a bullish sign for dealflow in the ag industry, Indianapolis-based seed company Corteva has partnered with Pairwise, a Durham, N.C.-domiciled gene-editing play, to accelerate the delivery of advanced gene editing solutions to farmers from Nepal to Nebraska. The deal involves a $25 million strat
Read moreQueensland’s Mandalay Venture Partners Backs Agri-Food Tech Pair Through PE Investment
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Mandalay Venture Partners, which backs agri-food tech companies, is making an expansion push in Australia. The firm has announced dual investments into Queensland's Nbryo and Haelen Technology/Wholey Milk Company, each specializing in livestock genetics and milk processing, respectively. The deals
Read moreNumber 8 Bio Raises A$7M in Seed Round to Reduce Methane Emissions in Livestock
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Number 8 Bio, a Sydney, New South Wales-based startup whose tagline is 'changing feed, feeding change,' has received a ringing endorsement from the VC community. The company has raised A$7 million (US$4.7 million) in a seed round led by existing backer Main Sequence, a NSW-domiciled technology-foc
Read moreStablecoin Tether Brings Blockchain to Latin America’s Ag Sector With $100M Investment
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Cryptocurrencies are known to have characteristics of commodities, and now the blockchain is increasingly making its way into the ag sector. Most recently, Tether Holdings, an early mover for digital assets known as stablecoins, has taken close to a 10 percent position in Latin American agro-indus
Read moreTech Giant Microsoft Thrusts Regenerative Ag Into Spotlight With Farmland LP Investment
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Farmland LP, an investment fund manager that generates returns by converting conventional commercial farmland to sustainably farmed crops, has received a major endorsement from Big Tech. The firm has announced an investment by software giant Microsoft's Climate Innovation Fund into Vital Farmland
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