By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Fall Line Capital has led a $20 million Series A for Massachusetts-based Guardian Agriculture, the first and only developer of electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) systems for commercial-scale farming to gain FAA clearance to operate nationwide. Founded in 2017, Guardian has assembled a world-class team of specialists in […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Strategic investor and regenerative agriculture leader Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA) has led a Seed round with continued participation from 1855 Capital and Ben Franklin Technology Partners for Croptix, a precision agtech startup enabling predictive, data-driven, farming decisions. Croptix origins started when Dr. Perry Edwards and Dr. Zhiwen Liu founded […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Originally founded under the name Higher Steaks in Cambridge, England, by Benjamina Bollag and Dr. Ruth Faram, biotech startup Uncommon’s novel approach to cultivated meat production has grabbed the attention of some high profile investors, including Max and Sam Altman (OpenAI and ChatGPT). At the center of Uncommon’s business […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media GoodLeaf Farms, the first and largest commercial indoor vertical farming company in Canada, has secured $78 million in debt financing, welcoming CIBC and Farm Credit Canada (FCC) as two of its newest lenders. Concurrently, the company announced it has gained a new equity investment from co-investors Export Development Canada […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Nestlé has announced a new partnership, making a committed capital investment through its Sustainability Fund in The Yield Lab Latam, a specialized venture capital fund helping to transform the food sector in Latin America via investments in tech-based startups. The Yield Lab global network of VC firms that have […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Leading sustainable food chain investor Paine Schwartz Partners has made an undisclosed strategic growth investment in Elemental Enzymes, a specialist in enzyme, peptide, and biological chemistry that is developing naturally occurring enzymes and biochemicals for use in commercial agriculture. Previous funding secured by Elemental Enzymes came from the Missouri […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Japan’s Nissui Corporation, the second largest seafood producer in the world with 2022 revenue of $8 billion, has invested in Seascape Restorations Australia Pty Ltd (Immersion Group), a specialist cultivator and producer of Asparagopsis, a red seaweed that is gaining recognition for its ability to reduce methane emissions from […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Principals of U.S.-based private equity firm Indigo Partners have led a $50 million investment round for CleanJoule, a Utah-based startup developing a breakthrough technology for the production of superior, cost-effective sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The round also included a range of impressive backers including GenZero, a Temasek-backed investment platform […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Pluton Biosciences (Pluton) has a mission to bring agriculture to a carbon-negative outcome by leveraging the power of microbes to identify and deploy cost-effective and innovative solutions that address the sustainability challenges faced in food production. Illumina Ventures and RA Capital are onboard with this mission, having co-led a […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The physical system through which humans taste food is inefficient, with many sugar molecules moving through the mouth without registering with taste receptors – meaning humans eat sweet foods without tasting their full sweetness, requiring food companies to add more sugar than is needed to achieve a certain taste. […]
